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
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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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.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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.
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- 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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Continuous
Associated with:
- International Journal of General Medicine (null - current)
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (null - current)
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