About this journal
Aims and scope
The International Journal of General Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on general and internal medicine. The journal showcases categorized research on diseases related to specific areas of the body, curated by a global team of experts within each area.
Clinical studies in all areas of human disease and medicine are welcome.
Specific topics covered by the journal include:
• Diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases
• Elucidation of disease processes and management protocols
• Patient perspectives including satisfaction, quality of life, health literacy and communication
• Development of new healthcare programs and optimizing clinical outcomes
• Improved patient outcomes
• Monitoring and treatment protocols
• Multi-system disease processes
• Prevention
• Pathogenesis
• Epidemiology
The International Journal of General Medicine is characterized by the rapid reporting of reviews, original research, and clinical studies across all disease areas.
When considering submission of a paper utilizing publicly available data (e.g. SEER/GWAS/TCGA/GEO etc.), authors should ensure that such studies add significantly to the body of knowledge about a specific disease or relevant phenotype and that they are validated using the author’s own data through replication in an independent sample set and functional follow-up. Bioinformatics studies should also conform to these criteria.
The International Journal of General Medicine will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication. The journal will not consider research purely focusing on surgical techniques, cell lines or animal studies.
Case reports/series submitted to the International Journal of General Medicine will be diverted to the International Medical Case Reports Journal (Journal metric data for this journal can be accessed here).
Journal metrics
Usage
- 452K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.2 (2023) 5 year IF
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors-in-Chief
Professor Kenneth Adler, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Dr Scott Fraser, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, UK
Jump to section
The International Journal of General Medicine publishes across 12 areas of general and internal medicine. Each section is led by Associate Editor-in-Chiefs, as listed below.
- Cardiology
- Clinical Neurology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- General Medicine
- Hematology
- Hepatology
- Infectious Diseases
- Nephrology
- Oncology
- Public Health
- Urology
Dr Vinay Kumar, Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA
Dr Redoy Ranjan, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Stroke Scientist, Royal Holloway University Of London, London, UK
Prof. Dr. Yuriy Sirenko, Department of Arterial Hypertensions, National Scientific Center, National Academy of Medical Science, Kyiv, Ukraine
Dr Woon-Man Kung, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Dr Redoy Ranjan, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Stroke Scientist, Royal Holloway University Of London, London, UK
Associate Editor-in-Chiefs
Dr Sarah Cipriani, Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Dr Jacopo Manso, Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism Specialist, Endocrinology Unit, University-Hospital S. Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy
Associate Editor
Professor Xudong Zhu, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Associate Editor-in-Chiefs
Dr Christian Selinger, Consultant Gastroenterologist, St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Dr Hossam El-Din Shaaban, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Consultant, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Carlisle, UK
Associate Editor
Professor Xudong Zhu, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Dr Vinay Kumar, Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA
Dr Woon-Man Kung, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Professor Arthur E. Frankel, Chief of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Professor David E. Stec, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
Professor Hyam Leffert, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Dr Hossam El-Din Shaaban, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy consultant, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Carlisle, UK
Professor Héctor M. Mora Montes, Department of Biology, Division of Natural and Exact Sciences, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Dr Sandul Yasobant, Centre for One Health, Education, Research & Development (COHERD), Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Dr. Franco Musio, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
David E. Stec, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
Professor Dr. Leonardo Oliveira Reis, UroScience, School of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas and University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Dr Dinesh Vyas, Department of Surgery, California Northstate University College of Medicine, Elk Grove, CA, USA
Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic, Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, Tama Campus, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Satish Chandrasekhar Nair, College of Medicine, Tawam Hospital, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Dr Sandul Yasobant, Centre for One Health, Education, Research & Development (COHERD), Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Dr Daniele Castellani, Urology Division, University Hospital of Ancona United Hospitals, Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Professor Dr. Leonardo Oliveira Reis, UroScience, School of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas and University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Editorial Board Members
Dr Priyanka Bhugra, Clinical Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, TX, USA
Dr Charlie Bridgewood, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Dr Kevin Chamberlin, Pharmacy, UConn School of Pharmacy, Storrs, CT, USA
Prof. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dhali, Gastroenterology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Professor Perenlei Enkhbaatar, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Professor Asghar Fazaeli, Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan Province, Zanjan, Iran
Professor Levent Filik, Gastroenterology Department, Ankara Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Dr Domenico Giannese, Nephrology Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
Dr Anju Gupta, Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
Professor Anut Itthagarun, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Griffith University, QLD, Australia
Professor Robert Kaplan, Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Dr Erum Khan, Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Prof. Dr. Shinichi Mitsui, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Professor Franz Oesch, Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Dr Russell Phillips, Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Dr Amit Ray, Neurology, Aurora Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Dr Kamal Kant Sahu, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Dr Taro Shimizu, Department of Diagnostic and Generalist Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University, Shimotsuga, Tochigi, Japan
Dr Vasileios Zochios, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Abstracting and indexing
International Journal of General Medicine is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
EMBASE (Elsevier)
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
Pubmed (NLM)
PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)
Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
Open access
International Journal of General Medicine is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
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Associated with:
- International Medical Case Reports Journal (null - current)
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (null - current)
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