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Scientific fit and publication principles

Submissions should address a meaningful question in health, healthcare or health systems and fall within the journal's Aims & Scope. Methodological sophistication should be connected to a relevant health question, supported by appropriate validation and reported transparently enough for readers to understand, assess and, where possible, reproduce the work.

Article types and standard limits

JADIH accepts the article types below. Word counts refer to the main manuscript text and exclude the abstract, references, tables, figure legends and supplementary material. The limits are intended to promote focused scientific communication; the handling editor may approve a justified exception when this is necessary for scientific clarity.

Case Reports should have a clear connection with JADIH's scope, such as data-driven clinical reasoning, digital health, artificial intelligence, decision support, innovative measurement, real-world data or another relevant analytical contribution. Simple descriptions of unusual clinical cases without a data-intelligence or methodological dimension may be considered outside scope.

Double-anonymised peer review

Manuscripts selected for external review are evaluated using a double-anonymised process: reviewers do not receive the authors' identities and authors do not receive the reviewers' identities. Editorial screening takes place before external review and may result in a desk decision when the manuscript is clearly outside scope or does not meet minimum scientific, ethical or reporting requirements.

• Separate title page: include author names, affiliations, corresponding-author details, ORCID identifiers if supplied, acknowledgements and any other identifying information in a separate title-page file.
• Blinded manuscript: remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements and other direct identifiers from the main manuscript.
• Self-citation: cite relevant previous work normally and neutrally. Avoid wording that reveals authorship unnecessarily.
• File properties: authors should remove identifying information from document metadata and file properties before upload.
• Editorial confidentiality: manuscript files, peer-review reports and editorial correspondence must be treated as confidential materials.

Use the appropriate reporting guideline

Authors should follow the most appropriate international reporting guideline for their study design and should use the EQUATOR Network as a reference point when selecting a guideline. Where a checklist or flow diagram exists, it should be submitted as supplementary material when applicable.

• CONSORT for randomised clinical trials.
• STROBE for observational studies.
• PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
• STARD for diagnostic accuracy studies.
• TRIPOD for studies developing, validating or updating prediction models, where applicable.
• CARE for Case Reports.
• Authors should use another recognised discipline-specific guideline when it more accurately matches the design or methodology of the work.

Prepare a clear and complete submission

Vancouver reference style

JADIH uses the Vancouver numeric citation style. References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the text. The same number must be used each time a source is cited. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the reference list.

• Use standard journal abbreviations where applicable.
• Include DOI information whenever available.
• Reference primary and original sources whenever possible.
• Avoid unnecessary citation inflation and references that do not support the statement for which they are cited.
• Preprints may be cited when relevant and should be clearly identified as preprints.

Ethical approval, consent and transparency

Research involving human participants, identifiable patient information or animals must comply with applicable ethical and legal requirements. Authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate approval and consent and for protecting privacy and confidentiality.

• Ethics statement: identify the approving committee or authority and approval/reference number when applicable, or explain why formal approval was not required.
• Informed consent: state whether informed consent was obtained when applicable. Case Reports and any article containing identifiable information or images must include confirmation of consent for publication when required.
• Funding: identify all sources of financial support and describe the sponsor's role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation and the decision to submit, where applicable.
• Competing interests: disclose financial, professional, academic or personal relationships that could reasonably be perceived to influence the work. A declaration is required even when no competing interests exist.
• Authorship: all listed authors must have made a substantial contribution, approve the submitted version and accept responsibility for the work. Individuals who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged rather than listed as authors.

Make the analytical process transparent

JADIH expects authors to describe the provenance, preparation and analysis of data with enough clarity to permit scientific assessment. Research articles must include a Data Availability Statement. Manuscripts in which code, software, algorithms or computational workflows are material to the results must also include a Code Availability Statement.

