- » Aim and Scope
- » Section Policies
- » Publication Frequency
- » Open Access Policy
- » Archiving
- » Peer-Review
- » Publishing Ethics
- » Founder
- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Preprint and postprint Policy
- » Revenue Sources
Aim and Scope
The Journal aims to reflect the progressive clinical experience and scientific ideas in the field of clinical and theoretical medicine, application of new technologies, medical education issues in order to improve the quality of patient care and enhance the scientific and practical qualifications of doctors of all specialties.
Tasks for the publisher of the magazine:
- Introduction of modern methods of diagnosis and treatment into clinical practice.
- To provide practitioners with scientific information reflecting current trends in the development of domestic and world medicine to improve the quality of patient care.
The audience of the Journal is practitioners, teachers and all categories of students in the system of continuing medical education.
Section Policies
Open SubmissionsPublication Frequency
4 times per year
Open Access Policy
The Bulletin of Pirogov National Medical & Surgical Center journal offers open access to the full texts of the articles. The authors reserve the copyright for their works and transfer the right of the first publication together with the work to the journal, while simultaneously licensing the article under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) terms and conditions. The license permits to copy and disseminate the material in any media and format, make remixes, modify and create novel materials on its basis for any purposes including commercial ones.
Archiving
- Russian State Library (RSL)
- National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
Peer-Review
Original research submitted to Bulletin of Pirogov National Medical & Surgical Center journal is reviewed by internal and external experts.
Editorial articles are not subject to external reviewing.
We offer a double-blind peer review, i.e. both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. However, the reviewers, if they wish, may sign their notes. An open expert overview does not imply that the authors may directly correspond to the reviewers; all requests should be sent as before to the Editorial Team.
Internal reviewing
On receipt of a manuscript, the managing editor, and the executive secretary check for:
- compliance with the Journal’s profile,
- supporting documents,
- design and structure of the article,
- information about research funding, conflicts of interest, gratitude, the authors’ contribution to the study;
- compliance with the ethical standards,
- the originality of content by plagiarism screening service.
At the stage of internal reviewing, the paper could be returned to the authors for revision. The papers suited for further reviewing will undergo expert evaluation by two independent reviewers. External experts are chosen by the executive secretary.
External reviewing
All reviewers are competent specialists in the subjects of papers under review and have relevant during the recent 3 years. Eligible for reviewing are the members of the Editorial Board and guest experts in the appropriate branch of medicine. As a rule, an article is reviewed by two external experts and statistical analysis editor.
The Editorial Board enters into correspondence with the author pointed out in the cover letter as a corresponding one. The corresponding author adjusts all changes with his/her co-authors.
If a review contains recommendations for any corrections and revisions in the paper, the editors send the reviewer’s comments to the corresponding author requesting to consider these comments while preparing a new version of the paper or to disprove them (partially or fully) in a well-argued manner.
The author italicizes the corrections in colors and gives the answers to the reviewers’ questions while pointing to what he agrees with and what he doesn’t at the end of the manuscript. Revising the manuscript should not exceed 2 months starting from the time the notice to introduce changes is sent to the authors. The paper revised by the author is recurrently forwarded for review.
If the author disagrees with the reviewer’s opinion, he should submit a well-reasoned response to the editorial office. In the event the author and the reviewers face insoluble conflicts regarding the manuscript, the editorial office is eligible to send it for additional reviewing. In a conflict situation, the decision is to be made by the Editor-in-Chief.
If the authors decide not to revise their articles, they have to notify the editorial office, in writing or orally, of their refusal from publishing the paper. Should the authors fail to return the revised version within 3 months after receiving the review, even in the absence of the authors’ notice of their refusal to revise the paper, the editorial office will strike it off the register. In such cases, the authors are duly notified that their manuscript won’t be published owing to the expiration of the time specified for revision of the paper.
The decision to deny publication of the paper is made by the Editor-in-Chief and editorial staff according to the reviewers’ recommendations. The paper not recommended for publication won’t be reconsidered. The editorial office sends a well-argued denial of publication and recommendations for paper correction to the authors and undertakes to forward copies of the reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, should the editors receive an appropriate request to do so.
The Journal uses an electronic reviewing process and has an electronic database of reviewers. If the reviewer is appointed, he receives the review form and the article itself by email. Following the review of the article, the reviewer makes recommendations:
- Manuscript accepted. Reviewers have no major remarks. The paper is to be handled by a proofreader, editor, and layout artist.
- Manuscript revision. The paper needs minor or major revision and second time reviewing. The corresponding author receives an anonymous reviewer’s comments by email, need to revise paper and then upload revised version to the Journal’s site.
- Manuscript denied. The corresponding author receives a well-argued denial.
Publishing Ethics
The editors of the Bulletin of Pirogov National Medical & Surgical Center journal aims to adhere to international ethical standards:
- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines for editors, CORE PRACTICES, and Responsible research publication: international standards for editors.
- International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals.
- Elsevier’s policies and ethics.
Reviewers and authors should also use the documents and resources, as well as adhere to the COPE ethical principles for reviewers and international standards for authors.
Founder
- Federal state budgetary institution «National Medical and Surgical Center named after N.I. Pirogov» of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
Author fees
Publication in “Bulletin of Pirogov National Medical & Surgical Center" 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
“Bulletin of Pirogov National Medical & Surgical Center" 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
Prior to acceptance and publication in “Bulletin of Pirogov National Medical & Surgical Center", authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.
As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in “Bulletin of Pirogov National Medical & Surgical Center" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.
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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, article processment charges.
