Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Archives of Medicine is an international, multidisciplinary medical journal that publishes outstanding studies that substantially enhance the understanding of human health and disease. We aim to promote translation of basic research into clinical investigation, and of clinical evidence into practice. We encourage papers that cross disciplines. We give priority to the publication of papers reporting the results of research on human participants or samples. We also publish studies in animal models when they report outstanding research findings that are highly clinically relevant.
Archives of Medicine provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of Medicine and Medical Sciences such as
Clinical Medicine: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Clinical Cancer Research, Clinical Pharmacology, Dermatology, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Neurology, Psychiatry, Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Tropical Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Cardiovascular Research, Clinical Endocrinology, Clinical Pathophysiology, Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, Clinical Nutritional Research, Geriatrics and Sport Medicine



Basic Medical Sciences: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Cytology, Genetics, Embryology, Developmental Biology, Radiobiology, Experimental Microbiology, Biophysics, Structural Research, Neurophysiology and Brain Research, Cardiovascular Research, Endocrinology, Physiology, Medical Microbiology

Experimental Medicine: Experimental Cancer Research, Pathophysiology, Immunology, Immunopathology, Nutritional Research, Vitaminology and Ethology



Preventive Medicine: Congenital Disorders, Mental Disorders, Psychosomatic Diseases, Addictive Diseases, Accidents, Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Metabolic Disorders, Infectious Diseases, Diseases of Bones and Joints, Oral Preventive Medicine, Respiratory Diseases, Methods of Epidemiology and Other Preventive Medicine



Social Medicine: Group Medicine, Social Paediatrics, Medico-Social Problems of the Youth, Medico-Social Problems of the Elderly, Rehabilitation, Human Ecology, Environmental Toxicology, Dietetics, Occupational Medicine, Pharmacology, Ergonomy, Health Education, Public Health and Health Services and Medical Statistics


Choosing where to send a paper is always a difficult decision. Here are ten ways in which you will benefit by publishing your paper in Archives of Medicine rather than another top-tier journal.
1. Wide dissemination. As an open access journal, articles in Archives of Medicine will always be freely available online, from our website to anyone with internet access. This means that your work will have the broadest possible audience—the entire world. And recent studies have begun to suggest that open access articles get downloaded and cited more frequently.
2. Fast and professional peer review. Archives of Medicine is run by a team of experienced editors who have previously worked in medical publishing, including at major medical journals such as the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The professional editors work closely with academic editors and peer reviewers to provide authors with an efficient, fair, and constructive review process.
3. Pre-submission inquiries. We are happy to look at abstracts prior to submission and will let you know within 48 hours whether we will consider the full paper.
4. Rapid publication. Because we are primarily an online journal, once a paper is accepted we do not have to wait for space to become available in the print journal before the paper is published. The time between acceptance and online publication is normally around 6 weeks, and can be expedited under special circumstances.
5. Your research, put in context. Each research article is accompanied by an Editors’ Summary written by Archives of Medicine's editors to be understandable by all medical professionals, whatever their specialty, and the general public.
6. Reader Responses. Peer review and publication is only the first step in the assessment process. Equally important is the correspondence that a paper generates. Our Reader Responses facility allows the scientific community to debate the importance of your findings and the response to be archived.
7. Author-friendly editing. Unlike other leading publications, we will not totally rewrite your paper to conform to house style. We will, of course, help authors whose first language is not English. In addition, we will not ask you to shorten your paper unnecessarily, although we do require papers to be written concisely.
8. No need to order reprints. Our open access license means that anyone can reprint and distribute our content, so long as they credit the author and cite the original source. Commercial publishing companies make huge profits reprinting your work—now you have an alternative.
9. Publicity. We send out press releases on papers published by Archives of Medicine to ensure that papers have the greatest chance of being covered accurately by the media.

 

Section Policies

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Peer Review Process

Submitted manuscripts will be assigned to one of the Archives of Medicine editors. If the paper is deemed to be within the scope of the journal with regard to content and of a minimum quality an academic editor with expertise in the relevant area, usually one of our editorial board, is then also assigned to the paper.

