Focus and Scope

Perspectives on Medical Education positions itself at the dynamic intersection of educational research and clinical education. This unique positioning reflects the journal’s mission to support and enrich collaborative scholarship between education researchers and clinical educators, and to advance new knowledge regarding clinical education practices. Reflecting this mission, the journal both welcomes original research papers arising from scholarly collaborations among clinicians, teachers and researchers and papers providing resources to develop the community’s ability to conduct such collaborative research. The journal’s audience includes researchers and practitioners: researchers who wish to explore challenging questions of health professions education and clinical teachers who wish to both advance their practice and envision for themselves a collaborative role in scholarly educational innovation. This audience of researchers, clinicians and educators is both international and interdisciplinary.

Publication Frequency

The journal publishes one continuous volume and issue a year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to avoid unnecessary delays in getting content publicly available.

Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page. See our special collections guidelines for more information.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no embargo on the journal’s publications. Submission and acceptance dates, along with publication dates, are made available on the PDF format for each paper.

Authors of articles published remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement.

Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories. For a list of generic and subject-specific repositories that meet our peer review criteria, visit the Open Access Directory or datacite.org.

Archiving & Indexing

Ubiquity Press focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability.

This journal is indexed by the following services:

PubMed Central
Medline
Web of Science (2022 Impact Factor: 3.6)
Scopus (2022 CiteScore: 6.9)
DOAJ
EMBASE
BFI List
Baidu
Chronos
CrossRef
CNKI
CNPIEC
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Dimensions
EBSCO Academic Search
EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Knowledge Base
Ex Libris
Google Scholar
JISC KB+
Naver
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
Portico
ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
SCImago
SHERPA RoMEO
TD Net Discovery Service
UGC-CARE List (India)
Wanfang

In addition, the journal is available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.

To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.

Journal History

Perspectives on Medical Education has a long history. In 1982, the journal was founded by the Dutch Association for Medical Education, as a Dutch language journal (Netherlands Journal of Medical Education). As a Dutch journal it fuelled educational research and innovation in the Netherlands. In 2012, the journal broadened its scope, transforming into an international English language journal. The journal swiftly became international in all aspects: the readers, authors, reviewers and editorial board members. In 2023, the journal moved to Ubiquity Press.

Annotation and post-publication comment

The journal platform permits readers to leave comments on the publication page. Readers will need an account to leave comments. The journal platform also includes in-browser annotation and text highlighting options on full text formats via hypothes.is. Readers will have the option to make these publicly available, available to a group, or private.

Advertisement policy

The journal does not normally display adverts. On occasion, the editorial board may decide to display advertisements that are of relevance to its scope and will be of interest to the readership (e.g. upcoming conferences). The editor and publisher have the right to decline or withdraw adverts at any point. Adverts will include a text heading to make it clear that they are adverts not related to the journal. If you wish to propose a potential advert, please contact the editorial manager.

Journal statistics

Core journal statistics for the 2023 volume:

Submissions received¹	364
Reviews requested²	648
Reviews received³	250
Total Rejections⁴	302
...of which, Desk rejects⁵	254
Acceptances⁶	65
Acceptance rate⁷	18%
Time from submission to publication⁸	144 days

Definitions

¹Number of new articles received by the journal
²Number of peer review invitation emails that were sent out
³Number of completed peer review reports received
⁴Total number of articles rejected (including desk rejects)
⁵Number of articles rejected prior to peer review
⁶Number of articles that received a 'Accept for publication' decision
⁷Number of acceptances, as a percentage, against the total number of final decisions
⁸'Mean' average from submission to publication for all publications in the volume

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