Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

covers the types of Original Article (Basic or Clinical), Consensus and Guideline, Review, Short Report & Case Report, etc. The journal focuses on the new developments in basic and clinical researches in the diagnosis and treatment of internal medicine. It aims to provide a platform of timely academic exchanges and information transmission for scientists and clinical experts in related fields around the world. 

Areas covered include but not limited to: basic medical sciences and clinical medical sciences such as allergy and clinical immunology, endocrinology, metabolic disease, diabetes, tropical infection, rheumatology, geriatric, gastroenterohepatology, nephrology, hematology, oncology, pulmonology, cardiology, pshycosomatic 

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Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Articles submitted to The Sign of clinical medicine (SCM) will be evaluated through 2 stages of review, ie pre-review and substance review.

The pre-review of the article is carried out by the editorial team to review the conformity of the article with the focus and scope of the journal as well as the journal style and specific writing guidelines. Plagiarism checking is carried out by using Google Scholar and Turnitin software. Duration of review between 1-2 weeks.


Substantial single-blind reviews are performed by at least 2 reviewers. Duration of review between 3-8 weeks. If desired, the reviewer may request a re-review after the author revises his/her article.

 

Publication Frequency

The Sign of Clinical Medicine publishes four times in a year, January, April, July and October

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

The Sign of Clinical Medicine

The Sign of clinical medicine (SCM) is published by Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sebelas Maret. TSCM publishes original research articles, case report or article review in the basic medical sciences and clinical medical sciences such as  allergy, clinical immunology, endocrinology, metabolic disease, diabetes, tropical infection, rheumatology, geriatric, gastroenterohepatology, nephrology, hematology, oncology, pulonology, cardiology, pshycosomatic