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Aim and Scope
Bulletin of Siberian Medicine is a scientific-practical journal of general medical profile. It is a regular peer-reviewed print publication representing results of interdisciplinary research aimed at the development of advanced medical technologies.
To unite the scientific medical community and to distribute actual information and to promote the professional development of specialists the journal publishes original scientific papers representing the experimental and clinical results of research, lectures, scientific reviews of research findings in various fields of medicine with the emphasis on manuscripts dealing with prospective lines of development of the up-to-date medical science:
- Molecular medicine
- Regenerative medicine and bioengineering
- Informative technologies in biology and medicine
- Invasive medical technologies
- Neurosciences and behavior medicine
- Pharmacology and innovative pharmaceutics
- Nuclear medicine
- Translational medicine
The journal performs a broad spectrum of functions providing insight into the main directions of medical science development and its achievements as well as its competitive power and the degree of integration into the international scientific community.
Bulletin of Siberian Medicine has been published by Siberian State Medical University since 2001. Since 2016 the journal has been supported by TROO "Academy of Evidence-based Medicine."
Editor-in-Chief — V.V. Novitskii, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Bulletin of Siberian Medicine is registered by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs of the Press, Television and Radio Broadcasting and Mass Communication Media. Certificate No. 77-7366 dated to 26.03.2001.
ISSN 1682-0363 (print)
ISSN 1819-3684 (on-line)
The journal is represented in scientific information resources:
- РИНЦ (RSCI; Science Index) (since 2016)
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory – Global Serials Directory (USA)
- Cyberleninka (Russia)
- DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (DOAJ, Sweden)
- WoS (ESCI) since 2016
- Scopus since 2018.
Continuing traditions of first medical journals, Bulletin of Siberian Medicine publishes lectures and reviews of leading specialists devoted to problems of public health, materials of original studies in the fields of experimental and clinical medicine, as well as biographic and medico-historical materials. Special topical issues are published regularly.
Scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal Bulletin of Siberian Medicine is a quarterly edition (4 issues per year).
Material to be published should meet the following criteria:
- Scientific urgency and significance of the problem the paper is devoted to (the paper subject should be interesting to a wide range of investigators dealing with development and clinical testing of new medical technologies).
- Degree of proof (up-to-date research basis, certified equipment, sufficient sample size, and approaches to mathematical processing of results).
- Conceptual character of the study (authors should not restrict the consideration to the only statement of facts, but manuscripts should include analysis of obtained material with allowance for literature data, and new ideas and hypotheses should be made).
Bulletin of Siberian Medicine does not publish papers of review and medical-statistical character without critical analysis of the problem under consideration, which does not reflect the contribution of authors to the analyzed problem.
Post-graduate students can publish manuscripts free of charge.
Bulletin of Siberian Medicine is sent out to Russian and foreign medical institutes and universities, research institutes, and libraries.
Subscription index is 46319.
Bulletin of Siberian Medicine has an electronic version: http://bulletin.tomsk.ru.
Editorial Board of Bulletin of Siberian Medicine will be glad to cooperate with everybody interested in the development of medical science and practice, as well as a healthy lifestyle.
Editorial Board does not accept research-practical manuscripts published earlier in other journals.
All manuscripts received by the Editorial Board of Bulletin of Siberian Medicine are processed without delay and, in case of positive review and editors' decision, published within one year.
Address of Editorial Board: 107 Lenin St., Tomsk 634050, Russia
Telephone (+7-3822) 51-41-53, е-mail: bulletin@bulletin.tomsk.ru
We are glad to publish your materials in our journal!
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Publication Frequency
4 items per year
Open Access Policy
"Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" («Byulleten' sibirskoi meditsiny») 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
A double-blind peer review method (for specialty and accuracy of research findings) is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff of "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine". Articles submitted to the publication should correspond to the journal profile and rules of submission. Neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer.
Peer- review procedure includes the following stages:
1.Evaluation of the submitted articles for accordance with the main requirements to manuscripts is performed within 5 days of submission with the system “ Anti-plagiat”. The manuscripts which do not meet the requirements are not processed. The author is informed of the refusal reason.
