The Diabetes & Metabolism Journal is the official journal of the Korean Diabetes Association. It is published bimonthly, with articles in English accepted through the process of peer review. The official title of the journal is 'Diabetes & Metabolism Journal' and the abbreviated title is 'Diabetes Metab J'. The journal was launched in 1972 and had been published under the title the Journal of the Korean Diabetes Association until 2007 (pISSN 1015-6461). From 2008 to 2010, its title was the Korean Diabetes Journal (pISSN 1976-9180, eISSN 2093-2650). Since 2011, volume 35, the title is now the Diabetes & Metabolism Journal. Index words from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus are included in each article to facili-tate article searches. The Journal is also published on the official website of the Diabetes & Metabolism Journal (https://e-dmj.org) and is widely distributed to members of the Korean Diabetes Association, medical schools, libraries, and international institutions. Circulation number of print copies and electronic copies are 560 and 4,300 respectively. It is indexed in KoreaMed, KoM­CI, KoreaMed Synapse, MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, SCOPUS, EMBASE, Ebsco, DOI/CrossRef, Google Scholar, and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).