Abstract

Nowadays, many researches in the field of medicine are conducting all around the world and medical journalism is a way to share the results. In fact, dissemination of the related manuscripts can prevent the repetitive research or may even lead to conducting a better survey. Therefore high quality medical journals are considered as up-to-date resources for further investigations (1, 2). Medical jour-nals are propagating their papers in various media includ-ing television programs, newspapers, internet websites and different social media. So they can influence the gov-ernment policy makers, health-care professionals and even public (3-5). Moreover, most researchers hear about medical discoveries for the first time through medical journals and their related social media. So as well a high quality journal can help to improve medical science, a journal of poor quality can be damaging and distorting. Indeed, popular journals have the power of inventing a “communication storm” to draw attention to a certain topic. Thus they have to respect the accepted internation-al principles to prevent spreading inaccurate and mislead-ing data (6, 7). This paper aims to review the previous and current situation of medical journalism by focus on field of emergency medicine.

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