The General Secretariat of the Gulf Union for Cancer Control reviewed a number of researches related to the disease, which were published in the Gulf Journal of Oncology over the past fifteen years.
During a press conference held by the secretariat to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the journal’s issuance, in the presence of a number of members of the Union the Secretary-General of the Union, the magazine’s founder and editor-in-chief, Dr. Khaled Al-Saleh stated that the number of researches published in the “Gulf Oncology” during this period amounted to 478 papers, pointing out that the number of countries that participated in presenting their scientific researches related to cancer in the journal reached 35 countries from different countries of the world, reports a local Arabic daily.
Al-Saleh confirmed that the magazine has obtained the international classification as a reference journal in the US National Register of Pub med and Medline since January 2009, and is now considered a reference in scientific research related to cancer in the Middle East.
He stated that the magazine is issued by the General Secretariat of the Gulf Union for Cancer Control, based in Kuwait, and it has 80 arbitrators in a number of countries of the world, indicating that it is the main source of encouragement for researchers in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and publishes their distinguished research and receives the acceptance of arbitrators, as the number of published researches is about 50 year, noting that the journal receives more than 150 research papers each year from all countries of the world.
Al-Saleh pointed out that these researches are arbitrated and 50% of them are accepted with a distinguished level, and that the waiting period for publication ranges between 6 months and a year, and the General Secretariat of the Union issues 3 issues of this magazine every year.
He explained that the research journal is published on the website of the Gulf Union for Cancer Control www.gffcc.org, and researchers can submit their research electronically, explaining that the most important features of the journal are that the research of the sources in it is in the American Library “online”, where it is read by all researchers and interested doctors in the world.
Al-Saleh thanked the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences for its distinguished support for the magazine, as well as the National Cancer Awareness Campaign “Kan” for its technical support to the magazine, and to all associations in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and members of the Gulf Union for Cancer Control, for their continued support for this magazine.
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