Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Boris K. Romanov, MD, PhD, Head of the Scientific Center for Evaluation of Medical Products, Head of the Department of Pharmacology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
(ORCID)
Honorary Editor-in-Chief:
Oleg V. Aleksandrov, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of faculty therapy medical faculty, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief:
Valery S. Polunin, MD, PhD , Prof., Department of public health and health care, health economics pediatric faculty, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Executive Secretary:
Larisa O. Minushkina, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Cardiology and Instrumental Diagnostics, Medical Center of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
(ORCID)
Vasiliy G. Akimkin, MD, PhD, Prof., academician of RAS, acting Director of the Research Instituty of Dezinfektology, head of the Department of dezinfektology, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Leonid M. Bardenshteyn, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Member of the General Committee of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists (Moscow, Russia)
(ORCID)
Yuri S. Butov, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Dermatology and Cosmetology, Faculty of Further Training of Physicians, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Pavel D. Vaganov, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Pediatrics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
(ORCID)
Gennady E. Gendlin, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Higher Level General Medicine No.2, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Igor V. Damulin, MD, PhD, Prof, Chief of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery with a Course of Complex Rehabilitation, Russian Peoples’ Friendship University (RUDN), Professor of the Department of Nervous Diseases and Neurosurgery, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Anatoly D. Klimiashvili, MD, PhD, Associate Prof., Department of General Surgery and radiodiagnosis Faculty of Pediatrics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Nikolay M. Kolomoets, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of Cardiology Department consultative-diagnostic polyclinic Medical Educational Scientific Clinical Center of P.V. Mandryka (Moscow, Russia)
Natalia V. Polunina, MD, PhD, Prof., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of public health and healthcare management, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
(ORCID)
Sergey V. Sviridov, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care, faculty of medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Tatiana V. Sebko, MD, PhD, Associate Prof., Department of obstetrics and gynecology No.2, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Vladimir I. Starodubov, MD, PhD, Prof., Academician of the RAS, Head of the Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics (Moscow, Russia)
Vladimir A. Stakhanov, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Phthisiology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Petr V. Tsar’kov, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of Subdepartment of Coloproctology and endoscopic surgery. Faculty of postgraduate professional education of physicians, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Editorial Council:
Renad N. Alyautdin, MD, Prof. in Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University (Selangor, Malaysia)
Galina A. Aleshkina, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of psychiatry and narcology of MSMSU A.I. Evdokimov (Moscow, Russia)
Vadim G. Arsent’ev, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Pediatrics, S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Alexander A. Aseev, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Head of the Department of Phthisiology, Tver’ State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Tver’, Russia)
Natalia A. Bokareva, MD, PhD, associate Professor, associate Professor of hygiene of pediatric faculty, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Nikolay I. Briko, MD, PhD, Prof., academician of RAS, head the Department of epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Victoria Yu. Vasenova, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Dermatology and Cosmetology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Olga S. Vasil’eva, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Laboratory of Environmental and Occupational Lung Diseases, Research Institute of Pulmonology (Moscow, Russia)
Maria S. Vetsheva, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of anesthesiology and reanimatology, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Alexey V. Vinogradov, MD, PhD, traumatologist-orthopedist, Children’s city polyclinic №39 of the Department of health of Moscow (Moscow, Russia)
Dmitry Yu. Vybornov, MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Pediatric surgery, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Irina Yu. Demidova, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of endocrinology of the faculty of postgraduate medical education, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Yulia E. Dobrokhotova, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of obstetrics and gynecology of medical faculty, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Alexander V. Dreval’, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Clinical endocrinology of Postgraduate Education Faculty, M.F. Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute (Moscow, Russia)
Mikhail A. Dymochka, MD, PhD, Prof., Chief Federal Officer on Medical and Social Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
Nikolay N. Zavodenko, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of neurology, neurosurgery and medical genetics, N.I. Pirogov Russian national research medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Boris A. Kazakovtsev, MD, PhD, Head of the Division of Epidemiologic and Organizational Issues in Psychiatry, V.P. Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology (Moscow, Russia)
Aleksandr A. Karabenenko (Karabinenko), MD, PhD, Prof., member of the academy RAMTN, Department of Higher Level General Medicine No.2, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Larisa P. Kisel’nikova, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Pediatric Dental Therapy, A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry (Moscow, Russia)
Semen L. Kovarsky, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Pediatrics Surgery, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Alexey V. Kononov, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of pathological anatomy with the course of clinical pathology, Omsk state medical University (Omsk, Russia)
Igor S. Kopetskiy, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of therapeutic stomatology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Elena V. Kostenko, MD, PhD, associate Professor, Department of public health and health care, health Economics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Alexey A. Kuzin, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of General and military epidemiology, S.M. Kirova Military medical Academy (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Natalia L. Kunel’skaya, MD, PhD, Prof., Deputy Director on scientific work, Research Institute of otorhinolaryngology (Moscow, Russia)
