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Journal of Medical Hypothesis and Ideas (J Med Hypotheses Ideas) is one of the 44 scientific journals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). This online journal has been published from 2007 under the name of Iranian Journal of Medical Hypothesis and Ideas and continued from 2012 as Journal of Medical Hypothesis and Ideas. Publication of 5 volumes and more than 100 articles has been the result of the short period of this journal's activity.
Evaluation of this journal by Scopus indicates a positive trend of publications, citations, H-index, and international collaboration.
J Med Hypotheses Ideas is an opportunity to express new ideas and hypotheses in the realm of medical sciences. The main purpose of this journal is to provide an appropriate environment to share the huge mass of ideas of the whole medical society by removing obstacles. Interestingly, in some or even most of cases, the first idea comes from somebody who does not have facilities to test the idea in a broad scale but if the idea is shared with others, thus there would be a chance for others to test. Unquestionably, the final benefit reaches world medical sciences and eventually to patients. This open access journal offers a unique perspective, blending, in a sense, medicine with deeper philosophical thinking about science, and the origin of scientific ideas, which tend to get leftbehind in standard journals. The articles of this journal tend...