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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2017)
Dear Forensic Scientists,
We are here with the new issue of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine in 2017. We would like to thank you for your extensive interest and contributions to our journal. We are happy to announce that our application to DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) has been accepted and from now on, the Bulletin of Legal Medicine is indexed by DOAJ. We thank our valuable authors and reviewers for their contributions as the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Legal Medicine.
We are sharing different studies in the forensic science area in the new issue of our journal. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine is an internationally qualified journal where it is punctually published and is scanned by Tübitak Ulakbim TR Index and international DOAJ databases. While sending your studies to our journal which is a scientific platform of the forensic sciences, we would like to ask you to upload your articles to the system in accordance with the journal writing rules and to add the DOI numbers of the references as well at the references section when applicable.
We wish to raise the eligibility of our journal higher by being aware of the fact that being scientific is the only way to build up a future for forensic sciences, and we wish to continue to be a common platform sharing the latest studies in Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science areas...
Prof. Dr. Halis Dokgöz
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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2017)
Dear Forensic Scientists,
We are here with the first issue of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine in 2017. We thank you very much for your intense interest in our journal. As a result of 22 years of experience and process, we are continuing to pursue research, case presentation and compilation as well as proceeding with certain steps towards becoming a scientific platform for the forensic science field.
In the new issue of our journal, we believe you will read the clinical forensic applications, judicial document reviews and Dr. Fahri Ecevit’s biography in terms of history of forensic medicine with interest. We believe that the article which brings the universal trauma scoring system to the agenda and assessment of injuries in forensic medicine applications debate on the guide currently used is a horizon. It is a well-known fact that the case presentations are educational and published in our journal are also interesting. In the “disability” reporting system, the scoring system has become a necessity for establishing a scientific standard, revealing the trauma of individuals and ensuring justice.
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine has acquired the identity of an international journal published on time and scanned by Tübitak Ulakbim TR Index and many other international databases. In the meantime, we want to emphasize that we are applying to be indexed by DOAJ and SCI-Expanded and that the process is still ongoing. When you send your study to our journal, we ask you to upload your articles to the system in accordance with the journal writing rules.
We wish to raise the eligibility of our journal higher by being aware of the fact that being scientific is the only way to build up a future for forensic sciences...
Prof. Dr. Halis Dokgöz
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Vol. 21 No. 3 (2016)
Dear Forensic Scientists,
We are here with the last issue of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine in 2016. Though We are facing an extraordinary period of coup attempt, we must emphasize and express our loyalty to social and secular constitutional state and our republic more strongly and are delighted to present new issue of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine
We continue to present our bulletin in printed and electronic media as free. We are pleasant to share more satisfying articles in terms of quality and quantity with you. We particularly ask you to pay attention spelling, sign a copyright transfer agreement and add the doi numbers of references when you send your articles to our journal. We hope you to support, participate and contribute with your research articles as a timely published scientific journal which has been attaining international journal identity, scanned by Tubitak Ulakbim and many international databases and published on time. We thanks to contributing and participation to scientists working in the field of forensic science and we wish that the new year will bring health and happiness to all of us
We hope that we raise scientific quality of our journal higher with conscious about the scientific which is only true in building of forensic sciences of future…
Prof. Dr. Halis Dokgöz
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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2016)
Dear Forensic Scientists,
We are here with the second issue of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine in 2016. Though We are facing an extraordinary period of coup attempt, we must emphasize and express our loyalty to social, democratic and secular constitutional state and our republic more strongly.
We are very pleased about administration of the plaques to both our former editors, our masters who contributed to our journal as referee and our editorial board of our journal by our association in 13th Forensic Sciences Congress in Bodrum.
We continue to present our bulletin in printed and electronic media as free. We are pleased to share more satisfying articles in terms of quality and quantity with you. We would like to ask you particularly to pay attention to spelling, to sign a copyright transfer agreement and to add the doi numbers of references when you send your articles to our journal. We hope you to support, participate and contribute with your research articles as a timely published scientific journal
We want to highlight that our journal which has a faster and easier access website with double-blind referee system has also started to proceed with important databases including PubMed and SCI-Expanded as well.
