About the Journal
| Title | Indian Journal of Health and Medical Law |
| DOI | 10.37591/IJHML |
| Frequency | Twice a Year |
| ISSN | 2583-8350 |
| Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): | 5.738 |
| Copyright | Indian Journal of Health and Medical Law (IJHML) |
| Starting Year | 2018 |
| Subject | Health and Medical Law |
| Language | English |
| Publication format | Online |
| Phone No. | +91-120-4781200 |
| Email id | lawjournals@celnet.in |
| Mobile No. | +91-7827713832 |
| Website | https://www.lawjournals.celnet.in |
| Address | A-118, 1st Floor, Sector-63, Noida, Uttar Pradesh-201301, India |
Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 71.72
Editor-in-Chief
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Journal’s Summary
The Indian Journal of Health & Medical Law covers the practice of law encompassing many different disciplines. Health lawyers can represent hospitals, physician groups, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) or individual doctors, among many others. Government health lawyers can investigate fraud, deal with Medicare policy and compliance or oversee public health policy. Many health lawyers are engaged in the business of health care spending significant time in mergers and acquisitions, tax law, employee benefits and risk management issues. The impact of technology on health care has been great with health lawyers helping to guide their clients through intellectual property, biomedicine, and telemedicine issues. Other health lawyers specialize in bioethics and clinical ethics representing universities and research academic centres. It's a biannual journal (frequency January-June and July-December), started in 2018.
Focus & Scope
- Health and Medical Law: Research on legal principles, statutory frameworks, judicial decisions, and regulatory policies governing healthcare delivery, medical practice, public health, patient protection, and the responsibilities of healthcare institutions and professionals.
- Patients’ Rights and Medical Ethics: Studies on informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, dignity, autonomy, refusal of treatment, disclosure of medical information, end-of-life decisions, professional ethics, clinical ethics, and the legal protection of patients’ rights.
- Medical Negligence and Professional Liability: Research on standards of care, medical malpractice, professional misconduct, hospital liability, vicarious liability, evidentiary issues, compensation, and civil, criminal, or regulatory consequences arising from negligent healthcare.
- Public Health Law and Policy: Studies on legislation and policy relating to disease prevention, vaccination, epidemics, public-health emergencies, sanitation, health surveillance, government powers, individual liberties, health equity, and state responsibility for population health.
- Mental Health Law and Patient Protection: Research on legal frameworks governing mental healthcare, capacity, consent, admission and discharge, involuntary treatment, confidentiality, supported decision-making, community care, and protection of the rights and dignity of persons with mental illness.
- Reproductive Health and Maternal Rights: Studies on reproductive autonomy, maternity benefits, abortion law, assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy, prenatal diagnostics, sex-selection regulation, maternal healthcare, fertility treatment, and legal protection of reproductive rights.
- Organ and Tissue Transplantation Law: Research on organ donation, transplantation, consent, allocation, brain-death standards, living and deceased donors, commercial dealings, transplant tourism, regulatory oversight, and ethical and legal issues surrounding human organs and tissues.
- Pharmaceutical and Drug Regulation: Studies on drug approval, manufacture, distribution, clinical use, pricing, pharmacovigilance, prescription practices, counterfeit medicines, controlled substances, cosmetics regulation, and legal accountability of pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers.
- Clinical Trials and Biomedical Research Law: Research on ethics approval, informed consent, research participants’ rights, compensation for research-related injury, clinical-trial regulation, human-subject protection, biomedical innovation, data use, and legal oversight of medical research.
- Food Safety and Health Regulation: Studies on food standards, contamination, adulteration, labelling, foodborne illness, safety compliance, regulatory enforcement, risk assessment, food-business responsibility, and legal mechanisms for protecting public health through food regulation.
- Healthcare Consumer Protection: Research on patient-consumer rights, misleading medical claims, deficient healthcare services, insurance disputes, unfair practices, hospital billing, grievance redressal, compensation, and the application of consumer-protection principles to healthcare.
- Health Insurance and Healthcare Financing Law: Studies on health insurance contracts, coverage, exclusions, claims, reimbursement, public health schemes, medical expenses, insurer obligations, fraud prevention, and legal issues arising from healthcare financing and access.
- Bioethics, Biotechnology, and Emerging Medical Technologies: Research on genetics, genomics, stem-cell research, gene editing, biobanking, cloning, artificial intelligence in healthcare, digital diagnostics, precision medicine, and ethical and legal challenges created by emerging biomedical technologies.
- Digital Health, Telemedicine, and Health Data Protection: Studies on telemedicine, electronic health records, health applications, wearable devices, digital prescriptions, medical data privacy, cybersecurity, cross-border health-data transfers, artificial intelligence, and liability in technology-enabled healthcare.
- Biomedical Waste and Environmental Health Law: Research on biomedical-waste management, hazardous healthcare waste, infection-control obligations, hospital environmental compliance, disposal standards, occupational exposure, and regulatory responsibility for healthcare-related environmental risks.
- Human Rights and Healthcare: Studies on the right to health, equality in healthcare, discrimination, disability rights, access to essential medicines, healthcare for vulnerable populations, custodial healthcare, reproductive justice, and international human-rights standards relevant to medical care.
- Healthcare Regulation and Institutional Governance: Research on licensing, accreditation, hospital governance, professional councils, regulatory authorities, disciplinary procedures, clinical standards, compliance systems, healthcare fraud, and accountability of public and private healthcare institutions.
- Indian Health and Medical Law and Comparative Perspectives: Research on Indian legislation, judicial decisions, healthcare regulation, medical ethics, patient rights, pharmaceutical law, public-health policy, and medical-professional accountability. Comparative and international scholarship is welcome where health or medical law forms the central legal contribution.
Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions
Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar
Submission of Paper:
All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.
Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.
Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Subject: Health, Law, Medical
Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.
Abbreviation: IJHML
Peer Reviewed Policy:
Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.
The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.
Peer review process:
1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal
2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.
3) Here the reviewer checks for originality, validity, significance, theory, evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.
4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors
5) Editor of the journal then makes final decision to publish the article based on the reviewer's comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.
6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.
For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.
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Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement
Publisher: Law Journals, an imprint of Consortium E-Learning Network Pvt. Ltd.
Phone no.: +91-120-478-1243/ Email: lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Ishita Chatterjee
Associate Professor,
Department of Law and Justice
Adamas University
Adamas Knowledge City, Barasat – Barrackpore Road,
P.O. – Jagannathpur, District-24 Parganas North,
Kolkata- 700126, West Bengal, India
Email: Ishita1.chatterjee@adamasuniversity.ac.in Mobile No- +91 9366528823
