About the Journal

Aims and Scope

Academic Medicine & Surgery is a fully open‑access, peer‑reviewed journal dedicated to advancing knowledge across the entire continuum of clinical care—from the pre‑hospital environment and emergency department, through the operating theatre and intensive care unit, to rehabilitation, public health, and long‑term outcomes. Our mission is two‑fold:

1. Breadth of coverage. We welcome work spanning every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery, including—but not limited to—basic science with clear translational intent, clinical research, implementation science, quality improvement, health policy, medical education, and global health. Submissions may take the form of original investigations, systematic or scoping reviews, meta‑analyses, case reports and series, technical notes, clinical images and videos, practice guidelines, surveys, brief communications, commentaries, and editorials.

2. Depth of inclusivity. We place special emphasis on empowering voices that have historically been under‑represented in the scientific literature. Medical students, residents, fellows, attending physicians, and multidisciplinary care teams—particularly those working in low‑income, lower‑middle‑income, or otherwise resource‑constrained settings—are strongly encouraged to submit their work. Articles describing innovative solutions, frugal technologies, or context‑specific adaptations that improve patient care where resources are scarce are especially valued.

Through rapid yet rigorous peer review, continuous publication, and active promotion on digital platforms, the journal seeks to connect authors with a diverse international readership—clinicians, researchers, educators, policymakers, and patient advocates—who can apply, critique, and build upon published findings. We are committed to upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity, methodological transparency, and ethical conduct while nurturing the next generation of clinician‑scientists and surgical innovators.

In short, Academic Medicine & Surgery serves as an inclusive, accessible forum for high‑quality scholarship that advances patient care and health equity across all contexts in which medicine and surgery are practiced.

Publisher

Academic Medicine & Surgery is published by University Medical Press, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816, USA. More information about the publisher can be found at: http://UniversityMedicalPress.org. The Editor-in-Chief can be contacted at: editor@universitymedicalpress.org.

Journal information

1. Publication model
   Academic Medicine & Surgery is an open access journal that operates on a continuous publication model. This model allows minimum delay between article acceptance and publication. Digital content is freely available online and user rights and the terms of copyright are defined. All our articles are publsihed CC-BY which enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator.

2. Peer review
   Academic Medicine & Surgery conducts double blind, anonymous peer review- thus the authors do not know who their peer reviewers are and the reviewers do not know who the authors are. This helps to ensure reviews are unbiased.

3. Academic honesty
   Academic Medicine & Surgery does not tolerate plagiarism, data or figure manipulation, knowingly providing incorrect information, copyright infringement, inaccurate author attributions, attempts to inappropriately manipulate the peer review process, failures to declare conflicts of interest, or academic fraud of any kind. All articles go through the plagarism software Ithenticate® prior to acceptance.

4. Article Processing Charges (APCs)
   APCs for the journal are covered by University Medical Press. Authors do not pay any fees to publish their work.

5. Types of Articles
   Academic Medicine & Surgery accepts all types of original research including observational studies, randomized controlled trials, and survey research; we also accept reviews (systematic, narrative, scoping, and meta-analyses); as well as intriguing case reports, case series, and clinical images. Please note that multiple or redundant publication is not allowed.

6. Target readership
   Academic Medicine & Surgery’s target readership includes anyone involved in medical academia, including physicians, residents, students, and institutional administrators.

7. Archiving and indexing
   All articles receive a unique digital object identifier (DOI) and include the rich machine-readable metadata needed for archiving and indexing (i.e., JATS compliant XML). Articles are indexed in J-Gate, Google scholar, Wikidata, OpenAlex, and Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD). All articles are permanently archived in Portico. Academic Medicine & Surgery’s Keeper’s Regsitry record can be found here: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2996-2617

8. Journal Statistics & Publishing Schedule
   The average time between submission to first decision is 15 days. Once an article is accepted, it will be published within 5 days. Articles are published on a continuous schedule, rather than in specific issues. The journal publishes on average 4 articles per month. The acceptance rate is 79%.

9. Authorship
   Academic Medicine & Surgery adheres to the ICMJE criteria for authorship:
   a) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work;
   AND
   b) Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; AND
   c) Final approval of the version to be published
   AND
   d) Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Please note that student authors must have a co-author who is an MD, DO, or PhD.