the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology (apjmt) was born in december 2012 to open up new perspectives for dissemination of research in medical toxicology. it was also created to expand the science of medical toxicology, addiction morbidities, drug interactions and adverse effects in the asia pacific region (1,2). the journal has attracted the support of medical toxicologists from differe...

The Iranian Journal of Radiation Research (IJRR) is now in the eighth year of publication. This journal is the mouth piece of shared idea of Dr Shahram Akhlaghpoor and me, which was established way back in 2002. At that time the main emphasis of the founder members was to make the subject of radiation research attractive and interesting especially for combating cancer and risk assessment. T...

Dear editor Periodical assessment and monitoring of journal statistics by editor in chief and other related editorial board  bring important insight to determine the quality of scientific production process and provide detail if a journal is paving the way to  join the mainstream internationally recognized indexing databases such as ISI [www.webofknowledge.com], Medline [www.Pubmed.org] and Sc...

Prof. Maryam Shokri was born in 1950, in Sari city, Iran, where she got her diploma certificate. She received her B.Sc. degree in Natural Resources from Tehran University during 1969 to 1973. She employed the Environmental Organisation as teacher in High School in Environment during 1973-1975. She received a scholarship position from the Buali Sina University to finish her M.Sc. degree from Mon...

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

it is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the first edition of the journal of craniomaxillofacial research and i would therefore like to take this opportunity to point out a brief history of the field ofmaxillofacial surgery and also the craniomaxillofacial research center in iran. the discipline of oral and maxillofacial surgery was initially formed and taught under the name of or...