Advance clinically relevant research
Publish rigorous studies whose findings can inform diagnosis, treatment, healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes.
About the Journal
About IJCI
Independent, peer-reviewed medical publishing focused on clinically relevant research and innovation.
Audience
Who IJCI serves
Clinicians, surgeons, researchers, trainees, educators, methodologists, and healthcare professionals seeking clinically relevant multidisciplinary scholarship.
Operating model
Independent & open access
IJCI is independently self-published, uses double-blind peer review for externally reviewed content, publishes continuously, and currently charges no submission or article processing fees.
Official correspondence
Editorial Office
Publisher offices: Los Angeles, California, USA. Editorial correspondence is handled electronically at editorial@ijcinnovation.org.
Mission
Support innovation across medicine and surgery
Provide a scholarly venue for novel techniques, devices, digital tools, and care models, described with sufficient detail for critical appraisal.
Promote multidisciplinary collaboration
Bring together clinicians, methodologists, educators, and health-systems researchers across specialties and settings.
Provide rigorous peer review
Match manuscripts selected for external review with reviewers whose expertise fits the subject and methodology of the work, and seek constructive, evidence-based assessments.
Improve dissemination of clinically meaningful research
Publish continuously, without submission fees or article processing charges, so that findings reach readers without financial barriers to authors.
Maintain editorial independence
Base editorial decisions on scientific and editorial considerations, free from institutional, sponsor, donor, or commercial control.
Aims & Scope
IJCI considers submissions across the following subject areas, and welcomes work that crosses conventional specialty boundaries.
- Clinical Medicine
- Clinical Research
- Surgical Innovation
- Medical Education
- Outcomes Research
- Healthcare Innovation
- Emerging Medical Technologies
- Medical and Surgical Specialties
- Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
- Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
- Case Reports
- Scholarly Perspectives and Commentary
Article Categories
- Original Article
- Systematic Review / Meta-Analysis
- Review Article
- Clinical Study
- Surgical Innovation / Technical Report
- Surgical Video / Video Article
- Case Report
- Case Series
- Medical Education Research
- Perspective / Commentary
- Editorial
- Letter to the Editor
Journal Information
- Scope
- Clinical Medicine, Clinical Research, Surgical Innovation, Medical Education, Outcomes Research, and Healthcare Innovation
- Audience
- Clinicians, surgeons, researchers, trainees, educators, methodologists, and healthcare professionals
- Language
- English
- Peer Review
- Double-blind peer review with at least two independent reviewers for scholarly articles
- Publication Model
- Continuous publication within one annual volume
- Article Processing Charges
- None
- Current Volume
- Volume 1, 2026
Publisher & ownership
Publisher: International Journal of Clinical Innovation (IJCI) — Los Angeles, California, USA
International Journal of Clinical Innovation (IJCI) is owned and independently self-published by Juan Pablo Dugarte. It is not an official publication of the University of Southern California or any other academic institution.
Publishing model: Independent self-publisher.
Fees & financial transparency
IJCI does not charge manuscript submission fees, editorial processing fees, article processing charges (APCs), page charges, color charges, mandatory publication fees, or withdrawal fees.
IJCI is independently self-published. Current journal operating costs are supported by the owner/publisher, with editorial and peer-review service contributed independently of any article-level payment.
Preservation status
Publication files and metadata retained internally; independent third-party preservation pending.
IJCI is establishing independent long-term preservation with a recognized third-party preservation service. Until such participation is formally active, IJCI does not claim preservation through LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, PubMed Central, or another external archive.
IJCI does not claim indexing, impact metrics, accreditation, identifiers, or preservation services that it has not obtained. Verified indexing, identifier, and preservation information will be published when formally active.
Institutional affiliations of editors are provided for identification purposes only. IJCI is an independent journal and is not an official publication of the University of Southern California.