Journal of Medical Case Reports will consider any original case report that expands the field of general medical knowledge, and original research relating to case reports.
Case reports should show one of the following:
- Unreported or unusual side effects or adverse interactions involving medications
- Unexpected or unusual presentations of a disease
- New associations or variations in disease processes
- Presentations, diagnoses and/or management of new and emerging diseases
- An unexpected association between diseases or symptoms
- An unexpected event in the course of observing or treating a patient
- Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect
Suitable research articles include but are not limited to: N of 1 trials, meta-analyses of published case reports, research addressing the use of case reports and the prevalence or importance of case reporting in the medical literature and retrospective studies that include case-specific information (age, sex and ethnicity) for all patients.
Article-processing charges
Open access publishing is not without costs. Journal of Medical Case Reports therefore levies an article-processing charge of £880/$1375/€1165 for each case report accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable.
Journal of Medical Case Reports is involved in a pilot study of new technology enabling the setting of article processing charges (APCs) at an article-type level within a journal instead of charging at a flat rate. APCs on this journal are as follows for the duration of the pilot:
| Article type |
APC GBP* |
APC EUR* |
APC USD* |
|
Case reports
|
£880
|
€1165
|
$1375
|
|
Research articles
|
£1690
|
€1990
|
$2390
|
*plus VAT or local taxes where applicable.
