Publisher

Georgian Medical Journal

Publisher

Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG)  ·  Tbilisi, Georgia  ·  ISSN 3088-4322  ·  DOI prefix: 10.66636

About the Publisher

The Georgian Medical Journal (GMJ) is published by the Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG), Tbilisi, Georgia. PHIG advances evidence-based practice, quality, and patient safety through research, education, and open scientific communication.

Mission

To foster rigorous, ethical, and impactful medical scholarship relevant to Georgia and the wider region; to make knowledge openly accessible; and to support capacity-building for early-career researchers and clinicians.

Editorial Independence

GMJ's editors make decisions independently of PHIG, sponsors, and advertisers. Editorial policy follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) principles.

Open Access & Rights

GMJ is fully open access under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright and grant GMJ a licence to publish.

Fees

GMJ does not charge submission fees. From 5 January 2025 to 1 January 2027, all accepted articles are published free of charge under the 100% PHIG Publication Grant. Any future changes will be announced with clear waiver and discount policies. See the Price Policy for full details.

Infrastructure & Preservation

 

Persistent Identifiers

All citable items are assigned permanent DOIs. From 5 January 2025 through 8 April 2026, DOIs were issued via Zenodo (CERN/DataCite) and remain permanently valid. From 9 April 2026, GMJ is a full Crossref member registering DOIs under prefix 10.66636.
 

Archiving

Deposits with PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and Zenodo, plus geographically redundant mirrored backups.
 

Interoperability

Machine-readable metadata and OAI-PMH support to facilitate indexing and discovery across global academic infrastructures.

Services Provided by the Publisher

— Journal management and policy stewardship
— Editorial and production workflows (copyediting, typesetting, proofs)
— Website and platform maintenance
— Ethics oversight and compliance support
— Discoverability and metadata management
— Author education (guidelines, templates, good reporting practice)

 

Publisher of record: Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG), Tbilisi, Georgia  ·  ISSN: 3088-4322  ·  DOI prefix: 10.66636  ·  Open Access  ·  CC BY 4.0  ·  editor@gmj.ge  ·  gmj.ge