About the Journal
Audience | Review Process | Editorial Team | About the Editors | Facts about the Journal | Abstracting and Indexing Information | Journal Ethics | Plagiarism Policy | Archival Policy | Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing | Ahead of Print Policy | Advertisements | Subscription Information | Publisher
Medicine India (MedIndia) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Internal Medicine and its specialties like Ayurveda and Physiotherapy, Immunology, Oncology, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, Neurology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Yoga and Ayurveda. The journal is owned by Heart India Charitable Trust and published by the Scientific Scholar.
Audience
Our audience includes all the practitioners in the fields of Internal Medicine and its specialities like Infectious Disease, Hematology, Rheumatology, Diabetology, Nephrology, Neurology, Preventive Medicine, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Jurisprudence and Physiotherapy.
Review Process
The Medicine India (MedIndia) has a highly rigorous double-blinded peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts of interest, affiliations and financial disclosures such that the published content is not biased.
In-house submissions that contain the work of any editorial board member, are not allowed to be reviewed by that editorial board member and all decisions regarding this manuscript are made by an independent editor. In addition, these manuscripts are reviewed by the two external reviewers. This is also disclosed in the published manuscript under the section of Conflict of Interest.
Editorial Team
The editorial board comprises a panel of experts in Internal Medicine and its specialities like Infectious Disease, Hematology, Rheumatology, Diabetology, Nephrology, Neurology, Preventive Medicine, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Jurisprudence, Psychiatry and Physiotherapy from various countries to provide their expertise and guidance to the Editor-In-Chief in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the journal’s purpose.
About the Editor
Dr. Alok Kumar Singh
M.D, D.M (Cardiology);
Editor-in-Chief, Medicine India;
Alok Heart Clinic,
Varanasi, UP, India
Email: editor@medindiajournal.com;
alok_ims@rediffmail.com
Facts about the Journal
Abstracting and Indexing Information
The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, ReadCube, CrossRef, Portico
Journal Ethics
Medicine India (MedIndia) is committed to meeting and upholding ethical guidelines at all stages of the publication process. We follow the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices 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 manuscripts are assigned a DOI number from CROSSREF, and we are members of Crossref ( https://crossref.org).
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
Medicine 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 Medicine India (MedIndia) has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.
Advertisements
While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place (https://scientificscholar.com/adv-policies/) to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content are not biased or influenced by the advertisement.
“Pop-up” and “Banner” advertisement appears at a fixed location on the page and does not interfere with the reading/display of the manuscript in any form (https://medindiajournal.com/advertise/).
All advertisements are approved in consultation with Editor-In-Chief/the Editorial Board.
Advertisers submit their advertisements without prior information of the journal content to be published.
Subscription Information
The Medicine India (MedIndia) is a semiannual publication and published manuscripts in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees.
The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand. Journal also offers a Print-on-Demand subscription – https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions/.
Publisher
Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.
The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.