About the Journal

The Indian Journal of Medical Sciences (IJMS) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Medicine and Allied Sciences and the Publication of Scientific Investigation. The journal is owned by the Indian Journal of Medical Sciences Trust (Registration number E-0000341(GBR), Date of Registration: 19/05/1953, Greater Mumbai Region), India a registered charitable organization and published by Scientific Scholar.

Focus and Scope

The journal will cover technical, clinical and bioengineering studies related to human well being including ethical and social issues. The journal caters to the need for practicing clinicians. Hence, articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference. Traditionally, articles from social science, epidemiology, psychology, and traditional medicine have found a place in the journal.

Audience

Our audience includes but not limited to the general practitioners, primary care physicians, surgeons, intensivists, endocrinologists, nephrologists, oncologists, orthopedicians, geriatric specialists, pathologists, microbiologists, radiologists, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, other healthcare professionals.

Review Process

IJMS has a highly rigorous double-blinded peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts of interest, affiliations and financial disclosures such that the published content is not biased.

In-house submissions that contain the work of any editorial board member, are not allowed to be reviewed by that editorial board member and all decisions regarding this manuscript are made by an independent editor. In addition, these manuscripts are reviewed by the two external reviewers. This is also disclosed in the published manuscript under the section of Conflict of Interest.

Editorial Team

The editorial board comprises of a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance to the Editor-In-Chief in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the journal’s purpose.

About the Editors

Dr. Ashish Gulia
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Professor,
Orthopaedic Oncology, Convener,
Bone and Soft Tissue Disease Management Group,
Tata Memorial Centre,
Mumbai, India
editor@ijmsweb.com

Dr. Puvish Parikh
Emeritus Editor
MD, DNB, FICP, PHD, ECMO, CPI, MBA
Group Oncology Director & Professor of Medical Oncology –
Shalby Cancer & research Institutes,
Shalby Multispecialty Hospitals
Precision & Medical Oncologist
Asian Institute of Oncology,
Somaiya Hospital, Everard Nagar
off Eastern Express Highway
Sion East, Mumbai
purvish@purvishparikh.com

Dr. Nilesh Lokeshwar
Emeritus Editor
Consultation Medical Onclologist
Asian Cancer Institute, Somaiya Ayurvihar,
Sion, Mumbai, India
nileshlok@yahoo.com

Facts About the Journal

This is a peer reviewed journal published Tri-annual, follows a double-blind review process. Its open access model ensures worldwide visibility and boosts authors’ prominence in medical research.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:

Google Scholar, CrossRef, ReadCube, EBSCO, ProQuest, Portico

Journal Ethics

The Indian Journal of Medical Sciences is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section.

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.

Archival Policy

We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our manuscripts are assigned a DOI number from CROSSREF, and we are members of Crossref https://crossref.org.

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Ahead of Print Policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. The journal has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Subscription Information

IJMS is a triannial publication and published manuscripts in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees.

The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand. The journal offers a Print-on-Demand subscription – https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions/.

Publisher

Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.

The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.