FAQ

Submitting articles for publication in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science is a straightforward process. To publish your research article, follow these steps:

1. Determine your article type
2. Prepare your article draft
3. Outline author contributions and conflicts of interest
4. Copy and paste the main content
5. Format the text
6. Add media and references
7. Choose reviewers
8. Preview your draft
9. Submit

Utilize the Preferred Editing service if necessary to ensure your submission meets Cureus indexing and formatting standards.

No. All content on Cureus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Cureus expects all submissions to adhere to our rigorous formatting and language requirements. Approximately one-third of all accepted submissions meet these requirements and are published with zero editing fees. Articles with too many errors will require the purchase of our Preferred Editing service, which costs around $350 and covers the substantial time, communication, and editing needed on our end. Due to the editorial work involved, all review articles submitted to Cureus require Preferred Editing.

Publishing medical articles through Cureus typically takes a remarkable median of 26 days. This swift process offers a significant advantage over traditional journals, which can take months or even years for publication. By streamlining our process, we facilitate quicker access to research, expediting Cureus indexing in various databases.

The Preferred Editing service assists authors whose submissions require substantial revisions to meet our formatting and language standards. After you submit your article, our team conducts a preliminary review to identify any necessary edits regarding spelling, grammar, syntax, and adherence to our specified formatting guidelines.

If your article contains too many errors or is more complex—such as review articles or those exceeding author limits—it will require purchasing this service.

There is a preliminary acceptance stage when your manuscript enters the peer review process. However, a thorough editorial review will only occur once the article has completed peer review.

While purchasing the Preferred Editing service does not ensure publication, if your article is rejected following peer review, you will be eligible for a partial refund minus a $50 processing fee. Refunds are unavailable for manuscripts withdrawn by the author or those rejected due to plagiarism or fraud.

While our editors are skilled at correcting formatting and language issues, some specific types of revisions will need to be addressed by the authors. These revisions include:

• Problems with scientific content that require author input
• Images that are unclear, distorted, or poorly presented
• Tables with multiple values in the same cell
• References that are missing or lack required information
• Duplicated references requiring significant reorganization

Articles with extensive formatting or language problems may not qualify for these editing services. We may also contact authors for clarification if any scientific aspects of the article raise questions.

Cureus accepts original articles, review articles, technical reports, case reports, and editorials from over 60 recognized medical specialties. With Cureus, you can be confident that medical colleagues, fellow researchers and patients can now find and access your article, no matter how specialized the topic. For more information on specific article types, please refer to our Author Guide.

Cureus provides Gold Open Access. We offer free access to all articles immediately upon publication, as we strongly believe that science should not be locked behind a paywall.

In addition to pre-publication peer review, articles can be rated by a broad cross-section of users after publication.

Each article accumulates a post-publication proprietary rating, or "Scholarly Impact Quotient" (SIQ). SIQ is an evolving reflection of an article's true scientific impact as judged by the medical community-at-large. SIQ ratings from relevant specialists are weighted more heavily than those from non-experts.

Cureus holds an Impact Factor (IF) of 1.0. While we acknowledge the value of such metrics, we place greater emphasis on article-level assessments, such as reads, downloads, and citations, to evaluate our journal’s overall quality and impact.

There are a number of tools and strategies that authors can use to promote their research. We outline these suggestions on our “Article Sharing Guide” page.

Cureus also offers a social media promotional add-on, or boost, for eligible published articles at an additional cost. To check your Article Promotion eligibility status, visit your author dashboard and view your published articles.

Cureus Inc. was founded and headquartered in San Francisco/Silicon Valley. However, now the company has gone fully virtual. So even though we are now distributed across the world, we still hold true to the Silicon Valley startup culture. We can hire without geographic limits, work more efficiently, pivot quickly and our products and services are better for it.

Please see below for our corporate/mailing address.

Cureus Inc.
1227 14th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
USA

John R. Adler, Jr, MD, Founder, President, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Stanford, CA

Alexander Muacevic, MD, Co-Founder, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Munich, Germany

Henrik Bacho, Managing Director
San Francisco, CA

Graham Parker-Finger, Director of Publishing and Customer Success
Atlanta, GA

Zachary Smith, Director of Engineering
San Francisco, CA

Dr. Adler and Dr. Muacevic are professors and noted academics with considerable experience publishing and reviewing within peer-reviewed medical journals. Together they have more than three decades of experience serving on the editorial boards of several medical journals.

1. Professor John R. Adler, Stanford University
2. Professor Alexander Muacevic, Munich University
3. The Cureus Editorial Board
4. The Cureus Academic Council — a select group of world-renowned academics and past presidents from leading institutions including Stanford University, the Salk Institute, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, the National University of Singapore and the American Medical Association
5. The Cureus SIQ™ (Scholarly Impact Quotient™) rating process utilizes community crowd sourcing to accurately discern scientific quality

Cureus focuses on quality through a rigorous and comprehensive peer-review process. Each article is meticulously evaluated by experts in their respective fields prior to publication. We also encourage readers to submit an SIQ™ post-publication, which helps to continuously assess the impact of articles, thereby enhancing Cureus Journal’s indexing and reputation.

Cureus has partnered with Everyday Health and Publisher Health to serve targeted ads from healthcare companies and institutions in order to continue providing an Open Access reading experience for all readers. For more information please go to our Advertising Policy page.

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Yes! Cureus is indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science and more. Articles published in Cureus will appear in PubMed Central approximately six weeks after publication.

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