About the Journal

Focus and Scope

CME Journal (CMEJ) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. It publishes original papers, reviews and short communications on all aspects of the science, philosophy and practice of clinical and public health. It is aimed at all health practitioners and researchers and those who manage and deliver health education, services and systems. It will also be of interest to anyone involved in provision of health programs, the care of populations or communities and those who contribute to medical education and health systems in any way.

CME Journal considers submissions on any aspect of public health across age groups and settings. These include:

  • Clinical care delivery and practices
  • Public health practice and impact
  • Applied epidemiology
  • Medical Education
  • Need or impact assessments
  • Health service effectiveness, management and re-design
  • Health protection including control of communicable diseases
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Evaluation of health programs or interventions
  • Health governance, audit and quality
  • Health law and ethics
  • Health policy and comparisons
  • Capacity in health systems and workforce

This is not an exhaustive list and the Editors will consider articles on any issue relating to the health of populations or the public.

Review Process

CME JOURNAL aims to provide a service to authors and the wider research community by making as much research available as possible, provided it meets our journal’s high standards for research conduct and ethical procedures and receives approval after peer review. This guidelines for reviewers are made based on the Committee on Publication Ethics Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers which also provides further information on how to be objective and constructive in your review.

  1. Peer Review Mode

CME JOURNAL uses double-blind peer review, which means:

  • the reviewer’s name is NOT disclosed to the author
  • the author’s name is NOT disclosed to the reviewer
  1. Transparent Peer Review

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our Editorial Board has decided to fully implement the transparent peer review (TPR) process for all submission.

  1. The role of reviewers

If we need your help with appraising a manuscript, we will send you an email and ask you to accept or decline the invitation through our submission system. We ask for reviewers’ assistance in ensuring that any studies published in CME JOURNAL have been conducted properly, are scientifically credible and ethical, and have been reported in accordance with the appropriate guidelines (e.g., the CARE guidelines for case reports).

The Editorial Board is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject a manuscript, based on the reviewers' comments.

We welcome feedback from our reviewers. If you have any comments you wish to make relating to a manuscript you have reviewed or our decision on it, or relating to our review process in general, we would be pleased to hear from you.

  1. Recognition for Reviewers

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  1. To become a reviewer

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, please send an email to the Editorial Board (cmejournal21@gmail.com) with a copy of your CV attached and an indication of your review interests.

  1. Guidance for peer reviewers
  • When you provide a review via our submission system, please declare any competing interests you may have in relation to the article. These could be of a personal, professional, or financial nature.
  • Before writing your review, you may find it helpful to browse our guidelines for authors. Reviews should be conducted fairly and objectively. Criticism should be objective, not merely based on differences of opinion, and should aim to help the author improve their paper. Our journal requires authors to use reporting guidelines when writing a manuscript and to submit a completed checklist for each guideline. We encourage you to use this completed checklist included in the review task to aid in your review. Please first check whether the minimum information indicated in the checklist is included in the report and use the reporting guideline to aid in your assessment of the manuscript. If you find the checklist has been filled in incorrectly or that the manuscript does not actually include the information required by the checklist, as part of review comments, you could as well indicate what additional information must be reported. A reporting guideline may not be used to directly judge the quality of the methodology used in the study, but does suggest the kinds of questions that should be considered when designing a study.
  • All unpublished manuscripts are confidential documents. The existence of a manuscript under review should not be revealed to anyone other than the peer reviewers and editorial staff. Peer reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality regarding the manuscripts they review and must not divulge any information about a specific manuscript or its content to any third party without prior permission from the journal’s editors. If we invite you to review an article and you choose to discuss the manuscript with a colleague, please remind them of the confidential nature of the paper and acknowledge their input in your review. Please also encourage your colleagues to register as reviewers.
  • If you have any serious concerns relating to the publication ethics of a manuscript (e.g., if you believe you have encountered a case of plagiarism), you can contact the Editorial Board in confidence.

We are very grateful to all of the reviewers who have supported our journal so far.

Publication Frequency

CME Journal (CMEJ) is published twice in a year (Jan and July) two issues (one volume) each year. 

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.

Article Processing Fees

Our journal is free to everyone. Full text of all the contents is always available. There is no article processing charges (APCs) or submission charges. Our readers can copy, distribute, and use their attributed research for non-commercial purpose free of charge.

Source of Support

Centre for Medical Education (CME), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1213 bears all the costs of publication of the journal. Editors work voluntarily without any payment or salary.

Publisher

Centre for Medical Education (CME), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1213