Global Journal of Primary Care
The peer-reviewed home for quality improvement, clinical audit & preventive primary care.
GJPC gives medical students, international medical graduates and early-career clinicians a credible, mentored and free route to indexed, DOI-registered publication — without compromising on rigour.
Why submit, who can submit, and how
A journal deliberately built to give early-career clinicians a rigorous, supportive first publication — and a citable DOI for it.
Why publish here
- Free at launch — no submission or publication fee
- Permanent Crossref DOI on every article
- Mentored, educational peer review
- Open access, CC BY 4.0 — you keep copyright
Who can submit
- Medical students & collaboratives
- Foundation, IMG & resident doctors
- GPs, nurses & allied primary-care teams
- Educators & early-career researchers
How to submit
- Prepare to SQUIRE 2.0 or audit format
- Include supervisor confirmation
- Via our OJS portal (opening 1 Sep 2026)
- Interim: submissions@globalprimarycarejournal.com
Next deadline
Issue 1 · 31 Aug 2026
Rolling review — your accepted article publishes with its DOI as soon as it is ready.
From submission to DOI — five clear steps
1 · Submit
Portal or email, supervisor sign-off›2 · Editorial screen
Scope & integrity, ~1 week›3 · Peer review
Two reviewers, double-anonymised›4 · Decision
Target ~6 weeks, mentored›5 · Publish + DOI
Open access, Crossref, archived›Indexed
Scholar, then DOAJ & PMC roadmap›Published quarterly — four issues a year
Continuous publication within each volume: accepted articles appear online with their DOI as soon as they are ready, then collate into the dated issue below.
Four sections, one discipline
Primary Care & Family Medicine
Chronic-disease management models, access and triage innovation, community outreach, clinically useful updates.
Preventive Health
Screening, immunisation, cardiometabolic and lifestyle prevention, health literacy, population-health initiatives.
Quality Improvement & Clinical Audit
SQUIRE 2.0-compliant QI reports and criteria-based audits with full PDSA cycles, baseline and re-audit data. Our flagship section.
Medical Education & Training
Education research, transition-to-residency studies (UKMLA/PLAB, USMLE, NExT), elective and observership reports, student collaboratives.
Our indexing roadmap
Indexing is earned over time against eligibility rules. We publish our real position and update this the day it changes.
We will never describe GJPC as “PubMed-indexed”, “DOAJ-listed” or anything else before it is true. Indexing status is updated on this page the day it changes — hold us to that.
Call for Papers — Volume 1 (2026)
Submissions open 1 September 2026. Rolling, continuous publication: your article is published — with its DOI — as soon as it is ready. Reviewer applications equally welcome.
submissions@globalprimarycarejournal.com