ABOUT KMJ

Kerala Medical Journal is an Open Acess Journal with Creative Commons liscencing, published by Indian Medical Association – Kerala State Branch (IMA-KSB). The journal is published online and in print form and has 4 issues per year. Articles are selected in original research in clinical medicine, public health and clinical epidemiology and undergo a strict process of peer review before confirmation.  The journal access is fully open online.

Aims and Scope

  1. To promote and publish original research in all areas of modern medicine
  2. To create active discussions and initiate debates on topics of importance in health policy and health decision making
  3. To propagate safe, evidence based and ethical practice of modern medicine popularising guidelines for management.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.