Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

This journal is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes case reports related to clinical practice for clinical pathologists. The journal will consider any original case report that expands the field of clinical pathology knowledge, and original research relating to case reports.

 

Section Policies

CASE REPORT

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

CASE STUDIES

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

REVIEWS

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

We use a double-blind system for peer review; both reviewers’ and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The paper will be reviewed by at least two experts: one editorial staff member and at least one external reviewer. The review process may take four to ten weeks.

 

Publication Frequency

2014 Semiannual, published in March and September

2015 Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

2016 Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

2017 Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

2018 Semiannual, published in June and December

2019 Annual, published in December

2020 Annual, published in December

2021 Annual, published in December

 

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.

 

Journal Metrics

1. Google-based Impact Factor (2019): 1.18

The impact factor (IF) or Journal impact factor (JIF) normally referred to is the proprietary journal impact factor from Thomson Reuters calculated based on the Web of Science (WOS) and published in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). Currently, this journal hasn’t been indexed in Thomson Reuters JCR. Therefore, its official JCR®JIF is not yet available.

However, Google Scholar now provides an alternative Google-based impact factor. Google Scholar is the only openly available database suitable for journal metric calculation. It has a wide coverage and is a meaningful source. For this reason, Redfame publishing is calculating its own Impact Factor by applying Thomson Reuters'(TR) algorithm based on Google Scholar's citation counts.

The 2019 Google-based impact factor of this journal would be calculated as follows:

IF2019=(Citations2018+Citations2017)/(Publications2018+Publications2017)=(25+27)/(10+34)=1.18

2. h-index (August 2019): 4

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.

h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations.

3. i10-index (August 2019): 0

i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations.

 

4. h5-index (August 2019): NA

h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2014-2018 have at least h citations each.

5. h5-median (August 2019): NA

h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.