2. Peer- review. The journal "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" adopted a format for double anonymous review. The choice of two independent experts is determined by the editor-in-chief, the scientific editor and members of the editorial board, taking into account the thematic trends of the submitted papers. The articles are reviewed on a voluntary and gratuitous basis. Independent experts should have a scientific degree no less than a candidate of medical sciences and who do not have scientific, financial or any other relationship with the authors of the article and the editorial staff of the journal. The articles are reviewed both by members of the editorial board and by invited reviewers - leading experts in the relevant field of medicine in Russia and other countries.
If there is a potential conflict of interest (due to competition, cooperation and other relations with any of the authors, companies or other organizations related to the submitted work), the reviewer is obliged to state this and refuse to review the submitted manuscript. In particular, the potential conflicts of interest arising from the review of manuscripts include the following cases:
- the reviewer works in the same institution as the author (s) of the manuscript;
- there exists or has existed cooperation between the referee and the author (s) of the manuscript;
- the reviewer and the author (authors) have joint publications that have been published for the last 5 years;
- the reviewer has a personal relationship with the author (authors) of the article, which hinders the objective evaluation of the manuscript.
Thus, the reviewer cannot be the author or co-author of the peer-reviewed work, as well as the scientific supervisors of the degree seekers and the staff of the unit at which the author / co-authors of the article work.
The review procedure is confidential. Reviewers are notified that the manuscripts submitted for consideration are the intellectual property of the authors and refer to information not to be disclosed. Reviewers are not allowed to use manuscripts for their own needs. Violation of anonymity and confidentiality is possible only in case of a declaration of unauthenticity or falsification of materials. Unpublished data obtained from the manuscripts submitted for consideration must not be used.
Reviewers and authors are obliged to follow the adopted Politics of the journal “ Bulletin of Siberian Medicine” in respect of compliance with ethical norms when publishing articles posted on the Journal's website on the Internet.
The review is prepared according to the standard form proposed by the editors with mandatory coverage of the following provisions:
- the relevance of the presented article;
- the scientific novelty of the direction of research considered in the article;
- the practical importance of the problem posed and / or the obtained results in the field of knowledge in question;
- adequacy and modernity of research methods;
- sufficiency and information value of the research material;
- the correctness and completeness of the discussion of the results obtained;
- the relevance of the findings of the aim and objectives of the study;
- the admissibility of the volume of the manuscript as a whole and its individual elements (text, tables, illustrative material, bibliographic references);
- adequacy, quality and expediency of tables, illustrative material and their correspondence to the presented topic;
- The quality of the article: the style of presentation, the adequacy of terminology and its relevance to the adopted one in the field of knowledge in question.
The reviewer is obliged to give an objective assessment of the manuscript. Personal comments to the author (authors) are unacceptable. The reviewer should clearly and reasonably express his opinion.
The reviewer, if possible, should identify valuable published works relevant to the topic and the reviewed manuscript which are not included in the bibliography of the manuscript. Any statement in the review that some observation, conclusion or argument from the manuscript under review have already been encountered in the literature must be accompanied by an accurate bibliographic reference. The reviewer should pay attention of the editor-in-chief to the found significant similarity or coincidence between the manuscript in question and any other previously published work.
The review period is 2-4 weeks, but at the request of the reviewer it can be extended.
Each reviewer has the right to refuse to review if there is a clear conflict of interests affecting the perception and interpretation of the manuscript materials. Based on the results of the review of the manuscript, the reviewer gives recommendations on the future of the article (each decision of the reviewer is justified):
- the article is recommended for publication in this form;
- the article is recommended for publication after correction of the deficiencies noted by the reviewer;
- the article needs additional review by another specialist;
- the article cannot be published in the journal.
3. The procedure of informing the authors about the results of the review.
According to the results of the review, the article can either be rejected, or sent to the authors for revision, or accepted for publication.
If the review contains recommendations for correction and further revision of the article, the editorial board of the journal sends to the author the text of the review with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article, or to reject them (partially or completely) with arguments. The finalization of the article should not take more than 2 months from the moment of sending an electronic message to the authors about the necessity to make changes. The article revised by the author is sent again for review.
