The KJFM's primary goal of foreign database listing can now be considered achieved, and we now aim to go one step further to our final goal - Science Citation Index (SCI) listing. SCI is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information, SCI covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines. These journals, which are chosen through a rigorous selection process, are among the world's leading journals of science and technology.3)

To be listed in the SCI, several conditions must be met. First, basic journal publishing standards -timeliness, international editorial conventions, English language bibliographic information, and peer review- must be met. This means that 1) KJFM must be published according to its stated publication schedule; 2) KJFM must have informative journal titles, descriptive article titles, full address information for every author, and complete bibliographic information for all cited; 3) article titles, author names, addresses, cited references, abstracts, and keywords of KJFM must be in English; and 4) the peer review process must be applied. Second, the editorial content of KJFM must be needed in the SCI database. Third, international diversity must be fulfilled. This means that authors, editors, and editorial advisory board members are from around the world. Fourth, citations to the journal itself (impact factor) and citations to the contributing authors, editorial board members of KJFM must be more than some point.4)

It is a very challenging task for KJFM to be listed in the SCI database. To do so, dedication of editorial board members and financial support of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine are required.

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