We wish to raise the eligibility of our journal higher by being aware of the fact that being scientific is the only way to build up a future for forensic sciences...
Prof. Dr. Halis Dokgöz
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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2016)
Dear Forensic Scientists,
Firstly, I would like to state that we decry recently increasing incidents of terrorism. We have to act with an approach that includes our relations with nature by both objective and subjective sensitivity of a scientist as working in the stressful branches of forensic science especially trauma and death. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine develops rapidly on the way of becoming not only national, but also an international scientific platform, in which your contributions are extremely valuable.
When we examine the website of our journal via visitors statistics, we are pleased to determine that our visitors from almost every country in the world access to articles as “PDF” format which we share free in thought of independent science. We would like to ask you to add the numbers of “DOI” in order to increase impact factor of our bulletin when representing articles in our bulletin as reference.
We become happy about increasing in the quality and quantity of articles arriving to us and learn that our bulletin is indexed in many national and international databases. As a scientific journal published on time, we need more supports, participations and contributions especially with research articles.
With knowledge that the scientific attitudes are only truth in construction of Forensic Science of future, we wish to increase quality of our bulletin together...
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Halis Dokgöz
Editor
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Vol. 20 No. 3 (2015)
Dear Forensic Scientists,
We are very pleased to present 3rd issue of 2015 of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine. As year of 2015, we have published last issue of our bulletin on time.
I want to share our happiness with you about admission of articles for evaluation from not only our country, but also abroad to our journal. Our other pride is determination of English articles, admitted to our journal, by our international advisory board. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, being monitored by international scientific indexes, has gained an international journal quality, within a short time. The journal also perfected its online accession system by providing DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number, a character string that uniquely identifies a digital object, for each paper. Also, one of the most important problems scientific researches is "plagiarism", as related no longer articles are passed through the CrossCheck plagiarism scanning system before sending to the referees.
The PDF files of all issues of the Bulletin of Legal Medicine since 1996 as beginning of publication are open for free access to our website. We have changed design of cover and pages of our journal since 2015. Clearly, we were worried about this change as a traditional structure. However, positive feedbacks of criticism have further increased work determination.
Dear Forensic Scientists, We wish you to continue contributions to our journal. Not only publication of articles in our journal, but also we would like to remind you that you make contribution to a scientific platform by sharing your comments and submitting as letter to the editor.
We have a long way to go yet and need your support and contribution so much. Hope to meet you in higher quality issues.
Sincerely,
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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2015)
Dear forensic scientists,
We are very pleased to present 2nd issue of 2015 of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine. It is a great honor to achieve timely delivering 2nd issue of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine during XII. Congress of Forensic Sciences organized by The Society of Forensic Medicine Specialists.
As a natural consequence of increasing number of scientific activities and studies in the field of forensic sciences, there is an increase in the number and the quality of papers submitted to our journal. Increasing submissions from abroad besides our country certainly put forward the universal manner or our work. In this issue, we are pleased to share scientific studies from four different countries.
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, being monitored by international scientific indexes, has gained an international journal quality, within a short time. The journal also perfected its online accession system by providing DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number, a character string that uniquely identifies a digital object, for each paper.
Along with the 2015 issues, The Bulletin of Legal Medicine continues to offer free online access based on the philosophy of free science. We are pleased to present the new layout and cover design.
We wish you to continue contributions to our journal. We also would like to remind you that you are welcomed to share your comments by submitting as letter to the editor. Hope to meet you in higher quality issues.
Sincerely,
Prof. Halis Dokgoz, MD.
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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2015)
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine has been continuously published with the double-blind referee system since 1996. We are celebrating our 20th year anniversary together with the issue you are holding.
