Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The journal "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" is a peer-reviewed open access journal that welcomes manuscripts from all countries in English and Russian of the following types: original researches, review articles (including systematic reviews and meta-analyses), clinical observations, multicenter studies, questionnaire surveys, short communications, as well as articles on educational, economic, organizational and methodological issues. On an irregular basis, the Journal publishes national and international guidelines, as well as critical updates on rehabilitation and health-resort treatment in separate online supplements.

The Journal covers current research and development of health science and disease risk reduction, modern methods of traditional and alternative medicine aimed at maintaining the health and rehabilitation of athletes, persons in hazardous professions, the population exposed to extreme and environmentally unfavorable conditions and environment.

Aim of the Journal – to be a platform for sharing best practices in the field of health protection and resumption, as well for improving and expanding knowledge in the field of medical rehabilitation.

Readership:

  • Physical and rehabilitation medicine practitioners, clinicians in the field of neurology, cardiology, traumatology and orthopedics, pediatrics; physicians in functional and radiation diagnostics, balneologists, sports medicine specialists, physio- and occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychologists and other health professionals.

The main scope of the Journal

  • Promoting advanced research in the field of medical rehabilitation and health resort treatment, implementing the best medical science achievements into practice.

  • Systematic publication of сontent in the field of neurology, traumatology, cardiology, pediatrics, physiotherapy, gastroenterology, oncology and other branches of medical science, contributing to the improvement of scholarly knowledge of medical personnel.

  • Regular and timely updating medical community on the latest achievements and developments in the national and foreign medical science and health care, fostering international academic collaboration.

  • Coverage and promotion of best practices in the field medical rehabilitation in patients with somatic diseases, dysfunction of the central and peripheral nervous system, musculoskeletal system, etc.

The Journal covers various issues in academic subject matters and fields of science:

  • cardiology (medical sciences),

  • pediatrics (medical sciences),

  • neurology (medical sciences),

  • oncology, radiation therapy (medical sciences),

  • traumatology and orthopedics (medical sciences),

  • rehabilitation medicine, sports medicine, physical exercise therapy, balneology and physiotherapy (medical sciences),

  • rehabilitation medicine, sports medicine, exercise therapy, balneology and physiotherapy (biological sciences).

The Journal emphasizes vigorous peer-review with most rapid turnaround time possible from submission to publication to comply with the Editorial Policy of the Journal and the Guidelines for Authors.

All articles are accompanied by abstracts in Russian and English. In order to increase international coverage and access to the content of our articles, all disclaimers and ethical statements (e.g. disclosures, funding, acknowledgments), and all captions to figures and tables are available both in Russian and in English as well as a mandatory bibliometric information in both languages (e.g. author affiliations and bibliography).

 

Sections

 

Peer Review Process

Guiding principles of the peer review processes

  1. The peer review policy is designed to be consistent with the best practices and ethical standards set out in recommendation of COPE, and ICMJE.

  2. All types of manuscripts and materials, including supplements (irregular issues) as well as accompanying materials (e.g. "raw data files") are reviewed.

  3. Double-blind peer review is used (reviewers do not know the identity of authors, including their affiliations, and authors do not know the reviewers).

  4. Blinding of the manuscript is done by the Managing Editor.

  5. Single-blind peer review is applied for manuscripts submitted by Editorial Board members (reviewers do not know the authors ' identity, including their affiliations).

  6.  Authors can suggest their own reviewers. However, the final decision on the choice of the particular reviewer is made by the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor-in-Chief or Managing Editor.  

  7. Peer-review is carried out by members of the Editorial Board and Editorial Council, as well as invited reviewers – leading experts in the relevant branch (medicine) in Russia and other countries.

  8. Each reviewer has the right to withdraw from the review if there is a clear conflict of interest that affects the perception and interpretation of the manuscript materials.

  9. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. 

