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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">KJHP</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Korean Journal of Health Promotion</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>Korean J Health Promot</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="ppub">2234-2141</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">2093-5676</issn>
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<publisher-name>Korean Society For Health Promotion And Disease Prevention</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15384/kjhp.2024.00003</article-id>
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<subject>Announcements</subject></subj-group></article-categories>
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<article-title>Converting to a Journal Publishing Academic Papers Written in from English and Korean to English Only: The New Beginning toward a Journal Indexed in SCIE</article-title>
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<name><surname>MYUNG</surname><given-names>Seung-Kwon</given-names></name>
<degrees>MD</degrees>
<degrees>PhD</degrees>
<role>Editor-in-Chief, Korean Journal of Health Promotion</role>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-kjhp-2024-00003"><sup>1</sup></xref>
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<label>1</label>Department of Cancer AI &amp; Digital Health, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-Ro, Ilsandong-Gu, Goyang, Gyeonggi-Do, 10408, <country>Korea</country></aff>
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<label>2</label>Cancer Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Data Science, Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, <country>Korea</country></aff>
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<label>3</label>Department of Family Medicine and Center for Cancer Prevention and Detection, Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang, <country>Korea</country></aff>
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<corresp id="c1-kjhp-2024-00010">Corresponding author: Seung-Kwon MYUNG, MD, PhD Department of Cancer AI &amp; Digital Health, National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang 10408, Korea Tel: +82-31-920-0479 Fax: +82-31-920-2606 E-mail: <email>msk@ncc.re.kr</email></corresp>
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<month>3</month>
<year>2024</year></pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>27</day>
<month>3</month>
<year>2024</year></pub-date>
<volume>24</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>1</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>27</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2024</year></date>
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<day>29</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2024</year></date>
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<copyright-statement>&#x000a9; 2024 The Korean Society for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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<license-p>Articles published in the KJHP are open-access, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions>
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<p>To all readers of the Korean Journal of Health Promotion:</p>
<p>I am Seung-Kwon MYUNG, Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Health Promotion (<italic>KJHP</italic>). <italic>KJHP</italic> is an open access, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in various areas of the medical, nursing, nutritional, physical educational (kinesiological), epidemiological, and public health sciences associated with health promotion and disease prevention. <italic>KJHP</italic>, which is an official journal of the Korean Society for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, has been published continuously since 2001. In order to advance and disseminate new knowledge and scientific information in all the areas associated with health promotion and disease prevention, <italic>KJHP</italic> has published academic papers written in English and Korean for mainly Korean researchers and readers for the past two decades.</p>
<p>However, in recent years, it has been strongly suggested among the members of the Korean Society for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention that <italic>KJHP</italic> should be indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded in order to share and disseminate the new knowledge and scientific information related with health promotion and disease prevention for international readers as well as Korean readers. Therefore, <italic>KJHP</italic> has decided to reform the publication system. First, <italic>KJHP</italic> has converted to a journal publishing academic papers written in from English and Korean to English only from this issue, 2024. Second, we have opened the new English <italic>KJHP</italic> homepage and online manuscript submission system in January, this year. Last, no review (submission) fees are charged for all the submitted articles from now on. Article processing charges are required for publication in the <italic>KJHP</italic>. Publication fees for all the accepted original or review articles are 300,000 Korean Won (250 US dollars). Additionally, if the article exceeds 6 pages of the journal, additional fees (50,000 Korean Won or 40 US dollars per extra page) will be charged.</p>
<p>On behalf of the editors, I hope that all the readers and researchers submit valuable manuscripts to <italic>KJHP</italic> and support <italic>KJHP</italic>&#x02019;s growth and development.</p>
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