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Health and Social Welfare Review Maintains Its Status as a KCI-Accredited Journal with Outstanding Evaluation Results

  • Date 2021-12-01
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Health and Social Welfare Review Has Maintained Its Status as a KCI-accredited Journal, Receiving a Very High Evaluation Score

  • Received rave reviews for meeting all the standards of a scholarly journal at their highest levels; scored 98.94 in the re-accreditation evaluation by the KCI.

  • Started a complete web-based publication in 2019 for the first time in the country.

  • Started publishing lay summaries to prevent knowledge monopoly and misreading.

  • Its impact index has kept increasing.


  • Health and Social Welfare Review, a KIHASA journal that has been published since 1981, scored 98.94 out of 100 in the KCI journal re-accreditation evaluation in 2021, achieving perfect scores in two of eight categories, and thereby maintaining its status as a KCI accredited journal for the next 6 years.

  • -To be accredited by the KCI, journals should meet the basic KCI standards and score at least 85 in its journal accreditation evaluation.

  • Among the highly evaluated feats of the journal are the following:

  • -In 2019, Health and Social Welfare Review transformed into a web-based journal, providing foreign readers and readers with disabilities easier access.

  • -The editorial board is issuing editorials as part of its internationalization effort.

  • -The journal holds a colloquium every year to help disseminate research and new developments in major health and welfare issues.

  • -The journal started publishing lay summaries this year to alleviate the problem of knowledge monopoly by a small number of scholars, minimize the possibility of misreading, and to enhance communication with the public, all of which has contributed to differentiating the journal from the rest.

  • The number of submissions and published articles has kept increasing every year that now the journal receives 150 submissions a year with 50.5 percent of them being published. Every year the journal asks about 450 scholars and experts to review the submissions, doing its utmost to manage its quality as a professional scholarly journal.

  • No sooner are the articles published than they are accessible to more than 25,000 scholars and researchers in health and welfare through the KIHASA webzine and website; the number of downloads of the published articles is more than 40,000 a year; the number of the downloads through open access has rapidly increased to 635,000.

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