Journal of International Medical Research

Page Charges
The Journal of International Medical Research is published on a page charge basis. Please ensure that you have funds available when submitting your article. The current rate is available on application to the Publisher.

Aims and Scope
The Journal of International Medical Research (JIMR) is well established as a leading journal for the rapid publication of original medical, pre-clinical and clinical research. It is published on-line and in print six times per year by Field House Publishing LLP.

Articles across the whole range of pre-clinical, clinical and medical research are welcome, including animal pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, toxicology, teratology and clinical trials.

Symposium proceedings, summaries of presentations or collections of medical, pre-clinical or clinical data on a specific topic can also be published as Supplements and enquiries from potential sponsors of these are welcome.

Scientific Review and Acceptance
Articles submitted for publication are peer reviewed, the criteria for acceptance being the scientific quality of the work described and suitability of the content within the journal’s Aims and Scope. All studies should have the approval of a relevant ethics committee. Patients should have given written informed consent and animal experiments should conform to standard animal treatment guidelines. Details of these requirements should be clearly stated in the Methods section. Accepted papers with page charge funds can be published in approximately 12 weeks from acceptance and faster online.

Rapid Publication
Approved papers with sponsorship secured can be published in approximately 12 weeks from acceptance and faster online.This exceptional publication speed, particularly on-line, means that articles are available and referenceable within weeks rather than months.

Indexed/Abstracted
The journal is widely indexed and abstracted by the world’s abstracting services and data retrieval systems including Current Contents/Life Sciences, Index Medicus, Medline/EMBASE, British Medicine, Chemical Abstracts, Excerpta Medica, CABS, Science Citation Index and other abstracting and data retrieval systems.

Distribution
Printed copies of the journal are distributed worldwide to a regular circulation list comprising libraries and individuals in Universities, Medical Schools, Hospitals, Research Institutes, Industry and other organizations. Any supplement that are published are also distributed to this list.

Consultant Editor
M H Lader Professor of Psychopharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

Editorial Board

Anaesthesiology
D Lundberg
University of Lund, Sweden

Internal Medicine/Cardiology
B Healy
US News and World Report, Washington DC, USA

Clinical Pharmacology
R I Shader
Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA

Chemical Pathology
R Swaminathan
Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London, UK

Dermatology
G Halliday
University of Sydney, Australia

Endocrinology
S Baba
International Institute for Diabetes Education and Study, Japan

Gastroenterology
I N Marks
University of Cape Town, South Africa

General Medicine
B J Kirby
University of Exeter and Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, UK

Infectious Diseases
L A Mandell
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Neurology
R Di Perri
University of Messina, Italy

Obstetrics/Gynaecology
T Yanaihara
Showa University, Tokyo, Japan

Oncology
K Sikora
University of London, UK

Oncology/Surgery
T Taguchi
Osaka University, Japan

Orthopaedics
P J Papagelopoulos
Athens University Medical School, Greece

Paediatrics
J L Herranz
Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander, Spain

Psychiatry
D Naber
Psychiatric Hospital, Hamburg, Germany

Rheumatology
I Caruso
‘L. Sacco’ Ospedale, Milan, Italy

Urology
A Jardin
Hôpital de Bicetre, Paris, France

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