MEDICAL HYPOTHESES
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Journal Title
MEDICAL HYPOTHESES
MED HYPOTHESES
ISSN / eISSN
0306-9877 / 1532-2777
Aims and Scope
Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin. In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks 'what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer 'Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary'. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses. Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.). Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.
Subject Area
MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL
CiteScore
7.40
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CiteScore Ranking
Category | Quartile | Rank |
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Medicine - General Medicine | Q1 | #82/830 |
Web of Science Core Collection
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) | Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) |
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Indexed | - |
Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023) | Quartile |
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MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL - SCIE | Q2 |
H-index
77
Country/Area of Publication
SCOTLAND
Publisher
Churchill Livingstone
Publication Frequency
Monthly
Year Publication Started
1975
Annual Article Volume
140
Open Access
NO
Contact
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE, JOURNAL PRODUCTION DEPT, ROBERT STEVENSON HOUSE, 1-3 BAXTERS PLACE, LEITH WALK, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, MIDLOTHIAN, EH1 3AF
Verified Reviews
Received: 21 March 2022
Revised: 6 May 2022
Accepted: 15 June 2022
Unofficial version available online: 17 June 2022
Officially published: 24 June 2022.
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