  10. Peer review is free of charge.

  11. The purpose of reviewing is to determine the compliance of manuscripts with the stated aims and scope and the subject area of the Journal. Manuscripts are reviewed for scientific novelty and clinical relevance, absence of plagiarism, clarity and comprehensibility, as well as compliance with all ethical standards in the field of biomedical research. Other objectives include supporting transparency, reproducibility and data sharing (including proper registration of clinical trials).

  12. The review is conducted in accordance with the internal form and the reviewer's checklist, which require a detailed reasoned statement, necessary information about the terms and conditions of scientific review, the confidentiality regime and the protection of personal data (including GDPR [https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/eu-data-protection-rules_en]) etc.

  13. As part of the procedure of the author's disagreement with the decision of the Editorial Board, the author has the right to submit a written reasoned complaint (once per manuscript). The Editorial Board is obliged to consider it no later than 3 weeks and make a final decision, which is not subject to revision.

  14. A publisher and Journal owners make every effort to provide ongoing retraining for the Editorial Board, as well as open seminars for potential authors on biomedical ethics, international best practices and guidelines. The journal is a member of ANRI (Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers, affiliated to the European Association of Science Editors), where, on a quarterly basis, it conducts retraining of its staff at its Academy.

 

Key indicators and timelines

  • Percentage of acceptance/rejection rate of manuscripts: 28%/72%.

  • Term of initial review (screening) of the manuscript: no more than 10 days.

  • Duration of the first round рецензированияof review: no more than 4 weeks.

  • Deadline after which the manuscript is rejected if authors do not return the revised version: after 90 days.

  • Deadline after which a manuscript is rejected if the authors do not return a revised version even if there is no information from the authors with a refusal to finalize the article: after 90 days.

  • Average time from manuscript submission to acceptance for printing: 78 days.

  • Retention period of the original manuscript, reviews and correspondence with authors: 5 years.

 

 

Publication Frequency

The Journal is published bimonthly 6 times a year in print and electronic versions.

Issue number

Issue theme

Release date (end of the month)

1

Neurorehabilitation

February

2

Medical rehabilitation in traumatology and orthopedics

April

3

Medical rehabilitation in cardiology

June

4

Medical rehabilitation in pediatrics

August

5

Interdisciplinary problems of medical rehabilitation and health treatment

October

6

Interdisciplinary problems of medical rehabilitation and health resort treatment

December

 

Open Access Policy

1. Open Access Statement

"Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" is an open access journal; it provides direct open access to its content, based on the following principle: free open access to research results contributes to the global knowledge exchange.
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, scan them for indexing, 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

2. Copyright and Licensing Terms
Authors who publish with the "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" Journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License that allows others to freely copy, distribute and adapt the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book) with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

The author retains unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights. Learn more about their copyright policy

 

Archiving

The journal uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve all the published articles. The PKP PN is a part of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.

The journal makes archives in Portico for compliance with the MEDLINE preservation requirement for electronic journals. Portico is a community-supported preservation archive that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections.

Also, the journal makes full-text archives on the Russian Science Electronic Library (http://elibrary.ru/) platform.

 

Author Self-Archiving

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine", 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 "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

Glossary

  • Preprint is a draft of an academic article or other publication before it has been submitted for peer-review or other quality assurance procedure as part of the publication process. Preprints cover initial and successive drafts of articles, working papers or draft conference papers. 
  • Postprint - The final version of an academic article or other publication - after it has been peer-reviewed and revised into its final form by the author. As a general term this covers both the author's final version and the version as published, with formatting and copy-editing changes in place.

 

Indexing

For greater accessibility and archiving of articles, the Journal is indexed in key bibliometric and archival databases, which provide access to abstracts or the full text.

 

Digital archiving and policy of data keeping

The author can:

  • archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
  • archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)

However, we recommend to wait until the publisher’s version is issued because it has a set of data that facilitate you future citation.

