Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

Urologia Interdisciplinaris — это академическое издание, созданное в ответ на вызовы современной клинической практики и фундаментальной науки. Мы исходим из постулата, что человеческий организм представляет собой целостную систему, а патологические процессы редко ограничиваются рамками одной анатомической области или врачебной специальности. В центре нашего внимания — урология, но не как изолированная дисциплина, а как узел, связующий множество медицинских направлений.

Журнал специализируется на публикации научной литературы, освещающих проблемы, находящиеся на стыке смежных медицинских дисциплин. Ключевым фокусом издания является урология, рассматриваемая не изолированно, а в тесной взаимосвязи с рядом критически важных направлений:
  • Гинекология и репродуктивная медицина: вопросы тазовой патологии, бесплодия, эндокринных нарушений и онкогинекологии.
  • Андрология: мужское здоровье, сексология и гормональный статус.
  • Онкология, лучевая терапия: мультидисциплинарный подход к лечению новообразований мочеполовой системы.
  • Неврология: нейроурология, нарушения иннервации тазовых органов и болевые синдромы.
  • Эндокринология: метаболические аспекты урологических заболеваний.
  • Проктология: синдромы тазовой боли и функциональные расстройства органов малого таза.
  • Эмбриология и генетика: фундаментальные основы развития и врожденные аномалии.
  • Хирургия: инновационные оперативные технологии, трансплантология, междисциплинарное ведение хирургических осложнений и взаимодействие с общей абдоминальной хирургией.
  • Иммунология: иммунопатогенез воспалительных процессов, иммунотерапия в онкоурологии и иммунологические аспекты репродуктивного здоровья.
  • Клиническая лабораторная диагностика: поиск и валидация новых биомаркеров, молекулярно-генетическое тестирование, прецизионная медицина и комплексная интерпретация лабораторных данных.

Мы стремимся объединить опыт специалистов в единую доказательную базу, поддержать врачей, которые не боятся смотреть на проблему шире привычных рамок и способствовать внедрению таких методов лечения, где во главе угла стоит не орган, а человек.

 

Peer Review Process

Все поступившие в редакцию журнала научные статьи проходят обязательное двойное слепое рецензирование (рецензент не получает информации об авторах рукописи, авторы рукописи не получают информации о рецензентах).

Все привлекаемые рецензенты являются признанными специалистами по тематике рецензируемых материалов и имеют в течение последних 3 лет публикации по тематике рецензируемой статьи.