 

Open Access Policy

Archives of Medicine applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works we publish (read the human-readable summary or the full license legal code). Under the CCAL, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in Archives of Medicine journals, so long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers.

In most cases, appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article. If the item you plan to reuse is not part of a published article (e.g., a featured issue image), then please indicate the originator of the work, and the volume, issue, and date of the journal in which the item appeared. For any reuse or redistribution of a work, you must also make clear the license terms under which the work was published.

This broad license was developed to facilitate open access to, and free use of, original works of all types. Applying this standard license to your own work will ensure your right to make your work freely and openly available. Learn more about open access. For queries about the license, please contact us.

 

Statement: Conflict of Interest

During its most recent meeting, 14-15 January 1993 in London, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors approved the following statement on conflict of interest in peer review and publication in medical journals.
Conflict of interest for a given manuscript exists when a participant in the peer review and publication process—author, reviewer, and editor—has ties to activities that could inappropriately influence his or her judgment, regardless of whether judgment is, in fact, affected. Financial relationships with industry (for example, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, expert testimony), either directly or through immediate family, are usually considered the most important conflicts of interest. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion.

Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how well conflict of interest is handled during writing, peer review, and editorial decision making. Bias can often be identified and eliminated by careful attention to the scientific methods and conclusions of the work. Financial relationships and their effects are less easily detected than other conflicts of interest. Participants in peer review and publication should disclose their conflicting interests, and the information should be made available, so others can judge their effects for themselves. Because readers may be less able to detect bias in review articles and editorials than in reports of original research, some journals do not accept reviews and editorials from authors with a conflict of interest.

Authors

When they submit a manuscript, whether an article or letter, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work.

Reviewers

External peer reviewers should disclose to editors any conflicts of interest that could bias their opinions of the manuscript and they should disqualify themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if they believe it appropriate. The editors must be made aware of reviewers' conflict of interest to interpret the reviews and judge for themselves whether the reviewer should be disqualified. Reviewers should not use knowledge of the work, before its publication, to further their own interests.

Editors and Staff

Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts should have no personal financial involvement in any of the issues they might judge. Other members of the editorial staff, if they participate in editorial decisions, should provide editors with a current description of their financial interests, as they might relate to editorial judgments, and disqualify themselves from any decisions where they have a conflict of interest. Published articles and letters should include a description of all financial support and any conflict of interest that, in the editors' judgment, readers should know about. Editorial staff should not use for private gain the information gained through working with manuscripts.

 

Patient anonymity and informed consent

The authors must take steps to protect the identity of patients reported in case reports and elsewhere. Identifying information (e.g., names, initials, hospitals, dates) should be avoided or changed. Authors who wish guidelines for protection of patient anonymity are referred to “Statements from the Vancouver Group, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors” in British Medical Journal 1991; 302: 1194.

Papers that report results of data collected from human subjects must include a statement that written informed consent was obtained from participants after adequately explaining the study’s procedures to them. Deviations from the standard written informed consent process should be fully explained. Approval by an Institutional Review Board or Ethics Committee should be documented.

 

Statement of Ethical Treatment of Animals

1. The care and use of experimental animals must comply with all relevant local animal welfare laws, guidelines and policies, and a statement of such compliance should be provided to the journal editor.

2. Research involving animals should be applicable to human or animal health, the general benefit of society, and/or the advancement of fundamental knowledge. Whether or not a particular piece of work is acceptable should depend on the outcome of a cost-benefit analysis, the conclusions of which should be submitted to the editor.

3. Where possible, alternative procedures that replace the use of animals, either partially or completely, for example by using mathematical models, computer simulation and in vitro biological systems should be used. Where this is not possible, the minimum number of animals should be used, and pain or suffering reduced, consistent with attaining the scientific objectives of the study.

