About this journal

Aims and scope

International Medical Case Reports Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal publishing original case reports from all medical specialties. Submissions should not normally exceed 3,000 words or 4 published pages including figures, diagrams and references.

International Medical Case Reports Journal will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 92K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.8 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 1.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.464 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.267 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Associate Editors-in-Chief:

Dr Vinay Kumar, Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

Dr Xudong Zhu, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA 

Section Editors:

Dr Scott Fraser, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, UK

Dr Taro Kishi, Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan

Dr Yuping Ning, Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Guangzhou, China

Dr Roger Pinder, Pharma, Independent Pharma Consultant, York, UK 

Editorial Board:

Professor Shahin Akhondzadeh, Clinical Psychopharmacology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Dr Mengyuan Ding, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Professor Perenlei Enkhbaatar, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

Professor Levent Filik, Gastroenterology Department, Ankara Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

Professor Robert Kaplan, Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Prof. Dr. Martin Katzman, START Clinic for the Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr Erum Khan, Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Dr Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD, PC Private practice, Denver, CO, USA 

Dr Andrew J. Kobets, Neurosurgical Director, Montefiore Craniofacial Center, Co-Director, Neurosurgical Oncology at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and Peditrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA  

Dr Anto Sam Crosslee Louis Sam Titus, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA 

Dr Srini Mudalagiriyappa, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California, USA

Dr Amit Ray, Neurology, Aurora Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Professor Allan Spigelman, Surgery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Dr Dipan Uppal, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Abstracting and indexing

International Medical Case Reports Journal is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EMBASE (Elsevier)

Pubmed (NLM)

PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)

Scopus (Elsevier)

Open access

International Medical Case Reports Journal 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?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

To publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis. Discounts and waivers may also be available for researchers in selected countries when publishing in open access journals.

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