IJME Principles
Peer-review process
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of IJME. The matched articles will go under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
Governing body
IJME is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
Editorial team
IJME is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with the high number of publications in their field.
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing and publishing processes in IJME.
IJME follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
Copyright
The content of IJME is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. IJME granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
IJME allows the authors to hold the copyright and retain publishing rights without any restriction and the material is freely presented to the readers and can be used according to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License.
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of IJME are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, IJME follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
Ownership and management
IJME is owned by Veterans Medical and Engineering Research Center, Iran, and is managed and published by Afarand Scholarly Publishing Ins.
Conflicts of interests
All IJME Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) IJME will follow COPE’s guidelines.
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
IJME is financially supported completely by Veterans Medical and Engineering Research Center, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. IJME accepts No advertisements on the site or even as a report article.
Publishing schedule/Archiving
IJME has published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available forever on IJME exclusive website. Also, IJME is included at EBSCOhost and has the plan to enter into Scopus and Thomson-Reuters databases.
Article-processing charges (APC)
For Original and Review Articles: 500 000 Toman (Iranian Authors)
For Editorials: Free
