About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Althea Medical Journal is a peer-reviewed and open access journal that focuses on promoting important research in medical and health sciences related to aging-related diseases, wellness, and healthy lifestyle which includes neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, immune system disorders, and musculoskeletal disorders.

Aging-related diseases are illnesses and conditions that occur more frequently in people as they get older, meaning age is a significant risk factor. Examples of aging-related disease are cardiovascular diseases, strokes, hypertension, cancer, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and hearing loss.

Wellness is the state of being in good physical and mental health. These include social connectedness, exercise, nutrition, sleep and mindfulness.

Healthy lifestyle is a lifestyle which includes activities and habits that encourage the development of total physical, mental, and spiritual fitness, and which reduces the risk of major illness. Healthy activities and habits include regular exercise; a balanced, nutritious diet; adequate sleep and relaxation; abstaining from smoking and taking nonessential drugs; and moderating the intake of alcohol.

Althea Medical Journal publishes original articles and reviews. 

Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor. An editorial assistant will check whether the requirements are complete in one/two weeks. Authors will be given two weeks after notification is sent to complete the incomplete requirements. Every submitted manuscript that passes initial screening will be checked to identify any plagiarism before being reviewed by reviewers. 

Every submitted manuscript which pass this step will be reviewed by two or three reviewers (double blind peer-review). These manuscript will be sent to the reviewer anonymously. Reviewers comment are then sent to corresponding author to take the necessary actions and responses. The reviewing process will generally take 1-2 months, depending on the sufficiency of the information provided.

The Editor will consider the peer review report when deciding but is not bound by its opinions or recommendations through an editorial board meeting. Concerns raised by one peer reviewer or the Editor alone may result in a manuscript being rejected. Authors will then receive the peer review report based on the editorial decision. The results of the review of peer reviewers include: "manuscripts accepted"; "manuscript received with minor revisions"; "manuscript received with major revisions"; or "manuscript rejected".

The decision of the revised manuscript will be then evaluated in editorial board meeting, the final decision of whom are sent to the corresponding author.

The accepted manuscript will be sent to copyediting stage for correction of grammar and spelling errors, standardizing the journal in-house style, improving table, figure, and writing quality. A pdf file is sent to the author for review and there should be no more scientific revision. The manuscript will be scheduled for publication after the payment has been received. The final approval is needed from the corresponding author before it is published.


Publication Frequency

This journal is published quarterly. (March, June, September and December)

Open Access Policy

Althea Medical Journal is an electronic publication with only an e-ISSN. 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. Free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access.

  1. This journal has been indexed by CrossRef and all articles have DOI number.
  2. This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC)
  3. This journal is an open-access with abstracts and articles appearing in hypertext meta-language (HTML) and full articles downloadable for free as Adobe portable document format (PDF) files.

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Journal History

This journal was firstly published in February 2014 with 10 articles. The first publication in 2014 was published twice, February and August. Since 2015 AMJ has been published quarterly: March, June, September, and December with 30 articles. Since Volume 4 Number 4 2017 published with 10 articles.

Therefore, our publication during March 2014 till December 2015 was back issued.

Since 2016, AMJ has been using Open Journal System (OJS) requiring all writers to register in advance before they are allowed to upload the manuscript online. Afterwards, the editors, peer reviewers, and writers can monitor the manuscript processing by OJS or via email.  

Althea Med J is published every 3 months (March, June, September, and December). Althea Medical Journal, which previously publishes articles related to research in the fields of biomedical science, clinical medicine, family-community medicine, and public health, since March 2024 has only accepted articles related to aging-related diseases, wellness, and healthy lifestyle which includes neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, immune system disorders, and musculoskeletal disorders.

Starting from the March 2024 issue, the abbreviation of Althea Medical Journal will become Althea Med J.