Journal profile · MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences
ISSN 2392-7674 · Ion Motofei, Carol Davila University · Romania
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 45 articles in 2025; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences is published by Ion Motofei, Carol Davila University and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment and Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes, together about 18.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Oncology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Neuropsychiatric conditions and mental disorders (mood, anxiety, psychotic and personality disorders, as well as psychosomatic medicine); Neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and related disorders); Cardiovascular diseases (ischemic heart disease, hypertension, arrhythmias, heart failure, and vascular disorders, with focus on psychosocial and stress-related mechanisms); Pulmonary diseases (asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, sleep-disordered breathing, and their psychological impact); Gastrointestinal diseases (functional and organic disorders, gut–brain axis, microbiome–mind interactions); Urological and nephrological diseases (renal pathologies, lower urinary tract disorders, sexual medicine, psychoneuroendocrine issues); Endocrine and metabolic diseases (thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, diabetes, obesity, and hormonal regulation of mental and physical health); Nutritional disorders (malnutrition, obesity, eating disorders, nutrient–brain interactions); Infectious diseases (acute and chronic infections, neurotropic viruses, psychoneuroimmunology); Chronic diseases and multimorbidity (interactions between long-term somatic illness and mental health); Hereditary and genetic diseases (genetic predisposition, epigenetics, gene–environment interactions affecting mind and body); Cancer biology and psycho-oncology (cancer pathogenesis and therapy, supracellular perspectives, patient mental resilience); Immunology and psychoneuroimmunology (immune dysregulation, autoimmunity, stress–immune interactions); Rare syndromes (orphan diseases with mental and systemic impact); Pathogenesis, pathology, and therapy of human diseases (molecular to systemic perspectives, translational medicine); Diseases and society (healthcare systems, patient care, quality of life, medical ethics, social determinants of health, doctor–patient relationship).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Romania 11, Italy 8, United States 6, United Kingdom 1, Australia 1 (30 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsMedicine6.4%
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine6.4%
- Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesMedicine5.9%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine4.9%
- Pelvic floor disorders treatmentsMedicine4.9%
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine4.9%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology4.4%
- COVID-19 and healthcare impactsMedicine4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
Early warning / risk: Removed from ESCI for editorial reasons on 23 July 2025. CAS Early Warning Journal List: not listed in any of 6 editions.LetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 59OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.61OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.63%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 70LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 468 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21 | 21 | 3 |
| 2025 | 45 | 45 | 123 |
| 2024 | 71 | 71 | 95 |
| 2023 | 40 | 40 | 129 |
| 2022 | 37 | 37 | 244 |
| 2021 | 45 | 45 | 261 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 28.8 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 3.9 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 1,200 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,200 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted19
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability: authors must publish experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible. Model summary
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
Citation policy: sources must be clearly cited; excessive self-citation is prohibited. Model summary
MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in JMMS will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Published by MDPI on behalf of the JMMS. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access arti…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
Reviewer suggestions: authors should suggest three potential reviewers during submission. Model summary
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
JMMS accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independently o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Ion Motofei, Carol Davila University
- Country or region
- Romania
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2392-7674
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences
What CAS zone is Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Medicine, General & Internal. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences based?
Of the 30 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Romania (11), Italy (8) and United States (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .