en Hepatitis Monthly

*Hepatitis Monthly*
Discipline	Gastroenterology, hepatology
Language	English
Edited by	Seyed-Moayed Alavian
Publication details
History	2002–present
Publisher	Brieflands Publishing (fka Kowsar Publishing)
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
License	CC-BY-NC 4.0
Impact factor	1.578 (2018)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Hepat. Mon.
Indexing;
CODEN	HMEOBM
ISSN	1735-143X (print); 1735-3408 (web);
OCLC no.	1076732860
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

Hepatitis Monthly is a monthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal published by Brieflands Publishing, formerly known as Kowsar Publishing.^[1] Kowsar was included on Beall's List prior to the list's shutdown in 2017.^[2] The journal was established in 2002 by Seyed-Moayed Alavian, who is the journal's editor-in-chief.

Abstracting and indexing

In August 2017, the United States National Library of Medicine, which manages the PubMed Central database, determined that the journal did not satisfy their Scientific Quality Standard, and delisted the journal.^[10]

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