About the Journal
Aims & Scope
The Journal of Operational Medicine (JOM) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal for interdisciplinary research in all aspects of operational medicine. JOM is intended for researchers, practitioners, and students who provide medicine within unconventional, hostile, or austere environments where access to critical resources is severely limited.
Open Access
JOM is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful non-commercial purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Funding
The Academy of Operational Medicine fully funds JOM through the annual dues of its fellowship.
Frequency
JOM publishes articles continuously, categorized into annual volumes, and strives to have all accepted manuscripts published within three months of submission.
Publishing Fees
There are no fees to publish open-access articles in JOM. Membership in the Academy of Operational Medicine is not a requisite for publication, nor does it influence editorial decisions.
Peer Review
All manuscripts submitted to JOM undergo double anonymous peer review by at least three independent reviewers who adhere to all ethical guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Following peer review, an Associate Editor examines the comments, makes the final decision, and sends the decision to the author, sharing confidential comments from unidentified reviewers to support any next steps. Rebuttals regarding decisions should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief.
Authorship
JOM aligns with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) which recommends authorship be based on the following four criteria: substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND final approval of the version to be published; AND agreement to be held accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors must state all possible conflicts of interest within the submitted manuscript, including financial, consultant, institutional, and other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest. If there are no conflicts of interest, this should also be explicitly stated.
Plagiarism
JOM screens all submissions for plagiarism through Crossref Similarity Check.
Artificial Intelligence
Authors who use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing that fact.
Research Ethics
Experimental studies on humans must include a statement that the study was approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or ethics committee and that the subjects gave informed consent. In situations where a formal IRB process is not available, the authors must indicate that the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki have been followed. Experimental work on animals must adhere to all relevant regulations, and approval from the appropriate institutional animal care committee or government agency is required.
Advertising
Advertisements are not accepted in JOM to preserve the integrity of the journal.
Archiving
JOM is archived through the Public Knowledge Project’s Preservation Network in support of Project JASPER.
Repository
JOM allows authors to deposit all versions of their work in an institutional or other repository of their choice without embargo.
Misconduct
When the journal receives a report of suspected misconduct, the Editor-in-Chief will acknowledge the complaint, conduct a thorough investigation, and determine an appropriate resolution. In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, JOM will take all necessary measures to clarify the situation and, if warranted, amend or retract the article in question. Misconduct does not include honest error or honest differences in the interpretation or judgment of data. For errors in a published article not deemed to be misconduct, a correction will be published.
Identifiers
ISSN: 3065-8918
ISSN-L: 3065-8926
DOI: 10.62573
ISNI: 0000 0005 1764 8150
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