About the Journal

About the Journal

International Journal of Healthcare Research (IJHCR) is a fully open-access, biannual scholarly journal. Its published articles are freely available online without subscription or access fees. IJHCR publishes research that improves the understanding, delivery, and outcomes of healthcare across clinical and community settings.

Open Access, Copyright and Licensing

Open access is a defining commitment of IJHCR. Articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, allowing healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, policymakers, and the public to access the journal’s research without a paywall.

Authors retain copyright. IJHCR publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence permits readers to share and adapt published work, including for commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit, link to the licence, and indicate whether changes were made. Authors grant IJHCR a non-exclusive right to publish and disseminate their articles under this licence.

Aims and Objectives

IJHCR aims to provide a platform for rigorous, ethically conducted healthcare research. The journal seeks to connect findings from clinical and community settings with decisions in practice, education, and health policy. Its objectives are to:

  • Publish research that addresses meaningful healthcare questions.
  • Encourage collaboration across clinical, biomedical, public health, and allied health disciplines.
  • Support clear reporting of methods, results, limitations, and ethical safeguards.
  • Promote research relevant to varied populations and healthcare settings.

Scope

IJHCR considers manuscripts in clinical medicine, public and community health, epidemiology, rehabilitation and allied health, nursing, pharmacy, biomedical sciences, healthcare education, and health services research. Topics may include prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, patient experience, healthcare delivery, and the social and environmental factors affecting health.

The journal considers quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, interventional, observational, diagnostic, and evidence-synthesis research when the methods are appropriate to the research question and the findings are relevant to healthcare.

Article Types

Submissions may include original research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, narrative reviews, brief reports, case reports, study protocols, and scholarly correspondence. Requirements for each article type are provided in the Author Guidelines.

Publication Frequency

IJHCR is published biannually, with two regular issues each year.

Editorial Standards

Manuscripts are assessed for relevance to the journal’s scope, methodological quality, ethical conduct, transparent reporting, and the reliability of their findings. The journal welcomes ethically conducted research that addresses meaningful healthcare questions through sound methods and clear reporting. Submission requirements and editorial procedures are described in the Author Guidelines and Journal Policies.

Publisher

IJHCR is published by MEDLINK ACADEMY FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED, Pakistan. Corporate Unique Identification No. (CUIN): 0356208.