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International Journal of Clinical Research and Medical Practice

ISSN
3141-5520 (Online)
ISSN
3141-5512 (Print)

BimonthlyPublished since 2019Open access, CC BY 4.0Double-blind peer review

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About the journal

The International Journal of Clinical Research and Medical Practice (IJCRMP) is the flagship journal of Scholix Publishers. It publishes clinical studies, systematic reviews, narrative reviews, case reports and short communications across internal medicine and its subspecialties, clinical epidemiology, pharmacotherapy and primary care. The journal is written for practicing physicians, clinical researchers, pharmacists and educators who need rigorous evidence that can be applied to everyday patient care, with particular attention to research from settings that are underrepresented in the international literature.

Every submission is assessed through double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers, and editors weigh methodological soundness, transparent reporting and clinical relevance above novelty alone. Authors are asked to follow the relevant reporting guideline, such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA or CARE. All articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Accepted papers appear online as soon as they are ready and are compiled into issues under continuous publication.

Aims and scope

IJCRMP aims to narrow the gap between clinical research and the care that patients actually receive. The journal seeks studies that answer practical questions about diagnosis, treatment, prevention and the organization of care, whether they come from multicenter cohorts, pragmatic trials, registry analyses or carefully documented single cases. It gives equal weight to well-conducted negative and confirmatory findings, encourages comparisons across health systems and populations, and favors manuscripts that state clearly what their results mean for clinicians, patients and policymakers.

Topics within scope

  • Internal medicine and its subspecialties
  • Hypertension and cardiometabolic disease
  • Clinical epidemiology and outcomes research
  • Pharmacotherapy and medication safety
  • Primary care and family medicine
  • Geriatric medicine and multimorbidity
  • Diagnostic accuracy and point-of-care testing
  • Infectious diseases in clinical practice
  • Evidence synthesis and clinical guidelines
  • Occupational health and health workforce wellbeing

Latest articles

All articles

Original Research

Determinants, Clinical Patterns, and Treatment Disparities of Hypertensive Heart Disease: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Comparative Study of 600 Patients in Makassar, Indonesia, and Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Andi Pratama, Siti Rahmawati, Ahmad Firdaus

Hypertensive heart disease (HHD) is a common and preventable consequence of long-standing hypertension, yet comparative data from Southeast Asia remain scarce. This study compared the determinants, clinical patterns, and treatment of HHD at two tertiary centers in Indonesia and Malaysia. We…

Systematic Review

Point-of-Care HbA1c Testing in Primary Care and Glycemic Control in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Hannah Lefebvre, Arjun Mehta, Chloe Nguyen et al.

Point-of-care (POC) HbA1c testing makes results available during the consultation and may support timely treatment decisions in type 2 diabetes, but its effect on glycemic control in primary care remains uncertain. We searched MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled…

Original Research

Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Polypharmacy Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Juliana Ferreira Lopes, Ricardo Almeida Santos, Paulo Henrique Moura et al.

Population aging in Brazil has been accompanied by growing multimorbidity and medication use, but population-based data on potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) among community-dwelling older adults remain limited. We conducted a population-based cross-sectional household survey of adults…

Case Report

Stress-Induced (Takotsubo) Cardiomyopathy After an Acute Severe Asthma Exacerbation Treated with High-Dose Beta-Agonists: A Case Report

Valeria Garza Treviño, Luis Fernando Cantú Reyes, Daniela Sepúlveda Ortiz et al.

Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute, usually reversible form of left ventricular dysfunction that is often triggered by emotional or physical stress. Exogenous catecholamines and beta-adrenergic agonists are recognized but uncommon triggers, and the syndrome is easily overlooked in acute asthma…

Current issue and archive

Bimonthly issues under continuous publication: articles are added to the current issue as soon as they are ready.

Volume 8, Issue 5CurrentSeptember–October 20264 articlesVolume 8, Issue 4July–August 20262 articles

Earlier volumes are listed in the article archive, which can be searched and filtered by issue, year and article type.

Editorial board

Full editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Meenakshi Raghavan

MBBS, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical SciencesNew Delhi, India

Meenakshi Raghavan is Professor of Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, where she leads the clinical epidemiology unit in the Department of Medicine. Her research addresses the detection and long-term management of hypertension and type 2 diabetes in primary care, including several pragmatic trials of nurse-led and community-based care. She trained in internal medicine in New Delhi and in epidemiology in London, was one of the journal's founding associate editors, and has served as Editor-in-Chief since 2023.

  • Internal medicine
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Hypertension and diabetes in primary care

Associate Editor

Dr. Chinedu Okonkwo

MBBS, FWACP, PhD

Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of LagosLagos, Nigeria

  • Infectious diseases
  • HIV medicine
  • Pragmatic clinical trials

Associate Editor

Prof. Katharina Vogel

MD, MPH

Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinBerlin, Germany

  • Primary care
  • Multimorbidity
  • Deprescribing

Associate Editor

Assoc. Prof. Daniel Whitford

PharmD, PhD

Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San FranciscoSan Francisco, United States

  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Medication safety
  • Pharmacoepidemiology

For authors

Author guidelines

Author guidelines

Article types
Original Research, Review Article, Systematic Review, Case Report, Short Communication, Editorial
Reference style
Vancouver (numbered)
Publication charge
US$1,450
Peer review
Double-blind
License
CC BY 4.0

Manuscripts should follow the reporting guideline for their study design, such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA or CARE.

Manuscript submission

  1. 1Submission. Send the manuscript, cover letter and declarations to the editorial office for the journal you have chosen.
  2. 2Editorial check. The editorial office checks scope, formatting, completeness and text similarity before peer review.
  3. 3Peer review. At least two independent reviewers assess the manuscript under a double-blind model.
  4. 4Decision. The handling editor accepts, requests revision or declines, and shares all reviewer reports with the authors.
  5. 5Publication. Accepted articles are copyedited, typeset, assigned a DOI and published open access in the current issue.
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Publication policies

IJCRMP follows the publishing policies that apply to every Scholix journal.