About the journal · ISSN 2474-3585 · Open Access Pub
A prevention journal, and the evidence for saying so
The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care publishes peer-reviewed research on reducing risk before disease takes hold. This page sets out what the journal is, who decides what it publishes, what it has actually published, and how to check every one of those claims against a register the journal does not control.
Identity
What JPMC is
The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care (JPMC) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in preventive medicine and public health. It is one title in the Open Access Pub portfolio; the two are separate entities with separate responsibilities, and the split below says which is which.
- Journal
- Journal of Preventive Medicine and CareShort form JPMC
- ISSN
- 2474-3585Online
- DOI prefix
- 10.14302Registered with Crossref
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0Authors retain copyright
- Peer review
- Single-blindDouble-blind on request
- First article
- June 2015Most recent December 2024
The journal
- Responsible for
- Scope, peer review, editorial decisions, corrections and retractions
- Guided by
- An international editorial board of 11 members
- Subject
- Preventive medicine, public health and preventive care delivery
- Contact
- [email protected]
The publisher
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub
- Responsible for
- Production, hosting, Crossref DOI registration and metadata deposit
- Submission system
- ManuscriptZone (external portal)
- Other titles
- The full Open Access Pub list
Purpose
What the journal is for, and who reads it
JPMC exists to publish evidence that reduces disease burden across populations: research that improves health outcomes, strengthens preventive care delivery, and supports evidence-based policy in clinical, community and public health settings. Its emphasis is practical translation and measurable prevention impact.
Preventive medicine clinicians
Practitioners who need evidence that can be applied in primary care clinics and preventive care pathways rather than only interpreted.
Public health leaders
Programme and agency staff designing screening, immunisation, behavioural and community prevention initiatives.
Health system decision-makers
Those responsible for prevention services, care coordination and the financing and evaluation that sustain them.
Prevention researchers
Investigators in epidemiology, health behaviour, implementation science and health services research who translate findings into practice.
Policy analysts
Readers who need prevention evidence connected to financing, service delivery and regulatory decisions.
Educators and trainees
CC BY 4.0 permits translation and educational reuse for public health training without seeking further permission.
The mission statement above, and the first four readerships, are the journal’s own as published on this page and on the Aims & Scope page. Policy analysts and educators follow from the journal’s stated aim of supporting evidence-based policy and from the CC BY 4.0 licence’s explicit permission for translation and educational reuse in public health training.
The record
What JPMC has actually published
A journal should be judged on its corpus, not on its adjectives. Every figure here is countable in the journal’s own archive, and the article total is independently confirmable in Crossref, which returns the same number.
Counts as at July 2026, covering every article published from June 2015 to December 2024. JPMC states only numbers a reader can reproduce from the record itself, which is why these are the only figures on this page. Open the archive and count.
Scope
What belongs here, and where the boundary falls
JPMC assesses manuscripts against the prevention continuum: primary prevention through risk reduction and health promotion; secondary prevention through screening, early detection and timely intervention; tertiary prevention through care models that reduce complications; and population health strategies that improve access and equity.
If your work focuses on treatment without a prevention or public health dimension, it may be out of scope.Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care, Instructions for Authors — the journal’s only stated scope exclusion, quoted in full.
Manuscripts are submitted under one of four categories. A study design with no category here has no route into the journal, which is a more precise answer than a list of exclusions the journal has never written.
Original research
Trials with prevention outcomes, cohort studies, surveillance and population analyses.
3,000-6,000 words · structured abstract, 300 words · up to 10 figures/tables
Systematic review
Evidence synthesis on a defined prevention question.
4,000-8,000 words · structured abstract, 300 words · up to 12 figures/tables
Programme evaluation
Prevention programmes evaluated in real settings against measurable outcomes.
2,500-5,000 words · structured abstract, 250 words · up to 8 figures/tables
Brief report
Short, complete studies with a clear prevention finding.
1,500-2,500 words · unstructured abstract, 200 words · up to 4 figures/tables
Authors who are uncertain about scope fit are asked to contact the editorial office before submitting. Category limits, manuscript structure and reporting standards are set out in the Instructions for Authors; priority topics, settings and populations are on the Aims & Scope page.
Governance
How a publication decision is made
Peer review is Single-blind (double-blind on request). Every manuscript passes through the same four stages, and the two lists below state plainly what a decision rests on and what it does not.
Editorial screening
An editor screens the submission for scope and ethics before it goes further.
Assignment to reviewers
In-scope manuscripts are assigned to qualified reviewers working in prevention fields.
