Publication conditions
We continue to accept articles for publishing in “Odesa Medical Journal”
The author sends to the editorial office an on-line version of the article with a scan of the first page and signatures of all authors. By their signatures the authors guarantee that the article meets all the requirements of the manual of the article style for “Odesa Medical Journal”, experimental and clinical researches have been executed according to the international ethical norms of scientific researches, and also they give the publisher a right for publication of the article in the Journal, placing it and its materials on the Journal’s site and in other sources.
An article is accompanied with a scan of (1) letter to the editorial staff, a vised signature of the chief and the seal of the establishment where the work was done, (2) information about the authors (with each author’s contribution statement detailing his/her participation in the work), (3) the declaration of originality of the text of the scientific article and for the home authors also (4) by the expert inference, that authorizes the open publication. For ONMedU employees we provide samples of expert inference and letter to the editorial staff.
If used in the article materials are intellectual property of some organizations and have not been published before, an author should get permission for their publication from each of these organizations and send it together with the article.
After successful review, the author will receive the details for paying the publication fee by e-mail.
The contribution for the article is 2000 UAH for 12 pages. Each additional page is paid in the amount of 40 UAH. Literature and abstracts are also included in the total pages of a paid publication. The publication fee covers expenses associated with reviewing, article proofreading and editing, journal mocking-up and publication of its electronic version. The journal’s electronic version becomes publicly available on the website duly.
If desired, an author can order a printed copy of the journal. The cost of a printed copy is UAH 800, which is paid in addition to the publication fee.
The author sends confirmation of the payment (a scanned check or its photo) to e-mail omj@onmedu.od.ua.
The average waiting time of publication (from the day of the article adoption by editorial board to the day of publication) is 2–8 months (depending on the actual number of publications submitted by authors to a definite issue).
In the case of detection of serious mistakes or violations of integrity after publication of the article, the article withdrawal (retraction) procedure is applied.
Prohibition to refer to the aggressor state’s scholarly papers
It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
Academic integrity
The Editorial Board guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of articles and their check for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl. After receiving editorial board’s confirmation that the article has been accepted for publication, the author is provided with banking details for paying the publication fee.