4. Animals used for any procedure should be carefully selected to be the least sentient species possible, and of an appropriate strain.

5. All reasonable steps must be taken to ensure the humane treatment of animals, so as to minimise discomfort, distress and pain. Investigators should assume that procedures causing pain and distress in humans would have similar effects in animals. Any surgical procedure that could cause more than slight pain or distress should be performed with appropriate sedation, aseptic technique, analgesia and/or anaesthesia, with good post-operative care. Procedures should not be performed on un-anaesthetised animals paralysed by chemical agents, such as muscle relaxants.

6. Animals suffering severe or chronic pain or distress, which cannot be relieved, should be painlessly killed according to local euthanasia regulations, such as Home Office guidelines in the UK, or guidelines of the American Veterinary Association Panel on Euthanasia. Painful procedures or euthanasia should not be carried out in the presence of other animals.

7. The living conditions of animals should be safe and comfortable whether or not the animals are currently being used for an experiment.

8. Access to veterinary care for the animals must be available at all times so that it can be applied in a timely manner during the course of an experiment.

9. Investigators and all personnel who handle and use animals must be appropriately qualified and trained, and possess relevant expertise for conducting procedures. Training should be regularly updated.

10. Protocols involving the use of animals should undergo an ethical review process such as by an institutional animal care and use, or similar, committee, a local ethics committee, or by appropriately qualified scientific and lay colleagues. The method of protocol review and outcome should be communicated to the journal editor.

11. The sex, species, strain, procedures, analgesia, anaesthesia, euthanasia, level of pain and suffering experienced and numbers of animals used in each experiment should be stated in the manuscript or, where this is not possible, should be provided to the journal and made available on request.

12. Humane endpoints which minimise suffering should be used. These should be described in the manuscript.

13. Should exceptions to any of the above principles be needed, the nature of any changes should be subject to ethical review by, for example, an animal care and use committee and/or an appropriate legislative body controlling animal experimentation. The review procedure should be described to the editor.

 

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Why Publish in Archives of Medicine

Choosing where to send a paper is always a difficult decision. Here are ten ways in which you will benefit by publishing your paper in Archives of Medicine rather than another top-tier journal.
1. Wide dissemination. As an open access journal, articles in Archives of Medicine will always be freely available online, from our website and from PubMed Central, to anyone with internet access. This means that your work will have the broadest possible audience—the entire world. And recent studies have begun to suggest that open access articles get downloaded and cited more frequently.
2. Fast and professional peer review. Archives of Medicine is run by a team of experienced editors who have previously worked in medical publishing, including at major medical journals such as the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The professional editors work closely with academic editors and peer reviewers to provide authors with an efficient, fair, and constructive review process.
3. Pre-submission inquiries. We are happy to look at abstracts prior to submission and will let you know within 48 hours whether we will consider the full paper.
4. Rapid publication. Because we are primarily an online journal, once a paper is accepted we do not have to wait for space to become available in the print journal before the paper is published. The time between acceptance and online publication is normally around 6 weeks, and can be expedited under special circumstances.
5. Your research, put in context. Each research article is accompanied by an Editors’ Summary written by Archives of Medicine's editors to be understandable by all medical professionals, whatever their specialty, and the general public.
6. Reader Responses. Peer review and publication is only the first step in the assessment process. Equally important is the correspondence that a paper generates. Our Reader Responses facility allows the scientific community to debate the importance of your findings and the response to be archived.
7. Author-friendly editing. Unlike other leading publications, we will not totally rewrite your paper to conform to house style. We will, of course, help authors whose first language is not English. In addition, we will not ask you to shorten your paper unnecessarily, although we do require papers to be written concisely.
8. No need to order reprints. Our open access license means that anyone can reprint and distribute our content, so long as they credit the author and cite the original source. Commercial publishing companies make huge profits reprinting your work—now you have an alternative.
9. Publicity. We send out weekly press releases on papers published by Archives of Medicine to ensure that papers have the greatest chance of being covered accurately by the media.