Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

 

Article Processing Charges

IJMS (International Journal of Medical Studies) never charges for article/manuscript submission.

All articles published in our journals are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made possible by an article-processing charge (APC) that covers the range of publishing services we provide. This includes the provision of online tools for editors and authors, article production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, and customer services. The APC, payable when your manuscript is editorially accepted and before publication, is charged to either you or your funder, institution or employer.

Indian/Nepalese Author: 3000 INR

Foreign Author: 220 USD

 

Waiver Policy

We consider individual waiver requests for articles in IJMS journals on a case-by-case basis and they may be granted in cases of lack of funds. To apply for a waiver please request one during the submission process. A decision on the waiver will normally be made within two working days. Requests made during the review process or after acceptance will not be considered. 

We will provide a waiver or discount if you are based in a country that is classified by the World Bank as a low-income or a lower-middle-income economy.

 

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Instructions to Authors:

The IJMS is an international monthly journal, which publishes original research articles, short communications, invited reviews, opinions & perspectives, and book reviews in medical sciences/studies.

The authors are highly encouraged to read instructions carefully before submitting the manuscript. For submitting the manuscript authors are encouraged to use the online submission process by logging in to www.ijmsonline.in where they also can keep track of the status of the manuscriptSubmitted manuscripts are subject to peer review. Submitted articles will be typically peer-reviewed and published within 10-15 days after acceptance. Prior to publication, the final version of the edited article will be sent to the authors for approval. The authors must check for the accuracy of all content at this time.

Journal publishes Manuscript of following types:

Original research article:

The original Research article should include Title, Abstract, Methods and Materials, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, and References. 

Short communications:

Short communications presenting important new findings and cannot be elaborated as a full research paper can be communicated whose average length is not more than 6 type-written pages (Approx-2500 words), including abstract and title page.

Invited reviews:

Reviews on special topics of current interest in medical sciences/studies/research are welcomed. The length of the review article should be the same as that of the original research article.

Opinions & Perspectives:

Opinions & perspectives on topics of current and future interest by renowned scientists, researchers are welcomed.

Book Reviews in Medical Studies:

Books for review should be sent to the Reviews Editor

Preparation of Manuscripts: General requirements

Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to medical journals" developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2006).

Manuscripts should be typewritten in Calibri, font 12, Title shall be in a font size 16. All section titles in the manuscript shall be in font size 12, boldface capitals. Subtitles in each section shall be in font size 12, boldface lower case followed by a colon. Double spacing all portions of the manuscript— including the title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, individual tables, and legends—and margins 2.5 cm each side. Authors should number all of the pages of the manuscript consecutively, beginning with the title page.

Authors, in their cover letter to the Editor, should clearly mention whether the manuscript shall be considered as an original Research article, Short Communication or Review Article and also confirm that the manuscript has not been submitted to any other Journal for publication. Authors publishing results from in vivo experiments involving animals or humans should state whether due permission for conduction of these experiments was obtained, from the relevant ethics committees, in the Materials and Methods section.

Ethics

For animal and clinical experiments – There must be a clear statement while submitting that, investigations using experimental animals were conducted in accordance with the internationally accepted principles for laboratory animal use and care as found in for example the European Community guidelines (EEC Directive of 1986; 86/609/EEC) or the US guidelines (NIH publication #85-23, revised in 1985). Investigations with human subjects must state that the research followed guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and Tokyo for humans and was approved by the institutional human experimentation committee or equivalent, and that informed consent was obtained. For reports of randomized, controlled trials, authors should refer to the CONSORT statement. This guideline provides a set of recommendations comprising a list of items to report and a patient flow diagram.

Evidence for approval by a local Ethics Committee (for both human as well as animal studies) must be supplied by the authors on demand. Animal experimental procedures should be as humane as possible and the details of anesthetics and analgesics used should be clearly stated. The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CPCSEA (animal) and ICMR (human). The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A statement on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in all research articles under the ‘Materials and Methods’ section

Preparation of Manuscripts: Original Research Article

The original research article should be divided into the following sections:

Title Page

The title page should have the following information:

  1. Article title. Concise titles are easier to read than long, convoluted ones. Titles that are too short may, however, lack important information, such as study design (which is particularly important in identifying randomized, controlled trials). The authors should include all information in the title that will make electronic retrieval of the article both sensitive and specific.
  2. Authors’ names and institutional affiliations. Some journals publish each author’s highest academic degree(s), while others do not.
  3. The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed.
  4. Disclaimers, if any.
  5. Contact information for corresponding authors.

