About the Journal

The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health (JMLPH — ISSN Print 2788-9815, ISSN Online 2788-791X) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal published by ARETION Publishing Group, London, UK, in partnership with the Research Centre at the Second Healthcare Cluster (R2), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. JMLPH is committed to advancing understanding of diseases, medical interventions, and public-health policy from both clinical and population-level perspectives.

The journal publishes a diverse range of content — original research, systematic and narrative reviews, case reports, editorials, and policy analyses — all subject to a rigorous double-blind peer-review process. JMLPH is designed for a broad readership of healthcare providers, legal experts, public-health practitioners, researchers, and policymakers.

Our Aim

To foster the advancement of medical and public health practices, with a particular focus on practice-changing information, the development of health law, and the impact of health policies on population health.

Scope

JMLPH welcomes manuscripts covering — but not limited to — the following broad areas of research:

Medical law and ethics
Disease epidemiology and modelling
Digital public health and health informatics
Nutritional and mental health
Ageing and public health
Occupational health and practices
Environmental health, hazards and safety
Public-health education and training
Health communication, policies and economics
Emergency and disaster medicine
Physical and social determinants of health
Behavioural and other disorders
Health services and infrastructure

Editorial Standards

JMLPH follows the recommendations of the ICMJE, the COPE code of conduct, and the WAME guidelines. Editorial decisions rest solely on scientific merit, methodological quality, and ethical soundness — free from commercial influence or advertising. See our full Research Integrity & Publication Ethics policy for details on plagiarism screening, authorship and AI-use rules, ethics approval and consent, competing interests, data availability, and trial registration.

Editorial Metrics

Acceptance rate: 46% across published volumes to date.

Indexing & Discoverability

Every JMLPH article receives a Crossref DOI and is discoverable through the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Google Scholar, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, BASE, Scilit, MIAR, EuroPub, ROAD, Ulrichsweb, Sherpa Romeo, Keepers Registry, Electronic Journals Library (EZB), WorldCat, Internet Archive, Scribd, and Academia.edu, alongside library discovery layers at VU Amsterdam, Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of Nottingham, Brooklyn Public Library, and TCS OneSearch. Content is permanently archived via LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and the Internet Archive, and published in PDF, XML, and HTML for maximum reach.