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- » Open Access Policy
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- » Peer-Review
- » Publishing Ethics
- » Founder
- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Preprint and postprint Policy
- » Revenue Sources
Aim and Scope
The goal is to improve the professional level of specialist doctors by replicating advanced clinical knowledge.
The main objectives of the journal are to summarize scientific and practical achievements in the field of biological and biomedical science, clinical and preventive medicine.
The journal publishes original research and reviews of the latest achievements of Russian and world science.
Section Policies
Open SubmissionsPublication Frequency
4 times per year
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.
Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
For more information please read BOAI statement.
Archiving
- Russian State Library (RSL)
- National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
Peer-Review
All scientific article manuscripts submitted to the Amur Medical Journal undergo double-blind peer review to maintain the journal's high scientific and theoretical standards and to select the most relevant and promising research. To ensure accuracy and transparency, each step of the peer review process is fully documented and recorded in the journal's database.
Scientific material received from the author undergoes an initial review within 7 business days for completeness, correct formatting, and originality. If necessary, articles are sent back for revision at the editor's request or rejected.
After passing the initial review, the article is sent for peer review. The review process and decision on publication/rejection takes three months.
Reviewers may include members of the journal's editorial board and editorial council, as well as specialists with professional knowledge and experience in a specific scientific field, typically doctors of medical sciences, professors, and leading researchers from relevant institutions. All reviewers must be recognized experts in the subject matter of the materials being reviewed and have published publications on the topic of the article within the last three years.
The reviewer cannot be the author or co-author of the work being reviewed.
Reviewers treat the article as confidential material, strictly observing the author's right to non-disclosure of the information contained in the article until publication.
The reviewer evaluates the article's compliance with the scientific profile of the journal, its relevance, originality, degree of novelty, theoretical and practical significance, the presence of conclusions and recommendations, and compliance with established formatting rules.
The reviewer must provide an expert opinion (review) within 30 days of receiving the manuscript. The review must contain precise wording that clearly demonstrates the material's compliance with the requirements. Based on the review's results, the scientific article may be either rejected, returned to the authors for revision, or accepted for publication.
A scientific article requiring revision is sent to the author along with the reviewer's and editor's comments. The author must make all necessary corrections and return the revised text to the editor within 14 days. Returning the article later than this will change its publication date.
After revision, the scientific article is reviewed again, and a decision is made on publication. If the author disagrees with the reviewer's comments, the author has the right to submit a reasoned objection to the editorial board within 5 business days.
The author's objections must be reviewed by the editorial board within 10 days. If necessary, at the author's insistence, the manuscript may be reviewed by another reviewer.
The reviewer is responsible for ensuring that the articles reviewed by him/her and recommended for publication comply with the criteria for scientific publications.
Reviews of each scientific article are stored by the editorial board of the Amur Medical Journal for 5 years from the date of publication of the printed edition in which the reviewed work was published, and copies of reviews are required to be sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon receipt of a corresponding request by the editorial board.
Publishing Ethics
All articles reporting on human studies should contain relevant information that the study was approved by the ethics committee before the experiment began. This item should contain the following information: the identification data of the ethics committee; the protocol number assigned by the ethics committee and the date of its approval.
Founder
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Amur State Medical Academy” of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
Author fees
Publication in “Amur Medical Journal" is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn't have any Article processing charges.
The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Plagiarism detection
“Amur Medical Journal" use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.
Preprint and postprint Policy
The editorial board of the “Amur Medical Journal" allows authors to post the manuscript as a preprint before submission for review and to archive independently their articles in disciplinary and institutional repositories.
Preprints
The editorial board of the “Amur Medical Journal" encourages uploading preprints on preprint servers. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines a preprint as 'a scholarly manuscript posted by the author(s) in an openly accessible platform, usually before or in parallel with the peer review process.'
A preprint publication shall not be considered duplicate publication nor shall it influence the editor's decision to publish it in the “Amur Medical Journal".
The author must notify the editorial board of the “Amur Medical Journal" about the posted preprint at submission of the manuscript for review, furnishing a link to the preprint with its DOI identifier and the dissemination terms and conditions.
It is the author’s responsibility to add a link to the published manuscript in the preprint record. The link must contain the DOI and the URL of the article published on the journal's website. The original preprint should not be modified based on the reviewer’s and editor’s comments. The preprint should not be replaced with the text of the published article.
Do not delete the preprint text.
Manuscripts Accepted for Publication
The editorial board of the “Amur Medical Journal" allows manuscripts that have been reviewed and are accepted for publication to be archived independently.
This version of the manuscript may be disseminated through:
- personal website or blog;
- institutional repository;
- disciplinary repository;
- direct interactions with faculty or students by providing this version of the manuscript for personal use.
The text of the manuscript should contain the author’s clarifications about its status and information about the planned publication.
Example: The ARTICLE TITLE has been reviewed, accepted for publication, and will be published in 2021 (3) of the “Amur Medical Journal".
Once the final version of the manuscript is published, it is the author’s responsibility to add a link to the published article to the publication record. The posted text should not be modified based on the reviewer’s and editor’s comments. Do not replace the text of the posted manuscript. Do not delete the text of the posted manuscript.
Final Versions of Manuscripts
The editorial board of the “Amur Medical Journal" allows manuscripts that have been peer-reviewed, accepted for publication, edited and ready for publication (proofread and typeset) to be archived independently.
This version of the manuscript may be disseminated through:
- personal website or blog;
- institutional repository;
- disciplinary repository;
- direct interactions with faculty or students by providing this version of the manuscript for personal use.
Once the final version of the manuscript is published, it is the author’s responsibility to add a link to the published article to the publication record. The posted text should not be modified based on the reviewer’s and editor’s comments. Do not replace the text of the posted manuscript. Do not delete the text of the posted manuscript.
Revenue Sources
The publication of the journal is financed by the funds of the parent organization, at the expense of the publisher, publication of advertising materials, publication of reprints.