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, being monitored by international scientific indexes, has gained an international journal quality, within a short time. We hope to give the good news of the new scientific indexes in near future. From the very next issue every paper will have DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number. DOI is a character string that uniquely identify a digital object that facilitate accession to it, and accepted papers that given DOI number will accessed as article in press.
We would like to underline that from the very first issue of 2015 the journal will be published with more original, case reports, and review papers. The journal’s editorial board, national and international advisory board have been updated and activated in a short period. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine experience innovation, starting from 2015 issues, without compromising its scientific way, and without departing from tradition. We are going to change the journal’s cover and page design in the new issue. We present the journal with both its scientific content and design.
We would like to thank distinguished forensic scientists who contribute our journal as authors and reviewers. Hope to meet you in higher quality issues with your increasing criticism and interest...
Sincerely...Prof. Halis Dokgöz, MD.
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Vol. 19 No. 3 (2014)
Dear Forensic Scientists,
Last year, 2014, was quite challenging and highly fruitful for The Bulletin of Legal Medicine. With this issue, we have completed our regularly published since 1996 journal's volumes of 2012 and 2013, and 2014 issues even with increasing numbers of papers.
For The Bulletin of Legal Medicine 2014 was a year of restructuring. Firstly, we have started our “Open Journal System” by establishing journal's website. Based on the philosophy of free science we make PDF version of all articles published since 1996 freely available in through our system. We updated and reactivated journal's national and international advisory board. We successively achieved to initiate a more efficient manuscript evaluation system by double blinded review on "Open Journal System". With these improvements our journal is currently being indexed by many national and international databases.
We will continue to publish actual invited literature reviews by highly qualified invited professionals in the field. Dr.C.A.Bemard, who brought countless innovations to Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Adliye-i Şahane, is a highly valuable scholar with his dissection and autopsy studies. We are sure that you will benefit from the paper entitled “An Assessment on the Works of Charles Ambroisse Bernard, the founder of Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Adliye-i Şahane (Imperial School of Medicine), and his effects on Ottoman” by Hülya Öztürk and Cezmi Karasu. We thank the authors who willingly share this archival work with our readers. In this issue, we are glad to share an invited article entitled “The Role of Psychology in Investigations” by our colleague Donna Youngs and Emek Yüce Zeyrek-Rios from Huddersfield University International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology (IRCIP).
Valuable forensic scientists. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine will be with you with innovation and surprises in 2015. The phenomenon of tutorials, developer, and exchanger characteristic of case as stated by famous Italian thinker Gramsci, is evident in manuscripts submitted to our journal. We will share more case works in our further issues. At this point, we would like to emphasize that we continue to our scientific journey thanks to valuable contribution by forensic science professionals as authors and reviewers.
To meet in innovation, we wish 2015 to bring health and happiness.
Best regards,
Prof.Dr.Halis Dokgöz -
Vol. 19 No. 2 (2014)
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, based on feedback from distinguished forensic science professionals, continuous to improve its quality in terms of publication process and published papers, since catching timely and regular publication in 2014.
We are happy to publish actual literature reviews by highly qualified invited professionals in the field. In this issue, we are glad to share a precious article entitled “Medico-Legal Death Investigators: A Profession that could Contribute to Criminal Justice System” by our colleague Volkan Çetin from Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center, New York, USA.
We would like to acknowledge contributing forensic science professionals for their precious supports as authors and reviewers.
Sincerely
Prof. Halis Dokgöz, MD -
Vol. 19 No. 1 (2014)
Dear forensic scientists,
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, with your intensive contribution and participation, successively continuous to its scientific journey in a rapid and dynamic manner via its "Open Journal System", double blinded review system. PDF version of all articles published in The Bulletin of Legal Medicine since 1996 are available for free in the journals website. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine will be published with more articles starting from 2014 issues.
