About the Journal
The National Medical Journal of India, a publication of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, is a peer-reviewed print and online journal. The journal’s full text is available online at http://www.nmji.in. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.
Impact Factor® as reported in the 2020 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2021): 0.537
Aims & Scope
The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in field of health policy and health provider training through sections on ‘Medicine and society’ and ‘Medical education’.. Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference.Audience
Our audience includes readers and practitioners from Medical science, through experimentation, observation, theoretical knowledge, and practical exposure.
Review process
NMJI has a highly rigorous peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.
Editorial Team
The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the purpose for the journal.
About the Editor
Dr. Peush Sahni
Editor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029,
INDIA
Email: nmji@nmji.in
Facts about the Journal
Abstracting and Indexing Information
The journal is indexed with or included in the following:MEDLINE/Index Medicus, SCOPUS, EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica, Science Citation Index Expanded
- Impact Factor® as reported in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics 2024): 0.4
- Scopus CiteScore 2023 (as per SJR 2024): 0.5
The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:Google Scholar, ProQuest, ReadCube, CrossRef, Portico, EBSCO
Journal Ethics
The National Medical Journal of India is committed to meeting and upholding the 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 our Ethical Guidelines section
Plagiarism Policy
The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.Archival Policy
We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
The National Medical Journal of India is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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. The National Medical Journal of India has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.
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