  1. Рецензирование статей осуществляется членами редакционного совета и редакционной коллегии, а так же приглашенными рецензентами – ведущими специалистами в соответствующей отрасли науки из России и других стран. Решение о выборе того или иного рецензента для проведения экспертизы статьи принимает главный редактор, заместитель главного редактора, научный редактор, заведующий редакцией. Срок рецензирования составляет 2-4 недели, но по просьбе рецензента он может быть продлен.
  2. Каждый рецензент имеет право отказаться от рецензии в случае наличия явного конфликта интересов, способного отразиться на восприятии и интерпретации материалов рукописи. По итогам рассмотрения рукописи рецензент даёт рекомендации о дальнейшей судьбе статьи (каждое решение рецензента обосновывается):
    • статья рекомендуется к публикации в настоящем виде;
    • статья рекомендуется к публикации после исправления отмеченных рецензентом недостатков без дополнительного рецензирования;
    • статья нуждается в доработке и последующем дополнительном раунде рецензирования;
    • статья не может быть опубликована в журнале даже после доработки.
  3. Редакция журнала направляет автору текст рецензий. В случае наличия рекомендаций по доработке рукописи, редакция предлагает учесть их при подготовке нового варианта рукописи или аргументировано (частично или полностью) их опровергнуть. Доработка статьи не должна занимать более 2 месяцев с момента отправки электронного сообщения авторам о необходимости внесения изменений. Доработанная автором статья повторно направляется на рецензирование.
  4. В случае отказа авторов от доработки материалов, им следует в письменной или устной форме уведомить редакцию об отзыве статьи с рассмотрения. Редакция будет вынуждена снять рукопись с рассмотрения, если авторы не предоставят доработанный вариант рукописи в течении 3 месяцев со дня отправки редакцией сообщения о результатах рассмотрения рукописи рецензентами с рекомендациями по доработке. В подобных ситуациях авторам направляется соответствующее уведомление о снятии рукописи с рассмотрения в связи с истечением срока, отведенного на доработку.
  5. Редакция проводит не более трех раундов рецензирования для каждой рукописи. Если после трехкратной доработки рукописи у большинства рецензентов или у редакции остаются существенные замечания к тексту, рукопись отклоняется и снимается с рассмотрения. В этом случае авторам направляется соответствующее уведомление о снятии рукописи с рассмотрения. 
  6. Если у автора и рецензентов возникли неразрешимые противоречия относительно рукописи, редакция по согласованию с редколлегией и главным редактором может направить рукопись на дополнительное рецензирование. В конфликтных ситуациях решение о публикации рукописи принимает главный редактор на заседании редакционной коллегии.
  7. Решение об отказе в публикации рукописи принимается на заседании редакционной коллегии в соответствие с рекомендациями рецензентов. Статья, не рекомендованная решением редакционной коллегии к публикации, к повторному рассмотрению не принимается. Сообщение об отказе в публикации и снятии рукописи с рассмотрения направляется автору по электронной почте, в письме приводятся рецензии и основания для отказа в публикации.
  8. После принятия редколлегией журнала решения о допуске статьи к публикации редакция информирует об этом автора и указывает сроки публикации.
  9. Наличие положительной рецензии не является достаточным основанием для публикации статьи. Окончательное решение о публикации принимается редакционной коллегией. В конфликтных ситуациях решение принимает главный редактор.
  10. Авторы в праве оспорить решение редакции об отказе в публикации рукописи и снятии ее с рассмотрения. Для этого следует направить обращение в редакцию, адресовав его главному редактору. В обращении следует подробно изложить причины несогласия авторов с принятым (на основе заключений рецензентов) редакцией решением, привести доводы в пользу пересмотра решения, а также прислать доработанную рукопись (в случае целесообразности такой доработки). Рассмотрение спорных ситуаций и обращений авторов с просьбой о пересмотре решений редакции осуществляет лично главный редактор на заседании редакционной коллегии. Принятые главным редактором решения оспариванию не подлежат.
  11. Оригиналы рецензий и протоколов рассмотрения рукописей хранятся в редакции журнала бессрочно (не менее 5 лет).
  12. Рецензии на рукописи (а также переписка авторов с редакцией) в открытом доступе не публикуются и используются только во внутреннем документообороте редакции, а также при общении с авторами. Копии рецензий могут быть переданы в Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации по запросу.

 

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

 

Open Access Policy

This journal is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately 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.    

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge (open license Creative Commons ).

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Publishing Ethics

When selecting (including reviewing), preparing (editing) and publishing articles in the journal, the editors are guided by international standards of publication ethics.

In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in the journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing) in dealing with allegations.

The Editorial Board of the Journal will carefully and responsibly consider all reasonable requests regarding the detected violations in the published materials.

The editors consider it the duty of the author and the reviewer to inform the editors as soon as possible about the missed errors and violations that they have identified after the publication of the article.

The journal's publisher, RUDN University, is a co-founder and a member of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP), Russia, and supports the ASEP Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications https://rassep.ru/sovet-po-etike/manifesty/deklaratsiya/  

The ethic policy of this journal is based on recommendations from international committees: ICMJE, WAME, COPE, EASE, Council of Science Editors, ORI.

  When developing these rules, the publisher and the editorial board of the journal used not only their editorial and publishing practice but also the experience of the journals published by leading international scientific literature publishers.

Editorial responsibilities

Editors have sole responsibility for acceptance or rejection of a manuscript. The manuscript may be rejected by the editor on the stage prior to peer-review for a solid reason (inappropriate topic for journal, clearly of poor scientific quality, the article was previously published elsewhere, essential contradiction to ethical principles of the Journal was detected). Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain. Editors should guarantee that the quality of the papers conforms to internationally accepted scientific and publication ethical guidelines. If there is conflict of interest of the editor with the author of the article, the article should be transmitted to another editor.

