Journal of Korean Medical Science

The JKMS follows the recommendations for authorship by the ICMJE, 2025 (http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf) and Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals 3rd Edition (KAMJE, 2019, https://www.kamje.or.kr/board/view?b_name=bo_publication&bo_id=13&per_page=). Authorship credit should be based on 1) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the …

If artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technologies (such as large language models, chatbots, or image creators) were used during preparation of the manuscript, authors should disclose how they used AI in both the cover letter and the submitted work. Authors are responsible for scientific integrity of all contents that AI generated. Authors should not list AI-assisted technologies as an author o…

JKMS accepts the ICMJE Recommendations for data sharing statement policy (http://icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf). All manuscripts reporting clinical trial results should submit a data sharing statement following the ICMJE guidelines from 1 July 2018. Authors may refer to the editorial, “Data Sharing statements for Clinical Trials: A Requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journa…

Research Ethics All manuscripts should be prepared based on strict observation of research and publication ethics guidelines recommended by the Council of Science Editors (http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, http://www.icmje.org/), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME, http://www.wame.org/), and the Korean Association of Medical …

Copyright policy 模型摘要

All authors of accepted manuscripts must sign a copy of the Journal's “Authorship Responsibility and License Agreement” form and submit it to Fax: +82.2-794-3148 or E-mail: jkms@kams.or.kr. For the copyrights of the contributions published in JKMS see Creative Commons (Attribution-Noncommercial) at http://creativecommons.org.

Anonymity of referees 模型摘要

JKMS reviews all manuscripts received. A manuscript is previewed for its format and academic relevancy, and then rejected or sent to the 3 most relevant investigators available for review of the contents. The editor selects peer referees by recommendation of the Editorial Board members or from the Board's specialist database. In addition, if deemed necessary, a review of statistics may be requeste…

Redundant publication is defined as “reporting (publishing or attempting to publish) substantially the same work more than once, without attribution of the original source(s)”. Characteristics of reports that are substantially similar include the following: (a) “at least one of the authors must be common to all reports (if there are no common authors, it is more likely plagiarism than redundant pu…

Preprint policy 模型摘要

Preprinted manuscripts in medRxiv, bioRxiv or similar platforms are allowed to be submitted to the Journal.