Journal of International Medical Research
The Journal of International Medical Research(JIMR) is an SCIE-ranked peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original clinical and preclinical research, systematic and narrative reviews, meta-analyses, and case reports across all areas of medicine. Please see the aims and scope tab for further information.
Journal Highlights
- Launched in 1972.
- Global visibility due to international audience of multidisciplinary researchers.
- Official Impact Factor is 1.6 (SCIE), CiteScore is 2.6.
- Indexed In: Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed: MEDLINE, Scopus, EMBASE, Index Medicus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
- This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
- Gold open access journal: all articles are made freely available online on our website and on PubMedCentral.
- Rigorous peer review and decision making with high standards of publication.
- Global visibility due to international audience of multidisciplinary researchers.
- Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC) that includes high-quality editing of all accepted papers.
- Reviewers get credit for their work via journal partnership with Clarivate Reviewer Recognition (formerly Publons).
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement
The Journal of International Medical Research promotes inclusive, open science that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of the medical research community.
Diversity as a core value embodies inclusiveness, mutual respect, and multiple perspectives.
We welcome editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers and authors from all backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, races, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, mental or physical (dis)abilities, ages, career stages, socioeconomic status or any other individual status.
We are committed to continually improving our editorial and review processes whilst playing our part in eradicating bias and inequality in all forms.
Submission Information
Submit your manuscript today at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jimr.
Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
Page Charge Information
Publication in the journal is subject to payment of a page charge, which serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license. The current rate is £325 GBP per printed page. The page charge fee is based on the page count estimate made after submission and is payable upon provisional acceptance for scientific and language editing before publication. The charge includes a high-quality editing step for all accepted papers. The page charge is payable only when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The page charge is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Contact
Please direct any queries to JIMR.admin@sagepub.com.
Criteria for Publication
Our goal is to publish research done well. This means we look for research that adds to the academic record, either as novel or corroborative evidence, and adheres to ethical standards, uses robust methodologies that are transparent and reproducible, and uses appropriate statistical analyses to ensure clear, credible, and trustworthy results. The Journal of International Medical Research evaluates manuscripts based on how the research was conducted and reported.
- All manuscripts:
- must comply with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 and EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines (e.g. CONSORT for randomized, controlled trials, PRISMA for systematic reviews/meta-analyses, STROBE for most observational studies, ARRIVE for animal studies and CARE for case reports).
- are subject to single-blind peer review (comments from at least two external peer reviewers).
- receive high-quality scientific and language editing before publication.
- must follow our publishing policies.
- The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable.
Scope
The Editors are looking for medical research that adds to the existing literature either as novel or corroborative evidence. We will consider replication studies and negative/null results studies.
We welcome manuscripts across all the main fields, branches, specialties (and subspecialties) and therapeutic areas of medicine. This includes: allergy and immunology, anaesthesia and analgesia, bioinformatics, cardiology, cardiovascular system, clinical epidemiology, clinical pharmacology, critical care, dentistry, dermatology, diabetes and endocrinology, emergency medicine, gastroenterology, geriatrics, haematology, hepatology, immunology, infectious disease, men’s health, musculoskeletal disease, nephrology, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, oncology (all solid tumours), ophthalmology, oral and dental health, orthopaedics, otorhinolaryngology, paediatrics and neonatology, pharmacology, psychiatry, regenerative medicine, respiratory disease, rheumatology, sexual health, sports medicine, surgery (all areas), therapeutics, urology, women’s health.
We publish original clinical research (randomised controlled trials, observational studies) and preclinical research (in vitro studies, animal studies, in silico studies), systematic reviews and meta-analyses, narrative reviews, and case reports/series.
We do not publish the following research:
- Public health studies, social/nursing care studies, epidemiology studies, health economics and outcomes research
- Alternative and complementary medicine
- Bioinformatics without clinical, in vitro, or in vivo validation
- in vitro cell lines studies without in vivo/clinical validation; in silico studies without supporting evidence of their downstream effects in vivo or in vitro
- Simple database studies, simple bibliographic studies, common cases
- Studies with limited international appeal that are more suited for a local or niche journal
- Life science and engineering studies: these may be suitable for our sister publication, Science Progress.
You can submit a manuscript at any time. Please also consider our lists of Special Topics and Special Collections.
