Aims and Scope

The Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine (JLPM, J Lab Precis Med, Online ISSN: 2519-9005) is an open access, peer-reviewed, international online journal that publishes both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. With the aim of reporting new findings, JLPM provides current, practical information from the laboratory and precision medicine field. It publishes original articles, editorials, case reports, and reviews covering all aspects of laboratory medicine. JLPM has been indexed and covered by Web of Science [Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)], Scopus and Ovid. It has received its latest Impact Factor for the 2024 citation year – 1.4.

‘Laboratory medicine’ is defined as the analytical and clinical investigation of laboratory tests on humans used for disease diagnosis, risk stratification, severity or prognosis estimation, and treatment monitoring, including but not limited to clinical hematology, thrombosis and haemostasis, clinical biochemistry, disease-oriented biomarkers (e.g. cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, infectious diseases), body fluid analytes, genetical diagnosis, clinical immunology and autoimmunity, clinical metrology, therapeutic drug monitoring, quality and safety in laboratory medicine, new analytical methodologies.

JLPM is published by AME Publishing Company, with support from Wolters Kluwer (the journal content will be made available on Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lippincott and Ovid platforms).

Indexing

Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine is indexed and covered by

• Web of Science [Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)]
• SCOPUS
• Google Scholar
  
• Ovid

Information for Authors

JLPM is a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and it follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s guidelines and the ICMJE recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journal.

Manuscripts submitted must be the original work of the author(s) and must not be published previously or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Submission Turnaround Time

• In-house review: 1-3 weeks.
• External peer review: 1-3 months.
• Publication Ahead of Print: within 1 month after being accepted (with APC payment received).
• Formal publication: within 1-3 months after being accepted (with APC payment received). Original Articles are listed as priority.

Publication Schedule

Published continuously from Oct. 2016 to Dec. 2019, JLPM now follows a quarterly publication model (January, April, July, October).

Open Access Statement

Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine is a peer reviewed, open access journal. All content of the journal is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for all to read, download, copy and distribute as defined by the applied license.

Free access and usage
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This license allows users to copy and distribute the article, provided:

• this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way.
• the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI) and provides a link to the license but not in an any way implying that the licensor is endorsing the user or the use of the work.
• no derivatives including remix, transform, or build upon the material was allowed for distribution.

The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Copyright

For open access publishing, this journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to AME Publishing Company, but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

For any inquiry/special circumstance on the copyright, commercial usage or adaptation of JLPM articles, please contact: permissions@amegroups.com

For reprint order, please contact: sales@amegroups.com

Support for Authors to Comply with Funding Body Mandates

We work with authors of research articles supported by funding bodies with open access mandates to ensure that authors can meet their funders’ requirements for public access to research results.

In addition, we offer further support for authors who are required to comply with funding body mandates, including but not limited to:

• All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute. If a specific open access license is needed, please contact the editorial office for confirmation before submission. Example of statements in a published article: https://jgo.amegroups.org/article/view/76355/html.
• No copyright is claimed for any work of the U.S. government. Example of statements in published articles: https://actr.amegroups.org/article/view/8875; https://med.amegroups.org/article/view/8358/html.

Contact with Editorial Office

Kathy Zhao, Corresponding Editor, Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine
Email: jlpm@amegroups.com

Publisher Information

JLPM is published by AME Publishing Company.
Addresses:
Hong Kong branch office: Flat/RM C 16F, Kings Wing Plaza 1, NO. 3 on Kwan Street, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China.

Updated on April 09, 2026