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The SMART-MD Journal of Precision Medicine is an on-line, quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal designed to provide concise papers on complex human disorders with clinical decision support insights for practicing physicians and healthcare workers.

Journal Scope

The SMART-MD JPM is specifically designed to help physicians personalized individual patient treatment plans for complex disorders as clinical decision support documents. Expert advice and clinical decision trees are often needed when patients have symptom-defined disorders with common features but different etiologies, prognosis and responses to treatment. Guidance by Experts may rely on focused examinations, special biomarker tests, genetic risk factors and ranking of available therapies. Expert Authors should providing guidance on optimal patient management and treatment from their review of the literature, consensus guidelines and personal experience when guidelines are inadequate. All Expert opinions and clinical practices ("How I Do It") are peer reviewed to insure that they are within acceptable practice of other experts.

The focus is on all complex medial disorders, and especially those conditions with a genetic risk component (when known). For common complex conditions with multiple problems and decisions it is useful to feature multiple Expert Authors writing on complementary topics.   Special focused issues are being organized: 

  • Diabetes [Guest Editor: Melena Bellin MD]
  • Pain Medicine [Guest Editor: Ajay Wasan MD MSc]
  • Celiac Disease (included with Functional GI Disorders)
  • Functional GI Disorders [Guest Editor: Anna Buchner MD PhD]
  • Liver Diseases [TBN]

Article Types

  • Editorial
  • Research Articles (special consideration)
  • Review Articles: (4 types)
    • SMART Topics (biological scientific)
    • SMART Approaches (medical)
    • SMART Systems Review (biological scientific)
    • SMART Medical Review (medical)
  • Case Report (can be integrated into a SMART Report)

Processing Charges

There is no cost to authors to publish in Smart-MD Journal of Precision Medicine.  Authors that select an OA publication must pay a standard fee of $2000 for short articles (<=1500 words) and $3000 for long articles (>1500 words or more).

Submission: https://smart-md.org/index.php/complementary/about/submissions

Contact

David Whitcomb MD PhD
Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
Email: editorial_office@smart-md.org
Website: https://smart-md.org