The Indian Journal of Medical Sciences is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 open-access medical journal

Medical journal

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 published on behalf of the Indian Journal of Medical Sciences Trust. The journal publishes articles on clinical medicine

Medicine

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, surgery

Surgery

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, pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutics

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 and basic medical sciences with emphasis on health problems and solutions relating to clinicians from the developing world.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, Bioline International, CAB Abstracts, Caspur, CINAHL, DOAJ, EBSCO, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE

EMBASE

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, Expanded Academic ASAP, JournalSeek

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, Global Health, Google Scholar

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, Health & Wellness Research Center, Health Reference Center Academic, HINARI

HINARI

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, Index Copernicus, MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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/Index Medicus

Index medicus

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, OpenJGate, SafetyLit

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, Scimago Journal Ranking, SCOLOAR, Scopus

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, SIIC databases, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

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