AIMS AND SCOPE

International Journal of Health Research and Medico-Legal Practice (IJHRMLP) is an international, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary, open-access journal that publishes articles on health research, medical education, ethics, medical litigation, medical law and medico-legal issues arising out of the day-to-day practice twice in a year.

The journal promotes health sciences and related disciplines, including medical, dental, and biological evidence in criminal justice, other allied health disciplines and medico-legal cases. It encourages multidisciplinary research and collaboration among scientists, the industry and healthcare professionals. The journal invites original research, reviews, editorials, commentaries and medical case law submissions.

MISSION STATEMENT

The IJHRMLP strives to inspire multidisciplinary research and collaboration among experts, the industry and healthcare specialists. It also provides an international forum for communicating and assessing data, methods and findings in health sciences and linked disciplines. The journal publishes original research papers, reviews, clarifications, case reports on current topics of particular interest and significance, and international health news. All manuscripts are subjected to peer review, and only high-quality ones are published.

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INDEXATION

The Academy of Health Research and Medical Education (AHRME) is the official publisher of the journal, publishing six-monthly from January to June and July to December. IJHRMLP is indexed in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog, ROAD (the directory of open access scholarly resources, which is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the communication and information sector of UNESCO), Lucknow Digital Library, i-Scholar, Infobase Index, Academic Research Index (Researchbib), journal-metrics.com, Indian Science, Researchers ID, Directory of Science, Yellow browser, Google Scholar, Scientific World Index, IIJIF, Index Copernicus (ICV 2021: 78.43) and Euro Pub. The journal is DOI-indexed (Crossref).

The journal promotes health sciences and related disciplines, including medical, dental, and biological evidence in criminal justice, other allied health disciplines and medico-legal cases. It encourages multidisciplinary research and collaboration among scientists, the industry and healthcare professionals. The journal invites original research, reviews, editorials, commentaries and medical case law submissions.

DATA REPOSITORY POLICY

The data are preserved on our website, though we have applied it to some organizations for data repository purposes.

JOURNAL KEYWORDS

Medical education; Health research; Ethics; Medical litigation; Medical law; Medico-legal cases.

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE (APC)

The journal takes APC mentioned details in the instruction to author page (http://www.ijhrmlp.org/instructions-to-authors)

ARCHIVING

IJHRMLP has an archiving plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content if the journal is no longer published. The long-term preservation service(s) where the journal is archived is done with the Internet Archive.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

IJHRMLP has an archiving plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content if the journal is no longer published. The long-term preservation service(s) where the journal is archived is done with the Internet Archive.

Author(s) retain the copyright of their article, with articles licensed to AHRME and the journal following the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).

WAIVERS

The publisher operates a transparent waiver policy to help support researchers who cannot meet some or all of the costs associated with publishing open access. AHRME's waiver policy is as follows as per the World Bank Country and Lending Group (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups):

  • 100% waivers to Countries that fall under the Low-income
  • 50% waivers to Countries that fall under Lower-middle -income economics

Author(s) retain the copyright of their article, with articles licensed to AHRME and the journal following the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).