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Aim and Scope
Organ transplantation is one of the most challenging and complex areas of modern medicine, based on a rapid development of innovative technologies in surgery, anesthesiology and intensive care, cardiovascular surgery, immunology, molecular biology, biotechnology, and natural sciences.
Regenerative medicine and the development of artificial and bioartificial organs and systems are the key issues for further progress in transplantation. Cardiology, nephrology, hepatology, endocrinology, and many other medical areas constitute the basis of clinical transplantation. Organization and coordination of organ donation present a serious challenge on a state level requiring cooperation and active work of various health authorities.
The development of clinical transplantation in Russia has led to the formation of a wide network of transplant centers. Hundreds of hearts, kidneys, livers, lungs, and pancreases transplantations perform annually. Improvement of transplant availability for patients and an increased number of professionals involved in the transplantation process are the contemporary realities in the Russian Federation. Thus, the journal aims to serve as a forum for an exchange of research information, clinical expertise, current trends and the recent developments in the field of transplantation and organ donation.
Section Policies
This section includes information about organization and legal aspects in organ transplantation; state-of-art articles from leading Russian transplant centers; results of fundamental transplant investigations, recent clinical experience.
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Open Access Policy
"Vestnik transplantologii i iskusstvennykh organov" ("Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs") 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
- Scientific library of National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON), Russia;
- Russian State Library (Moscow);
Peer-Review
A double-blind peer review method is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff of "Vestnik Transplantologii i iskusstvennykh Organov" = "Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs". This implies that neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer.
- Members of the editorial board and leading Russian and international experts in corresponding areas of life sciences, invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or science editor choose readers for peer review. We aim to limit the review process to 2-4 weeks, though in some cases the schedule may be adjusted at the reviewer’s request.
- Reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript. Upon the scrutiny, the reviewer is expected to present the editorial board with one of the following recommendations:
- to accept the paper in its present state;
- to invited the author to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before final decision is reached;
- that final decision be reached following further reviewing by another specialist;
- to reject the manuscript outright. - If the reviewer has recommended any refinements, the editorial staff would suggest the author either to implement the corrections, or to dispute them reasonably. Authors are kindly required to limit their revision to 2 months and resubmit the adapted manuscript within this period for final evaluation.
- We politely request that the editor be notified verbally or in writing should the author decide to refuse from publishing the manuscript. In case the author fails to do so within 3 months since receiving a copy of the initial review, the editorial board takes the manuscript off the register and notifies the author accordingly.
- If author and reviewers meet insoluble contradictions regarding revision of the manuscript, the editor-in-chief resolves the conflict by his own authority.
- The editorial board reaches final decision to reject a manuscript on the hearing according to reviewers’ recommendations, and duly notifies the authors of their decision via e-mail. The board does not accept previously rejected manuscripts for re-evaluation.
- Upon the decision to accept the manuscript for publishing, the editorial staff notifies the authors of the scheduled date of publication.
- Kindly note that positive review does not guarantee the acceptance, as final decision in all cases lies with the editorial board. By his authority, editor-in-chief rules final solution of every conflict.
- Original reviews of submitted manuscripts remain deposited for 5 years.
Indexation
Articles in "Vestnik Transplantologii i iskusstvennykh Organov" = "Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs" are indexed by several systems:
- Scopus
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)
- EBSCO
- OCLC WorldCat
- E-Library
- DOAJ
- VINITI
- Ulrich's serial solutions
- NLM Catalog
- iNeicon
- Open Archives
- VAK
- JournalTOCs
- LocatorPlus
- RSCI
- Google scholar
- RSL
- AcademicKeys
- Research Bible
Publishing Ethics
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/).
The "Vestnik Transplantologii i iskusstvennykh Organov" = "Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs" is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. All authors submitting their works to the "Vestnik transplantologii i iskusstvennykh organov" = «Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs» for publication as original articles attest that the submitted works represent their authors’ contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works. The authors acknowledge that they have disclosed all and any actual or potential conflicts of interest with their work or partial benefits associated with it. In the same manner, the «Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs» is committed to objective and fair double-blind peer-review of the submitted for publication works and to prevent any actual or potential conflict of interests between the editorial and review personnel and the reviewed material. Any departures from the above-defined rules should be reported directly to the Editor-in-Chief, who is unequivocally committed to providing swift resolutions to any of such a type of problems.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor (co-editor) of the «Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs».
Publication decisions
The editors (co-editors) of the «Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs» is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editors (co-editors) of the «Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs» may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors (co-editors) may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Contributions to the Editorial Decisions
The editor is assisted in making editorial decisions by peer reviews and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Standards of Objectivity
Reviews will be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly, with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument 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 of which they have personal knowledge.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Reporting standards
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 detail and references to permit others to replicate the work.
Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Author fees
Publication in "Vestnik Transplantologii i iskusstvennykh Organov" = "Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs" 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
"Vestnik Transplantologii i iskusstvennykh Organov" = "Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs" 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 "Vestnik Transplantologii i iskusstvennykh Organov" = "Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs", 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 "Vestnik Transplantologii i iskusstvennykh Organov" = "Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs" 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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