Call for Papers
Journal of Obesity Management welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians and multidisciplinary teams working across obesity management.
ISSN 2574-450X Submissions accepted year-round Charge USD 2,100, after acceptance
Submit your research to JOM
Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year.
Journal of Obesity Management welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians, dietitians, behavioral scientists, exercise physiologists, epidemiologists and public-health teams working across obesity management.
The journal has no fixed submission window and no seasonal call. Work is assessed when it arrives, on its own terms, and published into the open issue as it completes production.
The manuscript must address a substantive question about obesity, its determinants or consequences, or its assessment, prevention or management. A focused subgroup or effect-modification analysis can qualify; recording body weight or including participants with obesity alone does not establish fit.
What the journal is looking for
These are the areas where a well-conducted study would add most to what the journal has published, drawn from its approved scope rather than from what is fashionable.
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Core domain 01
Assessment, diagnosis and classification
Validation of body-composition and adiposity measures against a reference standard; the limits of body mass index in defined populations; clinical staging and phenotyping; prediction of who responds to which treatment; screening in primary and community care.
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Core domain 02
Prevention
Evaluation of prevention in people at high risk and after weight loss; prevention in childhood and adolescence; school, workplace and community programs assessed as interventions; food and built environment studies with a weight-related outcome; evaluation of policy measures.
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Core domain 03
Treatment and intervention
Nutrition and dietary intervention; physical activity and exercise; behavioral and psychological intervention; pharmacotherapy, including comparative effectiveness, adherence, persistence and discontinuation; bariatric, metabolic and endoscopic procedures, including patient selection, complications and post-procedural care. Studies that compare or combine two modalities are particularly welcome.
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Core domain 04
Long-term management, maintenance and weight regain
Maintenance after any modality; the physiology and behavior of regain; treatment sequencing and re-intervention; continuity and multidisciplinary care; outcomes reported beyond the first year. This is the area in which the journal currently has least and would most value more.
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Core domain 05
Obesity-related metabolic health and comorbidity
Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes including remission after weight loss; dyslipidemia, hypertension and obesity-related cardiovascular risk; metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease; obstructive sleep apnea; reproductive and endocrine consequences; managing obesity alongside multimorbidity.
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Broader areas
Epidemiology, health services, life course and mechanisms
Obesity-specific epidemiology; how obesity care is delivered, reached and financed, including access and treatment disparities; obesity in childhood, in pregnancy and postpartum, and in older age; and mechanistic work that bears on risk, phenotype, prevention, treatment or clinical management.
What you can submit
The journal is not restricted to trials. The design should fit the question.
Randomized and non-randomized intervention studies; observational, cross-sectional and cohort studies; comparative effectiveness research; mechanistic clinical studies; diagnostic accuracy and measurement-validation studies; systematic reviews, meta-analyses and scoping reviews; implementation and health-services research; qualitative studies answering a question about care, experience or adherence; and methodological work.
Negative and null results are considered on the same terms as positive ones. Preclinical, animal and computational studies are considered when they address a substantive question about obesity biology, risk or management and explain the relevance and limitations of the model.
Article types and the limits that apply to each are on the instructions for authors page.
How to submit
Three routes are open. Use the one that suits the manuscript.
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Primary route
ManuscriptZone
The publisher’s submission portal. Open ManuscriptZone
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Alternative route
Simple manuscript submission form
A short form, preselected for this journal. Open the submission form
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Assisted route
The editorial office
Write to [email protected] and the editorial office will help you complete a submission.
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
If you are not sure whether your work fits, write to the editorial office with the title and abstract before preparing a full submission. An early answer costs you nothing and saves a desk rejection.
What publishing here involves
Stated plainly so you can weigh it before you start.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Decision
- Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- Charge
- USD 2,100, one charge for every article type, payable only after acceptance. There is no submission fee, and payment has no influence on the decision. Full terms on the article processing charges page.
- License
- Open access under CC BY 4.0 from publication, with authors retaining copyright, and a registered Crossref DOI.
Journal of Obesity Management (JOM) · ISSN 2574-450X · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 · published open access by Open Access Pub under CC BY 4.0, authors retain copyright · aims and scope · instructions for authors · submit a manuscript.