• When data or code can be shared, authors should provide a stable repository, DOI or other persistent access route whenever possible.
• If sharing is restricted by patient privacy, data-protection law, consent, contractual obligations, intellectual property or another legitimate limitation, the statement should explain the restriction and, where possible, describe a controlled-access procedure.
• Proprietary or non-public datasets should be described sufficiently to allow readers to understand eligibility, provenance, preprocessing, missingness and relevant limitations.
• Models and analytical pipelines should be reported with enough detail to support reproducibility, including important hyperparameters, validation strategy, software versions and other material implementation choices when applicable.
• Authors should distinguish clearly between prespecified analyses and exploratory or post hoc analyses.

Transparent use, human accountability

JADIH distinguishes between artificial intelligence used as part of the research methodology and generative or AI-assisted tools used during manuscript preparation. In both cases, human authors remain fully responsible for the integrity, accuracy, originality and traceability of the submitted work.

• AI as research methodology: models, systems, prompts, datasets, validation procedures and other material methodological details should be described in the Methods section to the extent necessary for scientific evaluation and reproducibility.
• AI-assisted writing or translation: material use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in drafting, rewriting, translation or language editing must be disclosed. Routine spelling or grammar checking does not require a declaration.
• AI-assisted coding or analysis: material use of generative AI to generate, modify or interpret code or analyses should be disclosed when it could affect reproducibility or interpretation.
• Images and figures: AI-generated or AI-modified visual material must not misrepresent scientific evidence. Any material generative use should be disclosed and must comply with applicable consent, copyright and research-integrity requirements.
• No AI authorship: AI systems cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the work, approve the final manuscript or satisfy authorship obligations.
• Verification: authors must independently verify facts, references, calculations, code and interpretations produced or assisted by AI tools. Fabricated references, unverifiable claims or undisclosed manipulation are unacceptable.

Preprints are permitted

Posting a manuscript on a recognised preprint server does not by itself constitute prior publication and does not prevent submission to JADIH. Authors must disclose the preprint at submission and provide its DOI or persistent URL when available. Authors are responsible for updating the preprint record after publication when the repository permits this and for making the relationship between versions clear.

Help the editors identify relevant expertise

Authors are requested to suggest 2–3 potential reviewers with relevant subject or methodological expertise. Suggestions should include the reviewer's name, institutional affiliation and institutional or professional email address when available.

• Suggested reviewers should be independent of the authors and should not be from the same institution.
• Authors should avoid suggesting recent close collaborators, supervisors, trainees or individuals with a clear conflict of interest.
• Authors may identify reviewers whom they prefer the journal not to invite and may provide a brief reason.
• Reviewer suggestions and exclusions are advisory only. The handling editor retains sole discretion over reviewer selection.

CC BY 4.0

Accepted articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence permits sharing and adaptation, including for commercial purposes, provided appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is supplied and changes are indicated. Material reproduced from third parties remains subject to its own rights and permissions where applicable.

Before uploading your manuscript

• The manuscript is within JADIH's Aims & Scope and is not under simultaneous consideration elsewhere.
• The selected article type and standard length limits have been respected or any necessary exception is explained.
• A separate title page contains all author-identifying information and the main manuscript is prepared for double-anonymised review.
• The abstract follows the format and word limit applicable to the article type, and 5–8 keywords have been provided.
• Spanish-language manuscripts include the title, abstract and keywords in English.
• The appropriate reporting guideline and checklist have been followed and supplied where relevant.
• All tables and figures are cited in the text and supplied with complete titles or legends.
• References are formatted in Vancouver style and every in-text citation has a matching reference.
• Ethics approval, informed consent, funding and competing-interest statements are included as applicable.
• A Data Availability Statement is included; a Code Availability Statement is also included when code, software or computational workflows materially support the work.
• Any material use of generative or AI-assisted technologies has been disclosed in accordance with this policy.
• Any preprint or closely related prior dissemination has been declared.
• Two to three suitable reviewer suggestions have been provided where possible.
• The manuscript has been checked for scientific clarity, consistency, confidentiality and removal of identifying metadata.