- Open access · CC BY 4.0
- Published by Open Access Pub
About the Journal of Drug Resistant Pathogen Research
The Journal of Drug Resistant Pathogen Research (JDRPR) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of basic, experimental, clinical and public-health research on antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. It has been published by Open Access Pub since 2017.
Purpose and readership
Evidence on why treatment stops working
JDRPR serves microbiologists, clinicians, infection-control and public-health specialists, pharmacologists and educators who need sound evidence on how pathogens become resistant to drugs and how resistance can be detected, limited and treated.
JDRPR publishes basic, experimental, clinical and public-health research on antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. It considers work on resistance mechanisms, clinical microbiology and infectious diseases, diagnostics and surveillance, and therapeutics and stewardship, from local, national, regional and multi-country settings.
Its aims are to publish methodologically sound research that advances understanding of drug-resistant pathogens, to inform the detection, treatment and control of resistant infections, and to make the results freely available to everyone who can use them.
The journal welcomes contributions from the disciplines that bear on resistance, including molecular biology, genomics, clinical medicine, pharmacology, epidemiology and public health. The Aims and Scope page describes the scope in full.
Article types
- Original Research
- Review Article
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Methods and Protocols
- Short Communication
- Surveillance or Outbreak Report
- Data Note
- Case Report
- Commentary
- Letter to the Editor
Preparation guidance for each type is given in the Instructions for Authors.
Journal register
Reference information on the journal's identity, ownership, editorial responsibility, rights, review, fees and preservation.
- Full title
- Journal of Drug Resistant Pathogen Research
- Short title JDRPR.
- Publisher and owner
- Open Access Pub
- The journal is owned and published by Open Access Pub. openaccesspub.org
- Editor-in-Chief
- Godfred Menezes
- Trinity Medical Sciences University School of Medicine. Editorial Board
- Publication history
- Since 2017
- The journal began publishing with Volume 1 in 2017.
- Access
- Open access
- Every article is free to read, download and share from the day of publication, with no subscription or registration.
- License and copyright
- CC BY 4.0
- Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Authors retain copyright.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- Article processing charge
- USD 1,200
- Payable only after acceptance; withdrawal after submission is subject to the journal's withdrawal policy.
- Research integrity
- Crossref Similarity Check
- Submitted manuscripts are screened with Crossref Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate.
- Preservation
- Portico
- Articles will be deposited in Portico for long-term preservation.
Editor-in-Chief
Godfred Menezes
Trinity Medical Sciences University School of Medicine, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Editorial responsibility
The Editor-in-Chief leads the journal's editorial direction and oversees its decisions, supported by an international editorial board of researchers in antimicrobial resistance and related fields who handle manuscripts within their expertise and advise on the journal's scope and policies.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. They are independent of the article processing charge and of any fee-relief inquiry. Editors with a conflict of interest are recused from handling the manuscript.
Peer review
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts. The full process is set out in the Editorial Policies.
Open access, preservation and discovery
Open access and copyright
Free to read and reuse
JDRPR is an open-access journal. All articles are freely available on openaccesspub.org from the day of publication, without subscription or registration.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), which permits anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, adapt and reuse the work for any lawful purpose, provided the authors and the original publication are credited. Authors retain copyright in their work and may deposit any version of their article, including the published version, in institutional or subject repositories without embargo.
Preservation and discovery
A lasting, citable record
Articles will be deposited in Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive, so that the published record remains available for the long term. Read our preservation policy.
Article metadata are openly available to scholarly discovery services. The Indexing page describes the journal's current records and preservation arrangements.
Contact
Editorial office
Questions about the journal, its policies or a manuscript can be sent to the editorial office of JDRPR at Open Access Pub.
- [email protected]
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub, openaccesspub.org
- For authors
- Instructions for Authors and Article Processing Charges