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About the Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care

The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care publishes research on disease prevention, early detection, risk reduction, preventive care delivery, and population health.

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Identity

What JPMC is

The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care (JPMC) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in preventive medicine and public health. It is one title in the Open Access Pub portfolio; the two are separate entities with separate responsibilities, and the split below says which is which.

Journal: Journal of Preventive Medicine and CareShort form JPMC
ISSN: 2474-3585Online
DOI prefix: 10.14302Registered with Crossref
License: CC BY 4.0Authors retain copyright
Peer review: Single-blindDouble-blind on request
First article: June 2015Most recent December 2024

The journal

Responsible for: Scope, peer review, editorial decisions, corrections and retractions
Guided by: An international editorial board of 11 members
Subject: Preventive medicine, public health and preventive care delivery
Contact: [email protected]

The publisher

Publisher: Open Access Pub
Responsible for: Production, hosting, Crossref DOI registration and metadata deposit
Submission system: ManuscriptZone (external portal)
Other titles: The full Open Access Pub list

Purpose

What the journal is for, and who reads it

JPMC exists to publish evidence that reduces disease burden across populations: research that improves health outcomes, strengthens preventive care delivery, and supports evidence-based policy in clinical, community and public health settings. Its emphasis is practical translation and measurable prevention impact.

Preventive medicine clinicians

Practitioners who need evidence that can be applied in primary care clinics and preventive care pathways rather than only interpreted.

Public health leaders

Program and agency staff designing screening, immunization, behavioral and community prevention initiatives.

Health system decision-makers

Those responsible for prevention services, care coordination and the financing and evaluation that sustain them.

Prevention researchers

Investigators in epidemiology, health behavior, implementation science and health services research who translate findings into practice.

Policy analysts

Readers who need prevention evidence connected to financing, service delivery and regulatory decisions.

Educators and trainees

CC BY 4.0 permits translation and educational reuse for public health training without seeking further permission.

The journal serves prevention researchers, clinicians, public-health practitioners, policy analysts, educators, and trainees. Its open license supports attributed educational reuse and translation.

The record

Published record

JPMC has published 41 records across 11 issues and 3 volumes since 2015.

41Published records

11Issues

3Volumes

11Editorial board members

Research article 29

Review 7

Case report 3

Editorial 1

Brief report 1

The archive lists each record with its article type, authors, DOI, publication date, volume, issue, and full-text links.

Scope

What belongs here, and where the boundary falls

JPMC assesses manuscripts against the prevention continuum: primary prevention through risk reduction and health promotion; secondary prevention through screening, early detection and timely intervention; tertiary prevention through care models that reduce complications; and population health strategies that improve access and equity.

Treatment-focused work must include a defined prevention, early-detection, risk-reduction, public-health, or complication-prevention objective.

JPMC supports the article types below. Authors whose manuscript does not clearly match a listed type should contact the editorial office before submission.

Original research

Trials with prevention outcomes, cohort studies, surveillance and population analyses.

3,000-6,000 words · structured abstract, 300 words · up to 10 figures/tables

Systematic review

Evidence synthesis on a defined prevention question.

4,000-8,000 words · structured abstract, 300 words · up to 12 figures/tables

Program evaluation

Prevention programs evaluated in real settings against measurable outcomes.

2,500-5,000 words · structured abstract, 250 words · up to 8 figures/tables

Brief report

Short, complete studies with a clear prevention finding.

1,500-2,500 words · unstructured abstract, 200 words · up to 4 figures/tables

Case report

A prevention-relevant clinical or community case reported in accordance with CARE. Confirm article-specific limits with the editorial office.

Editorial

An invited or pre-approved scholarly commentary on prevention policy, evidence, or practice. Contact the editorial office before preparation.

Authors who are uncertain about scope fit are asked to contact the editorial office before submitting. Category limits, manuscript structure and reporting standards are set out in the Instructions for Authors; priority topics, settings and populations are on the Aims & Scope page.

Governance

How a publication decision is made

Peer review is Single-blind (double-blind on request). Every manuscript passes through the same four stages, and the two lists below state plainly what a decision rests on and what it does not.

Editorial screening

An editor screens the submission for scope and ethics before it goes further.
Assignment to reviewers

In-scope manuscripts are assigned to qualified reviewers working in prevention fields.
Editorial synthesis

An editor synthesizes the reviewer feedback against methodological rigor, scope alignment and prevention relevance.
Decision and revision guidance

The author receives a clear decision category with explicit revision guidance. Decisions may be appealed with a clear, evidence-based rationale; appeals are reviewed by senior editors.

