''Medical Journal Armed Forces India'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering all disciplines of
medical science
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. It is published by
Elsevier
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on behalf of the Armed Forces Medical Services of India and the
editor-in-chief
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is Col Vivek Aggarwal. The journal was established in 1945 as ''Journal of Indian Army Medical Corps'', obtaining its current name in 1974.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed,
CAB Abstracts
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,
Embase,
and
Scopus
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.
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://afmc.nic.in/Departments/MJAFI/homepage.html
General medical journals
Quarterly journals
Indian Army
Academic journals established in 1945
English-language journals