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Laboratory Medicine Online (Lab Med Online, eISSN 2093-6338) is the official journal of the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine, the Korean Society for Genetic Diagnostics, the Korean Society for Laboratory Hematology, the Korean Society of Diagnostic Immunology, the Korean Society of Clinical Chemistry, and the Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology, published in Korean or English. Lab Med Online has been published quarterly since Jan 1, 2011. Lab Med Online tries to present academic achievements of authors to readers as fast as possible. To accomplish this, the journal is running a policy to return the results of its first peer review to the authors within one month after submission is completed. There is no page charge or article processing charge of author side. Full-text files are available at the official website (http://www.labmedonline.org). Total or a part of the articles in this journal are abstracted in the Korean Journal Citation Report (KCI), KoreaMed, WordWideScience.org, Google Scholar, and CrossRef. This journal is supported by the Korean Federation of Science and Technololgy Societies (KOFST) Grant funded by the Korean Goverment (MEST).

Publisher: The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine
Editor-in-Chief: Jeong Won Shin

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