Journal of Institute of Medicine Nepal (JIOM Nepal) is the premier peer-reviewed multi disciplinary journal in Nepal on print for the last forty years. It is a multispecialty journal carrying the aspirations of all those affiliated to the Institute of medicine. It is a scientific medical journal in English and publishes papers on health and medical issues.
It is published by the Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University. The journal has been in regular print and over the years, its influence has been growing with increase in submission in numerous subjects ranging from clinical to basic science. It has a panel of reputed peer reviewers with specialization in their respective fields.
JIOM Nepal was first published in 1979 and the first Chief Editor was Prof Gopal Acharya. First year of publication of the electronic version was in 1998.
JIOM Nepal features the very best in clinical and laboratory-based research and has a tradition of publishing high-quality papers emanating from the research activities undertaken at the Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University and other institutes from inside the country and abroad. Contents regularly published include editorials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized clinical trials, original articles and case reports.
All manuscripts received are acknowledged by the Editorial office of JIOM Nepal. The manuscripts submitted to JIOM Nepal are initially screened by the editorial body. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific and technical flaws, or lack of a significant message are rejected. Poorly written and those not complying to journal format are requested to re-submit after the revision according to format. About 30% of manuscripts are rejected by the editorial board without proceeding to peer-review process. Manuscripts approved by the editorial body are proceeded to peer-review process.
JIOM Nepal uses double-blinded peer review. Manuscripts are sent to two expert reviewers without revealing the identity of the authors and reviewers to eachother. Average time period from submission of article to final decision is 6-8 weeks. Each manuscript is meticulously reviewed by the JIOM Nepal editor based on the comments from the reviewers and takes a final decision on the manuscript. The contributors will be informed about the reviewers' comments and acceptance/rejection of manuscript.
Articles accepted will be copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. Non response to proof copy may delay the publication of the article or may cause rejection.
The Editorial board reserves the final right to accept or refuse the manuscript for publication.
JIOM Nepal does not charge its authors for any type of submission, processing and publication fees.
JIOM Nepal is published three times a year in April, August and December.
JIOM Nepal follows open-access policy. All articles that are published in JIOM Nepal are immediately freely available to read, download and share.
Copyright of the articles in JIOM Nepal is transferred to the journal.
Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is given appropriate credit, but not for commercial purposes.
The full JIOM Nepal author guidelines can be downloaded from here. [Download Author Guidelines]
The full JIOM Nepal policies can be downloaded from here. [Download JIOM Nepal Policies]
JIOM Nepal is published by the Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu.
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