Focus and Scope
Russian Open Medical Journal (RusOMJ) (ISSN 2304-3415) is an international peer reviewed open access e-journal. The website is updated quarterly with the RusOMJ’s latest original research, clinical studies, case reports, reviews, news, and comment articles. This Journal devoted to all field of medicine.
All the RusOMJ’s articles are published in full on www.romj.org with open access and no limits on word counts. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. The RusOMJ team is based mainly in Saratov (Russia), although we also have editors elsewhere in Russian and in other countries.
Section Policies
Original article
Original articles will provide detailed description of scientific findings within the scope of the journal. This type of articles should contain structured abstract (200-250 words), divided as Background-Objective-Methods and results-Conclusion or Aim-Material and Methods-Results-Conclusions, and up to five keywords. Original article should be organized following structure: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments and References.
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Review article
Review articles will be focused on a significantly important topics. This type of articles should contain unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords and should incorporate a judicious use of tables, figures, schemes and references.
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Authors' opinion
Authors' opinions will provide authors' position on a significantly important topics. Opinion maybe as hypotesis based on results of previous authors' research. This type of articles should contain unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords.
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Short report
Short reports will provide short description of results of clinical trials, healthcare projects, etc. This type of articles should contain structured or unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords.
| Open Submissions |
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Peer Reviewed |
Public report
Public reports will provide detail description of results of clinical trials, healthcare projects, etc. This type of articles should contain structured or unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords.
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Peer Reviewed |
Research letter
Research letters will be short version of a Original article. Manuscripts which announce a new scientific invention, are clinically significant, and are in the form of a preliminary report are accepted for publication as scientific letters. The discussion could be integrated in the same section with the results as 'Results and Discussion' section; 'Conclusions and Future Directions' are optional. This type of articles should contain structured or unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords.
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Case report
Since a limited number of case reports is published, only reports which are related to rare cases and conditions that constitute challenges in diagnosis and treatment, offer new methods or suggest knowledge not included in books, and are interesting and educational are accepted for publication. This type of articles should contain unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords. Main Text should include Introduction, Case Report, Discussion and Conclusion sections and should not exceed 1000 words excluding the references. The reference list should follow the main text and the number of references should be limited to 10. Tables and figures would be included. Video images (in English soundtrack) can be included. Case reports that include video images have a better chance of publication.
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Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor aim to discuss the importance of a manuscript previously published in Russian Open Medical Journal or other journals. This type of manuscripts should also include a comment on the published manuscript. Moreover, articles on topics of interest to readers within the scope of the journal, especially on educational issues, can be published in the format of a Letter to the Editor. This type of articles should contain unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords. Main text should not include subheadings and it should be limited to 1000 words. The reference list should follow the main text and the number of references should be limited to 10. Tables, figures and images, and other visuals are not included.
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Publication Ethics
These articles include current information on research and publication ethics and also cases of ethical violation. This type of articles should contain unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords. Main text should not exceed 1000 words. The reference list should follow the main text and the number of references should be limited to 10. Tables and figures can be included.
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Peer Review Process
Beeing of utter importance for filtering high quality research and for maintaining journal focus, peer review is sistematically used for all papers sent to our journal.
All papers submitted to the journal are subjected to blind, unbiased, independent critical evaluation.
Submission to first editorial decision with review comments: up to 6 weeks
Submission to publication: 1-9 months
The review process is as follows:
First an editor checks the article for its suitability to be published in the journal, according to its scope.
Next the editor assigns the article to two independent reviewers, selected based on their field of expertise to match the content of the article, to critically appraise the paper. The reviewers are selected form our database of reviewers. The article is sent to them and they are asked to perform the review. If they consider they don't have enough expertise on the article content, or if they decline the review, another reviewer is asked to help with the review.
Subsequently the reviewers assess the article, writes their comments to the author and to the editor and give their reccomendation:
At the end of the round of reviewing, the editor makes the decision: accept submission, revisions are required, resubmit for review, or decline submission. The decision will be sent to the author along with the comments from the reviewers and the editor.
The editorial process will continue with other rounds of reviewing (in case revisions are requred) till the final decision is made (to accept the article or to decline it).
In the interests of transparency, authors are informed that on average a round of reviewing takes about four weeks (The typical period of time allowed for reviewers is two weeks).