Editorial synthesis
An editor synthesises the reviewer feedback against methodological rigour, scope alignment and prevention relevance.
Decision and revision guidance
The author receives a clear decision category with explicit revision guidance. Decisions may be appealed with a clear, evidence-based rationale; appeals are reviewed by senior editors.
What a decision rests on
- The quality of the science and the rigour of the method
- Alignment with the journal’s prevention scope
- Potential public health impact
- Methodological rigour, transparency and clinical relevance, which every review is asked to emphasise
What a decision is not based on
- Payment of the article processing charge
- The author’s funding source
- Any commercial or financial interest
- Use of any optional paid service, including language editing
No fee, service or role confers any advantage in the review or acceptance of a manuscript. The full policy set, including appeals and corrections, is on the Editorial Policies page; the board is listed on the Editorial Board page.
Research integrity
What the journal requires of every submission
These requirements are published in full on the journal’s own policy pages. JPMC states that it complies with COPE guidance and ethical publishing best practice.
Ethics approval and consent
Studies involving human participants must include institutional review board approval and informed consent, with justification for any waiver.
Trial registration
Clinical trials should include registration identifiers; animal studies must confirm compliance with institutional and national welfare regulations.
Competing interests
Authors and reviewers disclose financial and non-financial conflicts, and funding sources and sponsor roles are reported.
Similarity screening
All submissions are screened for plagiarism.
Data availability
Data sharing is encouraged and data availability statements are required when appropriate, with repository links or access pathways.
Corrections and retractions
Errors identified after publication are corrected or retracted. Suspected misconduct is handled under COPE guidance; authorship disputes are managed according to international standards.
Authors are asked to use the established reporting guideline relevant to their study design. Each guideline below is bound to the design it covers, exactly as the Instructions for Authors bind them — a flat list of acronyms would drop the qualifier that makes the requirement meaningful.
- CONSORT
- trials and interventions
- STROBE
- observational studies
- PRISMA
- reviews and evidence syntheses
- TIDieR
- intervention reporting
- SQUIRE
- quality improvement studies
Rights, access & charges
What publication costs, and what authors keep
One charge, one figure, stated once. Nothing is payable to submit, and nothing is payable if a manuscript is declined.
- Open access
- Every article is free to read and download from publication. There are no subscription or reader charges.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), permitting reuse, distribution and adaptation with attribution, and translation and educational reuse for public health training. Read the licence
- Copyright
- Authors retain copyright and grant JPMC the right to publish. Authors may reuse their work in future publications, institutional repositories and academic teaching materials.
- Article processing charge
- USD 1,800, applied to all article types, payable only after acceptance. There are no submission fees.
- Waivers
- Partial waivers are evaluated case by case, with regard to differences in funding availability across regions and institutions. A waiver request does not affect how a manuscript is reviewed.
- What the charge covers
- Editorial assessment and peer-review coordination, copyediting and formatting, XML, PDF and HTML production, Crossref DOI registration and metadata distribution, ethics and plagiarism screening, online hosting, and post-publication corrections and metadata maintenance.
Verification
Check this journal without taking its word for it
Every claim on this page is checkable, and most of it can be checked in a register that Open Access Pub does not control. Each row pairs a claim with the place to test it.
- The journal is registered as ISSN 2474-3585
- Look it up in the ISSN Portal, the international register of serial titles. ISSN Portal record
- 41 articles are registered with Crossref under the 10.14302 prefix
- Crossref returns the journal record, the deposit total and every DOI. Crossref journal record
- Every article DOI resolves to a full text
- Resolve any DOI from the archive through doi.org and it will land on the article. Example: 10.14302/issn.2474-3585.jpmc-24-5299
- Editorial board members are real, named researchers
- The board page names every member with their institution and role, and links a full profile page for each one. Editorial Board
- Authors’ ORCID iDs are shown on the article page
- Where an author supplied one, the article page links their ORCID iD, which can be resolved against the ORCID registry. ORCID registry
- The journal is not indexed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science or MEDLINE
- JPMC makes no such claim, and states it plainly rather than leaving it to be discovered. What the journal does maintain is on the Indexing page.
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Submit prevention research to JPMC
If your study shows how risk can be reduced, disease detected earlier, or prevention delivered better, the editors would like to see it.
Submit a manuscriptJournal of Preventive Medicine and Care · ISSN 2474-3585 · Published by Open Access Pub · Editorial policies · Instructions for authors · Contact the editorial office