Aim and Scope

The most important tasks of the magazine are: synthesis of scientific and practical achievements in the field of creation of biomodels, models animal, alternative, mathematical and other types of models with the set properties.

The scientific concept of the edition assumes the publication of modern achievements in the field of carrying out experimental work on laboratory animals.

To the publication in the magazine both the domestic, and foreign specialists working in the field of pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, laboratory livestock production is invited.

Mechanisms of modeling of morbid conditions of a human body and modeling of these states on animals, correction of disturbances, including with use of cell technologies and also ethical questions of carrying out experiments with use of animals are covered in the magazine.

The original articles, results of basic researches directed to studying of pathological changes and processes in an organism for the purpose of extrapolation of the obtained data on the person, improvement of treatment, improvement of quality of life, reviews of literature on a wide range of questions of preclinical and clinical trial of pharmacological means are published in the magazine.

Section Policies

Publication Frequency

4 times a year

Open Access Policy

"Journal Biomed" 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

1. All articles which came to edition undergo independent reviewing.

2. The manuscript of the scientific article which came to the editorial office of the “Journal Biomed” magazine is considered by group of preliminary expert examination and the responsible secretary regarding compliance to a magazine profile, requirements to registration, is registered and go for reviewing to one or, if necessary, several reviewers.

3. For carrying out reviewing of manuscripts of articles as reviewers both members of editorial council of the “Journal Biomed” magazine, and the highly skilled scientists and specialists of other organizations and enterprises having profound professional knowledge and experience in the concrete scientific direction (as a rule, members of RAS, doctors of science, professors) also the having publications on subject of the reviewed article can be attracted.

4. Compensation of the reviewers who are not members of the Editorial Council is made according to the existing rules.

5. Reviewers are notified that the manuscripts sent them are the intellectual property of authors and treat the data which are not subject to disclosure. Reviewing is carried out confidentially (unilateral "blind"). Violation of confidentiality is possible only in case of the statement of the reviewer for unauthenticity or falsification of the materials stated in article.

6. The experts working in the same establishment where work is performed are not involved in reviewing.

7. If in the review of article there is an instruction on need of its correction, then article is sent to the author to completion. In this case date of receipt in edition date of return of modified article is considered.

8. Article sent to the author to completion has to be returned in the corrected look within a month. It is necessary to attach the letter from authors containing answers to all remarks and explaining all changes made in article to the processed manuscript.

9. If article according to the recommendation of the reviewer underwent considerable author's processing, it goes for repeated reviewing.

10. Edition rejects articles in case of inability or unwillingness of the author to consider wishes of edition and the reviewer.

11. In case of disagreement with opinion of the reviewer the author of article can provide the reasoned answer in the editorial office of the magazine.

12. The responsible secretary informs the author the made decision.

13. Requirements to contents of the review of the scientific article

• compliance of the material stated in article, to a magazine profile;
• relevance of contents of article: whether there corresponds the level of the material stated in it to modern achievements of science and technology;
• the importance of the received results of researches (scientific, practical);
• article material registration: compliance of volume of article, existence of the summary in the Russian and English languages, existence of the list of references and references to it in the text, contact information on authors, etc.;
• assessment qualitative and/or quantitative the material given in article (actual, illustrative);
• completeness and reliability of the provided data;
• correctness and accuracy used (or entered) definitions and formulations;
• assessment of literary style of statement of material;
• proved conclusions in article in general, remarks, if necessary – recommendations about its improvement.

The complex of the listed questions has the general character. Each concrete article demands individual approach to the choice of criteria of its assessment.

In a final part of the review by results of the analysis of article the accurate recommendation of its publication in the presented look, or about need of its completion or processing (with constructive remarks) or maybe about inexpediency of its edition in this magazine has to be made.

17. The editorial office of the edition sends to authors of the presented materials of the copy of reviews or motivated refusal and also undertakes to send to the copy of reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation at receipt of the corresponding inquiry.

18. Originals of reviews are stored in publishing house and editorial council within five years from the date of the publication of articles.

Indexation

Articles in "Journal Biomed" 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.

Publishing Ethics

Scientific journal Biomedicine was founded by the Scientific Center of Biomedical Technologies FMBA of Russia and publishes articles in Russian and English .

The editorial board of the journal in its activity supports the principles that other leading scientific publishers adhere to and which are set forth by the distributor of RLS journals - Springer - in documents on publishing ethics and fraudulent practices:

• Springer Policy on Publishing Integrity,
• Publication Ethics.

We strive to guarantee the quality of journal publications and follow the principle that the publisher has the primary responsibility for maintaining the integrity of scientific publications and, if possible, help editors, reviewers and authors comply with ethical standards adopted by most scientific information providers and publishers. Compliance with these standards is necessary to ensure the high quality of scientific publications, public confidence in the results of scientific activity and adequate recognition of the merits of the authors.

We state that it is necessary to exclude falsification, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, sending the same content to more than one journal, duplicating similar information in different articles, misleading authorship and misleading the public as to the authors' true contribution to the publication.

Editors, authors and reviewers are required to disclose their interests, which may affect their objectivity in the provision, editing and review of article materials (a case of conflict of interest). These can be financial, personal, political, religious interests and interests of the intellectual plan. The review procedure should be objective.

We also recommend that you read case studies and best known practices described in the Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: A Publisher's Perspective published in International Journal of Clinical Practice, Graf C., Wager E., Bowman A., et al. Int. J. Clin. Pract., 2007; 61 (s152):126.

DECLARATION OF PUBLICATION ETHICS AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES

Founder

• Federal State Budgetary Institution «Scientific center of biomedical technologies of Federal Medical and Biological Agency» (FSBI SCBT FMBA of Russia)

Author fees

Publication in “Journal Biomed" 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

“Journal Biomed" 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 “Journal Biomed", 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 “Journal Biomed" 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)

ISSN 2074-5982 (Print)
ISSN 2713-0428 (Online)