The name, mailing address, telephone, and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript (the “corresponding author;” this author may or may not be the “guarantor” for the integrity of the study).

  1. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these.
  2. A running head.
  3. The number of figures and tables.

Conflict-of-Interest Notification

To prevent the information on potential conflicts of interest from being overlooked or misplaced, it needs to be part of the manuscript. However, it should also be included on a separate page or pages immediately following the title page.

Abstract

The abstract should follow the title page. It should provide the context or background for the study and should state the study’s purpose, basic procedures (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), main findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), and principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations. Articles on clinical trials should contain abstracts that include the items that the CONSORT group has identified as essential (www.consort-statement.org/?_1190).

Introduction

Provide a context or background for the study (that is, the nature of the problem and its significance). State the specific purpose or research objective of, or hypothesis tested by, the study or observation; the research objective is often more sharply focused when stated as a question. Both the main and secondary objectives should be clear, and any prespecified subgroup analyses should be described. Provide only directly pertinent references, and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported.

Methods

The Methods section should include only information that was available at the time the plan or protocol for the study was being written; all information obtained during the study belongs in the Results section.

 

    • Title page
    • Abstract
    • Introduction
    • Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Acknowledgment
    • References

 

Describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. The guiding principle should be of clarity about how and why a study was done in a particular way.

 

Selection and Description of Participants

Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer’s name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the results. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods (see below); provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well-known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give the reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.

Authors submitting review manuscripts should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract.

 

Technical Information

Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. When possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Avoid relying solely on statistical hypothesis testing, such as values, which fail to convey important information about effect size. References for the design of the study and statistical methods should be to standard works when possible (with pages stated). Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the computer software used.

 

Results

Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat all the data in the tables or illustrations in the text; emphasize or summarize only the most important observations. Extra or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in an appendix where they will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow of the text, or they can be published solely in the electronic version of the journal.

When data are summarized in the Results section, give numeric results not only as derivatives (for example, percentages) but also as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were calculated, and specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess supporting data.

 

Discussion

Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data or other information given in the Introduction or the Results section. For experimental studies, it is useful to begin the discussion by summarizing briefly the main findings, then explore possible mechanisms or explanations for these findings, compare and contrast the results with other relevant studies, state the limitations of the study, and explore the implications of the findings for future research and for clinical practice. Link the conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not adequately supported by the data. In particular, avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless the manuscript includes the appropriate economic data and analyses.

 

References

Statistics

Small numbers of references to key original papers often serve as well as more exhaustive lists, particularly since references can now be added to the electronic version of published papers, and since electronic literature searching allows readers to retrieve published literature efficiently.

Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as “unpublished observations” with written permission from the source.

Avoid citing a “personal communication” unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text.

 

General Considerations Related to References

The authors should consult NLM’s Citing Medicine for information on its recommended formats for a variety of reference types. References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in parentheses. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in the list of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE, posted by the NLM on the Library’s Web site.

 

For a quick review of style, authors can use the following referencing format

  1. Davidoff F, for the CSE Task Force on Authorship. Who’s the author? Problems with biomedical authorship, and some possible solutions. Science Editor. 2000; 23:111-9.
  2. Yank V, Rennie D. Disclosure of researcher contributions: a study of original research articles in The Lancet. Ann Intern Med. 1999;130:661-70.
  3. Flanagin A, Fontanarosa PB, DeAngelis CD. Authorship for research groups.JAMA. 2002;288:3166-8.
  4. Godlee F, Jefferson T. Peer Review in Health Sciences. London: BMJ Books; 1999.
  5. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects.JAMA. 2000;284:3043-5.
  6. Pitkin RM, Branagan MA, Burmeister LF. Accuracy of data in abstracts of published research articles. JAMA. 1999;281:1110-1.

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice State

Ethical Guidelines for International Journal of Medical Studies (IJMS)

International Journal of Medical Studies (IJMS) publishes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on novelty, clarity, and significance as relevant to a better understanding of the medical studies/sciences. The published articles in IJMS are a direct reflection of the author's hard work and their institute prestige and cooperation. It is, therefore, necessary for the author, editors, reviewers, and publisher to meet the standard of the expected publication ethics and performed ethical behavior. Kedarnagarjun as a Publisher of the International Journal of Medical Studies (IJMS) takes the duties of monitoring ethical guidelines at all stages of publication. The publisher is fully committed to ensuring that revenue generated from Advertising or APC does not have any impact on the decision on the publication of an article. Again, the publication of an article is not contingent upon the author’s ability to pay the charges. Neither is acceptance to pay the handling fee by the author a guarantee that the paper will be accepted for publication.

