Wal'afiat Hospital Journal (WHJ) is an open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that provides a forum for rigorous and relevant scholarship in medicine and healthcare. The journal welcomes contributions written in English or Indonesian and publishes two issues annually, in June and December.
WHJ aims to disseminate credible research findings, clinical observations, critical reviews, and scholarly discussions that advance medical knowledge and improve healthcare practice. It seeks to connect clinicians, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, and policymakers through evidence that supports sound clinical decisions, patient safety, disease prevention, and better health outcomes.
Publish methodologically sound research that contributes meaningful evidence to medicine and healthcare.
Promote findings and informed perspectives with potential relevance to diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and patient care.
Encourage transparent reporting, ethical conduct, critical discussion, and appropriate peer review.
Connect clinical medicine with public health, allied health disciplines, healthcare delivery, and relevant technologies.
The following are proposed scope categories based on WHJ's stated medical and healthcare orientation. They should be checked against the journal's officially approved Focus & Scope before publication.
Clinical and translational studies involving diagnosis, prevention, prognosis, and treatment of medical conditions; internal medicine, infectious diseases, metabolic and endocrine disorders, respiratory and renal diseases, and related specialties.
Clinical outcomes, surgical techniques, patient safety, perioperative assessment, postoperative recovery, and evidence-based surgical practice across relevant surgical disciplines.
Obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive health, maternal and neonatal care, pediatrics, adolescent health, and clinical approaches to improving outcomes across the life course.
Research in cardiology, oncology, neurology, dermatology, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, radiology, pathology, and other medical specialties, provided the work presents a clear clinical or healthcare contribution.
Epidemiology, disease prevention, health promotion, screening, population health, occupational and environmental health, and community-based interventions supported by suitable methods and evidence.
Healthcare quality, clinical governance, patient safety, health service delivery, interprofessional care, healthcare management, health policy, and evaluations of service improvement.
Clinical laboratory research, diagnostic evaluation, medical imaging, telemedicine, digital health, medical devices, and responsible applications of data analytics or artificial intelligence to clinical and healthcare problems.
Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, clinically relevant literature reviews, and interdisciplinary studies linking medical science, allied health, public health, and healthcare delivery.
WHJ accepts the following categories, subject to the applicable author guidelines and editorial assessment.
Empirical studies with clearly described methods, appropriate analyses, and results that address a relevant medical or healthcare question.
Critical, narrative, scoping, or systematic syntheses with a transparent approach appropriate to the review type.
Clinically informative cases with a clearly articulated learning value and appropriate patient consent and de-identification.
Scholarly educational or expert-oriented discussions grounded in current scientific evidence and relevant to clinical or health practice.
Critical reviews of scholarly books relevant to medicine and healthcare.
Focused, evidence-based commentary or discussion of published material or topics of relevance to the journal.
Submissions should present a clear medical, clinical, public-health, or healthcare-service question; explain their contribution; and use methods and reporting appropriate to the manuscript type.
Work focused exclusively on unrelated disciplines, promotional content, manuscripts without an identifiable scholarly contribution, or claims unsupported by the presented evidence may be considered outside the journal's scope. Interdisciplinary work is welcome when the connection to human health or healthcare practice is explicit and substantive.
Studies involving human participants, patients, identifiable patient information, biological materials, or sensitive health data should describe relevant ethical review, consent, confidentiality safeguards, and permissions as applicable. Clinical studies should follow suitable field-specific reporting guidance, and authors must accurately distinguish findings from interpretation.
WHJ encourages appropriate use of recognized reporting guidance such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, and CARE when relevant to the study design. These examples do not replace the journal's official submission requirements.
Review the author instructions and submission requirements before submitting your work.
Wal'afiat Hospital Journal dengan Situs: https://whj.umi.ac.id/index.php/whj berlisensi Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, e-ISSN 2722-9017
