Based in San Francisco, California, Cureus is an online medical journal published by Springer Nature. Cureus leverages the power of an online community platform to share and promote published Open Access medical knowledge around the world.

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About the Journal

Cureus is an Open Access, online-only, multispecialty medical journal published by Springer Nature.

To read the Aims and Scope of the journal, please refer to the Author Guide Introduction.

For information on journal leadership, please refer to our FAQ page. For information about Cureus' business model as an online medical journal, please refer to the Policies and Procedures section of our Author Guide. For information about the journal’s peer review process, please refer to the Peer Review page in our Author Guide.

The following stats are from the prior six months.

Cureus is a signatory of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which emphasizes continued improvement in how researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

While we recognize that Journal Impact Factor has value to many, we instead focus on article-level metrics such as reads, downloads and citations as a way of further democratizing the Open Access medical journal model.

Cureus also encourages all readers to submit an SIQ (Scholarly Impact Quotient) score for each article. SIQ is our unique post-publication rating that assesses article importance and quality by embracing the collective intelligence of the Cureus community.

Impact Factor, alongside other metrics such as turnaround time, downloads and social media mentions, can help to provide an overall assessment of journal quality and its research output in the community. As an online medical journal, this is part of our commitment to best practices that give a platform to more reputable researchers, and reliable knowledge to scientists and laypeople alike.

Accepted Medical Specialties

Cureus currently recognizes the following medical specialties. Don’t see your specialty listed? As part of our commitment to fostering our medical journal’s ethos of Open Access medical knowledge, we welcome an ever-broadening range of scientific fields and expertise.

Contact us at [email protected] to add your specialty.

Total Percentage of Article Reads by Country

Featuring a global community of readers, the online Cureus Journal of Medical Science showcases the value of providing accessible medical knowledge to clinicians, researchers, caregivers and patients around the world.