Publication Ethics for Authors

Authorship Criteria

Authorship credit should be based on the substantial contribution in conducting the study. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor to the study and the preparation of the manuscript. Once the manuscript submitted, the order cannot be changed without the written consent of all the contributors.

Conflicts of interest and financial disclosures

Conflicts may be financial, academic, commercial, political, or personal. Financial interests may include employment, research funding (received or pending), stock or share ownership, patents, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies, non financial support, or any fiduciary interest in a company. When any author(s) has such type of financial or personal obligation, it is required to mention such potential conflict of interest along with financial interests and related affiliations (other than those affiliations listed in the title page of the manuscript) relevant to the subject of their manuscript. For all accepted manuscripts, the author must declare such conflicts of interest at the end of the manuscript before the manuscript publish. An author without a conflict of interest should include a statement that no such conflicts exist.

Funding / Support and Role of sponsor

All the author(s) who have received financial assistance for carrying out research work and publication should be described clearly in an Acknowledgment section of the manuscript.

Data access and responsibility

Regardless of the funding source for any manuscript containing original data, the corresponding author must indicate in acknowledgment section that he/ she “had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis”. Modified statements or generic statements indicating that all authors had such access are not acceptable.

Acknowledgment section

The acknowledge section should be at the end of the manuscript text but before the reference section. It should include the list of the contributor(s), information on author access to data, conflicts of interest including financial interests and relationships, sources of funding, and support-like information. Authors should obtain written permission from all individuals whose names are included in the Acknowledgment section and the corresponding author must confirm that such permission has been obtained in the Authorship Form.

Plagiarism

The author should make clear that manuscripts submitted to the journal for consideration of publication should not be previously published anywhere either in print or electronic format. The submitted manuscript should not be under consideration by another publication or electronic medium. Copies of related or possibly duplicate materials (i.e. those containing substantially similar content or using similar data) that have been previously published or are under consideration elsewhere are coming in the plagiarism and such manuscript will be rejected on the first step of publication.

Ethical approval of studies and informed consent

For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human participants or animals, formal review and approval, or formal review and waiver, by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee is required. For investigations involving humans, state in the Methods section whatever oral or written informed consent was obtained from the study participants. Editors may request that authors provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional review board or ethics committee responsible for oversight of the study.

Ethics for Editor/Editorial Members

The role of the Editorial board is most important in the publication process, Editor in Chief and members of the editorial board is deciding which article should publish or which should not accept for publication. International Journal of Medical Studies decision of publication is exclusively based on the academic merits of the evaluated manuscripts. Member of IJMS editorial should follow the below-mentioned ethical guidelines.

  • The editor should strictly follow the guideline of IPR and should not use submitted unpublished information for their personal benefits without author consent.
  • Editor's decision on manuscripts should be strictly based on the scientific contents and its merits and it should not be influenced by the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  • Any manuscript received by the editorial member must be treated as confidential documents and editorial members should not discuss or disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author or its authorized person. The idea or information obtained during the processing of manuscripts must be kept confidential and should not be used for personal benefits. The editor should not consider any manuscript in which they have a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Under such conditions, the editor should declare a conflict of interest.
  • The idea or information obtained during the processing of manuscripts must be kept confidential and should not be used for personal benefits. The editor should not consider any manuscript in which they have a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Under such conditions, the editor should declare a conflict of interest.
  • The editor should take misconduct seriously especially when ethical complaints have been received regarding the breach of confidentiality, plagiarism, non-declaration of conflicts of interest or financial discloser, inappropriate use of confidential material, or delay of peer review for competitive advantage.

Guideline for Reviewers

Ethical Guidelines for reviewers

  • All the reviewers are requested that before accepting to review a manuscript they should ensure the following:
    i. The manuscript is within their area of expertise.
    ii. They can dedicate the appropriate time to conduct a critical review of the manuscript.
  • All the reviewers should declare their conflict of interest and can decline the review if conflicts exist.
  • The Journal of Current Medical Research and Opinion follow the blind review process so the manuscript and the review process should remain confidential during and after the review process. Reviewers should ensure it on their part.
  • Review of a manuscript should be fair so reviews should be honest and should not be influenced by:-
    i. The origin of the manuscript
    ii. The religious, political, or cultural viewpoint of the author
    iii. Gender, race, ethnicity, or citizenry of the author
  • In evaluating a manuscript, reviewers should focus on the criteria decided by IJMS
  • Reviewers should only accept manuscripts that they are confident that they can dedicate appropriate time to reviewing. Thus, reviewers should review and return manuscripts in a timely manner.