About the Association/Society

Hainan Medical University (HMU) was established in 1993 and offers degrees in medicine to both domestic and oversea students. It has established international cooperation with the University of Utah (USA), Newcastle University (UK), Queensland University of Technology (Australia) and Chonnam National University (Korea) in undergraduate exchange, graduate and doctoral training.

Focusing on the establishment of disciplines such as tropical medicine, emergency trauma and disaster medicine, reproductive medicine, ethnic Li medicine, health services and management, HMU has sponsored 5 journals: Journal of Hainan Medical University (Chinese version), Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction and Journal of Acute Disease. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine and Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine have been included by SCI and Journal of Acute Disease has been included by ESCI.

About the Journal

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (ISSN 1995-7645 CODEN: APJTB6), a publication of Editorial office of Hainan Medical University,is a peer-reviewed print + online Monthly journal. The journal's full text is available online at http://www.apjtm.org/. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository. 

APJTM aims to provide an academic communicating platform for international physicians, medical scientists, allied health scientists and public health workers, especially those of the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide on tropical medicine, infectious diseases and public health, and to meet the  growing challenges of understanding, preventing and controlling the dramatic global emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in the Asia-Pacific.

The journal is proud to have an international and diverse editorial board that will assist and facilitate the publication of articles that reflect a global view on tropical medicine, infectious diseases and public health, as well as emphasizing our focus on supporting the needs of public health practitioners. The APJTM will allow us to seek opportunities to work with others who share our aim, and to enhance our work through partnership, and to uphold the standards of our profession and contribute to its advancement.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Baidu Scholar, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data

The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following:
DOAJ, EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica, SCOPUS, Science Citation Index Expanded, Web of Science

Impact Factor^® as reported in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports^® (Clarivate Analytics, 2022): 3.041

Journal Ethics

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Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Digital Archiving

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APJTM publishes new findings in basic and clinical research on tropical medicine and public health worldwide. It particularly pays attention to tropical disease, such as dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever, kala azar, anthracia pestis, malaria, cholera, plague, leishmaniasis, tsutsugamushi, schistosomiasis, filariasis, trypanosomatosis, leprosy, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, babesiasis, Lyme disease, avian influenza, enzootic hepatitis, African meningitis, red tide, influenza, tuberculosis, epidemic polyarthritis, Japanese encephalitis, hepatitis and other parasitological diseases and zoonoses, which have repeatedly caused major epidemics regionally. Pharmacological studies, molecular biological studies, biological studies, physiological studies, pathological studies, gene studies on treatment and management for these alarming global emergence and re-emergences of infectious diseases are our focuses, too.

As an international journal, APJTM is distributed worldwide and invites papers from any corner of the world on all areas of tropical medicine and public health, with the following sections: Original articles; Review articles; Mini-reviews of internationally important topics; Short communications; Clinical experiences; Case reports; Letters to the Editor.

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