Pros and cons of student journals.

ages students to publish their own research, promoting students with inexperience in publishing research to develop their style of writing. They also provide an opportunity for students to become accustomed to the submission and peerreview process. Moreover, exceptional editorial opportunities are offered for interested students to learn about medical journalism and to develop their critical appraisal skills providing trained editors for the future [3]. Notwithstanding these merits, student journals face major critiques and challenges. The peer-review system, which is managed mainly by undergraduates as editors and reviewers who lack enough clinical and critical appraisal skills to provide constructive reviews, may allow low-quality studies to reach publication resulting in a culture of weak studies. In addition, the lack of indexing and readability of these journals may deprive good articles from reaching their targeted audience and subsequent citations. Furthermore, the issues of sustainability in securing good-quality submissions, funds and dedicated editorial teams are other major concerns for the future of these journals [4]. To tackle these issues, it is important that these journals adopt a strict peer-review system in accordance with international editing guidelines, with experts leading the process. Additionally, funding agencies, academic institutions and professional publishing groups should collaborate with these journals to make sure that these efforts of future researchers are directed along the right way.