For authors

Everything you need to submit with confidence

Free at launch, mentored review, and a permanent DOI on every accepted article. Prepare to SQUIRE 2.0 or the relevant EQUATOR standard, and we will help you the rest of the way.

Aims & scope

Four sections, one discipline

Primary Care & Family Medicine

Chronic-disease management models, access and triage innovation, community outreach, clinical updates.

Preventive Health

Screening, immunisation, cardiometabolic and lifestyle prevention, health literacy, population health.

Quality Improvement & Clinical Audit

SQUIRE 2.0 QI reports and criteria-based audits with full PDSA cycles, baseline and re-audit data, supervisor verification. Our flagship section.

Medical Education & Training

Education research, transition-to-residency studies, analytic elective and observership reports, student collaboratives.

Article types

What we publish

Type	Word limit*	Required standard
Original research	3,500	Ethics approval number; relevant EQUATOR checklist
Quality-improvement report	3,000	SQUIRE 2.0; institutional approval; supervisor verification if student-led
Clinical audit report	2,500	Audit template; standards cited; full cycle to re-audit
Systematic / scoping review	4,500	PRISMA 2020; registration encouraged
Brief report	1,500	As above, abbreviated
Education & training study	3,000	Appropriate EQUATOR checklist
Correspondence	800	Reference to a GJPC article or field issue

*Excluding abstract, references, tables. Structured abstract ≤300 words; 4–6 keywords (MeSH preferred); Vancouver references.

The process

How submission works

Completeness check within 48 hours; plagiarism screening on every submission.
Double-anonymised review by two external reviewers (14-day window).
First decision target 42 days: accept · minor · major · revise-with-mentorship · reject.
Educational feedback with every decision — even a rejection teaches.
Continuous publication — accepted articles appear with their DOI as soon as production completes.

Fees: GJPC charges no submission or publication fees (2026–27). Any future APC will be announced at least three months ahead, will never apply retrospectively, and will carry automatic waivers for students and authors from low- and lower-middle-income countries.