On Occasion of 30th Anniversary of the Biomedical Informatics Journal “Acta Informatica Medica” – 1993-2022

Acta Informatica Medica journal (www.actainformmed.org), as Biomedical Informatics journal, during past 30 years of existing played important role in distribution of knowledge and experience within this scientific field, by publishing contributions of the biomedical experts from worlwide and spreading of Biomedical informatics knowledge and experiences in scientific and academic community. Acta Informatica Medica journal has been founded in the year 1993 by Izet Masic and Zoran Ridjanovic, as official journal of Bosnian-Herzegovinan Society of Medical Informatics (BHSMI). In the year 2019 Acta Informatica Medica has been accepted as official journal of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (www.efmi.org), besides 3 other journals: International Journal of Medical Informatics, Methods of Information in Medicine and European Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Journal Acta Informatica Medica is abstracted and indexed in 30 on-line data bases, including Pubmed, Pubmed Central, Scopus, Embase, Hinari, etc. The journal follows the Guidelines and recommendations of ICJME, COPE, EASE, WAME, etc. as well as the recommendations of the “Sarajevo Declaration on Integrity and Visibility of Scholarly Journals”, accepted by 17 Editors of biomedical journals at “SWEP 2018” Conference held in Sarajevo and printed in the countries in South-Eastern Europe. The journal supports presentations at conferences held in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The abstract papers presented at “The Mediterranean Seminar on Science Writing, Editing and Publishing“ – “SWEP 2016”, “SWEP 2018”; “SWEP 2020” and “SWEP 2021”, also found its place in the journal, by which we met our goal of promoting science and scientific publication at the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries in the region. Acta Informatica Medica has been ranked: Highest Impact Factor for 2011–2022 was 1.496 and Lowest Impact Factor for 2011–2022 was 0.59. During the year 2021 in Acta Informatica Medica journal was published 46 papers. From total amount published papers, 67,39% was original papers, where it was more published original papers in the journal than in the year 2020. Acta Informatica Medica has value of important metrics (last updated on November 16, 2021): Impact Score - 1.50, h-Index - 20, Rank - 15980, SJR - 0.267.