Advance clinically relevant research
Publish rigorous studies whose findings can inform diagnosis, treatment, healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes.
About the Journal
About IJCI
An independent, peer-reviewed medical journal advancing clinically relevant research, innovation, and scientific collaboration across medicine and healthcare worldwide.
Mission
The International Journal of Clinical Innovation (IJCI) is an independent, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary medical journal. It exists to publish work that changes how clinicians think and practise — across clinical medicine, clinical research, surgical innovation, medical education, outcomes research, and healthcare innovation.
Support innovation across medicine and surgery
Provide a scholarly venue for novel techniques, devices, digital tools, and care models, described with sufficient detail for critical appraisal.
Promote multidisciplinary collaboration
Bring together clinicians, methodologists, educators, and health-systems researchers across specialties and settings.
Provide rigorous peer review
Match every submission with reviewers whose expertise fits the subject and methodology of the work, and return constructive, timely assessments.
Improve dissemination of clinically meaningful research
Publish continuously, without submission fees or article processing charges, so that findings reach readers without financial barriers to authors.
Maintain editorial independence
Base every decision on scientific merit alone, free from institutional, sponsor, or commercial influence.
Aims & Scope
IJCI considers submissions across the following subject areas, and welcomes work that crosses conventional specialty boundaries.
- Clinical Medicine
- Clinical Research
- Surgical Innovation
- Medical Education
- Outcomes Research
- Healthcare Innovation
- Emerging Medical Technologies
- Medical and Surgical Specialties
- Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
- Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
- Case Reports
- Scholarly Perspectives and Commentary
Article Categories
- Original Article
- Systematic Review / Meta-Analysis
- Clinical Study
- Surgical Innovation / Technical Report
- Surgical Video / Video Article
- Case Report
- Medical Education Research
- Perspective / Commentary
- Editorial
- Letter to the Editor
Journal Information
- Scope
- Clinical Medicine, Clinical Research, Surgical Innovation, Medical Education, Outcomes Research, and Healthcare Innovation
- Language
- English
- Peer Review
- Independent peer review
- Publication Model
- Continuous Publication
- Article Processing Charges
- None
- Current Volume
- Volume 1, 2026
IJCI does not claim indexing, impact metrics, or accreditation that it has not obtained. Any indexing or identifier information will be published here once formally granted.
Institutional affiliations of editors are provided for identification purposes only. IJCI is an independent journal and is not an official publication of the University of Southern California.