Journal of Clinical Medicine Research

Journal of Clinical Medicine Research is an international, open access and peer-reviewed journal of general medical research and clinical practice, published by Elmer Press Inc. at Markham in Ontario.《临床医学研究杂志》是一份面向国际的开放获取同行评议期刊，刊载普通医学研究与临床实践方面的成果，由安大略省万锦市的 Elmer Press Inc. 出版。

It was founded in 2009 and covers clinical medicine, preventive medicine, epidemiology, healthcare research and translational medicine, with an impact factor of 2.2 and a CiteScore of 2.9 for 2025.该刊创刊于 2009 年，学科覆盖临床医学、预防医学、流行病学、卫生服务研究与转化医学，2025 年的影响因子为 2.2，Scopus CiteScore 为 2.9。

It appears monthly, and its editorial board draws members from fifteen countries, while the journal posts an open call for its next editor-in-chief.该刊按月出版，编委成员来自 15 个国家，该刊同时就下一任主编发出公开招募。

Scope

• The journal states that it concentrates on reports of general medical research and clinical practice for an international readership.该刊自述以面向国际读者的普通医学研究与临床实践报告为重心。

• Its aim is to publish scientifically written, evidence-based medicine articles, and every article that appears has passed rigorous peer review.其宗旨是发表以科学方式写成的循证医学论文，每篇登出的文章都经过严格同行评议。

• Clinical practice and the clinical medical sciences form the first field of coverage, and the journal carries work bearing on the care of patients.临床实践与临床医学各科构成首批覆盖领域，该刊刊载与患者照护相关的研究。

• Preventive medicine is named among the disciplines, and papers on the prevention of disease are taken.预防医学被列在学科之中，有关疾病预防的论文予以收录。

• Epidemiology is another of the listed fields, and the journal accepts studies of the distribution of disease in populations.流行病学是所列学科中的另一门，该刊接受有关疾病在人群中分布的研究。

• Healthcare research is covered as well, with work on how care is organised and delivered.卫生服务研究同样在列，涉及照护如何组织与实施的研究见于其中。

• Translational medicine forms part of the stated scope, and articles that move a laboratory finding towards the bedside are wanted.转化医学写入了宗旨陈述，把实验室发现推向病床应用的文章受到欢迎。

• Studies in animals are considered, and so are cellular and molecular studies, provided the content bears on a clinical application.动物研究在考虑之列，细胞与分子研究同样如此，条件是内容与临床应用相关。

• The listed classes of manuscript are original article, editorial, review with systematic review and meta-analysis, short communication, case report, letter to the editor, meeting summary, book review and video data.列出的稿件类别有原创论文、社论、综述（含系统综述与荟萃分析）、短篇通讯、病例报告、致编辑者的信、会议纪要、书评与视频资料。

• A review article may take the form of a systematic review or a meta-analysis, and the recent volumes carry a large share of that kind of work.综述文章可写成系统综述或荟萃分析，近年的卷次中此类文章占比可观。

• Manuscripts are expected to present novel findings that address significant questions in clinical medicine research and practice.稿件须提出新颖的发现，切中临床医学研究与实践中的重要问题。

• The readership is made up of clinicians and researchers working in the fields the journal covers, and the articles are written in English.读者群由在该刊覆盖领域工作的临床医生与研究者构成，文章以英文写成。

• The subject stays broad rather than narrow, and recent issues bring together meta-analyses on drugs, metabolic disease, infection and oncology.该刊的题材保持宽口径而非窄口径，近期的各期把药物、代谢性疾病、感染与肿瘤的荟萃分析汇到一处。

History

• The first issue appeared in April 2009 as volume 1 number 1, and the journal has carried the same title since that first appearance.创刊号于 2009 年 4 月出版，为第 1 卷第 1 期，该刊自此沿用同一题名。

• The title was founded in Québec, and the catalogue imprint names Candiac as the place of publication and CCCMSA as the original publisher.该刊创办于魁北克，出版记录把刊地记作 Candiac，首任出版方记作 CCCMSA。

• The publishing side later passed to Elmer Press, and the national catalogue records the journal as issued from Brossard in Québec under that publisher.出版方后来换成 Elmer Press，国家目录把该刊记作由 Elmer Press 在魁北克 Brossard 发行。

• Elmer Press began medical publishing from Montreal in 2008 and moved its operation to Toronto in the summer of 2016, and the older volumes of the journal remain reachable under the former jocmr.org address while the issues from the second half of 2024 are served from the elmerjournals platform.Elmer Press 于 2008 年从蒙特利尔开始医学出版，2016 年夏把业务迁至多伦多，该刊 2009 年至 2024 年上半年的卷次至今仍挂在 jocmr.org 名下，其后的各期改由 jocmr.elmerjournals.com 承载。

• The company is now incorporated in Canada, and it keeps its office at 7030 Woodbine Avenue in Markham, Ontario.该公司现已在加拿大注册成立，办公地设在安大略省万锦市 Woodbine 大道 7030 号。

• Besides the numbered issues, the journal runs an online-first list, so that articles can appear ahead of the issue to which they are assigned.除编期的正式期刊之外，该刊另设先行发表的清单，文章可以早于所属期次出现。

