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Journals in Family practice

This collection covers comprehensive primary care, preventive medicine, and chronic disease management. Supporting family physicians, general practitioners, and educators, it features case studies, clinical guidelines, and interdisciplinary approaches to delivering continuous, holistic patient-centered care.

  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings

    • ISSN: 0025-6196
    A Peer-Reviewed Medical Journal Sponsored by Mayo Clinic and Authored by Physicians WorldwideOne of the premier online only peer-reviewed clinical journals in general and internal medicine, Mayo Clinic Proceedings is among the most widely read and highly cited scientific publications for physicians. While the Proceedings is sponsored by Mayo Clinic, it welcomes submissions from authors worldwide, publishing articles that focus on clinical medicine and support the professional and educational needs of its readers.Continuously published since 1926, the Mayo Clinic Proceedings' content includes Nobel-prize-winning research. The Proceedings has an impact factor of 6.7, ranking it #26 out of 332 journals in the Medicine, General and Internal category.Mayo Clinic Proceedings welcomes manuscripts that focus on clinical and laboratory medicine, health care policy and economics, medical education and ethics, and related topics:Each monthly issue consists of original research, reviews, clinical content, editorials, commentaries, special articles, and other short items.Among unique articles are Concise Review for Clinicians, Residents' Clinics, and specially commissioned Thematic Reviews.My Treatment Approach articles present expert opinion on difficult clinical situations.Consensus Recommendations provide answers to questions not resolved in other published guidelines.The journal carries articles that offer free CME credit from Mayo Clinic.The Proceedings also offers supplemental material and videos directly related to individual articles.For authors, the time from receipt of submission to first decision is usually 3 weeks and from acceptance to publication is about 12 weeks. Mayo Clinic Proceedings' acceptance rate is approximately 14%, with more than 80% of manuscripts submitted by non-Mayo authors. For novel, time-sensitive research, an expedited review is available upon request and at the discretion of the Editorial Board.Authors are also welcome to submit to the journal's open access companion titles, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes and Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health.
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

    • ISSN: 0895-4356
    Metascience and innovative methods to improve population healthThe Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (JCE) aims to advance science that can improve health care decision-making and contribute to the evolving discipline of clinical epidemiology. The JCE publishes methods-focused articles across the spectrum of the research ecosystem, including primary research (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed); evidence syntheses; guidelines; and implementation science. The journal welcomes registered reports, protocols, and simulation studies that advance the journal’s aims. The JCE promotes inclusive research and health equity and is committed to ensuring a diversity of perspectives across its content, contributors, editorial board, and leadership.The journal publishes topics including:Meta-scien... researchDevelopment, evaluation, and implementation of reporting guidelines Research integrity and cultureOpen scienceEmerging methodologies Developing and evaluating outcome measuresEducation and learning programs for clinical epidemiologistThe JCE does not accept the following submissions except in exceptional circumstances: Bibliometric studies and those on infodemiology, social media trends, and health informaticsPapers written primarily for a statistical audience Artificial intelligence and machine learning studies without critical evaluation of the method and transparent reportingMeta-resear... studies that demonstrate weaknesses or limitations in the evidence ecosystem but lack reflection on how these might be addressedEffectivene... studies, including Mendelian randomization studies and target trial emulations; systematic reviews; prevalence and incidence studies; prognostic or diagnostic research where the main focus is not on the methodsStudies limited to one country, jurisdiction, or clinical area with limited generalizability, such as: translating an outcome measure into a different language; a study focused on one clinical specialty; a Delphi/consensus-bas... study where all the authors are from one country; or a survey of participants from one setting or with a limited response rateStudies with a single author where it was more appropriate for a multi-disciplinary team to conduct the researchStudies that do not include patient partners as members of the research team in circumstances where that would be considered essentialAnimal studies Pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology studies