Discovery Medicine is committed to protecting the privacy of authors, referees, and others who use our online submission & editorial system and journal websites. The limited personal data that are collected are never shared with advertisers or other third parties not directly connected to Discovery Medicine. Personal data are shared only with organizations such as site hosting services used to publish Discovery Medicine. We follow industry best practices to protect all personal data collected during submission, review, editing, production, and publication.

Your use of our websites and online submission & editorial system indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

To enable the processing of papers submitted to Discovery Medicine, Discovery Medicine collects personal data such as author names, ORCID, email addresses, affiliations, phone and fax numbers, and other details to accurately identify authors as well as the individual submitting a manuscript, should that person not be a coauthor of the paper.

To process manuscripts submitted to Discovery Medicine, we collect personal data including author names, ORCID, email addresses, affiliations, and contact numbers. This information is used solely for identification, communication, and publication-related purposes.

1. Specifics Related to the Collection and Use of Personal Data

Personally identifiable information is collected to accurately identify authors and reviewers, facilitate communication with editorial and production staff, and manage accounts in the submission system. Personal data collected at the time of submission are also used to register authors and referees for accounts within the submission system. Visitors may choose not to supply personally identifiable information, but this may prevent the use of some or all of the features and functionality of the sites.

2. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

This is information that is neither used nor intended to be used to personally identify an individual and is neither associated with nor linked to personally identifiable information. These are data collected via Discovery Medicine–branded websites, and include information such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your visit.

3. Aggregated Data

Data about the collective behavior of visitors to our sites may be aggregated and displayed. However, personally identifiable information is never disclosed other than as described herein.

4. Accessing and Removing Personally Identifiable Data

Users can request that any data they have provided to us be removed from our servers and computer networks by emailing directly to editorial@discovmed.com and making the request. Note that the request must come from the email address that is registered for the record in question.

5. Referee Data

The collection of details about manuscript reviewers in Discovery Medicine online submission & editorial system is required for proper solicitation of reviewers as well as appropriate editorial staff engagement in the processing of decisions on manuscripts submitted. Referee information will be held indefinitely but never shared with other parties, apart from other select journals with explicit permission of the referees.

6. Author Data

Author details are captured from our online submission & editorial system and used in the processing and publication of articles. Author data is shared confidentially with production staff and selected third-party vendors solely for article composition, proofing, and indexing in databases such as Web of Science, Crossref, ORCID, etc.

7. Editor and Editorial Advisory Board Member Data

The collection of details about Editors and editorial advisory board members in Discovery Medicine online submission & editorial system is required for appropriate editorial staff engagement in the processing of decisions on manuscripts submitted. Editor and editorial advisory board member information will be held indefinitely but never shared with other parties.

8. Publication Site Hosting

Author and site user emails are collected by our online submission & editorial system.

IP addresses are used to allow institutional subscribers to activate and for statistical purposes including geographical data. IP addresses are not used to identify individuals.

At times, information may be disclosed under the strictest confidentiality to Discovery Medicine consultants as required for internal business reviews.

All other personal information collected at the manuscript submission stage, at any point during the Discovery Medicine article production process, or on pages that offer to authors or site users additional alerting, announcement, or other services is used expressly for the stated purpose.

Discovery Medicine reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy. Updates will be posted with a “Last Updated” date. Any continued use thereafter also constitutes your acceptance of the terms noted herein.

9. Others

Third-party sharing: Author metadata are shared with third-party vendors for the creation of articles and indexing services. Search engines index content directly from published content on Discovery Medicine websites.

Personal data stored in online submission & editorial system: Author and reviewer account profiles, with identifiable personal details, are preserved in Discovery Medicine the online submission & editorial system after the processing of a specific article and are visible only to authorized staff within online submission & editorial system and Discovery Medicine. Email addresses or other personal information are never sold to third parties.

Updated on 9 June 2026