  • author can archive publisher’s version/PDF

Policy of data keeping

Storage policy is aimed at selection, storage and access to journal archives and includes the following objectives:

  • Compliance of archiving materials to Archives' state standards.
  • Registration and publication of articles in accordance with professional standards.
  • Ensuring wide access to archived material, provided by editorial practice.

Archive includes texts of articles, peer-reviews, abstracts and bibliographies, which are published in the journal. These materials are of great scientific value, as they comprise the most significant results of scientific research.

Information on all the articles published in the journal is stored on the publisher's server and is available in the public domain on the website of the journal.

The journal is presented in open access on the platform of Scientific Electronic Libraries:

In Scientific Electronic Library everybody can use the advanced search by journal articles (by keyword, author, title, chapter). Link to the full text of the article is marked on the page in the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.ru that complies with the storage stadards of digital data.

 

Publishing Ethics

The Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement of the journal "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct guidelines available at www.publicationethics.org, and requirements for peer-reviewed medical journals ((http://health.elsevier.ru/attachments/editor/file/ethical_code_final.pdf), elaborated by the "Elsevier" Publishing House (in accordance with international ethical rules of scientific publications)

 

  1. Introduction

1.1. The publication in a peer reviewed learned journal, serves many purposes outside of simple communication. It is a building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. For all these reasons and more it is important to lay down standards of expected ethical behaviour by all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society for society-owned or sponsored journal: "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine"

1.2. Publisher has a supporting, investing and nurturing role in the scholarly communication process but is also ultimately responsible for ensuring that best practice is followed in its publications.

1.3. Publisher takes its duties of guardianship over the scholarly record extremely seriously. Our journal programmes record «the minutes of science» and we recognise our responsibilities as the keeper of those «minutes» in all our policies not least the ethical guidelines that we have here adopted.

  1. Duties of Editors

2.1.Publication decision – The Editor of a learned "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working on conjunction with the relevant society (for society-owned or sponsored journals). The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always underwrite such decisions. The Editor may be guided by the policies of the "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making this decision.

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

2.3. Confidentiality – The editor and any editorial staff of "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" 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. Disclosure and Conflicts of interest

2.4.1. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’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.

2.4.2. Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) 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. Vigilance over published record – An editor presented with convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous should coordinate with the publisher (and/or society) to promote the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant.

2.6. Involvement and cooperation in investigations – An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). 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 research bodies.

  1. Duties of Reviewers

3.1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions – Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. Publisher 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 referee 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 "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" and excuse himself from the review process.

3.3. Confidentiality – Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

3.4. Standard and objectivity – Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

3.5. Acknowledgement of Sources – Reviewers  should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument 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 of which they have personal knowledge.

3.6. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

3.6.1. 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.

3.6.2. 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.

 

  1. Duties of Authors

4.1. Reporting standards

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 detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

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

4.2.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.

4.3.Originality and Plagiarism

4.3.1. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

4.3.2. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s 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 behaviour and is unacceptable.

4.4.Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

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

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

4.4.3. 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 www.icmje.org.

4.5.Acknowledgement 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.

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, 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.

4.6.2. 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.

4.7. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

4.7.1. 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.

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 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.

4.8. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

4.8.1. All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

4.8.2. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest 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 Rehabilitation Medicine" journal and cooperate with Publisher 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 retract or correct the paper.

  1. Duties of the Publisher (and if relevant, Society)

5.1. Publisher should adopt policies and procedures that support editors, reviewers and authors of "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" in performing their ethical duties under these ethics guidelines. The publisher should ensure that the potential for advertising or reprint revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

5.2. The publisher should support "Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" journal editors in the review of complaints raised concerning ethical issues and help communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful to editors.

5.3. Publisher should develop codes of practice and inculcate industry standards for best practice on ethical matters, errors and retractions.

5.4. Publisher should provide specialised legal review and counsel if necessary.

 

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

"Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine" use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE. guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

 

Policy on revocation or correction of articles

Fundamental errors in published works, Corrections and Retractions, Crossmark

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 retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

When errors are identified in published articles, the publisher will consider what action is required and may consult the editors and the authors’ institution(s). 

