About the Journal

About the Journal

Aims & Scope

This journal pursues a policy of immediate open access to published content, supporting the principles of free dissemination of scientific information and global exchange of knowledge for the general social progress.

The journal adheres to the principles of evidence-based medicine. The journal's audience is scientists, clinicians, students.

The journal publishes (sections):
- Original Researches 
- Literature Reviews
- Clinical Cases
- Teaching Issues and Lectures
- Reviews

in the following areas of medical science:

- Alternative and Complementary Medicine
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
- Endocrinology
- Epidemiology
- Forensic Medicine and Forensic Medical Examination
- Hematology
- History of Medicine
- Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Occupational Pathology
- Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
- Medical Radiology
- Microbiology
- Military Medicine
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics and Traumatology
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Pediatrics and Neonatology
- Phthisiology
- Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine
- Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology
- Social Medicine and Public Health Protection
- Surgery
- Teaching Issues and Lectures
- Technologies of Medical Diagnostics and Treatment
- Theoretical and Experimental Medicine
- Therapy
- Urology, Andrology and Nephrology

This direction is indicated as the first keywords of each article. 

The journal was founded in September 1998. About the journal in the "Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine".

All journal manuscripts undergo plagiarism checking and double-blind peer review (authors do not know reviewers, reviewers do not know authors).

Indexing and Archiving

The journal is indexed in
Google Scholar
Ulrichsweb
WorldCat

The journal is archived in the repositories of
the V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
the scientific library of the Kharkiv National Medical University
on Zenodo (with indexing in OpenAIRE)
on LOCKSS

License and Other Conditions for Publishing Articles

From 2022, all journal articles are published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license.

The authors retain the copyright of their article and grant the journal the right of its first publication under the terms of the specified license, which allows others to freely distribute and adapt the published article for non-commercial purposes, provided that they attribute the authorship, provide a link to the original publication of the article in this journal, indicate any changes (if such were made), and license all derivative works under identical terms. The authors have the right to enter into independent additional agreements regarding the non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form in which it was published by this journal (for example, depositing the work in electronic repositories, publishing it as part of a monograph, or on personal websites), provided that a reference to the first publication of the article in this journal is preserved. Placing the article on the Internet and making it publicly available by other means permitted by the CC BY-NC-SA license is allowed after the final publication on the website with DOI activation.

Each co-author of the article must have participated in the research presented in the publication, approved the final version of the publication, and bears responsibility for all aspects of the work. At least one co-author must be responsible for developing the research concept, study design, data collection, statistical processing and interpretation of data, writing, or critically editing the article. All authors must confirm that the manuscript is the result of their joint work, has not been previously published, and has not been submitted for consideration to other editorial offices. All authors must approve each version of the manuscript (initial and revised) that is submitted to the editorial office.

The corresponding author acts on behalf of all co-authors of the article, is responsible for coordinating all versions of the manuscript with the other authors, provides, on behalf of all authors, consent to the editorial office for the processing and publication of all co-authors' personal data, and bears responsibility for the accuracy of the information regarding conflicts of interest.

Author Fees

The editorial office sends an invoice for payment to the authors of articles accepted for publication. The payment only partially reimburses the publisher's costs of publishing the magazine. Publication in the journal is paid by the authors in the amount:

- postgraduate student of the Kharkiv National Medical University separately (the article has one author) ‒ 45 UAH (approximately 1.1 USD) per manuscript page;
- an employee of the Kharkiv National Medical University separately (the article has one author) ‒ 55 UAH (approximately 1.3 USD) per manuscript page;
- all others, and if the article has more than one author ‒ 75 UAH (approximately 1.8 USD) per manuscript page.

If a published article is withdrawn by the editorial board due to discovered facts of dishonesty (re-publication, falsification of data, etc.), the payment is not refunded.