The Journal of Army Medical University ( Lu-Jun Junyi Daxue Xuebao), changed from the Journal of Third Military Medical University, is a peer-reviewed, general medical journal for all physicians, researchers, and health workers, regardless of medical specialty. Established in 1979 and published semimonthly by Army Military Medical University in Chongqing, China, it is one of the oldest academic journals in China. All articles are published in Chinese, and original research articles are published with English abstracts. The copyright page and contents of each issue are also published in English in every issue.

Here is a comparetive table in some items between our journal and the 6 journals published by chinese medical universities and academy having been indexed by MEDLINE.

Scope and Aims

The Journal of Arny Medical University, published twice a month, is a peer-reviewed, general medical journal for all physicians, researchers, and health-care workers, from any medical specialty. The journal contributes to the scientific advancement of medicine by disseminating high quality research and scholarship of contemporary relevance and with potential to advance knowledge for medical sciences. The journal encourages submissions from all areas related to the medical sciences, including basic and clinical medicine, military medicine, high-altitude medicine, preventive medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and herbs, pharmacology, stomatology, public health, epidemiology, and biomedical engineering

Columns

In addition to original articles in basic, clinical, and preventive medicine, the Journal features several regular columns: Expert Reviews, written by experts at the request of the editor; Special Reports, a group of original articles on same subject; and News and Notes, some news about our university or suggestions to authors and readers by our editors.

Contributors

Most of the original research articles originate from medical science institutes in provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities throughout China. Others report research conducted cooperatively with foreign laboratories. About half of the published research is funded by grants from the Chinese national or provincial government.

Circulation

The Journal of Army Medical University (Lu-Jun Junyi Daxue Xuebao) is distributed domestically and internationally, to about 1900 and 40 subscribers, respectively. Subscribers are major medical journal publishers, research institutions, and hospitals and libraries in China. All articles are available without charge on our website, http://aammt.tmmu.edu.cn/en/oa/OAML.aspx, where they are posted at the time of publication. According to the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, a full-text online server, the 2783 institutional users who view the journal on-line come from 13 countries and regions. Most are universities (including Harvard and Yale), hospitals, and research institutes. Individual viewers come from 35 countries and regions.

Citation Data

According to the data in the 2018 Chinese Scientific and Technical Journal Citation Reports (the Chinese version of Journal Citation Reports), papers published in our journal were cited 2616 times in 2018. The impact factor is 0.659. Among all 56 academic journals of medical colleges and universities in China, the Journal has the third highest comprehensive evaluation.Key Historical Milestones

Copyrights

All articles published represent the opinions of the authors, do not reflect the official policy of Third Military Medical University or the Editorial Board, unless this is clearly specified.

Indexing and Abstracting Services

As a core medicine and health journal in China, The Journal of Third Military Medical University (Di-San Junyi Daxue Xuebao) is indexed and abstracted by several international retrieval systems, including Chemical Abstracts, VINITI Abstracts Journal, Index Copernicus, Western Pacific Region Index Medicus, Japan Science & Technology Agency, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. The Journal has also been continuously included in the List of 1000 Journals Most Frequently Cited in Chemical Abstracts for many years. It is also included in all authoritative Chinese databases for technical and scientific papers and is in the first list of journals of the Chinese Science Citation Database and the Chinese Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database. The Journal has also been available since 2009 through Thomson-Reuters’ ISI Web of Knowledge.

Journal Facts

· Responsible Institution: Army Medical Univerisity (Third Military Medical University)

· Sponsor: Teaching and Researching Support Center of Amry Medical University ( Third Military Medical University)

· Editing: Editorial Board of Jouirnal of Army Medical University

· Publication Numbers: ISSN 2097-0927(changed from ISSN 1000-5404), CN 50-1223/R (changed from CN 50-1126/R)

· Editor-in-Chief:  Bian Xiuwu, Ph.D.

· Associate Editor-in- chief:  Xiao Yingbin, Wu Yuzhang, Zou Quanming, Ni Bing, Hu Zhi'an, Zhu Zhiming, Gao Yuqi, Cao Jia

· Managing Director: Ni Bing

· Publishing: Editorial Office of Journal of Army Medical University

· Mail Order: Editorial Office of Journal of Army Medical Univeristy

· Impact factor: 0.713 (Core edition), ranking 12th among all 56 academic journals of medical colleges and universities (Chinese JCR 2018)

· Citations: 2332, ranking 3rdt among all 56 academic journals of medical colleges and universities (Chinese JCR 2019)

· Number of research articles published/year: 413 (2019)

· Distribution: Nationwide. Full-text is freely available at http://aammt.tmmu.edu.cn/en/oa/

· Number of pages published/year: 2619 (2018)

· Publication schedule: Printed and posted online twice each month

· Issue dates: 1st and the 15th of each month

· Average time from submission to initial decision (full-length manuscripts): about 60 days (2018)

· Average time from submission to publication: about 154 days (2018)

· Rejection rate: more than 84% (2018)