Ejma Guidelines
Kayleigh Telega
.card-header background-image: linear-gradient(to top, #e4e4e4, #fff) !important;border: solid 1px #dbdbdb !important;margin-bottom:5px !important;.btn-link, .btn-link:hover, .btn-link:focus, .btn-link:active, .btn-link.active, .btn-link.disabled, .btn-link[disabled] color: #337ab7 !important; background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none;Instructions For AuthorsInstructions For Authors Publishing Policy The Eurasian Journal of Medical Advances (EJMA) is an open access journal. EJMA is published every three months and one volume consists of four issues. The journal publishes Medical Oncology, Allergy and Immunology, Adolescent Medicine, Anaesthesiology, Aerospace Medicine, Pathology, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Clinical Neurophysiology, Colon and Rectal Surgery, Dermatology-Venereology, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Practice, Geriatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Health Informatics, Hospice and palliative Medicine, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Interventional Radiology, Vascular Medicine, Microbiology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nuclear Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Ophthalmology, Orthodontics, Orthopaedics, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Paediatrics, Paediatric Allergology, Paediatric Cardiology, Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Neonatology, Paediatric Nephrology, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Paediatric Rheumatology, Paediatric Surgery, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Pulmonology, Psychiatry, Public Health, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Sports Medicine, Neuroradiology, General Surgery, Urology and Related subjects in the field of original research, case report, reviews and letters to the editor are published in English.
Manuscripts reporting the results of experimental studies on animals must include a statement that the study protocol was approved by the animal ethics committee of the institution and that the study was conducted in accordance with the internationally accepted guidelines, including the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights, European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes, Principles of Laboratory Animal Science, and the Handbook for the Care and Utilization of Laboratory Animals. Authors are strongly requested to send a record of the approval of the ethics committee with the manuscript. Furthermore, manuscripts on human and animal studies should describe procedures indicating the steps taken to eliminate pain and suffering.
This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles in EURASIAN JOURNAL OF Medical Advances (EJMA) without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.
The BOAI arose from a meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2, 2001. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. The participants represented many points of view, many academic disciplines, many nations, and had experience with many of the ongoing initiatives that make up the open access movement. In Budapest, they explored how the separate initiatives could work together to achieve broader, deeper, and faster success. They explored the most effective and affordable strategies for serving the interests of research, researchers, and the institutions and societies that support research. Finally, they explored how the OSI and other foundations could use their resources most productively to aid the transition to open access and to make open access publishing economically self-sustaining. The result was the BOAI. It is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy, and a statement of commitment.
When an author chooses to make their article open access, their article is made free to read and reuse immediately upon publication under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY NC) license. This allows users to copy and distribute the article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes. It further does not permit distribution of the article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work.
EJMA aims to provide quality, peer-reviewed, open access articles to thousands of physicians. The journals include papers on all of the related areas of basic and clinical medicine.
Ethical Responsibilities of Editors
The editor and field editors of EJMA should uphold the following ethical responsibilities that are based on the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
General Duties and Responsibilities
Editors are responsible for each study published in EJMA. In this respect, the editors have the following roles and responsibilities:
Relationships with Readers
Editors must make decisions taking into consideration the knowledge, skills, and expectations of all readers, researchers, and practitioners. They must also ensure that published studies are original and contribute to the literature. Moreover, they must take notice of the responses received from researchers and practitioners and provide explanatory and informative feedback.
Relationships with Authors
Editors have the following duties and responsibilities in their relations with authors:
Relationships with the Editorial Board
Editors must make sure that the members of the editorial board follow procedures in accordance with the publication policies and guidelines, and must inform members about publication policies and developments. The editors must also train new members of the editorial board and provide the information they need.
Moreover, editors must
Relationships with the Journal Owner and Publisher
The relationship between the editors and the publisher is based on the principle of independence of the editors. All of the decisions made by the editors are independent of the publisher and the owner of the journal, as required by the agreement made between the editors and the publisher.
Editorial and Blind Review Processes
Editors are obliged to comply with the blind review and review process as stated in the journal's publication policies in order to ensure that each manuscript is reviewed in an unbiased, fair, and timely manner.
Quality Assurance
Editors must make sure that articles in the journal are published in accordance with the publication policies of the journal and international standards.
Protection of Personal Information
Editors are to protect the personal information of study participants and to reject a manuscript if there is no documentation of the participants' consent. Furthermore, editors are also to protect the personal information of authors, reviewers, and readers.
Ethics Approval and Protection of Human and Animal Rights
Editors are to ensure protection of human and animal rights in the studies being reviewed and must reject experimental studies that do not have the approval of the appropriate ethics committee and other relevant bodies.
Precautions against possible Abuse and Malpractice
Editors are to take precautions against possible abuse and malpractice. They must conduct investigations of alleged misconduct meticulously and objectively and must also share the results of the investigation.
Ensuring Academic Integrity
Editors must make sure that any errors, inconsistencies, or misleading information in studies is corrected quickly.
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Editors are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights related to all articles published in the journal, and the rights of the journal and author(s) in cases where these rights are violated. Also, editors must take the necessary precautions to ensure that the content of published articles does not violate the intellectual property rights of other publications.
Constructiveness and Openness to Discussion
Editors must
Complaints
Editors must examine complaints received from authors, reviewers, or readers, and must provide an explanatory response.
External Influence
The independent decision-making of the editors cannot be subjected to influence by the owner of the journal, the publisher, or any other external political or economic factor.
Conflicting Interests
The editors, acknowledging that there may be conflicting interests between reviewers and other editors, guarantee that the publication process of the manuscripts will be completed in an independent and unbiased manner.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
The fact that all manuscripts are reviewed through a blind review process has a direct influence on the quality of the publication. This process ensures confidentiality and an objective and independent review. The review process at EJMA is a double blind review. Texts are assigned to the reviewers by the editor. Reviewers do not contact the authors directly; the review and comments are conveyed through a journal management system.
The reviewers doing review work for EJMA bear the following ethical responsibilities: Reviewers must