Aim
GMJ advances clinical practice, patient safety, and public health in Georgia and the wider region by publishing rigorous, applicable, and ethically sound research. We prioritize studies that improve outcomes, reduce harm, and inform policy and health-system decisions.
Scope
GMJ welcomes submissions in Georgian or English across the full spectrum of medicine and health:
Clinical disciplines: internal medicine and subspecialties, surgery and perioperative care, pediatrics, obstetrics–gynecology, family medicine, emergency/critical care, neurology, psychiatry, oncology, cardiology, infectious diseases, rehabilitation, diagnostics, and imaging.
Public health & health systems: epidemiology, health services research, health economics, financing and governance, quality improvement, patient safety, IPC, antimicrobial stewardship, eHealth/health informatics, workforce, education and training.
Population & community health: NCDs, MCH, geriatrics, mental health, social determinants, health equity, migration, environmental and occupational health.
Methods & policy: implementation science, guideline/position statements, program evaluation, ethics and law, medical education scholarship.
Article types
Original Research, Systematic Reviews/Meta-analyses (PRISMA), Brief Reports, Case Reports (CARE), Quality-Improvement studies (SQUIRE), Guidelines/Position Statements, Editorials/Viewpoints, and method or data notes. See “Writing Rules & Criteria for Publication” for length limits and reporting checklists.
Audience
Clinicians, nurse and allied health professionals, researchers, educators, managers, and policymakers in Georgia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and comparable settings.
Priorities
Actionable evidence for clinical decisions and health-system improvement
Patient safety and quality of care, including measurement and dashboards
Equity and access, including rural/remote and vulnerable populations
Implementation and scalability of interventions in resource-constrained contexts
Transparent methods (effect sizes, CIs, reproducible code/data where feasible)
What we do not publish
Papers outside medical/health relevance; purely theoretical pieces without clear application; commercial promotions; redundant/duplicate publications; studies lacking ethics approval/consent when required.
Open science & integrity
GMJ is open access (CC BY 4.0) and assigns DOIs to all items. We encourage data/code sharing in trusted repositories with persistent identifiers. Plagiarism checks are mandatory; peer review is double-anonymised; COPE principles guide editorial decisions.
Geographic focus
We welcome global submissions, with a focus on Georgia and regional relevance. Comparative or international work is encouraged when it provides lessons for Georgian and similar health systems.
A new scientific commentary published in the Georgian Medical Journal examines the ethical and legal foundations for including critically ill patients in clinical research. The article is based on international standards and the Georgian regulatory context and is available in English with a DOI.
An overview of the evolution of ISO 15189—from a technical laboratory standard to a foundation of patient safety and health system trust—highlighting the roles of international organisations, WHO, and modern accreditation frameworks.
