Why publish with us

A Unique Journal on Midwifery Education
The journal warmly welcomes submissions from across the globe, as the scope of the journal is to support, promote and disseminate research involving midwifery education, clinical practice and the academic development of midwifery.

Professional Publishing
The European Journal of Midwifery is published by European Publishing, an Open Access publishing firm based within the Science and Technology Park of Crete, Greece.

European Publishing has in its portfolio 7 Open Access journals and adheres to:

The COPE Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors

The ICMJE’s Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals

The US NIH Standards on scholarly publishing as per the US NIH notice NOT-OD-18-011

It’s an Open Access journal – you retain copyright
Once accepted and typeset, all articles are free to download by all readers without any subscription. Articles published in open access journals are cited more frequently than those in non-open access journals. Furthermore, as all articles are published under the Creative Commons license, you retain ownership and copyright of the article.
Authors submitting their work to the European Journal of Midwifery retain the copyright of their work without restrictions.
For articles accepted until December 2021, the default license used by the journal was the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).
For articles accepted after January 2022, the default license used is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), but authors who wish to publish their work under a more strict license are also able to choose the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0).
The European Journal of Midwifery is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Efficient and Professional Peer Review
We work closely with editors and peer reviewers to provide authors with an efficient, fair, and constructive review process. We offer an easy online submission and peer review process for this purpose.

Automated publishing platform
High-quality copy-editing and type-setting guarantee you the best production process. The PDF version of each article is published in a certain format designed to achieve the very best look. The European Journal of Midwifery uses an advanced, custom-designed, IT publishing platform. Each submitted papers goes through the review process and, if accepted, a fast track copy editing process.

Crossref
European Publishing is a member of Crossref. This citation-linking network covers more than 74 million journal articles, as well as many other content items from a variety of publishers globally. Through Crossref, all articles published in the European Journal of Midwifery will receive a unique Digital Object Identification (DOI), that will allow them to be cited by other articles.