Medical Hypotheses

Aims & Scope

Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences.

It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives.

The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin.

In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks 'what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer 'Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary'. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses.

Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.).

Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals.

Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing.

The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.387

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	112

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	2.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14135

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	727

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The macrophage theory of depression

  Citation: 739

  Authors: R.S.

• COVIDiagnosis-Net: Deep Bayes-SqueezeNet based diagnosis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from X-ray images

  Citation: 638

  Authors: Ferhat, Deniz

• A “mitochondrial cascade hypothesis” for sporadic Alzheimer's disease

  Citation: 582

  Authors: Russell H, Shaharyar M

• A tale of two cannabinoids: The therapeutic rationale for combining tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol

  Citation: 471

  Authors: Ethan, Geoffrey W.

• Effects of yoga on the autonomic nervous system, gamma-aminobutyric-acid, and allostasis in epilepsy, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder

  Citation: 443

  Authors: C.C., P.L., R.B., D.A., R.P.

• Acupuncture — from empiricism to science: Functional background to acupuncture effects in pain and disease Pain and disease

  Citation: 384

  Authors: S., T.

• Physiology of long pranayamic breathing: Neural respiratory elements may provide a mechanism that explains how slow deep breathing shifts the autonomic nervous system

  Citation: 342

  Authors: Ravinder, John W., Vernon A., Vandna

• Pathophysiological mechanisms involved in genesis and spread of muscular tension in occupational muscle pain and in chronic musculoskeletal pain syndromes: A hypothesis

  Citation: 324

  Authors: H., P.

• Detection of tumors on brain MRI images using the hybrid convolutional neural network architecture

  Citation: 321

  Authors: Ahmet, Muhammed

• SARS-CoV-2 infection pathogenesis is related to oxidative stress as a response to aggression

  Citation: 318

  Authors: Rubens, Alessandra Lourenço

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