What a decision rests on

The quality of the science and the rigor of the method
Alignment with the journal’s prevention scope
Potential public health impact
Methodological rigor, transparency and clinical relevance, which every review is asked to emphasize

What a decision is not based on

Payment of the article processing charge
The author’s funding source
Any commercial or financial interest
Use of any optional paid service, including language editing

No fee, service or role confers any advantage in the review or acceptance of a manuscript. The full policy set, including appeals and corrections, is on the Editorial Policies page; the board is listed on the Editorial Board page.

Research integrity

What the journal requires of every submission

These requirements are published in full on the journal’s own policy pages. JPMC states that it complies with COPE guidance and ethical publishing best practice.

Ethics approval and consent

Studies involving human participants must include institutional review board approval and informed consent, with justification for any waiver.

Trial registration

Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. Report the registry name, registration number, and registration date.

Competing interests

Authors and reviewers disclose financial and non-financial conflicts, and funding sources and sponsor roles are reported.

Similarity screening

All submissions are screened for plagiarism.

Data availability

Data sharing is encouraged and data availability statements are required when appropriate, with repository links or access pathways.

Corrections and retractions

Errors identified after publication are corrected or retracted. Suspected misconduct is handled under COPE guidance; authorship disputes are managed according to international standards.

Authors are asked to use the established reporting guideline relevant to their study design. Each guideline below is bound to the design it covers, exactly as the Instructions for Authors bind them — a flat list of acronyms would drop the qualifier that makes the requirement meaningful.

CONSORT: trials and interventions
STROBE: observational studies
PRISMA: reviews and evidence syntheses
TIDieR: intervention reporting
SQUIRE: quality improvement studies

Rights, access & charges

What publication costs, and what authors keep

One charge, one figure, stated once. Nothing is payable to submit, and nothing is payable if a manuscript is declined.

Open access: Every article is free to read and download from publication. There are no subscription or reader charges.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), permitting reuse, distribution and adaptation with attribution, and translation and educational reuse for public health training. Read the license
Copyright: Authors retain copyright and grant JPMC the right to publish. Authors may reuse their work in future publications, institutional repositories and academic teaching materials.
Article processing charge: USD 1,800, applied to all article types, payable only after acceptance. There are no submission fees.
Waivers: Partial waivers are evaluated case by case, with regard to differences in funding availability across regions and institutions. A waiver request does not affect how a manuscript is reviewed.
What the charge covers: Editorial assessment and peer-review coordination, copyediting and formatting, XML, PDF and HTML production, Crossref DOI registration and metadata distribution, ethics and plagiarism screening, online hosting, and post-publication corrections and metadata maintenance.

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Questions

About this journal

What is the Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care?

JPMC is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in preventive medicine and public health, published by Open Access Pub under ISSN 2474-3585. It publishes research that reduces risk, improves early detection and strengthens health promotion and preventive care delivery. It has published 41 records across 11 issues and 3 volumes since June 2015.

Who decides what JPMC publishes?

An international editorial board of 11 members, working in preventive medicine, public health, nursing and prevention-focused clinical practice. An editor screens each submission for scope and ethics, assigns it to qualified reviewers in prevention fields, and synthesizes the reviews into a decision. Decisions may be appealed with a clear, evidence-based rationale and are reviewed by senior editors.

How is JPMC peer reviewed?

Peer review is single-blind, with double-blind review available on request. Reviews are conducted by subject-matter experts in preventive medicine, public health and care delivery, and emphasize methodological rigor, transparency and clinical relevance.

Does paying the article processing charge affect the decision?

No. The charge is USD 1,800, applies to all article types, and falls due only after a manuscript has been accepted; there is no submission fee. Editorial decisions are based on scientific merit and are not affected by author funding sources or by payment of the charge. No fee, membership, role or paid service confers any advantage in the review or acceptance of a manuscript.

Who holds copyright in a JPMC article?

The authors. Every article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0); authors retain copyright and grant JPMC the right to publish, and may reuse their work in future publications, institutional repositories and academic teaching materials.

Where is JPMC indexed?

Every article is registered with Crossref under the 10.14302 DOI prefix, and the journal holds ISSN 2474-3585. Article metadata is exposed for harvesting through an OAI-PMH endpoint, and full text is openly crawlable, with Google Scholar discoverability subject to Google Scholar’s own inclusion and crawling guidelines. JPMC is not included in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science or MEDLINE, and makes no claim to be.

What kinds of manuscript does JPMC accept?

JPMC supports original research, systematic reviews, program evaluations, brief reports, case reports, and editorials. Case reports must follow CARE, and editorials require invitation or prior approval. Work focused on treatment without a prevention or public-health dimension may be out of scope.

How is a manuscript submitted?

Through ManuscriptZone, the external submission portal used by Open Access Pub, at oap.manuscriptzone.net. Scope questions and special issue proposals go to the editorial office at [email protected].

Submit prevention research to JPMC

If your study shows how risk can be reduced, disease detected earlier, or prevention delivered better, the editors would like to see it.

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