About the Journal
Aims & Scope | Audience | Review Process | Editorial Team | About the Editors | Facts about the Journal | Abstracting and Indexing Information | Journal Ethics | Plagiarism Policy | Archival Policy | Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing | Advertisements | Subscription Information | Publisher
The Global Journal of Medical Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Update (GJMPBU) (formerly known as Internet Journal of Medical Update; E-ISSN 1694-0423) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Biomedicine, Surgery and Pharmacology. The journal is published by the Scientific Scholar.
Aims & Scope
Journal provides a multidisciplinary forum for the exchange of current ideas in the form of original research work, review articles, exciting case reports, brief communication, letter to the editor, etc. among medical professionals. It is also intended to provide a platform for young medical professionals to participate in research activities, with the aim of enhancing their outlook on recent developments in the field of medicine. Being multidisciplinary in nature, all students undergoing medical training would benefit from this journal’s scientific publications.
Audience
Our audience includes all the practitioners of Biomedicine, Surgery and Pharmacology.
Review Process
The Global Journal of Medical Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Update (GJMPBU) has a highly rigorous double-blinded peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts of interest, affiliations and financial disclosures such that the published content is not biased.
In-house submissions that contain the work of any editorial board member, are not allowed to be reviewed by that editorial board member and all decisions regarding this manuscript are made by an independent editor. In addition, these manuscripts are reviewed by the two external reviewers. This is also disclosed in the published manuscript under the section of Conflict of Interest.
Editorial Team
The editorial board comprises a panel of experts in Biomedicine, Surgery and Pharmacology from various countries to provide their expertise and guidance to the Editor-In-Chief in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the journal’s purpose.
About the Editor
Dr. Okezie I Aruoma
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
(Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Section)
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Global PharmHealth Investors Inc.,
Long Beach, CA 90809, USA
Email: okezie.aruoma@gmail.com
Dr. Arun Kumar Agnihotri
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
(Medical Section)
Professor of Pathophysiology,
American University of Antigua College of Medicine,
Antigua and Barbuda, WI
Email: agnihotri_arun@hotmail.com.
Dr. Vipul Yagnik
EXECUTIVE & MANAGING EDITOR
Professor,
Department of Surgery,
Banas Medical college and research institute,
Village: Moriya, Palanpur:385001, Gujarat, India
Facts about the Journal
Abstracting and Indexing Information
The journal is indexed with or included in the following:
EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), UGC-CARE List (India), CABELLS Scholarly Analytics
Impact Factor® as reported in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics 2024): 0.4
The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, EBSCO, ReadCube, CrossRef, Portico
Journal Ethics
The Global Journal of Medical Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Update (GJMPBU) is committed to meeting and upholding ethical guidelines at all stages of the publication process. We follow the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines Section.
Plagiarism Policy
The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.Archival Policy
We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our manuscripts are assigned a DOI number from CROSSREF, and we are members of Crossref ( https://crossref.org).
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
Global Journal of Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Biomedical Update is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Advertisements
While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place (https://scientificscholar.com/adv-policies/) to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content are not biased or influenced by the advertisement.
“Pop-up” and “Banner” advertisement appears at a fixed location on the page and does not interfere with the reading/display of the manuscript in any form (https://gjmpbu.org/advertise).
All advertisements are approved in consultation with Editor-In-Chief/the Editorial Board.
Advertisers submit their advertisements without prior information of the journal content to be published.
Subscription Information
The Global Journal of Medical Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Update (GJMPBU) is a continuous publication and published manuscripts in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees.
The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand. Journal also offers a Print-on-Demand subscription – https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions/.
Publisher
Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.
The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.