Matthew Thorne, PhD | SAGE Publications Ltd, UK |
Michaela Christodoulaki, PhD | SAGE Publications Ltd, UK |
Gordon Mallarkey, PhD | SAGE Publications Ltd, UK |
Sara Morris, MSc | SAGE Publications Ltd, UK |
Lingling Tian | SAGE Publishing, Shanghai, China |
Albiruni Razak | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada |
Kathryn Abel | University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
Fateen Ata | Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar |
Suleyman Aydin | Firat University, Turkey |
Deepak Babu, | Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA |
Melissa Badowski | University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
Matteo Bassetti | University of Udine and Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata, Udine, Italy |
Nuray Bayar Muluk | Kirikkale University, Turkey |
Angel Becerra-Bolaños | Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain |
Alexander Berezin | Zaporozhye State Medical University, Ukraine |
Massimo Bonacchi | University of Florence, Florence, Italy |
Yong-Jun Cha | Daejeon University, Republic of Korea |
Madhuradhar Chedongi | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
H Cheng | Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China |
Sheue-Yann Cheng | National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA |
Zeyi Cheng | Sichuan University, Chengdu, China |
Kumaraswamy Chitrala | University of Houston, Texas, USA |
William Cho | !Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong |
Simon Chu | Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, VIC, Australia |
Andrea Ciorba | University Hospital of Ferrara, Italy |
Indranil Dasgupta | University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK |
Jorge A. Garcia | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
Matteo Ghilli | University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy |
Syed Adeel Hassan | University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA |
Giovanni Iolascon | University of Campania "L.Vanvitelli", Italy |
Miljana z. Jovandaric | University Clinical Center of Serbia, Serbia |
Ali Fahim Khan | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma, USA |
Young-Kug Kim | Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Republic of Korea |
Constantine E. Kosmas | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University General Hospital “ATTIKON”, Athens, Greece |
Ichiro Kurokawa | Meiwa Hospital, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan |
Anna Lavezzi | University of Milan, Italy |
Nicolas Lecomte | David M. Rubenstein CPCR, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA |
Gun Woo Lee | Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea |
Hyun Jung Lee | Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
Jimmy K. Limdi | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust & University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
Jian Liu | Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Beijing, China |
Hui Luo | The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China |
Zhaojie Lyu | Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China |
Zhengtao Lyu | Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China |
Monia Marchetti, MD, PhD | Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, Italy |
Elizabeth J. Maynes, MD | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA |
Patrick Meloy | Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
Francesco Menzella | AULSS2 Marca Trevigiana, Italy |
Antimo Moretti | University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Caserta, Italy |
Francesco Nappi | Centre Cardiologique du Nord, Saint-Denis, France |
Dionysis Nikolopoulos | Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
Uwe Nixdorff | European Prevention Center, Germany |
Gaetano Nucifora | University of Manchester/Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
Daniele Orsucci | Unit of Neurology, San Luca Hospital of Lucca, Lucca, Italy |
Georgios D Panos | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK |
Federica Piani | University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
Hui-Qi Qu | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Janet Rimmer | St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
Jose Juan Pereyra Rodriguez | Virgen del Rocío University Hospital/ University of Sevilla, Spain |
Luca Roncati | University Hospital of Modena, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy |
Nahum Rosenberg | National Insurance Institute, Jerusalem, Israel |
Alessio Rungatscher | University of Verona, Verona, Italy |
Irfan Shafi | Wayne State University, USA |
Nada Shaker | Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
Suresh Kumar Sharma | Panjab University, Chandigarh, India |
Sayed Ali Sheikh | Jouf University, Aljouf, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
Fuqian Shi | Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, USA |
Mohammad Soleimani | University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
Eser Yildirim Sözmen | Izmir Tinaztepe University, Turkey |
Victor Strassmann | Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA |
BinBin Sui | Beijing Tiantan Hospital, China |
Rajesh Tampi | Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA & Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA |
Joho Tokumine | Kyorin University School of Medicine, Japan |
Tiago Torres | University of Porto, Porto, Portugal |
Wen-Jun Tu | Capital Medical University - CUCAS, Beijing, China |
Francesco Vasuri | University Hospital of Bologna IRCCS, Italy |
Chien-Chih Wang | Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan |
Ying Wang | Wildtype Foods RD&I Department, San Francisco, USA |
Stanley Wong | Hong Kong University, Hong Kong |
Mehmet Yalniz | Firat University, Turkey |
Jae Jun Yang | Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea |
Senbang Yao | The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China |
Mehmet Ali Yesiltas | Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey |
Jinzhou Zhu | Soochow University, Suzhou, China |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.