We are happy to share actual literature reviews by highly qualified invited professionals in the field. In this issue, we are happy to publish and share a precious article entitled “Ancient DNAand Forensics, Mutual Benefits: A Practical Sampling and Laboratory Guide through a Virtual Ancient DNA Study” by our colleagues Jan CEMPER-KJESSLICH, Mark R. Me COY and Fabian KANZ from Salzburg, Paracelsus, and Vienna Universities.
The editorial Office is also happy to announce that the journal is being indexed by increasing number of national and international indexes with its timely and regular publication.
We gladly appreciate your intensive interest and contribution, as authors and reviewers, even in summer time. We are looking forward for your increased contribution and participation.
Sincerely...
Prof.Dr. Halis Dokgöz -
Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013)
Dear forensic scientists,
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine successively achieved to initiate and accelerate the processes of submission, review and publication with "Open Journal System" on its website. We would like to thank “Türkiye Klinikleri/Turkish Clinics” for providing online submission system to our journal, previously.
PDF version of all articles published in The Bulletin of Legal Medicine since 1996 are now available in "Archive" section on journals website. Researchers are able to download any published article by searching on the website for free. In addition, PDF version of books of Medical Law Meetings organized by The Society of Forensic Medicine Specialists, are also available in “Announcements” section of the website.
We would like to thank to forensic science professionals for their precious support regarding improvement of the journal. In a short while, we gladly faced with the intense interest of both distinguished authors and reviewers. We have recent good news to share with you. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine has restarted to be monitored by Turkey Citation Index (Türkiye Atıf Dizini) database. The journal has also started to be indexed by “Google Scholar”, in international area. In this regard, you will be able to access the PDF versions of your articles, citation results of your articles and your citations through “Google Scholar”.
The journal has a far way to go; in this scientific travel we need the support of distinguished forensic science professionals.
Sincerely,
Halis Dokgöz, Prof.Dr. -
Vol. 17 No. 1 (2012)
Dear forensic scientists,
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine has been continuously published since 1996 with negligible delays from time to time. Editorial board would like to acknowledge previous editors Prof. Serpil Salaçin, Prof. Şebnem Korur and Prof. Nadir Arıcan, publication committee, reviewers and all scientists in the field of forensic sciences for their precious contributions to the journal.
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, without departing from its scientific legacy and tradition, with its new team embark on a journey to the future with an open philosophy of science in the challenging field of forensic sciences. As required by current scientific era, we started to publish the journal electronically through its webpage as "Open Journal System" and in print as well, in order to provide scientific knowledge to everyone. Our short-term goal is to publish journal on a timely basis, which is monitored by national and international scientific databases. Furthermore, the journal is aimed to be indexed by SCI- Expanded and SCI indexes as our long-term goal.
Rapidly proceeding on the path of innovation and change, The Bulletin of Legal Medicine needs the contribution and support of distinguished scientists in the field of forensic sciences, more than any time.
Sincerely,
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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2011)
Dear Readers and Distinguished Colleagues, With this issue, we are proud to be left behind fifteen successful years of publication life of The Bulletin of Legal Medicine. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, as official scientific publication of the Association of Forensic Medicine Specialists, has been continuously published since 1996 with negligible delays from time to time. The journal owes its success to your valuable scientific contributions, besides precious efforts of all editors and associate editors, and publication committee from the moment of first publication to the present day. At this point, I would like to emphasize the importance of contributions of advisory board members in terms of enhancing the quality of publications with their great care during reviewing articles. In this regard, I would like to thank all those who provide contribution. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine adds novel forensic studies to national publishing with the support of advisory board members; however, it experiences delays in publication process due to problems in scientific journal publishing. During this period, in order to reduce interruptions and accelerating the article review process "Online manuscript tracking system" was provided to users. Improving the online manuscript tracking system by our new editorial board will contribute to further speed up in the publication process. I wish success to next editor and editorial board members; with the belief of your strong support to The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, the official scientific publication of our association, as an important means of contributing to the development of the area and sharing innovations in the field of forensic sciences. Sincerely yours, Editor Nadir ARICAN
