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Annals of Medicine

Annals of Medicine is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing across medicine and health, spanning translational medicine to clinical practice and encouraging collaboration across therapy areas. It considers original research, clinical trials, protocols, case series, commentaries, negative and null results, reproducibility studies, and letters to the editor discussing previously published articles. The journal uses single anonymized peer review and has been fully open access since Volume 53 (2021).

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Subject Medicine, General & Internal
Impact Factor 4.3
Quartile Q1
Open Access Type Open
ISSN 0785-3890
eISSN 1365-2060
Invitation Only No
Cost Range Standard article publishing charge: $3565 / £2640 / EUR 3170 / AUD 4960, plus VAT or other local taxes where applicable; no submission charge.

Submission Instructions

Annals of Medicine accepts the following article types. Click on an article type to view submission instructions.

Research Article

Cover Letter Cover Letter requirements are not specified.
Abstract Research Articles must include a structured abstract. Abstract must be 300 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract must use the headings Background/Objective(s)/Introduction, Patients/Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion(s).
Manuscript Manuscript must be ordered as title page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Patients/Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Declaration of Interest statement, Author Contributions statement, Data Availability Statement, References, appendices as appropriate, tables with captions on individual pages, figures, and figure captions as a list. Manuscript must include no more than 6 keywords, 1 to 3 complete-sentence key messages in the manuscript text file and online submission form, a Disclosure of interest statement, and a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI was used or stating that it was not used.
References References may be in any style or format if a consistent scholarly citation format is applied. References must include author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue where appropriate, page numbers, and a corresponding in-text citation for each entry.
Figures & Tables Tables with captions must appear on individual pages followed by figures and a list of figure captions.
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Review Article (Invitation Only)

Cover Letter Cover Letter requirements are not specified.
Abstract Abstract is required. Structured abstract must be 300 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract must use the headings Background/Objective(s)/Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion(s).
Manuscript Manuscript must be ordered as title page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Declaration of Interest statement, Author Contributions statement, Data Availability Statement, References, appendices as appropriate, tables with captions on individual pages, figures, and figure captions as a list. Manuscript must include no more than 6 keywords, 1 to 3 key messages written as complete sentences, a Disclosure of interest statement, and a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI was used or stating that it was not used.
References References may be in any consistent scholarly citation style or format. References must include author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue where appropriate, page numbers, and a corresponding in-text citation for each entry.
Figures & Tables Tables with captions on individual pages, figures, and figure captions as a list must be included at the end of the manuscript, although figures and tables may also be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents. Tables must be supplied as editable files and should present new information that is interpretable without reference to the text.
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Clinical Trial

Cover Letter Cover Letter requirements are not specified.
Abstract Abstract is required for Clinical Trial submissions. The abstract must be structured and limited to 300 words. The abstract must be structured. The abstract must use the headings Introduction, Patients and Methods, Results, and Conclusion(s).
Manuscript The manuscript must be ordered as title page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Patients and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgments, Declaration of Interest statement, Author Contributions statement, Data Availability Statement, References, appendices as appropriate, tables with captions on individual pages, figures, and figure captions as a list. The manuscript must include no more than 6 keywords, 1 to 3 key messages written as complete sentences in the manuscript text file, a Disclosure of interest statement, and a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI was used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
References References may be in any consistent scholarly citation style or format. References must include author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue where appropriate, and page numbers, and every bibliographic entry must have a corresponding in-text citation.
Figures & Tables Tables with captions on individual pages, followed by figures and then figure captions as a list, must appear after the references and appendices in the manuscript order, although figures and tables may also be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents. Tables must be supplied as editable files and should present new information that is interpretable without reference to the text.
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Case Series

Cover Letter Cover Letter requirements are not specified.
Abstract A structured abstract is required for Case Series submissions. Abstract must be 300 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract must use the headings Background/Objective(s)/Introduction, Patients/Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion(s).
Manuscript Case Series must review a minimum of 5 cases. Manuscript must be ordered as title page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Patients/Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Declaration of Interest statement, Author Contributions statement, Data Availability Statement, References, appendices as appropriate, tables with captions on individual pages, figures, and figure captions as a list. Manuscript must include no more than 6 keywords, 1 to 3 complete-sentence key messages in the manuscript text file and online submission form, a Disclosure of interest statement, and a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI was used or stating that it was not used.
References References may be in any style or format if a consistent scholarly citation format is applied. References must include author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue where appropriate, and page numbers, and every bibliographic entry must have a corresponding in-text citation.
Figures & Tables Figures and tables can be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents, and the article-type order places tables with captions on individual pages followed by figures and a list of figure captions. Tables must be supplied as editable files.
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Letter To The Editor

Cover Letter Cover Letter requirements are not specified.
Abstract Abstract requirements are not specified.
Manuscript Letter To The Editor submissions must be no more than 500 words. Letter To The Editor submissions must be ordered as title page, main text, acknowledgments, and no more than five references. Letter To The Editor submissions must include no more than 6 keywords, use the title format [Regarding: “Article title”], and include a disclosure statement plus a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI was used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
References Letter To The Editor submissions must include no more than five references, one of which should be the Annals of Medicine article being discussed. References may be in any consistent scholarly citation style or format. References must include author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue where appropriate, and page numbers, and every bibliographic entry must have a corresponding in-text citation.
Figures & Tables Figures and tables can be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents. Tables must be supplied as editable files.
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Recent Publications

Identification of rare maternal copy number variants by genome-wide analysis of noninvasive prenatal screening data in 113,017 pregnant women

Liang Hu, Xianzhen Cao, Shuxian Zeng, Lijuan Wen, Jiatong Zhong, Yanan Liu, Weiqiang Liu, Fengxiang Wei

10.1080/07853890.2026.2721711
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Clinical characteristics and prognosis of IgA nephropathy and comorbid diabetic kidney disease

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Association of hemoglobin level with granulocyte engraftment and red blood cell transfusion by transplant type after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a retrospective cohort study

Junqing Wang, Jiaping Wang, Qiming Ying, Dingfeng Lv, Ping Zhang

10.1080/07853890.2026.2729599
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Delayed diagnosis and genetic testing in spinal muscular atrophy: a case series

Xihua Guo, Yuqi Luo, Mingchun Li, Chunguang Li, Zihan Chang, Shuzhen Zhu, Qing Wang, Yanjun Huang

10.1080/07853890.2026.2728198
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Easy to criticize when you have not done the work: when letters to the editor become a substitute for original research

Filippo Migliorini, Nicola Maffulli

10.1080/07853890.2026.2724569
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Authors may be required to sign a letter certifying that legal and ethical requirements for humane animal treatment have been met.

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What are the publication costs?

Standard APC: $3565 / £2640 / EUR 3170 / AUD 4960, plus VAT or other local taxes where applicable. No submission charge.

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Research Topics

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