JKMS publishes editorials, invited review articles, original articles, case reports, correspondence, and abstracts of the original articles awarded by affiliated societies of the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

Editorial is an invited perspective in medical science, dealing on very active areas of research, fresh insights and debates.
Invited review articles describe concise review on subjects of importance to medical researchers. The review articles should not exceed 30 pages of manuscript. The review articles are accepted after editorial evaluation.

Original articles are papers containing results of basic and clinical investigations, which are sufficiently well documented to be acceptable to critical readers. There is no limitation in length of manuscript, but excessive illustrations and large tables are not allowable.

Case Reports as well as brief communication deal with issues of importance to medical researchers. Maximum length of manuscript is ten pages.

Correspondence is a comment from readers for a published article and a reply from the authors.
Abstracts of the original articles, awarded by affiliated societies of the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences, are attached to the end of each volume whether or not published in other journals.