Aim and Scope

The main goal of the Journal is to disseminate knowledge about effective methods of surgical treatment among surgeons and doctors of related specialties.

Tasks of the Journal:

• information support of scientific research in the form of publishing the results of scientific and practical research;
• generalization of scientific and practical achievements in the reconstructive and plastic surgery;
• improving the scientific and practical qualifications of plastic surgeons and related specialties.

The name and content of scientific works published in the Journal "Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery" must correspond to medical sciences: plastic surgery, traumatology and orthopedics, surgery, experimental surgery, clinical anatomy.

Section Policies

EDITORIAL

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

PLASTIC SURGERY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

CLINICAL ANATOMY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

AID TO THE PHISICIAN

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MANAGEMENT IN MEDICINE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

INFORMATION

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

MEMORY

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Peer Reviewed

SCIENTIFIC-MEDICAL INFORMATION

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

Статьи

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FROM SCIENCE TO THE PRACTICE

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LITERATURE REVIEW

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JUBILEE

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

NEW IN LYMPHOLOGY

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

JUBILEE

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

FROM THE EDITORS

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MEDICAL CONGRESSES

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СТАТЬИ

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

Issued 4 times a year

Open Access Policy

"Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery" 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

A double-blind peer review method (for specialty and accuracy of research findings) is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff of «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery» Articles submitted to the publication should correspond to the journal profile and rules of submission. Neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer.

Peer- review procedure includes the following stages:

1. Evaluation of the submitted articles for accordance with the main requirements to manuscripts is performed within 5 days of submission with the system “ Anti-plagiat”. The manuscripts which do not meet the requirements are not processed. The author is informed of the refusal reason.
2. Peer- review. The journal «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery»  adopted a format for double anonymous review. The choice of two independent experts is determined by the editor-in-chief, the scientific editor and members of the editorial board, taking into account the thematic trends of the submitted papers. The articles are reviewed on a voluntary and gratuitous basis. Independent experts should have a scientific degree no less than a candidate of medical sciences and who do not have scientific, financial or any other relationship with the authors of the article and the editorial staff of the journal. The articles are reviewed both by members of the editorial board and by invited reviewers - leading experts in the relevant field of medicine in Russia and other countries.

If there is a potential conflict of interest (due to competition, cooperation and other relations with any of the authors, companies or other organizations related to the submitted work), the reviewer is obliged to state this and refuse to review the submitted manuscript. In particular, the potential conflicts of interest arising from the review of manuscripts include the following cases:

• the reviewer works in the same institution as the author (s) of the manuscript;
• there exists or has existed cooperation between the referee and the author (s) of the manuscript;
• the reviewer and the author (authors) have joint publications that have been published for the last 5 years;
• the reviewer has a personal relationship with the author (authors) of the article, which hinders the objective evaluation of the manuscript.

Thus, the reviewer cannot be the author or co-author of the peer-reviewed work, as well as the scientific supervisors of the degree seekers and the staff of the unit at which the author / co-authors of the article work.

The review procedure is confidential. Reviewers are notified that the manuscripts submitted for consideration are the intellectual property of the authors and refer to information not to be disclosed. Reviewers are not allowed to use manuscripts for their own needs. Violation of anonymity and confidentiality is possible only in case of a declaration of unauthenticity or falsification of materials. Unpublished data obtained from the manuscripts submitted for consideration must not be used.

 Reviewers and authors are obliged to follow the adopted Politics of the journal «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery»” in respect of compliance with ethical norms when publishing articles posted on the Journal's website on the Internet.

The review is prepared according to the standard form proposed by the editors with mandatory coverage of the following provisions:

• the relevance of the presented article;
• the scientific novelty of the direction of research considered in the article;
• the practical importance of the problem posed and / or the obtained results in the field of knowledge in question;
• adequacy and modernity of research methods;
• sufficiency and information value of the research material;
• the correctness and completeness of the discussion of the results obtained;
• the relevance of the findings of the aim and objectives of the study;
• the admissibility of the volume of the manuscript as a whole and its individual elements (text, tables, illustrative material, bibliographic references);
• adequacy, quality and expediency of tables, illustrative material and their correspondence to the presented topic;
• The quality of the article: the style of presentation, the adequacy of terminology and its relevance to the adopted one in the field of knowledge in question.

The reviewer is obliged to give an objective assessment of the manuscript. Personal comments to the author (authors) are unacceptable. The reviewer should clearly and reasonably express his opinion.

