Aims & Scope

Georgian Medical Journal

Aims & Scope

Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG) · Open Access · CC BY 4.0 · DOI prefix: 10.66636 · gmj.ge

Aim

GMJ advances clinical practice, patient safety, and public health in Georgia and the wider region by publishing rigorous, applicable, and ethically sound research. We prioritize studies that improve outcomes, reduce harm, and inform policy and health-system decisions.

Scope

GMJ welcomes submissions in Georgian or English across the full spectrum of medicine and health:

Clinical Disciplines

Internal medicine and subspecialties, surgery and perioperative care, pediatrics, obstetrics–gynecology, family medicine, emergency/critical care, neurology, psychiatry, oncology, cardiology, infectious diseases, rehabilitation, diagnostics, and imaging.

Public Health & Health Systems

Epidemiology, health services research, health economics, financing and governance, quality improvement, patient safety, IPC, antimicrobial stewardship, eHealth/health informatics, workforce, education and training.

Population & Community Health

NCDs, MCH, geriatrics, mental health, social determinants, health equity, migration, environmental and occupational health.

Methods & Policy

Implementation science, guideline/position statements, program evaluation, ethics and law, medical education scholarship.

Article Types

Original Research · Systematic Reviews/Meta-analyses (PRISMA) · Brief Reports · Case Reports (CARE) · Quality Improvement studies (SQUIRE) · Guidelines/Position Statements · Editorials/Viewpoints · Method or data notes
See Writing Rules & Criteria for Publication for length limits and reporting checklists.

Audience

Clinicians, nurse and allied health professionals, researchers, educators, managers, and policymakers in Georgia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and comparable settings.

Editorial Priorities

— Actionable evidence for clinical decisions and health-system improvement
— Patient safety and quality of care, including measurement and dashboards
— Equity and access, including rural/remote and vulnerable populations
— Implementation and scalability of interventions in resource-constrained contexts
— Transparent methods — effect sizes, CIs, reproducible code/data where feasible

What We Do Not Publish

— Papers outside medical/health relevance
— Purely theoretical pieces without clear application
— Commercial promotions
— Redundant or duplicate publications
— Studies lacking ethics approval or consent when required

Open Science & Integrity

GMJ is open access (CC BY 4.0) and assigns Crossref DOIs (prefix 10.66636) to all published items. We encourage data and code sharing in trusted repositories with persistent identifiers. Plagiarism checks are mandatory; peer review is double-anonymised; COPE principles guide all editorial decisions.

Geographic Focus

We welcome global submissions, with a focus on Georgia and regional relevance. Comparative or international work is encouraged when it provides lessons for Georgian and similar health systems.

Georgian Medical Journal (GMJ) · Published by the Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG) · Led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD · Open Access · CC BY 4.0 · editor@gmj.ge · gmj.ge