BimonthlyPublished since 2020Open access, CC BY 4.0Double-blind peer review
The Journal of International Medical and Health Sciences (JIMHS) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal serving physicians, clinical researchers and allied health professionals. It publishes original research, reviews, systematic reviews, case reports, short communications and editorials across internal medicine and its specialties, including infectious disease, hepatology, endocrinology and clinical nutrition. The journal is particularly interested in studies from health systems with different resources and disease patterns, where clinical questions and practical constraints are often distinct from those addressed in the dominant literature.
Every manuscript is assessed through double-blind peer review, with at least two reviewers and an academic editor evaluating clinical relevance, methodological soundness and the clarity of reporting. JIMHS expects adherence to recognized reporting guidelines, including CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA and CARE. Articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Through continuous publication, each article is released online once it is accepted and finalized, and is then assigned to the current issue.
JIMHS aims to publish clinically meaningful research that improves the prevention, diagnosis and management of common and neglected medical conditions. The journal prioritizes work that addresses questions faced in everyday practice, including the performance of diagnostic tests in different populations, the effectiveness of treatments outside trial settings, and the clinical consequences of infectious, metabolic and nutritional disease. By bringing together evidence from hospitals, primary care and community settings across regions, the journal seeks to support clinicians in adapting international guidance to the patients and resources they actually encounter.
Original Research
Snehal Patil, Rahul Deshmukh, Pooja Jadhav et al.
Anemia affects more than half of adolescent girls in India despite national programs for weekly iron and folic acid supplementation (WIFS) and deworming. Evidence on local determinants is needed to target interventions in rural and tribal communities. We conducted a community-based cross-sectional…
Case Report
Suman Rai, Anjana Shrestha, Ramesh Bhandari et al.
Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a common cause of acute febrile illness in South and Southeast Asia and can involve multiple organs. Acute acalculous cholecystitis is a rare manifestation that may lead to unnecessary surgery when the underlying infection is not recognized. A…
Review Article
Karan Malhotra, Sharmin Akhter, Dilani Wickramasinghe et al.
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has become the most common chronic liver disease in South Asia, paralleling the region's rapid rise in type 2 diabetes and central obesity. South Asian adults develop hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance and diabetes at a lower body…
Bimonthly issues under continuous publication: articles are added to the current issue as soon as they are ready.
Earlier volumes are listed in the article archive, which can be searched and filtered by issue, year and article type.
Editor-in-Chief
MD, PhD
Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of RomeRome, Italy
Elena Moretti is Professor of Internal Medicine at Sapienza University of Rome, where she leads the metabolic liver disease clinic at Policlinico Umberto I. Her research examines the interplay between insulin resistance, steatotic liver disease and cardiovascular risk, with a particular interest in noninvasive fibrosis assessment in primary care. She has coordinated multicenter cohort studies across southern Europe and North Africa and contributed to national guidance on liver disease screening. She has led JIMHS as Editor-in-Chief since 2023.
Associate Editor
MBBS, MD
Department of Medicine, Seth GS Medical College and KEM HospitalMumbai, India
Associate Editor
MBBS, MMed
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti MalayaKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Associate Editor
MD, MPH
Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, United States
Manuscripts should follow the reporting guideline for their study design, such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA or CARE.
JIMHS follows the publishing policies that apply to every Scholix journal.