Lyudmila V. Leonova, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of pathological anatomy, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Mikhail F. Logachev, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of endocrinology of the Pediatric faculty, N.I.Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Olga Yu. Milushkina, MD, PhD, associate Professor, Head of the Department of hygiene, faculty of Pediatrics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Lyudmila B. Menovshchikova, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of pediatric surgery, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Oleko D. Mishnev, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Anatomical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Oganes G. Oganesyan, МР (Moscow, Russia)
ФИО, MD, PhD, senior researcher, Department of Eye Injury and Reconstructive Surgery, Helmholtz Moscow Institute of Eye Diseases (Moscow, Russia)
Sergey A. Parastayev, MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of rehabilitation and sports medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Mikhail V. Parshikov, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Traumatology, Orthopedics and military-field surgery of Postgraduate Education Faculty. A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry (Moscow, Russia)
Kirill B. Pershin, MD, PhD, Prof., member of RANS professor of FMBA ophthalmology faculty, the medical director of “Excimer” eye clinic network (Moscow, Russia)
Mikhail M. Polunin, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor oh the Department of otolaryngology, faculty of Pediatrics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Valeriya V. Polunina, MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation and sports medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Boris A. Polyaev, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Vladimir V. Potemkin, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Endocrinology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Natalia G. Poteshkina, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of General therapy of the faculty of advanced training of doctors, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Sergey N. Puzin, MD, PhD, Prof., Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Geriatrics and Medical and Social Evaluation, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (Moscow, Russia)
Irina V. Rakhmanova, MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology of Pediatric Faculty, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Evgeniy I. Sidorenko, MD, PhD, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Prof., Head of the Department of ophthalmology of Pediatrics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Natalia A. Skoblina, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of hygiene of the pediatric faculty, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Aleksandr V. Skoroglyadov, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopedics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Tatiana Yu. Smol’nova, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Surgery of the Department of postgraduate education, A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry , Senior Researcher operative gynecology Department of Scientific Center for Obstetrics, Academician V.I.Kulakov Gynecology and Perinatology (Moscow, Russia)
Antonina A. Solomatina, MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and gynecology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Alexander E. Tyagunov, Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor of the Department of Faculty Surgery №1 of the Medical faculty, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Natalia M. Khelminskaya, MD, PhD, Prof., Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and stomatology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Olga G. Chelnokova, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Head of the Department of Phthisiology, Yaroslavl’ State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Yaroslavl’, Russia)
Nikolay P. Shabalov, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Pediatrics, S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (Moscow, Russia)
Natalia M. Sharova, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of skin diseases and cosmetology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Alexander E. Shestopalov, MD, PhD, Prof., Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (Moscow, Russia)
Nicholay L. Shymanovsky, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the P.V. Sergeyev Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Radiobiology. Faculty of Medicine and Biology, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Aleksandr M. Shulutko, MD, PhD, Prof., Head of the Department of Surgery, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Publishing Ethics
Responsibilities of the Editorial Board
The Editorial Board of the journal complies with the ethical standards approved by the international scientific community. The Editorial Board uses the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Editorial decision-making
The Editorial Board is responsible for making decisions which of the submitted manuscripts will be accepted for publication. The Editorial Board makes the decision regarding a publication based on the journal’s policy, taking into account the current authors’ rights legislation and avoiding defamation and plagiarism. The editorial evaluation of the manuscript is independent of race, ethnicity and gender, religion, citizenship, or political views of the authors. Decision whether to publish an article or not is based exclusively on its scientific relevance, originality, clarity of presentation, and correspondence of the topic to journal’s specialization.
Confidentiality
All the Editorial Board members are responsible for disclosing any information about the submitted manuscript to individuals other than authors, peer reviewers, potential peer reviewers, or publishers.
Conflict of interest
The unpublished materials disclosed in the submitted manuscript cannot be used by the Editorial Board members for their own research without written permission from the authors.
Plagiarism, data falsification, and error correction
In case of an ethical complaint or a conflict situation regarding the manuscript or the published article, the Editorial Board should undertake reasonable countermeasures, together with the publisher, to restore the violated rights. If errors are revealed, the Editorial Board should assist in publishing corrections or refutations. Each reported case of unethical behavior will be considered, even if submitted several years after the article had been published.
Reviewer responsibilities
Contribution to editorial decision-making
The review process is aimed at facilitating the Editorial Board in editorial decision-making and may also help the author to improve the manuscript.
Timeliness (promptness)
If a reviewer selected by the Editorial Board does not feel competent for reviewing the manuscript or feels that it is not possible to meet the deadline of the review, he/she should promptly notify the Editorial Board and decline to perform the review.
Confidentiality
Any material under review should be regarded as confidential. The material should not be shared or discussed with anyone outside the review process unless approved by the editor.
Objectivity standards
Reviewing should be objective. Subjective critique of the author is not allowed. Reviewer’s opinion should be stated clearly and supported by arguments.