The editor transmits all the submitted manuscripts, which were not rejected according to the reasons stated below, for peer-review. The editor chooses the reviewers out of the most competent specialists on the topic of the article.

Editors should preserve anonymity of reviewers and should not tell the reviewers the names of the authors.

Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record and be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

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.

Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial opinion works should be clearly identified as such.

Advertising Policies

The editorial board adheres to ethical standards in its work and, above all, defending the right to editorial independence. Placement of promotional materials and sponsorship can not influence in any way on editorial decisions and editorial content. The journal does not publish materials to accompany the advertising and does not sell advertising for specific articles. Advertising and information materials is not mixed with the editorial content.

All decisions on advertising placement are only accepted by the publisher. The editors reserve the right not to accept advertising materials, placement does not meet the publication policy.

Data Access and Retention

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a 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 event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

Plagiarism takes many forms, from passing off another paper as the author(s) own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another(s) paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

The Editorial Board considers the following to be the forms plagiarism:

  • Use (word for word citing) of any materials in any value without indicating the source;
  • use of images, pictures, photographs, tables, diagrams, schemes or any other forms of graphical information presentation without indicating the source;
  • use of images, pictures, photographs, tables, diagrams, schemes or any other forms of graphical information presentation published in scientific and popular issues without approving by copyright holder;
  • use of the materials without written permission, the authors or copyright holders of which don’t permit use of their materials without special approvement.

The Editorial Board considers the following to be the forms of incorrect borrowing:

  • Absence of graphical highlighting of literal text citation when there are references to the source;
  • incorrect references (incomplete bibliographic description of the sources, which prevents their identification;
  • reference not to the first source of the borrowed text without clear indication of this fact (mistake in primary source determination);
  • absence of references from the text to the sources enumerated in the list below the article;
  • excessive citation (in case there are references to the sources and graphical highlighting of the cited text), the volume of which is not justified by the genre and aims of the article.

Only original works are acceptable for publication in journal. The journal does not allow any forms of plagiarism.

If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

The journal is using "ANTIPLAGIAT" software for plagiarism detection in all Russian-language manuscripts. If the editorial board of the journal has reasons for a more detailed check, additional tools for searching for borrowings can be involved. The Google Scholar is used for English-language manuscripts. Papers will be rejected from any stage of the publication process (even if the article was published already) if plagiarism will be fined.

The Editorial Board of the Journal strongly discourages the use of any technique to increase the text score in the Anti-Plagiarism system.

Articles that show signs of technical modifications in order to artificially increase the uniqueness of the text will not be published in the journal even if revised. The editors report all such facts to the reviewer and, if the author works in an educational institution, to its management.

If unauthorized borrowings are detected, as well as with a low coefficient of originality of the text (<85%) and large amounts of borrowings that are not justified by the goals of the article, the manuscript is rejected from publication.

Articles whose content repeats the results and conclusions obtained in other scientific publications of the author (monographs, previous publications in journals and collections), as well as studies already described earlier in dissertations and abstracts, in the absence of development of the provisions presented in them and new results, to publications are not accepted.

Identification of plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of data is carried out as part of scientific peer review, as well as after the publication of manuscripts - upon the fact of readers' requests with relevant statements. When establishing the fact of unauthorized borrowing of data (results of scientific work) or ideas, the manuscript (article) will be withdrawn and rejected from publication, even if it has already been published.

Papers will be rejected from any stage of the publication process (even if the article was published already) if plagiarism will be fined.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper. Publication of some kinds of articles (eg, clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. The authors and editors of the journals concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation of the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication. Further detail on acceptable forms of secondary publication can be found at http://www.icmje.org/

Acknowledgment of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported 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 in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

First author. The first author in the list of co-authors should be the head of the author's team of the manuscript, who took the greatest part in the process of preparing the text and is familiar with the entire process of conducting scientific work. The head of the team of authors should also be a "correspondence author" - to communicate with the editors of the journal and readers (after the publication of the article).

