期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
International Journal of Medical Sciences is indexed/abstracted/covered by:
MEDLINE
PubMed
PubMed Central
EMBASE
CAS/Chemical Abstracts
CAB Abstracts
Scopus
Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded
Current Contents - Clinical Medicine.
The Journal is ranked very well among the top 7.5% of journals according to SCImago in the category of Medicine/Medicine (miscellaneous) in year 2007. In this category, International Journal of Medical Sciences is positioned No. 163 out of a total of 2173 journals from all countries, above many journals such as American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Oncology Research, BMC Endocrine Disorders, Journal of experimental therapeutics & oncology, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Annals of epidemiology, QJM, Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, Cancer Journal, Archives of Medical Research ... See detail ranking here.
In the overall area of Medicine/all categories, International Journal of Medical Sciences is again ranked very well, among the top 8.2% of all journals (422/5157). See detail ranking here.
Instructions to Authors
Original research papers, reviews, and short research communications in any medical related area can be submitted to the Journal on the understanding that the work has not been published previously in whole or part and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts in basic science and clinical medicine are both considered. There is no restriction on the length of research papers and reviews, although authors are encouraged to be concise. Short research communication is limited to be under 2500 words.
The Editors of the International Journal of Medical Sciences recognize that many manuscripts rejected by top-tier journals are still outstanding. Our journal is willing to review and re-evaluate manuscripts rejected from journals such as the Nature journals, Cell Press journals, NEJM, Lancet journals, Annals of Internal Medicine, and other high impact journals. We encourage authors to provide a copy of previous reviewer's and editor's comments. These reviews and rebuttals need to be dated and within 6 months of the last submission date. It is our belief that these prior reviews may assist us in expediting your manuscript for re-evaluation, thus facilitating more rapid publication; in some cases, the manuscript may be accepted within days of submission. Please include the prior reviews and your responses in the covering letter when making your submission.
Review/Decisions
Manuscripts (other than those that are of insufficient quality or unlikely to be competitive enough for publication) will be reviewed and a decision typically returns to the authors in about one month. Manuscripts with significant results will be reviewed and published at the highest priority and speed. Possible decisions on manuscripts are: accept as is, minor revision, major revision, or reject. Revised manuscripts should be returned within 1 month in the case of minor revision, or 3 months in the case of major revision. To submit a revision please sign in here and use the submit button at the right side of page.
Submission
Please embed figures and tables in the manuscript to become one single file for submission. Details for submission can be found in the submission page.
Reprints
Reprints can be ordered after copyediting and publication (in manuscript login page). Reprints are now printed on glossy paper with cover page. They are made of highest quality suitable for scientific corresponding.
Publication Charges
Published articles of International Journal of Medical Sciences are open access and full texts appear in PubMed Central. This effectively removes the barriers for timely distribution of the articles and ensures that they can be read by as many as possible. The amount of fee charged by the journal is lower than many other PubMed Central journals (comparing to the fees charged by BioMedCentral and PLOS). Payment can be made by credit card, bank transfer, money order or check. Instruction for payment is sent during publication process and is also available in the manuscript login page as soon as manuscript is accepted. Publication fee is required to cover the cost of publication.
Format for Publication
Upon acceptance of the manuscript, please provide a final version (in Microsoft Word file) for copyediting purpose. Figures should be of high quality and high resolution, and can be embedded in the manuscript Word file. If the figures are created using PowerPoint, Photoshop, Microsoft Excel etc, please also provide the original files from those programs.
Title Page
The first letter of each word in title should use upper case. Include in the first page the article title, author's names, affiliations, corresponding author's phone/fax number and/or email. Abstract should not contain citations to references. Also provide 5-6 keywords.
For author's names, please put first and/or middle names before surname, e.g., Mike C. Johnson.
Text
Please do not add number before subtitles.
Citation of Tables and Figures
Tables and Figures should be numbered consecutively. Citation of tables and figures should use the format: Table 1, Table 2, ... Figure 1, Figure 2, ... (or Fig. 1, Fig. 2, ...). Parts in a figure can be identified by A, B, C, D, ... . and cited as Fig. 2A, Fig. 2B, Fig. 2C. The abbreviation of "Table" to "Tab." for example "Tab. 1" should be avoided.
Math Formulas and Symbols
Simple mathematical formulas should be constructed using superscript, subscript, italic, and symbols in the Microsoft Word.
Use symbols in the Fonts: (normal text) or Symbol fonts. To insert a symbol, use Insert/symbol in the Word menu.
Use / for "divide" or "over". For example, 1/7, 5/(4+6).
Use Symbol fonts for "±"; "≤" and "≥" (avoid underline).
References
References should be numbered consecutively and cited in the manuscript text by number (not author and date). Avoid putting personal communications, unpublished observations, conference abstracts or conference papers as references.
Journal Paper
Please use the PubMed citation format. Journal paper should have journal name or journal abbreviation, year, volume and page numbers. Please use ":" to separate volume and first page number. Omit any "." in the journal abbreviations. It is not necessary to highlight or italicize the title, journal name, or any part of references. The sequence is as: [Author surname] [Author initials], [Other author surnames & initials]. [Article title]. [Journal name abbreviation]. [Year]; [Volume]: [First page number]-[Last page number].
Example:
1. Eknoyan G, Beck GJ, Cheung AK, et al. Effect of dialysis dose and membrane flux in maintenance hemodialysis. N Engl J Med. 2002; 347: 2010-9.
