JRSM and JRSM Open journals

The Royal Society of Medicine’s two journals, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and JRSM Open, are outlets for scholarly comment and clinical research in the specialties of medicine and surgery.   

Published by SAGE Publishing, the journals are editorially independent from the Royal Society of Medicine, and their editor is Dr Kamran Abbasi.   

As an RSM member you can read the journals online for free by accessing our e-resources. You can also subscribe to a paper copy of JRSM to be posted to you by contacting our membership team.  

The journals accept manuscript submissions for review by the Editor.

Submit your paper

If you are looking to publish research or an article, you can submit your manuscript to JRSM or JRSM Open for consideration. Both journals offer rigorous peer review of your research and operate an open peer review process.

For JRSM, there is an average time of 31 days from submission of a manuscript to receiving the first decision. There is also a fast-track decision service available for high quality research articles with peer review comments from other top journals. JRSM is also indexed by the Journal Citation Reports.

Plus JRSM Open is listed in PubMed and freely available via PubMed Central, and it recorded in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). It offers highly competitive rates with some of the lowest Article Processing Charges (APCs) in open access publishing with discounted rates for RSM members.

You can read the full submission guidelines here:

Manuscript submission guidelines for JRSM  

Manuscript submission guidelines for JRSM Open