The Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) [Print ISSN: 0971-5916] is the flagship journal of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
*In line with the priorities of ICMR in supporting and promoting biomedical research, the IJMR aims to disseminate quality biomedical research to all its readers in India as well as globally.
*In line with its mission to provide a platform to publish biomedical and public health investigations of national, regional and global interest, the Journal invites articles from a wide range of potential contributors conducting research based on quantitative, qualitative or mixed-method approach. Ease of access to expanding knowledge-base is ensured by the IJMR through its policy of free dissemination of contents to its readers.
*Note: Starting July 2022, all research content in the IJMR are being published under three main categories namely, POLICY, PROGRAMME and PRACTICE with a view to help readers to navigate through the Journal’s content and to inform public health discussions as appropriate.
The IJMR is one of the oldest medical Journals not only in India, but probably in Asia, as it started in the year 1913. The Journal was started as a quarterly (4 issues/year) in 1913 and made bimonthly (6 issues/year) in 1958. It became monthly (12 issues/year) in the year 1964. The Journal is being indexed and abstracted by all major global current awareness and alerting services (Annexure).
The IJMR is published monthly, in two volumes and 12 issues per year. The IJMR publishes peer reviewed quality biomedical research in the form of original research articles, review articles, short papers, short notes. Research letters are also published in the corresponding section after peer review. Special issues and Supplements and are published in addition to the regular issues.
Criteria for consideration of papers – The papers should meet the following criteria – the material should be original, the methodology used should be standard and appropriate, results should be unambiguous supported with data/photographs, conclusions should be reasonable and based on the findings, the topic should be of biomedical interest and findings should have clinical significance. Papers involving human and animals should be ethically cleared by the local ethical committees.