Supplement example:
2. Volk HD, Reinke P, Krausch D, et al. Monocyte deactivation-rationale for a new therapeutic strategy in sepsis. Intensive Care Med. 1996; 22 (Suppl 4):S474-S481.
No author given example:
3. [No authors listed]. Medicare program; criteria for Medicare coverage of adult liver transplants-HCFA. Final notice. Fed Regist. 1991; 56(71):15006-15018.
In press example:
4. Cheung TMT, et al. Effectiveness of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in the treatment of acute respiratory failure in severe acute respiratory syndrome. Chest; in press.
Epub ahead of print example:
5. Li W, Chen Y, Cameron DJ, et al. Elovl4 haploinsufficiency does not induce early onset retinal degeneration in mice. Vision Res 2007; [Epub ahead of print].
Book
Kiloh LG, Smith JS, Johnson GF, et al. Physical treatment in psychiatry. Boston, USA: Blackwell Scientific Publisher; 1988.
Chapters in Edited Book
Beckenbough RD, Linscheid RL. Arthroplasty in the hand and wrist. In: Green DP, ed. Operative Hand Surgery, 2nd ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1988: 167-214.
Web Site
[Internet] WHO: Geneva, Switzerland. Summary of probable SARS cases with onset of illness from 1 November 2002 to 31 July 2003. Revised 26 September 2003. http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2003_09_23/en/
[Internet] Kornberg R. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/press.html
Ethics Committee Approval and Patient Consent
Experimental research involving human or animals should have been approved by author's institutional review board or ethics committee. This information can be mentioned in the manuscript including the name of the board/committee that gave the approval. Investigations involving humans will have been performed in accordance with the principles of Declaration of Helsinki. And the use of animals in experiments will have observed the Interdisciplinary Principles and Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research, Testing, and Education by the New York Academy of Sciences, Ad Hoc Animal Research Committee.
If the manuscript contains photos or parts of photos of patients, informed consent from each patient should be obtained. Patient's identities and privacy should be carefully protected in the manuscript.
Conflict of Interests
Conflict of interests that might interfere with the objective presentation of the research findings contained in the manuscript should be declared in a paragraph heading "Conflict of interests" (after Acknowledgment section and before References). Examples of conflict of interests are ownership of stock in a company, grants, board membership, etc. If there is no conflict of interests, please use the statement "The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists".
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Dennis D. Taub, PhD
Chief of Laboratory of Immunology
NIA, National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, USA
Editor-in-Chief's Profile
Editors & Editorial Board Members
Federica Cavallo
Dept. of. Clinical Biological Sciences
University of Turin
Orbassano, Italy
Chi-Hin Cho
Department of Pharmacology
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Harry Dawson
Diet Genomics and Immunology Laboratory
Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
United States Department of Agriculture
Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Karen Downs
Department of Anatomy
University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Adrian R. Eley
Division of Genomic Medicine
University of Sheffield Medical School
Sheffield, U.K.
Kevin Gardner
Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression
National Cancer Institute
Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA
Michel Goldman
The Institute of Medical Immunology &
Department of Immunology-Hematology-Transfusion, Hôpital Erasme
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium
Philippe Henon
Institut de Recherche en Hematologie et Transfusion
Hopital du Hasenrain
Mulhouse Cedex, France
Keith W. Kelley
Integrative Immunology and Behavior Program
Laboratory of Immunophysiology
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
David D. Lo
Division of Biomedical Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Nicholas W. Lukacs
Director of Molecular and Cellular Pathology Graduate Program
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2200, U.S.A.
Malek G. Massad
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Vahid Mohsenin
Yale Center for Sleep Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
William J. Murphy
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Nevada
Reno, NV, USA
Malcolm Richardson
Department of Bacteriology & Immunology
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Mark A. Smith
Department of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
Roy G. Smith
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology/Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX 77030, USA
Gopesh Srivastava
Department of Pathology
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hiroshi Takeda
Department of Medical Information Science
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
Osaka, Japan
Gjumrakch Aliev
Director of Electron Microscopy Research Center
Department of Biology
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78249-1664
USA
Kwang-Hyun Baek
Graduate School of Life Science and Biotechnology
Pochon CHA University, CHA General Hospital
Seoul 135-081, Korea
Simeon Boyadjiev Boyd
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Magali Fontaine
Department of Pathology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
Marek Glezerman
Tel Aviv University and Edith Wolfson Medical Center
Holon, Israel
Nicola Hanania
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Jau-Shyong Hong
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Research Trinagle Park, NC, U.S.A.
Maciej K Kurpisz
Institute of Human Genetics
Polish Academy of Sciences
Poznan, Poland
Ke-Qin Hu
Divisions of Gastroenterology and Transplantation
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, U.S.A.
Vladimir Larionov
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.
Xuanyong Lu
Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research
School of Medicine, Drexel University
Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Bongani M. Mayosi
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Piero Musiani
Director, CeSI Aging Research Center
G. D'Annunzio University Foundation
Chieti, Italy
Giuseppe Poli
Dept. of Clinical and Biological Sciences
University of Turin
Orbassano, Italy
Phillip F. Pratt
Cardiovascular Research Center
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI , U.S.A.
Hiroshi Shimokata
National Institute for Longevity Sciences
Ohbu, Japan
Philippe Taupin
Fighting Blindness Vision Research Institute
National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology
Dublin 9, Ireland
Ashani T. Weeraratna
Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Yong-Guang Yang
Transplantation Biology Research Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Steven L. Zeichner
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.
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