Junior Medical Research joined the battle against  predatory  publishing.

Following the Eriksson and Helgesson’s 25 criteria for predatory publishing behavior (2016) :

1. The publisher junior medical research and publishing is a member of a recognized professional organization committed to best publishing practices: The European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
2. The journal is indexed in Google scholar DRJI and under assessment for cope and web of science index.
3. We still believe that any scientist and academic publisher is a trainee and beginner till the last. Our aim is to create a platform that gives an opportunity of scientific activity to those who have none.
4. The journal published already papers submitted from 8 different countries. The board is working to let the information spread especially in the juniors community.
5. The journal standard is to publish at least one original research article and one review article per issue. The authors of our published papers belong all to well established university hospitals and colleges of medicine.
6. The journal is conducting three steps cross checking for typesetting errors of the final articles draft before the publication. However, we admit that in the beginning of our experience our published articles were not perfect.
7. The journal website design is unique and under copyrights.
8. The journal board includes more than 40 members from more than 20 nationalities.
9. The journal’s editorial office location in Tunisia and in Qatar are clearly announced in the website. The physical addresses published are dedicated for the journal only.
10. The publishing official schedule is biannual. However, the journal aim is to publish quarterly.
11. The journal title claims only the engagement of all contributors to serve the junior community and young scientists.
12. The journal does not mimic any other journal title.
13. The journal started publishing in 2018. The number of articles cited provides already an impact factor of 0.76. This impact factor is still to be worked out and that is the aim of the journal board.
14. We believe that the increase of the impact factor is the responsibility of all the journal contributors.
15. Advertisement of any kind is prohibited on the journal website.
16. Junior medical research and publishing is managing only junior medical research journal.
17. The editor in chief is not appointed in other non-medical journal boards.
18. The journal is publishing medical and biomedical articles and research papers. We had no articles outside of the stated scope.
19. The journal sends invitations to submit an article for publication for selected researchers. The invitation is done by mail ONCE.
20. The mails sent are following the ethical standard and courtesy principles.
21. Submission, handling peer review and publication of the articles are free of charges
22. Free services are clearly stated on our website
23. The submission of an article either in the journal website or by direct mail to the editor in chief is followed by notification mail witch state clearly the steps of the peer review process and the publication estimated time witch is never less than 40 days.
24. The journal is open access and authors always detain the paper copyright
25. If the journal is no more operational authors can find their articles in the indexing databases and using their DOIs. Author’s personal copies are provided as well upon publication. 

Moreover

• All articles published were subject to full peer-review process. three journal board members extensively review editorials before the publication . No ‘quick’ acceptances were provided. We believe hat all the topics treated were valuable for largest part of the readers. We do not publish nonsensical and hoax papers.
• The invitations to submit, to review and to join the board are made personally by the editor in chief. A no harassment policy makes sure that the academic researchers are invited once by mail.
• Editorial board members are appointed according to their experience in scientific editing and mostly according to their availability to serve the junior scientist community. However, we believe that some big doctors managing thousand patients and procedures could have only small time for the scientific activities. Junior medical research is trying to award them somehow and allow them to refresh their portfolios.
• The editorial board member is free to accept an editorial task or to reject it. Members are free to resign from the board after notifying the managing editors or the editor in chief. Five editorial board members  review new joiner member’s resume before the acceptance of the membership.
• All junior medical research members, reviewers and contributors are volunteers and not paid for their editorial contribution.
• The journal articles are indeed indexed in reputable bibliographic databases.
• The journal is not cited in any list of predatory journals