• The opening year ran from April to December with five issues, and each volume from 2010 through 2014 carried six issues.创刊头一年自 4 月排到 12 月共出五期，2010 年至 2014 年的每一卷各出六期。

• From volume 7 in 2015 the numbering moved to a monthly rhythm of twelve issues, and the official site now states the frequency as monthly.自 2015 年的第 7 卷起，期号改为每年十二期的月刊节奏，官网现将刊期标为月刊。

• A few years bind two numbers into one issue, such as numbers 2 and 3 of volume 16 in 2024.个别年份把两个期号合为一期，例如 2024 年第 16 卷的第 2 与第 3 期。

• The licence was revised as well, and articles published from 2026 onward are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, while earlier articles keep the non-commercial variant.许可协议同样经过修订，2026 年起发表的文章以知识共享署名 4.0 协议（CC BY 4.0）发布，先前的文章保留不用于商业的旧版本。

• Archiving rests with Portico, and the journal also takes part in the LOCKSS distributed preservation network.该刊的存档由 Portico 承担，同时也参加 LOCKSS 分布式保存网络。

• The impact factor has risen across recent years, standing at 1.6 in 2023, at 2.0 in 2024 and at 2.2 in 2025, and the CiteScore for 2025 stands at 2.9.该刊的影响因子在近年逐级上行，2023 年为 1.6，2024 年为 2.0，2025 年为 2.2，2025 年的 CiteScore 为 2.9。

• It is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection under the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and it also appears in PubMed and PubMed Central.该刊收录于 Web of Science 核心合集，所用数据库为新兴来源引文索引，同时也在 PubMed 与 PubMed Central 可见。

• The journal sits in the second quartile of the general and internal medicine category, and the volume number had reached 18 by 2026.该刊在普通与内科学类目位列第二区，到 2026 年卷号已出至第 18 卷。

Editors

• The editorial team page lists a board of 44 members, and each entry gives the person's affiliation and research areas.编辑团队页面列出 44 位编委，每一条都标出所在机构与研究方向。

• The board draws from fifteen countries, and the largest group is American with 14 members, followed by the Italians and the Japanese.编委来自 15 个国家，其中美国籍人数最多，达 14 位，意大利籍与日本籍居其后。

• Among them sit clinicians in cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, rheumatology and psychiatry, as well as specialists in rehabilitation, ophthalmology, urology and emergency medicine.编委之中有心内科、消化科、肾内科、风湿科与精神科医生，也有康复、眼科、泌尿与急诊方面的专家。

• No editor-in-chief is named on the editorial team page, and the journal instead runs an open call for the next editor-in-chief with a closing date of 31 October 2026.编辑团队页面没有列出主编姓名，该刊改为公开招募下一任主编，报名截止日为 2026 年 10 月 31 日。

• The editorial office is run by an editorial assistant, and Joan Liu of the editorial office handles correspondence.编辑部由一位编辑助理运转，日常通信由编辑部的（Joan Liu）负责。

• The seat carries a two-year term that may be renewed by agreement, and the person chosen is expected to lead the academic direction of the journal and to uphold the standards of scientific quality and publishing ethics, while applicants are asked for a doctoral degree in a relevant field and for substantial editorial and peer-review experience.该职位任期两年，经双方同意可以续任，入选者将负责期刊的学术方向，并维持科学质量与出版伦理的标准，申请者需持有相关领域的博士学位，并具备丰富的编辑与同行评议经验。

• The journal makes originality of the work the most important criterion for acceptance, and it also weighs the range of topics it wants to represent.该刊把作品的原创性列为录用的首要标准，同时也看重刊面需要覆盖的题材广度。

• Review is single-blind, so the reviewers know who wrote the manuscript while the authors do not know who reviewed it.评审采用单盲制，审稿人知道稿件作者，作者却不知道审稿人是谁。

• Each manuscript is sent to at least two external expert reviewers, and the reviewers are asked to return their comments within about two weeks.每份稿件至少送交两位外部专家审稿人，审稿人通常被要求在约两周内返回意见。

• The editorial assistant makes a first check against the submission checklist, and a manuscript that lacks quality or falls outside the scope is turned down without further review.编辑助理先按投稿清单作初步检查，质量不足或超出范围的稿件会被直接退稿而不送外审。

• The editorial board keeps a conflict of interest self-assessment, and an editor or reviewer who declares an interest in a manuscript steps aside from it.编委须作利益冲突自审，声明与某稿有利害关系的编辑或审稿人须回避该稿。

• A submission from a board member is handled by an editor at another institution, and a submission from the editor-in-chief is handled in the same way.编委本人的投稿由另一家机构的编辑处理，主编的投稿也照此办理。

• The journal has a written policy on the use of artificial intelligence, and authors must declare such use, while reviewers are barred from pasting a manuscript into a generative system.该刊订有针对人工智能使用的书面政策，作者须申报相关使用，审稿人则被禁止把稿件粘贴进生成式系统。

• The journal is fully open access, articles are distributed under a Creative Commons licence, and a publication charge is payable for an accepted manuscript.该刊完全开放获取，文章以知识共享协议分发，录用的稿件需缴纳出版费用。