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures 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 for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

Statement of Human and Animal Rights

When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.

When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose (declare in the corresponding section of the manuscript) any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to affect the results or the conclusions of their manuscript.

Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include:

  • receiving funding in support of the research or the preparation of the manuscript, any connection (employment, consultancies, stock ownership, royalties, providing expert opinions) with organizations that have a direct interest in the subject of research or review;
  • application or registration of patents for research results (copyright, etc.);
  • obtaining financial support for any of the stages of research or the preparation of the manuscript (including grants and other financial support).

Explicit and potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed as early as possible.

Conflicts of interest information received from authors of manuscripts is provided to reviewers only under the condition of full compliance with double-blind peer review; information about conflicts of interest is available to the editorial board when deciding whether to publish a manuscript. Also, information on conflicts of interest is published as part of the full text of the article.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the authors obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

Editorial Policy for Corrections to Published Articles

If inaccuracies and factual errors are made in the article that do not require retraction of the article, the editorial carries out the procedure for publishing the corrections.

The purpose of corrections made to a scientific article after publication is to convey truthful, accurate information to the reader, help avoid illegal borrowing, and eliminate erroneous data.

Any necessary changes will be accompanied with a post-publication notice which will be permanently linked to the original article so that readers will be fully informed of any necessary changes. This can be in the form of a Correction notice, an Expression of Concern, a Retraction and in rare circumstances a Removal.

Authors should notify us as soon as possible if they find errors in their published article, especially errors that could affect the interpretation of data or reliability of information presented. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure consensus has been reached between all listed co-authors prior to putting forward any requests for corrections or retractions to an article.

Any minor errors will not be accompanied by a separate correction notice. Instead a footnote will be added to the article detailing to the reader that the article has been corrected. Minor errors do not impact the reliability of, or the reader’s understanding of, the scholarly content.

The reprint of the article with corrections is carried out simultaneously with the retraction of the previous publication in case of multiple typos, incorrect citation, incorrect wording, incorrect facts, the need for corrections to the team of authors and other cases where changes are required that affect the interpretation of the article and at the same time the scientific integrity of the article does not remain unchanged.

Reprint of the corrected article may be initiated by the author (s), readers or the editors of the journal.

The procedure for correcting errors when reprinting an article

  1. If the editorial board has received information about the need to make corrections from third parties, the editor or the Editor-in-Chief will politely send the authors a notification about the need to analyze the identified errors.
  2. After an analysis of the identified errors, the editorial representatives report the need to reprint the article with corrections to the author (s) to agree on the corrections.
  3. The printed issue of the journal publishes an error message indicating the number / year and pages of the issue with the article in which the error was made, a description of the error and text with the corrected error, and retractions of the previous version of the article containing errors.

It is also indicated on whose initiative the retraction and reprint procedure is carried out.

In the online version of the journal, an error message is posted on the site page and / or PDF file with the article.

Readers are given the opportunity to work with the revised version of the article by posting it on the site next to the previous retracted version, in which the retraction was noted.

4. Information about the corrections, retractions and republishing is transferred to the to the Russian Index of Science Citation (elibrary.ru) and other databases in which the journal is indexed.

Retraction guidelines

In some cases the Editorial Board may consider retracting a publication.

The article will be officially retracted if at any stage of review, prepress or after publication, the editors or readers reveal a violation of the requirements of publication ethics. The retraction of the article due to violation of publication ethics will also entail a ban on the publication of articles in this journal for all members of the authors team involved in the incident in the future.

The reasons for retraction may be the following:

  • it constitutes plagiarism, including borrowed pictures, tables, diagrams, etc. If plagiarism was detected after publication (see Plagiarism Policy);
  • third party expresses claims concerning copyrights for the article or its parts;
  • the findings have previously been published elsewhere before the date of its publication in the journal.

The published article has serious errors, which place its scientific value in question.

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