Aim and Scope

1. Development of the journal as a scientific platform for scientists, doctors, residents and graduate students.
2. Attraction of highly cited authors to publications in the journal, an increase in the flow of submitted articles, the possibility of selecting articles of the greatest scientific interest, and, as a consequence, an increase in citations and the impact factor of the journal in the RSCI.
3. Increase in the share of publications by foreign authors, joint works with foreign scientists, and further increase in citations in journals included in global citation indices and authoritative foreign databases.
4. Improvement of the bilingual website of the journal, increasing its attractiveness and accessibility for authors and readers.
5. Entry of the Ural Medical Journal in the global citation indices.

Section Policies

Original articles -

Оригинальная статья — представление подробной методологии и результатов наблюдательного, экспериментального или клинического исследования, посвященного актуальной проблеме в области медицины.

Структура: информация о материале; введение; материалы и методы; результаты; обсуждение; выводы; список источников; информация об авторах.

Объем (без информации о материале и авторах, а также списка источников) — 15 000–35 000 знаков с пробелами.

Количество источников — 25–45.

 

 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Clinical cases -

Клинический случай — описание случая из клинической практики, представляющего научно-практический интерес для последующего изучения определенной проблемы в области медицины.

Структура: информация о материале; введение; описание клинического случая; обсуждение клинического случая; выводы; список источников; информация об авторах.

Объем (без информации о материале и авторах, а также списка источников) — 13 000–23 000 знаков с пробелами.

Количество источников — 17–30.

 

 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Literature reviews -

Литературный обзор — обсуждение имеющихся сведений по определенной проблеме в области медицины, их переработка и анализ, а также представление собственного взгляда на актуальные проблемы.

Структура: информация о материале; введение; материалы и методы; результаты и обсуждение; выводы; список источников; информация об авторах.

Объем (без информации о материале и авторах, а также списка источников) — 35 000–60 000 знаков с пробелами.

Количество источников — 60–80.

 

 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

От редакции | Editorial -

Редакторская заметка — краткое информационное сообщение, связанное с деятельностью Уральского медицинского журнала, которое готовится членами редакции журнала.

 

 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Исправления (Erratum) -

Erratum — краткое сообщение о замеченной ошибке в материале, которая не влияет на интерпретацию и (или) выводы.

 

 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Ретракции -

Ретракция — краткое сообщение об отзыве материала в связи с обнаруженной в материале грубой ошибкой, которая влияет на интерпретацию и (или) выводы, или нарушением публикационной этики.

 

 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Open Access Policy

"Ural Medical Journal" 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 manuscripts received by the editorial office of the Ural Medical Journal undergo mandatory two-way anonymous ("double blind") peer review (reviewers do not know the authors of the manuscripts, the authors of the manuscript do not know the reviewers and receive an anonymous review from the executive secretary of the journal).

1. Reviewing of articles is carried out by members of the editorial board, as well as independent reviewers - leading experts on the topic presented in the article.
2. The decision on the choice of a particular reviewer for the examination of the article is made by the deputy editor-in-chief, scientific editor or executive secretary of the editorial board.
3. The review period is on average 2-3 weeks, the period can be extended at the request of the reviewer.
4. Each original article is peer-reviewed and reviewed by a statistician.
5. Each reviewer has the right to refuse to review in the event of a clear conflict of interest.
6. Based on the results of consideration of the manuscript, the reviewer fills out a formalized review form, if necessary, provides comments and recommendations for improving the manuscript and makes the following recommendations:

• the manuscript can be accepted for publication;
• the manuscript requires revision and re-review;
• the manuscript requires revision and can be accepted for publication without re-reviewing;
• the manuscript cannot be accepted for publication;
• the manuscript should be submitted for review to another specialist.

7. If the review contains recommendations for correction and revision, the executive secretary of the journal sends the text of the review to the author with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article or reasonably (partially or completely) refute them. Finalization of the article should not take more than two months from the moment of sending an email message to the authors about the need to make changes. The article modified by the author is sent for re-review.
8. In case the authors refuse to modify the materials, they must notify the editor in a writing form about their refusal to publish the article. If the authors do not submit the modified version within 3 months from the date of receiving the review comments, the editorial office removes the manuscript from the register. In such situations, the authors are notified of the expiration of the time allotted for revision.
9. If authors and reviewers have unresolved contradictions regarding the manuscript, the editorial board directs the manuscript for additional review. An additional reviewer is also appointed in case of conflicting recommendations for the publication of the article from the originally appointed reviewers. In conflict situations, the decision is made by the editor-in-chief or collegially at the next meeting of the editorial board..
10. The decision to refuse publication of the manuscript is made at a meeting of the editorial board in accordance with the recommendations of the reviewers. An article not recommended for publication by the decision of the editorial board is not accepted for reconsideration. The refusal to publish is sent to the author by e-mail.
11. The originals of reviews are kept in the editorial office of the journal for 5 years.

Publishing Ethics

Our statement of publication ethics and unfair practice is based on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Guidelines for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scientific Results in Medical Journals, and the recommendations of the Committee on Scientific Publication Ethics. (Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE) https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines.

Редакция Уральского медицинского журнала следует Кодексу поведения и наилучшей практики для редакторов журналов и кодексу поведения для издателей журналов COPE 

The editors of the Ural Medical Journal follow the Code of Conduct and Best Practice for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers COPE

Compliance with ethical standards is important for all parties involved in a publication: authors, journal editors, reviewers, publisher.

Founder

• Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education «URAL STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Author fees

Publication in “Ural 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

“Ural 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

Prior to acceptance and publication in “Ural Medical Journal", 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 “Ural Medical Journal" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

Glossary (by SHERPA)