Journal Title：Medical Hypotheses

Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin. In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks 'what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer 'Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary'. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses. Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.). Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.

《醫(yī)學(xué)假說》是醫(yī)學(xué)和相關(guān)生物醫(yī)學(xué)科學(xué)思想的論壇。它將發(fā)表有趣而重要的理論論文，以促進(jìn)科學(xué)過程蓬勃發(fā)展的多樣性和辯論?！夺t(yī)學(xué)假說》的目標(biāo)和范圍與該雜志的創(chuàng)始人已故的 David Horrobin 博士提出的目標(biāo)和范圍沒有什么不同。在該雜志第一期的介紹中，他問道：“《醫(yī)學(xué)假說》將發(fā)表什么樣的論文？”并繼續(xù)回答“《醫(yī)學(xué)假說》將發(fā)表描述理論、有大量觀察支持的思想和一些實(shí)驗(yàn)支持尚不完整的假設(shè)的論文”。（Horrobin DF，1975 年《生物醫(yī)學(xué)科學(xué)思想：醫(yī)學(xué)假說創(chuàng)立的原因》?！夺t(yī)學(xué)假說》第 1 卷，第 1 期，1975 年 1 月至 2 月，第 1-2 頁。）因此，《醫(yī)學(xué)假說》雜志應(yīng)運(yùn)而生，至今仍然存在，旨在以開放的心態(tài)考慮醫(yī)學(xué)領(lǐng)域新穎、激進(jìn)的新思想和推測，為大多數(shù)傳統(tǒng)期刊拒絕的激進(jìn)假說打開大門。《醫(yī)學(xué)假說》雜志上的論文在風(fēng)格、結(jié)構(gòu)和參考文獻(xiàn)方面采用標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的科學(xué)形式。因此，該雜志構(gòu)成了前沿理論與醫(yī)學(xué)和科學(xué)交流主流之間的橋梁，如果要對思想進(jìn)行批評和根據(jù)觀察進(jìn)行檢驗(yàn)，這些思想最終必須進(jìn)入這一領(lǐng)域。

Medical Hypotheses創(chuàng)刊于1975年，由Churchill Livingstone出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋醫(yī)學(xué) - 醫(yī)學(xué)：研究與實(shí)驗(yàn)全領(lǐng)域，此期刊水平偏中等偏靠后，在所屬細(xì)分領(lǐng)域中專業(yè)影響力一般，過審相對較易，如果您文章質(zhì)量佳，選擇此期刊，發(fā)表機(jī)率較高。平均審稿速度 約2.8個月 ，影響因子指數(shù)2.1，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預(yù)警名單，廣大學(xué)者值得一試。