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EClinicalMedicine

Information for Authors

EClinicalMedicine is a new open access clinical journal that will publish original research to help frontline health professionals navigate the complex and rapid health transitions facing societies worldwide. EClinicalMedicine will help practitioners solve the problems and challenges of health care across all communities. From diagnosis to treatment, prevention to health promotion and protection, it will integrate disciplines across all specialties and across the life course with the ultimate goal of strengthening health systems as core institutions in our societies. It is a journal that has the courage and vision to rethink and reframe the future of health and health care.

Manuscript guidelines

Manuscript preparation must adhere to relevant reporting standards on the EQUATOR network website. Further details on the different sections of EClinicalMedicine, and how to submit to the journal, are provided in the Information for Authors. If you require further clarification, please email your query to [email protected]. Our journal's editorial staff will be pleased to help you.

Wherever possible, figures and good quality photographs should be used to supplement and to enhance the text. We also welcome videos.

Manuscripts must be solely the work of the author(s) stated, must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration by another journal. The Lancet journals are signatories of the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE Recommendations), and to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct for editors. We follow COPE’s guidelines.

The Lancet journals are currently receiving unprecedented numbers of COVID-19 related submissions. If you receive a letter indicating your article is not suitable for publication, please consider it a decision that applies to all Lancet journals.

Article processing charges

No subscription or pay-per-view charges apply to any content published in EClinicalMedicine. In order to cover the costs of reviewing, copy editing, layout, and online hosting and archiving, the journal charges an article processing fee of $3500 upon acceptance of submitted research articles (no fee applies to commentaries or opinion pieces).

Authors whose main funder is located either in group A or B countries of the Health Inter Network Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) or in a country with a low UNDP human development index will be exempt from payment. For authors with no formal funding, the country of origin of the majority of authors' institutions will be taken as the source country. If there is no majority country, the corresponding author's country will be so designated.

The editorial decision to accept is taken well before any request is made as to the ability to pay. Payments are processed by a department unconnected to EClinicalMedicine's editorial department.

Ombudsman

Our ombudsman can: investigate delays in handling submitted manuscripts; discourtesy; failure to follow outlined procedures; failure to take reasonable account of representations to us by authors and readers; and challenges to the publishing ethics of the journal. If you have concerns about any of the above, please first contact an editor or the editorial inbox [email protected]; an editor will then respond to you (often, an editor can respond satisfactorily). If you remain dissatisfied with our response, please contact Malcolm Molyneux ([email protected])

Read more about the ombudsman and see our ombudsman's reports.

Abstracting and Indexing

  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • ScienceDirect
  • PubMed Central
  • Scopus

July 2020
Volume 24
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