The Journal of Clinical Medicine

TJOCM publishes original clinical studies, narrative reviews, case reports and case series in general clinical medicine. Most of its articles so far are in gastroenterology and hepatology, neurology, immunology, and diabetes and endocrinology, with further papers in cardiology, surgery and orthopaedics, dentistry, and nursing and medical education. Systematic reviews and other study designs are considered when they are reported to the matching EQUATOR guideline.

It is written for practising clinicians — hospital doctors, general practitioners, nurses, dentists and clinical educators — and for researchers who study patients directly. Its authors so far include clinicians reporting a community-clinic case, a neurology ward's polyneuropathy patients and a residents' evidence-based-practice workshop.

TJOCM is the journal's abbreviation, and 2995-6315 is its online ISSN; there is no print edition. Directive Publications is the publisher.

No. The journal has not been given a Journal Impact Factor, and you will not find one quoted on its pages. When a search for "journal of clinical medicine" shows an impact factor or a quartile, that figure normally belongs to another title with a similar name; the ISSN 2995-6315 tells you whether a number is about this journal.

Yes. Review is double-blind: the people reviewing a manuscript are not told who wrote it, and its authors are not told who reviewed it. Decisions are made by the editors on scholarly merit alone, and whether an author pays the APC or has a waiver plays no part in them.

Yes. The full text and PDF of each TJOCM paper sit openly on directivepublications.org, with no paywall, subscription or registration in front of them. Authors keep the copyright in their work, which is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0): anyone may share or adapt it, provided the original article is credited.

There is no submission or review fee: an article-processing charge (APC) becomes payable only once your manuscript has been accepted. The current amount is displayed in the online submission system rather than printed on the site. Authors without funding can request a full waiver or a partial discount at or before submission; the Publication Charges and Waiver Policy pages explain how.

Use the online submission form on directivepublications.org and choose The Journal of Clinical Medicine. Before you submit, check the Author Guidelines. Use Vancouver references and include a complete declarations block (funding, competing interests, ethics, consent, data availability and author contributions). Attach the reporting checklist that matches your design, such as STROBE for an observational study or CARE for a case report. An ORCID iD for each author is encouraged.

Yes. Case reports and case series are a core article type here; published examples include atypical chest tightness seen in a community outpatient clinic and a case series on myasthenia gravis. Structure the manuscript with the CARE checklist in hand, and include a statement that you hold the patient's written informed consent. Any identifiable detail or image needs its own explicit consent to publish.

Three independent checks: look up ISSN 2995-6315 in the ISSN Portal, which holds a confirmed record for the journal; open Wikidata item Q140566950, which gives the same ISSN, website and publisher; and follow the ORCID iD of each editor listed on the editorial board page.

No. TJOCM (ISSN 2995-6315) belongs to Directive Publications and has no affiliation with any other title that uses "Journal of Clinical Medicine" or "clinical medicine" in its name. The quickest way to tell similarly named journals apart, in a search result or an email, is to compare the ISSN and the publisher.

TJOCM follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for authorship, conflicts of interest, data integrity, plagiarism, corrections and retractions. All submissions are screened for similarity and plagiarism.