Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, a publication of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, is a peer-reviewed online journal with Monthly print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at http://www.jmsjournal.net. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in field of Clinical Medicine. Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Editorials are written by the editors and contain comment topics in the same issue. Usually consist of up to 1,800 words.

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Original Article

Original papers contain up to 3,000 words and number of figures and tables should be limited to 6. A maximum of 50 references may be included. Please use CONSORT statement when reporting the results of a randomized controlled trial. For manuscripts longer than the these limits please indicate the reasons in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief.

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Short Communication

Short Communications are limited to 1500 words, 20 references and 2 ilustrations and tables. Usually they are the result of clinical researches with relatively lower novelty than original articles. They should have the same structures and headings as the original articles.

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Review Article

Review Articles contain up to 6000 words and 80 references. They undergo peer review and editorial processing.

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Educational Research Articles

The aim of this section is to promote the quality of medical education for medical community and to establish communication among researchers in the field of medical education worldwide. The articles in this section should be around topics such as: teaching methods in medical education, continuing medical education, program evaluation, student assessment, curriculum development, educational management, and educational technology. Educational Research articles should contain up to 3000 words and maximum number of 6 tables and figures.

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  • nikoo yamani
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Educational Review Articles

The aim of this section is to promote the quality of medical education for medical community and to establish communication among researchers in the field of medical education worldwide. The articles in this section should be around topics such as: teaching methods in medical education, continuing medical education, program evaluation, student assessment, curriculum development, educational management, and educational technology. Educational Review articles should contain up to 6000 words and at least 40 references.

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  • nikoo yamani
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New Ideas in Education

Short structured reports of new ideas in medical
education which should be 1500 words with structured subheadings acording to the subject. There should also be a structured or non- structured abstract, at least 10 references and maximum number of 2 tables and fugures

Editors
  • nikoo yamani
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Case Reports

Case Reports usually describes rarely reported intersting cases which is important to the medical socity. Usually they limited to 1500 words and up to 20 references. They undergo peer review and editorial processing

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Case Diagnosis

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Media Reports

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Letters to Editor

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Workshops

Workshop presentations and lectures during the last two months. These are invited lectures presented at the editorial meetings of the journal every other week.

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Peer Review Process

After an initial screening, the section editor (member of editorial board) assigns submitted manuscripts confidentially to at least three international reviewers in the field, asking them to complete the review within 14 days. Each reviewer should state his/her confidential comments to section editor and also the comments to authors. The reviewers asked to divide their comments to authors into major and minor comments. To make final decision, the comments of a section editor and at least two reviewers are required.

 

Publication Frequency

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences is publishing monthly, starting from the last day of January, Last issue appears toward the end of December.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of its electronic contents on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and citation levels. The journal uses open source software, developed by the Public Knowledge Project, to help make open access economically viable, as well as to improve the scholarly and public quality of research.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Charges

The following is the payment plan for our contributors:

3,500,000 Rials/100 USD for Original & Review articles, 2,300,000 Rials/75 USD for Case Reports & Short communications to account No 580120000000004975761007 [SHABA] of Mellat Bank. Letters & Editorials are Free.

Please include the specific code for JRMS (141130000000010) on your bank receipt.

Kindly send a scanned copy of your receipt to the journal via jrmspublication@gmail.com

Contributors out of Iran can electronically pay through secure Medknow, Wolters Kluwer submission portal.

There will be a 50% discount of publication fee if either the first or the corresponding author (or both) is affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS).