About the Journal

International Journal of Clinical Trials

International Journal of Clinical Trials (IJCT) is an open access, international, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses all aspects of clinical trials. The journal's full text is available online at http://www.ijclinicaltrials.com. The journal allows free access to its contents, offers a way to make data both freely available and highly visible worldwide; this will benefit the impact of your publication. International Journal of Clinical Trials is dedicated to publishing articles on clinical trial methodology as well as protocols, commentaries and results papers. International Journal of Clinical Trials (IJCT) is one of the fastest communication journals and articles are published online within short time after acceptance of manuscripts, this will benefit the societies by getting faster access to your clinical trial results. The journal has a broad coverage for articles are clinical trial methodology, traditional results papers, regulatory aspects of clinical trial, research ethics, clinical trial management, clinical data management and biostatistics. The journal has unrestricted space and takes advantage of all the technical possibilities available for electronic publishing. It is published quarterly and available in print and online version. International Journal of Clinical Trials (IJCT) complies with the uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, issued by the International Committee for Medical Journal Editors.

Issues: 4 per year

Email: editor@ijclinicaltrials.commedipeditor@gmail.com

Print ISSN: 2349-3240

Online ISSN: 2349-3259

Publisher: Medip Academy

DOI prefix: 10.18203

IMPACT FACTOR: 1.96

Medip Academy is a member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA), which operates CrossRef (DOI)

 

Manuscript Submission

International Journal of Clinical Trials accepts manuscript submissions through Online Submissions:

About the Journal > Online Submissions

Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.

If you find any difficulty in online submission of your manuscript, please contact editor at editor@ijclinicaltrials.com

 

Abbreviation

The correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing purposes is Int J Clin Trials.

 

Abstracting and Indexing information

The journal is indexed with 

PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC) (NLM ID: 101724850, Selected citations only)

Science Citation Index (Impact Factor: 1.96),

Scilit (MDPI)

Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (WHO),

JournalTOCs,

Index Copernicus,

CrossRef,

Index Scholar,

Journal Index,

Google Scholar,

J-Gate,

Directory of Science,

ResearchBib.

Digital Archiving
This journal uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), LOCKSS, and CLOCKSS systems to create a distributed archiving network with participating libraries. These systems allow the libraries to maintain permanent archives of the journal, supporting its long-term preservation and restoration.

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