About the journal
About the Journal of Digestive Disorders and Diagnosis
The Journal of Digestive Disorders and Diagnosis publishes peer-reviewed research on disorders of the digestive system and on the methods by which those disorders are recognized, characterized and followed over time.
Its purpose is to hold those two subjects together. A great deal of digestive medicine turns on what a test, an image or a specimen can be relied upon to show, yet that question is often reported as a preliminary to something else. This journal treats it as scholarship in its own right, alongside the disease research it serves.
ISSN
2574-4526
Access
Open access
Publication history
Publishing since 2016
Publisher
Open Access Pub
The territory
What the journal's name commits it to
Both halves of the title carry weight. Digestive disorders reaches the whole digestive system and the organs that serve it, and it reaches every stage of a condition, from the mechanism that produces it to the outcome it leads to. Diagnosis names the second commitment: how findings are produced, how dependably they distinguish one condition from another, and what they change about the care that follows.
Neither half is narrowed to a single organ, disease, instrument or technique. Diagnostic relevance here is broader than any one modality, and it is not conditional on immediate clinical translation.
Organs and systems
The esophagus, stomach, and small and large intestine, together with the liver, biliary system and pancreas.
Questions
Mechanism, pathology, prevention, diagnosis, management and outcome, from the cellular scale to the population scale.
Diagnostic methods
Imaging, endoscopic, laboratory, histopathological and computational approaches, including how they are developed, validated and compared with one another.
Forms of scholarship
Basic, translational, clinical, epidemiological and health-services research, together with methodological, theoretical and review work.
Eligibility
The journal considers research relevant to digestive disorders and their diagnosis across basic, translational, clinical and population-based approaches. Evidence requirements reflect the study design and the claims made, so that a mechanistic result and a claim about clinical use are each held to the standard appropriate to it.
Readership and contributors
Who the journal is written for
The journal is written for the people who have to act on a digestive finding and for the people who produce the evidence behind it. In practice those are often the same groups meeting from different directions: a clinician reading an image, a pathologist reading a specimen, a methodologist asking how well either performs.
Contributors come from the same range. A diagnostic-accuracy study, a mechanistic investigation, a population survey and a methodological critique each answer a different kind of question, and the journal is organized to carry all of them.
Every article is open access from the day it appears, so the record is reachable by clinicians, trainees, guideline groups and researchers without a subscription.
- Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology
- Diagnostic imaging and endoscopy
- Histopathology and laboratory medicine
- Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery
- Basic and translational research
- Epidemiology, nutrition and health-services research
Editorial responsibility
How the journal is edited
Editorial responsibility rests with an Editor-in-Chief and a subject editorial board, who oversee peer review and uphold the journal's publication ethics.
The stages below apply to every manuscript the journal receives. They are the same whether a submission reaches the journal through the manuscript system, the journal's submission form or the editorial office.
Screening
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Peer review
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Decisions
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Independence
Editorial decisions are independent of fees, membership, editorial or reviewing roles, and optional author services. Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions, and those manuscripts are handled independently.
Rights
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), and authors retain copyright in their work.
Research integrity
Requirements for ethical approval, clinical-trial registration, data availability, authorship and conflict-of-interest disclosure are set out in the journal's editorial policies.
Where to go next
Reading further
Authors preparing a manuscript should begin with the instructions for authors, which set out preparation requirements, ethical documentation and the submission routes the journal accepts.
The editorial office answers questions about scope, preparation and submission.