Confirmation of the resources
The reviewer is responsible for determining the cases when the relevant publications have not been cited in the manuscript or listed in the References section. Furthermore, the reviewer should determine whether all the statements, conclusions, and ideas borrowed from other publications had the corresponding references. If the reviewer detects that the manuscript under review significantly coincides with or is similar to another known publication, he/she should notify the Editorial Board.
Disclosure of information and conflict of interest
Non-disclosable information and ideas must be regarded as confidential and cannot be used for one’s personal advantage. Experts should not review manuscripts if they have any possible conflict of interest due to competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with the manuscript authors, as well as companies or institutions related to the manuscript.
Author responsibilities
Credibility and study standards
If the manuscript is based on an original study, the authors must submit the reliable results of their work and an objective discussion of significance of the study. The manuscript should contain all the key data, accurate description of the study details and references in order to ensure reproducibility of the results. Data falsification or the intentionally invalid statements in the manuscript are regarded as unethical and are inappropriate.
Data availability
The Editorial Board can request the authors to submit raw data in addition to the manuscript. The author must be ready to provide public access to these data, provided that public access to the data violates neither confidentiality of the research participants nor rights of an individual or a company owning these data.
Originality, plagiarism, and citing the sources
Authors must submit only original studies. Authors must properly and accurately acknowledge the work of others. Publications that had significantly contributed to preparing the study or underlied its design should also be acknowledged.
Multiple, duplicate, or competing publications
In general, materials describing the contents of the same study should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the manuscript to more than one journal is considered unethical and inappropriate. Copyrighted materials that have already been published cannot be submitted to the journal. Furthermore, materials under consideration by the Editorial Board must not be submitted to be published elsewhere. When submitting an article, the author must inform the editor about all the previous presentations of the study that can be regarded as a duplicate publication. The author must notify the editor if the manuscript contains the information published by the author in previous reports or submitted for publication elsewhere. In this case, the new article should contain references to the previously published material.
Authorship criteria
Authorship is limited to the individuals that have made a significant contribution to 1) conception and design of the study; data acquisition and interpretation; 2) preparing the first draft of the article or editing the article to improve its quality; and 3) final approval of the manuscript for publication. Each author must participate in the study to an extent sufficient to take public responsibility for the corresponding part of the content of his/her article. Involvement consisting in funding or selecting material for the article is not sufficient reason for inclusion in the list of authors. General guidance of the research group is not sufficient for including in the list of authors.
All the authors must approve the final manuscript and its submission to the journal for publication.
Conflict of interest
When submitting an article to the journal, all authors must sign the form disclosing financial or any other substantive conflict of interest that can be considered to have influenced the study results or their interpretation. All funding sources of the submitted studies must be specified.
Involvement in the peer review process
After the peer review process, the article can be sent to the author for improvement. Authors should be actively involved in the review process: promptly answer the questions and, if necessary, correct the manuscript in accordance with the reviewer’s comments.
Appeal procedure
Authors have a right to appeal editorial decisions to adopt or reject articles.
1. In case of disagreement with the editorial decision of acceptance or rejection of the article, the author refers to the relevant journal editors in writing indicating the reasons for treatment
2. Committee on Conflict Resolution of the respective journal considers the appeal
3. Change in editorial decisions regarding an article possible in cases where: – Author gave more actual results, which are not taken into account during the primary reviewing of the article – Author provided with information about conflict of interest that was not provided in the primary reviewing of this article – Author expresses his concern about biased reviews
4. If there are sufficient grounds the Committee on Conflict Resolution of the relevant journal makes a proposal for editorial board to change or to uphold the initial decision regarding the publication of the article
5. If necessary, editors may involve additional reviewer for final decision
6. Editorial board of the journal makes a decision regarding acceptance or rejection on the basis of reviewing of the initial decision
7. Editorial decision following its review of the initial decision is final and is not subject to appeal.
Article Retraction
Retraction of a published article is a measure of the last resort and may occur under circumstances such as:
– infringements of law and defamation;
– more than 20% of direct quotes or paraphrased material;
– false or inaccurate data that, if acted upon, would pose a serious health risk;
– a vague and incomplete description of conflicts of interests.
Article Retraction Procedure
1. Retraction of an article shall be initiated upon a written request by authors, readers, reviewers, editors, or publishers that shall be submitted to the journal in which the article was published.
2. The journal’s Commission on Conflict Resolution shall examine the request.
3. The Commission on Conflict Resolution shall decide to retract the article if there is sufficient evidence to do so.
4. Upon consideration of the request, the Commission on Conflict Resolution shall notify the person who initiated article removal of its decision.
5. Should the Commission decide to retract the article, this shall be agreed on with the authors, and the journal shall publish a retraction statement that shall include the article’s metadata.
6. If the journal’s articles are indexed in databases, the journal shall notify the databases that the article has been retracted and should not be cited, identifying the reasons for the retraction.
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