Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspecitves serves as a forum for disseminating information particularly relevant to the community hospitals.

JCHIMP provides:

  • up-to-date information in the field of Internal Medicine to community hospital medical professionals
  • a platform for clinical faculty, residents, and medical students to publish research relevant to community hospital programs

JCHIMP's target audience includes medical professionals interested in the unique medical dilemmas facing community hospitals. Medical professionals including clinical faculty, residents, and medical students are invited to contribute to the Journal.

Manuscripts that explore aspects of medicine at community hospitals welcome, including but not limited to:

  • the best practices of community academic programs
  • community hospital-based research
  • opinion and insight from community hospital leadership and faculty
  • the scholarly work of residents and medical students affiliated with community hospitals

JCHIMP publishes:

  • Original research papers
  • Case reports
  • Reviews and Editorials
  • Letters to the editor

 

Section Policies

Editorials

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Commentary

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Perspectives

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Research Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Brief Reports

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Medical Education/Medical Student

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Case Reports

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Letters to the Editor

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Imaging Column

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Brief Historical Perspectives

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Papers submitted to the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives are subject to rigorous peer review so as to ensure the publication of qulaity scholarly research.

All manuscripts will undergo preliminary evaluation at the editorial level and those judged to be of significant importance and within the scope of the Journal will subsequently be peer reviewed by two or more experts. The Editors will see the papers through peer review to acceptance or rejection.

Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail. The Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives has a 'double blind' review process: Authors are not told who reviewed their paper, and reviewers are not told who wrote the paper. Peer reviewers are informed of the identity of the authors immediately after the manuscript is either accepted or rejected. The referees’ identity remains unknown to the authors although it is up to the referee if he/she wants to contact the author at a later stage and reveal his/her identity.

Peer reviewers are asked to give their opinion on a number of issues pertinent to the scientific and formal aspects of a paper, and to judge the papers on grounds of originality and urgency. All relevant information will be forwarded to the author(s).

Peer reviewers will have six possible options, for each article:

  1. Accept manuscript (i.e. no need for any revision)
  2. Accept after revision (i.e. accepted if the author makes the requested revisions)
  3. Revise and resubmit (i.e. accepted or rejected after revisions have been made - paper will be sent out for another peer review round)
  4. Submit elsewhere (i.e. if the manuscript is better suited for another journal)
  5. Reject manuscript (i.e. if the manuscript is substandard)
  6. See comments (i.e. if the reviewer cannot choose from any of the above)
When asking for revisions, reviewers have two possible goals: to ask authors to tighten their arguments based on existing data, or to identify areas where more data are needed. Even formal revision may be required if the language or formalities is sub-standard. To facilitate rapid publication, authors are given a maximum of 2 months for revision. After 2 months, revised manuscripts will be considered new submissions.

 

Publication Frequency

Articles accepted for publication in Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives are collated into issues posted online four times a year, starting in the Spring 2011.

 

Open Access Policy

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives is published under the Open Access model and is therefore free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate for educational purposes. Articles accepted for publication in the Journal will be collated in issues published quarterly, starting in the Spring of 2011.

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives is accessible via www.jchimp.net and www.jchimp.org as well as via international search engines.

Under the Open Access model authors retain copyright. See copyright section.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

In addition, all files will be archived with CLOCKSS and Portico.

 

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post items submitted to this journal on personal or institutional websites after publication (while providing the bibliographic details of that publication).

 

Publication fee

The publication of an article in Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives incurs a publication charge of USD 350 (excl VAT).

The author's university or institution may cover the publication costs for articles resulting from research undertaken at the university or institution; or money may have been earmarked in the grant or stipend the author has received to be able to carry out the research. For a list of OA-friendly universities and funders, please check here. Additional information on how to claim reimbursement/support for publication fees can be found here.

Open Access Key

As a Co-Action Publishing author you are now able to manage your publication fee using Open Access Key (OAK).

Co-Action Publishing is one of the first publishers in the world to implement OAK, a unique new online payment platform designed to manage and consolidate author publication fees and connect authors to their universities, research funders or learned societies. To register and start using Open Access Key, please visit http://www.openaccesskey.com

 


 

Indexing

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspecitves is indexed/tracked/covered by DOAJ , Open J-Gate, Google Scholar and JournalSeek.

The Publisher is currently working actively to have the journal indexed/tracked/covered by major indexing services such as PubMed and PubMed Central and other relevant indexes. Updates will be posted as soon as possible here.

Material in Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspecitves is also further distributed by EBSCO, one of the world's largest content aggregators and research database providers.

 

Commercial reprints or advertising

If you wish to purchase reprints for commercial distribution, arrange for a supplement, or e-advertise on the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspecitves website, please contact:

Caroline Sutton, Publisher

Email: caroline.sutton@co-action.net
Tel (SkypeIn): +46 18 495 11 26
Tel (cell): +47 90 69 05 06




Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives eISSN 2000-9666

This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Responsible editor: Robert Ferguson, MD