New Zealand Medical Student Journal

New Zealand Medical Student Journal is published by New Zealand Medical Student Journal Society. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovations in Medical Education, Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout and Diversity and Career in Medicine, together about 32.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

AimsThe New Zealand Medical Student Journal (NZMSJ), Te Hautaka o nga Akonga Rongoa, is an online, open access, peer reviewed scientific journal (ISSN: 1179-3597) run by medical students for medical students in New Zealand. NZMSJ is currently indexed by Google Scholar, Informit and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Issues are independently published as the New Zealand Medical Student Journal Society. Our mission is to promote and encourage the research endeavours of medical students at all levels of study across New Zealand.NZMSJ is a registered incorporated society and a registered charity (CC45352) which focuses on promoting research, academia, and publishing among medical students, whose work is largely underrepresented in scientific literature.The NZMSJ has three primary aims:To assist medical students make the transition from writing for medical school to publishing quality academic work in professional journals. Our peer-review process provides comprehensive feedback so that students benefit regardless of whether their article makes final publication selection and in doing so are assisted in their learning of good academic writing.The journal aims to publish content that is educational, interesting, readable and presented in a professional manner. In doing so, the NZMSJ hopes to provide medical students with a forum for discussion at a national and international level.To promote research and academia among medical studentsScopeThe NZMSJ publishes a wide variety of content that relates to all areas of health, medicine, and medical education. Articles must be educational, interesting, readable, and presented professionally. Academic articles, clinical case reports, and editorials are published in print issues, whilst creative works and media reviews are published on the NZMSJ Blog. In publishing this content, the NZMSJ provides medical students with a forum for discussion at a national and international level.The journal publishes original articles in English, of clinical, public health, translational, and basic science research in any medical discipline. The NZMSJ accepts observational, interventional, experimental, and qualitative studies.To be considered for publication, the research should be of interest to medical students. Ideally, a medical student (at any level) should be listed as the first author. Other researchers and supervisors from the research team who meet the ICMJE Authorship Guidelines must also be listed as authors.Publicatio

From the journal's Aims & Scope

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Google ScholarPublisher website

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Impact

h-index

5OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

4OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.16OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 9 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 24 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double 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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Society

Country or region

New Zealand

Language

English

ISSN

1176-5178

Electronic ISSN

1179-3597

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