The reviewer, if possible, should identify valuable published works relevant to the topic and the reviewed manuscript which are not included in the bibliography of the manuscript. Any statement in the review that some observation, conclusion or argument from the manuscript under review have already been encountered in the literature must be accompanied by an accurate bibliographic reference. The reviewer should pay attention of the editor-in-chief to the found significant similarity or coincidence between the manuscript in question and any other previously published work.

 The review period is 2-4 weeks, but at the request of the reviewer it can be extended.

Each reviewer has the right to refuse to review if there is a clear conflict of interests affecting  the perception and interpretation of the manuscript materials. Based on the results of the review of the manuscript, the reviewer gives recommendations on the future of the article (each decision of the reviewer is justified):

• the article is recommended for publication in this form;
• the article is recommended for publication after correction of the deficiencies noted by the reviewer;
• the article needs additional review by another specialist;
• the article cannot be published in the journal.

3. The procedure of informing the authors about the results of the review.

According to the results of the review, the article can either be rejected, or sent to the  authors for revision, or accepted for publication.

If the review contains recommendations for correction and further revision of the article, the editorial board of the journal sends to the author the text of the review with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article, or to reject them (partially or completely) with arguments. The finalization of the article should not take more than 2 months from the moment of sending an electronic message to the authors about the necessity to make changes. The article revised by the author is sent again for review.

In case of refusal of authors to modify the materials, they must notify the editorial board

about their refusal to publish the article. If the authors do not return the revised version after 3 months from the date of sending the review, even if there is no information from the authors refusing to modify the article, the editorial board removes it from the register. In such situations the authors are notified of the removal of the manuscript from the registration due to the expiration of the term allotted for revision.

4. If the author and reviewers have unresolved contradictionsregarding the manuscript, the editorial board is entitled to send the manuscript for additional review. In conflict situations, the decision is made by the editor-in-chief at a meeting of the editorial board.

The editorial board does not accept to publication

• articles that do not meet the requirements of the journal for manuscripts; if the authors refuse the technical revision of the manuscript the articles may be rejected without a peer-review procedure.
• articles whose authors do not follow the recommendations of reviewers without giving a reasoned response.

5. The decision to refuse publication of the manuscriptis taken at a meeting of the editorial board in accordance with the recommendations of reviewers. An article not recommended by the decision of the editorial board for publication is not accepted for reconsideration. The message of refusal of publication is sent to the author by e-mail.
6. After the editorial board accepts the decision to admit the article for publication the editorial office informs the author about it and specifies the terms of publication.
7. The presence of a positive review is not a sufficient basis for the publication of the article. The final decision on publication is made by the editorial board. In conflict situations the decision is made by the editor-in-chief.
8. The original of the reviews is kept in the editorial office of the journal for 3 years. When a corresponding request is received by the editorial office, copies of the reviews are sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Publishing Ethics

1. Introduction

1.1. The scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery» in its editorial policy follows the principles of the integrity of publications in scientific journals, the relevant provisions of authoritative international associations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Council of Science Editors (CSE) , the International Association of Medical Editors (ICMJE), the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ANRI), establishing ethical standards for all parties involved in the publication (authors, editors, reviewers, publishers and the scientific community). The journal, with the help of comprehensive, objective and honest review, tends to select for publication only those materials related to scientific research of the highest quality.

1.2. The publisher of the journal «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery» - Institute of Microsurgery not only supports scientific communications and invests in this process, but also is responsible for compliance with all current recommendations in the published work.

1.3. The publisher undertakes to supervise scientific materials.

2. Duties of Editors

2.1. Decision on publication. 

 The Editor of  "«Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery»"  is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working in cooperation with the relevant society .The validation of the work in question and its scientific importance must always underlie such decisions. The Editor may be guided by the policies of the «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery» journal’s editorial board and constrained by actual legal requirements in respect of libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.

The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making this decision on publication.

2.2. Decency.–

 An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political views of the authors.

2.3. Confidentiality –

 The editor and any editorial staff of «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery» must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

2.4. Policy of disclosure and conflicts of interests

2.4.1. Unpublished materials obtained from a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without a  written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

2.4.2 Experts ( reviewers) and editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead of self-reviewing and making a decision) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.

2.5 .Supervision of the published manuscripts –

 An editor who  presented with convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous should inform the publisher (and/or relevant scientific  society) to promote the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note relevant to the situation.

2.6 .Involvement and cooperation in investigations –

 An editor in cooperation with the publisher (or scientific society) should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints concern a submitted manuscript or published paper. Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and publishing houses.

