Ulster Medical Journal
The Ulster Medical Journal is an international general medical journal which publishes contributions on all areas of medical and surgical specialties relevant to a general medical readership. It retains a focus on material relevant to the health of the Northern Ireland population. All manuscripts are independently refereed.
It is owned and published by the Ulster Medical Society, itself founded in 1862 with the amalgamation of the Belfast Medical Society (founded 1806) and the Belfast Clinical and Pathological Society (founded 1853) The Ulster Medical Journal is a successor to the "Transactions of the Ulster Medical Society", published from 1862-1929 and, the "Transactions of the Belfast Clinical and Pathological Society", published from 1854-1860.
The journal follows guidelines on editorial independence, produced by the World Association of Medical Editors, and the code of good practice of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Production
The journal is published in January, May and September, by the Ulster Medical Society, and typeset and printed in the UK by Dorman and Sons Ltd, Belfast. Costs for institutional and personal subscriptions are shown on the Subscription page.
Editor
The Honorary Editor is Barry E. Kelly.
Honorary Assistant Editors are: Roy AJ Spence and John Purvis.
The Editorial Board is: Timothy Beringer (Belfast, UK), Ian Bickle (Brunei), Barry Clements (Belfast, UK), Nicholas Cromie (Belfast, UK), Peter Crookes (California, USA), David J Eedy (Craigavon, UK), J Stuart Elborn (Belfast, UK), Tom Flannery (Belfast, UK), Gerry Gormley (Belfast, UK), Paul Hamilton (Belfast, UK), Gerry Hanna (Belfast, UK), John Hedley-Whyte (Harvard, USA), Niall A Herity (Belfast, UK), Joe Houghton (Belfast, UK), Claire T. Lundy (Belfast, UK), Gail McLachlan, (Junior Medical Representative), A Peter Maxwell (Belfast, UK), David Mills (Belfast, UK), John E Moore (Belfast, UK), Anthony O'Neill (Belfast, UK), Peter Stanton (Hobart, Tasmania).
History
The first issue of the The Ulster Medical Journal was published on 1 January 1932. The Editorial Board consisted of the following medical luminaries:
Initial Editorial Board
Professor W.W.D. Thomson, Professor Andrew Fullerton, Professor R. Johnstone and H.J. Ritchie
Initial Acting Editor
Richard H. Hunter
Indexing and citations
The full archive of the journal is available in PubMedCentral and the content is indexed in PubMed/Medline.
Current issues and archival material is also available thorugh the Ulster Medical Society website, [www.ums.ac.uk/issue.html].
References
- Hadden, DR (2006). "The editors of the Ulster Medical Journal". Ulster Med J. 75 (1): 5–10. PMC 1891800. PMID 16457399.