About International Archives of Medicine

What is International Archives of Medicine?

International Archives of Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of medical science and clinical practise.

The journal aims to become a valuable reference for the publication of high quality, original research, review articles and case studies, for both medical education and medical research. International Archives of Medicine benefits from the support of an international Editorial Board.

An extra advantage for authors publishing in International Archives of Medicine is its relationship to Archivos de Medicina, which is the only open access journal covering all areas of medicine in Spanish. Many of the English language papers published in International Archives of Medicine will be translated and republished in Archivos de Medicina for a Spanish speaking audience, and vice versa. In this way, International Archives of Medicine offers benefits for authors who wish the results of their research to be made available to the widest possible global audience, including both English and Spanish speakers.

Translations:

If you are submitting a manuscript that is a translation of an article previously published in another language, you must include the following sentence at the end of the abstract as well as in the acknowledgements section of the manuscript: "Translation: This article is translated from [original language], originally published in [journal]. The original work is at doi:[number]."

Please note that the translated article can only be linked to the original article via the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) once the translated article has been published in the final full-text version in International Archives of Medicine.

Submit your translated manuscript.

Content overview

International Archives of Medicine considers the following types of articles:

• Original Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. Reviews can cover any topical themes such as basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, equipment reviews and thematic series to highlight specific topics in the field.
• Case Reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction.
• Debate Articles: present an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. Debate articles can report on all aspects of the subject including sociological and ethical aspects.
• Hypotheses: short articles presenting an untested original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable, and be about 1500 words.
• Meeting Reports: a short description of a conference that the author has attended. These articles are usually commissioned but reports and suggestions may also be submitted for the editors' consideration.
• Short Reports: brief reports of data from original research, usually about 1500 words.

Peer review policies

International Archives of Medicine has a ‘closed’ peer review policy. Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by two experts in the field; additional reviewers will be invited where the first-round reviewers disagree. The Editor-in-Chief, who reserves the right to make final decisions on acceptance and rejection, aims to provide authors with an initial decision five weeks.

Edited by Manuel Menéndez González, International Archives of Medicine is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in International Archives of Medicine

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central.

Articles in International Archives of Medicine should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Int Arch Med 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, International Archives of Medicine does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to International Archives of Medicine using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

International Archives of Medicine is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. International Archives of Medicine however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

International Archives of Medicine's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in International Archives of Medicine will be available.

International Archives of Medicine is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.