About the Society

The Indian Journal of Medical Specialities Trust (https://ijmstrust.in) owns and publishes the journal 'Indian Journal of Medical Specialities'. It is an Educational Trust registered under the Indian Trusts Act. Dr. Anupam Prakash is the Chairman of the Trust. The Trust aims to promote medical education among practitioners as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Profile of the Journal Owner can be found on https://scholar.google.com/citations?authuser=1&user=wV30B7cAAAAJ

About the Journal

The Indian Journal of Medical Specialities was started in 2010 by the Indian Journal of Medical Specialities Trust, whose singular aim is to promote medical education and bring out the journal. The journal was published by the Trust for the initial four years, and in partnership with Elsevier 2014 onwards. Till 2014, it was published semi-annually (two issues per year) but beginning 2015 the journal is being published quarterly. Beginning 2019, Wolters Kluwer will be the publishing partner for Indian Journal of Medical Specialities. The journal is presently indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of the Web of Science. The journal issues from 2010 to 2014 are hosted on archives.ijmstrust.in, while Sciencedirect (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/indian-journal-of-medical-specialities) hosts the journal issues from 2015-2018 issues. The journal issues from 2019 onwards are being hosted on www.ijms.in

The journal follows a double-blind peer-review policy and had an acceptance rate of 40% for 2017-18. The turnaround time from article submission to first decision is close to 4 weeks. Accepted articles are published online soon after technical check, increasing the visibility of accepted articles and ensuring rapid turn-around time.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Baidu Scholar, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, National Science Library, Netherlands ISSN centre, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data

Journal Ethics

Wolters Kluwer and Journal/Association are committed to meeting and upholding 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 www.Medknow.com/EthicalGuidelines.asp

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Digital Archiving

Wolters Kluwer Medknow provides for long-term digital preservation through two primary partnerships, Portico and CLOCKSS.

Portico is a leading digital preservation service worldwide. The content is preserved as an archival version and is not publically accessible via Portico, but is provided when required under specific conditions, such as discontinuation of the collection or catastrophic failure of the website.

CLOCKSS will enable any library to maintain their own archive of content from Wolters Kluwer Medknow and other publishers, with minimal technical effort and using cheaply available hardware.

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. Wolters Kluwer Medknow 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.

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The Indian Journal of Medical Specialities is an all-encompassing peer-reviewed quarterly journal. The journal publishes scholarly articles, reviews, case reports and original research papers from medical specialities specially pertaining to clinical patterns and epidemiological profile of diseases. An important highlight is the emphasis on undergraduate and postgraduate medical education including various aspects of scientific paper-writing. The journal gives priority to research originating from the developing world, including from the tropical regions of the world. The journal also publishes special issues on health topics of current interest. The Indian Journal of Medical Specialities is one of the very few quality multispeciality scientific medical journals.

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