ODU Medical Journal is an open-access and independent international medical journal published by Ordu University. The journal is committed to impartiality and confidentiality in scholarly evaluation, and all submissions are assessed through a double-blind peer-review process. The publication language is English. The journal is published three times a year (April, August, and December), and each volume comprises three issues.

ODU Medical Journal endorses established standards in research and publication ethics and follows the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive of the Council of Higher Education as well as the principles and best practices of COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME. No fees are charged to authors for manuscript evaluation or publication.

The journal is published on the DergiPark platform. Content published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.