Open Access
This journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. (CAMS), CAMS retains copyright of the overall compiled journal and the compiled issues. The article is universally and freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity, in an easily readable format immediately after publication.
To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The open access publication fee for this journal is RMB 5000, or USD 850.
Peer review under the responsibility of Editorial Board of Chinese Medical Sciences Journal.
Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.
User Rights
A CC user license manages the reuse of the article. Articles will be published under license:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0)
This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, provided credit must be given to the creator and only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
Let others to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from the Article, to alter and revise the Article, provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, indicates if changes were made and the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. For the single article, Authors will retain copyright alongside scholarly usage rights, and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.
Publishing Schedule
This journal is published quarterly per year.
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Contact Detail
Dr. Jie Li
Editorial office: E-mail: cmsj@pumc.edu.cn;
Phone: 86-10-65105897