3. Duties of Reviewers 

3.1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions – Peer review assists the editor in making editorial 3decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper quality. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. The Editorial Board of the journal "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.

3.2. Promptness – Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor of «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery» and excuse himself from the review process.

3.3. Confidentiality – Any manuscript received for review must be treated as a confidential document. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

3.4. Standard requirements and objectivity – Reviewers should give an objective evaluation. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

3.5. Acknowledgement of Sources – Reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors. Any statement (an observation, conclusion, or argument) that had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper that is in the scientific competence of the reviewer.

3.6. Policy of Disclosure and Conflict of Interests

3.6.1. Unpublished materials obtained from a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

3.6.2. Reviewers should not evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interests resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected with the submitted papers.

4. Duties of Authors

4.1. Standard Requirements to Manuscripts

4.1.1. 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 details and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are considered to be unethical and are unacceptable.

4.1.2. Reviews and research reports should also be accurate and objective, and the author’s views should be clearly expressed.

4.2. Data Access and Storage –

 Authors may be asked to provide the raw data referring to the 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 case be prepared to keep such data for a reasonable time after publication.

4.3. Originality and Plagiarism

4.3.1. The authors should ensure the Editorial Board of the journal that they have submitted an entirely original work and if the authors have used the work and/or statements of other authors, this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

4.3.2. Plagiarism takes many forms, from presenting someone else’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of someone else’s paper (without identifying the authorship), to claiming the rights for the results of research carried out by others. Plagiarism in all its forms is considered to be unethical and is unacceptable.

4.4. Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

4.4.1. In general, an author should not publish manuscripts dealing with essentially the same research in more than one journal of primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is considered to be unethical and is unacceptable.

4.4.2. In general, an author should not submit a previously published paper for consideration to another journal.

4.4.3. Publication of a certain kind of articles (e.g., clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is in some cases ethical provided certain conditions are met. The authors and editors of the journals concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must present the same data and interpretation of the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication. Further detailed information on acceptable forms of secondary publication can be found at www.icmje.org.

4.5. Acknowledgement of Sources –

 Proper acknowledgment of the work of other authors must always be done. Authors should refer to publications that are significant for the submitted 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 from the confidential sources, such as evaluating manuscripts or giving grants, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work dealing with these confidential sources.

4.6. Authorship of the Paper

4.6.1. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, implementation, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. When the participants of the study made an essential contribution to a certain aspect of the research project they must be acknowledged as contributors.

4.6.2. The corresponding author should ensure that all the participants who have considerably contributed to the research are listed as co-authors and those who have not participated in the study are not presented as contributors, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

4.7. Risks, Human or Animal Subjects of the Study

4.7.1. If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual risks inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

4.7.2. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all stages of the study 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 from the human subject involved. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

4.8. Policy of Disclosure and Conflicts of Interests

4.8.1. All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interests that might be thought to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript..

4.8.2. Examples of potential conflicts of interests which should be disclosed include employment, counseling, stock ownership, fees, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interests should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

4.9. Fundamental errors in published works –

 When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the editor of "Bulletin of Siberian Medicine" journal and cooperate with the Publisher to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains significant errors, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper.

5. Duties of the Publisher

5.1. The Publisher of the journal «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery» follows the principles and procedures that support editors, reviewers and authors in performing their ethical duties according to the adopted  guidelines. The publisher should ensure that the potential benefit from advertising or reprint revenue has no impact on editorial decisions.

5.2. The publisher supports «Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery»" journal editors in the review of complaints raised concerning ethical issues and helps communicate with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful to editors.

5.3. The Publisher promotes the proper practice of carrying out research and introduces  professional standards to improve ethical recommendations, procedures of retractions and error corrections.

5.4. The Publisher provides relevant specialized legal support (review and counsel) if necessary.

The section is prepared according to the files (http://health.elsevier.ru/attachments/editor/file/ethical_code_final.pdf) of Elsevier publisher (https://www.elsevier.com/) and files (http://publicationethics.org/resources) from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE - http://publicationethics.org/). 

Founder

FOUNDED by

• Institute of Microsurgery (Tomsk, Russia)
• Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Prof. V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

PARTICIPATION of:

• National Research Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia)
• Tomsk Regional Oncology Center (Tomsk, Russia)

Author fees

Publication in “Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery" is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Article 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

“Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery" 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 “Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery", 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 “Issues of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

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