In case of refusal of authors to modify the materials, they must notify the editorial board
about their refusal to publish the article. If the authors do not return the revised version after 3 months from the date of sending the review, even if there is no information from the authors refusing to modify the article, the editorial board removes it from the register. In such situations the authors are notified of the removal of the manuscript from the registration due to the expiration of the term allotted for revision.
4. If the author and reviewers have unresolved contradictions regarding the manuscript, the editorial board is entitled to send the manuscript for additional review. In conflict situations, the decision is made by the editor-in-chief at a meeting of the editorial board.
The editorial board does not accept to publication
- articles that do not meet the requirements of the journal for manuscripts; if the authors refuse the technical revision of the manuscript the articles may be rejected without a peer-review procedure.
- articles whose authors do not follow the recommendations of reviewers without giving a reasoned response.
5. The decision to refuse publication of the manuscript is taken at a meeting of the editorial board in accordance with the recommendations of reviewers. An article not recommended by the decision of the editorial board for publication is not accepted for reconsideration. The message of refusal of publication is sent to the author by e-mail.
6. After the editorial board accepts the decision to admit the article for publication the editorial office informs the author about it and specifies the terms of publication.
7. The presence of a positive review is not a sufficient basis for the publication of the article. The final decision on publication is made by the editorial board. In conflict situations the decision is made by the editor-in-chief.
8. The original of the reviews is kept in the editorial office of the journal for 3 years. When a corresponding request is received by the editorial office, copies of the reviews are sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
Indexation
Articles in "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" are indexed by several systems:
- Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database, accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RSCI project is under development since 2005 by “Electronic Scientific Library” foundation (elibrary.ru).
- Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.
- Cyberleninka
- Dimensions
- DOAJ
- GlobalF5
- LAN
- NLM Catalog
- RNMJ.RU
- Scopus
- VINITI RAS
- WorldCat
- Znanium
Publishing Ethics
1. Introduction
1.1. The scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal " Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" in its editorial policy follows the principles of the integrity of publications in scientific journals, the relevant provisions of authoritative international associations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Council of Science Editors (CSE) , the International Association of Medical Editors (ICMJE), the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ANRI), establishing ethical standards for all parties involved in the publication (authors, editors, reviewers, publishers and the scientific community). The journal, with the help of comprehensive, objective and honest review, tends to select for publication only those materials related to scientific research of the highest quality.
1.2. The publisher of the journal "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" - Siberian State Medical University not only supports scientific communications and invests in this process, but also is responsible for compliance with all current recommendations in the published work.
1.3. The publisher undertakes to supervise scientific materials.
2. Duties of Editors
2.1. Decision on publication.
The Editor of "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working in cooperation with the relevant society .The validation of the work in question and its scientific importance must always underlie such decisions. The Editor may be guided by the policies of the "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" journal’s editorial board and constrained by actual legal requirements in respect of libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making this decision on publication.
2.2. Decency.–
An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political views of the authors.
2.3. Confidentiality –
The editor and any editorial staff of "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine") must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
2.4. Policy of disclosure and conflicts of interests
2.4.1. Unpublished materials obtained from a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without a written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
2.4.2 Experts ( reviewers) and editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead of self-reviewing and making a decision) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.
2.5 .Supervision of the published manuscripts –
An editor who presented with convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous should inform the publisher (and/or relevant scientific society) to promote the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note relevant to the situation.
2.6 .Involvement and cooperation in investigations –
An editor in cooperation with the publisher (or scientific society) should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints concern a submitted manuscript or published paper. Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and publishing houses.
3. Duties of Reviewers
3.1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions – Peer review assists the editor in making editorial 3decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper quality. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. The Editorial Board of the journal "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.
3.2. Promptness – Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor of "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" and excuse himself from the review process.
3.3. Confidentiality – Any manuscript received for review must be treated as a confidential document. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
3.4. Standard requirements and objectivity – Reviewers should give an objective evaluation. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
3.5. Acknowledgement of Sources – Reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors. Any statement (an observation, conclusion, or argument) that had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper that is in the scientific competence of the reviewer.
3.6. Policy of Disclosure and Conflict of Interests
3.6.1. Unpublished materials obtained from a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
3.6.2. Reviewers should not evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interests resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected with the submitted papers.
4. Duties of Authors
4.1. Standard Requirements to Manuscripts
4.1.1. Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient details and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are considered to be unethical and are unacceptable.
4.1.2. Reviews and research reports should also be accurate and objective, and the author’s views should be clearly expressed.
4.2. Data Access and Storage –
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data referring to the paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any case be prepared to keep such data for a reasonable time after publication.
4.3. Originality and Plagiarism
4.3.1. The authors should ensure the Editorial Board of the journal that they have submitted an entirely original work and if the authors have used the work and/or statements of other authors, this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
4.3.2. Plagiarism takes many forms, from presenting someone else’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of someone else’s paper (without identifying the authorship), to claiming the rights for the results of research carried out by others. Plagiarism in all its forms is considered to be unethical and is unacceptable.
4.4. Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
4.4.1. In general, an author should not publish manuscripts dealing with essentially the same research in more than one journal of primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is considered to be unethical and is unacceptable.
4.4.2. In general, an author should not submit a previously published paper for consideration to another journal.
4.4.3. Publication of a certain kind of articles (e.g., clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is in some cases ethical provided certain conditions are met. The authors and editors of the journals concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must present the same data and interpretation of the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication. Further detailed information on acceptable forms of secondary publication can be found at www.icmje.org.
4.5. Acknowledgement of Sources –
Proper acknowledgment of the work of other authors must always be done. Authors should refer to publications that are significant for the submitted work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained from the confidential sources, such as evaluating manuscripts or giving grants, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work dealing with these confidential sources.
4.6. Authorship of the Paper
4.6.1. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, implementation, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. When the participants of the study made an essential contribution to a certain aspect of the research project they must be acknowledged as contributors.
4.6.2. The corresponding author should ensure that all the participants who have considerably contributed to the research are listed as co-authors and those who have not participated in the study are not presented as contributors, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
4.7. Risks, Human or Animal Subjects of the Study
4.7.1. If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual risks inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
4.7.2. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all stages of the study were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) have approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained from the human subject involved. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
4.8. Policy of Disclosure and Conflicts of Interests
4.8.1. All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interests that might be thought to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript..
4.8.2. Examples of potential conflicts of interests which should be disclosed include employment, counseling, stock ownership, fees, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interests should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.
4.9. Fundamental errors in published works –
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the editor of "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" journal and cooperate with the Publisher to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains significant errors, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper.
5. Duties of the Publisher
5.1. The Publisher of the journal "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine", SSMU follows the principles and procedures that support editors, reviewers and authors in performing their ethical duties according to the adopted guidelines. The publisher should ensure that the potential benefit from advertising or reprint revenue has no impact on editorial decisions.
5.2. The publisher supports "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" journal editors in the review of complaints raised concerning ethical issues and helps communicate with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful to editors.
5.3. The Publisher promotes the proper practice of carrying out research and introduces professional standards to improve ethical recommendations, procedures of retractions and error corrections.
5.4. The Publisher provides relevant specialized legal support (review and counsel) if necessary.
The section is prepared according to the files (http://health.elsevier.ru/attachments/editor/file/ethical_code_final.pdf) of Elsevier publisher (https://www.elsevier.com/) and files (http://publicationethics.org/resources) from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE - http://publicationethics.org/).
Founder
- Federal State Budget Educational Establishment of Higher Education “Siberian State Medical University”, the Ministry for Healthcare of the Russian Federation
The journal is issued with the support of TROO “ Academy of evidence-based medicine”
Author fees
Publication in "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn't have any Arcticle 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 Siberian Medicine" 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 Siberian Medicine", 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 Siberian Medicine" 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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Submission review statistics and publication deadlines
Our goal is to publish only high-quality articles from researchers around the world. Therefore, during the initial consideration and double-blind peer review, the editors of the journal "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" reject 70% of submissions. Our evaluation is based solely on the intellectual content of the manuscripts, without any consideration of the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious views, origin, citizenship, or political preferences of the authors.
If the article is accepted for publication, the author will be informed of the publication dates, which are typically within 180 days of a positive decision being made.