Errors by the authors may be corrected by a corrigendum, and errors by the publisher — by an erratum (see more on the CrossMark Policy page).

If there are errors that significantly affect the conclusions or there is evidence of misconduct, this may require retraction or an expression of concern following the COPE Retraction Guidelines. All authors will be asked to agree to the content of the appropriate notice.

Editors should consider retracting a publication if:

  • They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of major error (eg, miscalculation or experimental error), or as a result of fabrication (eg, of data) or falsification (eg, image manipulation)
  • It constitutes plagiarism
  • The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper attribution to previous sources or disclosure to the editor, permission to republish, or justification (ie, cases of redundant publication)
  • It contains material or data without authorisation for use
  • Copyright has been infringed or there is some other serious legal issue (eg, libel, privacy)
  • It reports unethical research
  • It has been published solely on the basis of a compromised or manipulated peer review process
  • The author(s) failed to disclose a major competing interest (a.k.a. conflict of interest) that, in the view of the editor, would have unduly affected interpretations of the work or recommendations by editors and peer reviewers.

Notices of retraction should:

  • Be linked to the retracted article wherever possible (ie, in all online versions)
  • Clearly identify the retracted article (eg, by including the title and authors in the retraction heading or citing the retracted article)
  • Be clearly identified as a retraction (ie, distinct from other types of correction or comment)
  • Be published promptly to minimise harmful effects
  • Be freely available to all readers (ie, not behind access barriers or available only to subscribers)
  • State who is retracting the article
  • State the reason(s) for retraction
  • Be objective, factual and avoid inflammatory language.

Retractions are not usually appropriate if:

  • The authorship is disputed but there is no reason to doubt the validity of the findings
  • The main findings of the work are still reliable and correction could sufficiently address errors or concerns
  • An editor has inconclusive evidence to support retraction, or is awaiting additional information such as from an institutional investigation (for information about Expressions of Concern see https://publicationethics.org/expressions-of-concern-forum-discussion)
  • Author conflicts of interest have been reported to the journal after publication, but in the editor’s view these are not likely to have influenced interpretations or recommendations or the conclusions of the article.

For more information:

 

The position in relation to the authorship

All members of the group of authors should meet all four criteria of authorship set forth in the ICMJE recommendations: 1) concept and design development or data analysis and interpretation, and 2) manuscript justification or verification of critical intellectual content, and 3) final approval for publication of the manuscript, and 4) consent to be responsible for all aspects of the work, and assume that issues relating to the thoroughness and diligent execution of any part of the study submitted are duly investigated and resolved.

Large group of authors sign the authorship on behalf of the group with/without specifying the names of each of them. In this case, the manuscript is authorized by the responsible author, and the group is given a name. The list of names of non-authors, but persons who contributed to the submitted work, do not meet the criteria of authorship is presented separately.

Non-authors and contributors do not meet all four authorship criteria. Their functions may be: funding, General management of the research team, General administrative support, participation in writing, technical revision of the text, scientific revision of the text, correction and proofreading. Their contribution is noted individually or as part of a group in the Acknowledgements section, their contribution to the work must be defined in writing (scientific consultant, critical data analysis, data collection, etc.)

 

Disclosure policy clinical studies

According to the latest ICMJE guidelines, authors must submit a separate Data Sharing Statement when submitting a paper containing clinical trial data.

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) requested that as of July 1, 2018, manuscripts that report clinical trial results must contain a disclosure statement. Clinical trials that begin enrollment on or after January 1, 2019 must include a disclosure plan in the trial registration details. ICMJE's policy on research registration is set out at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html.

If the disclosure plan changes after registration, this must be reflected in the application filed and published with the manuscript, and the registry entry must also be updated. 

Examples of ICMJE-compliant disclosure statements provided

 

For advertizers

The journal "Bulletin of Rehabilitation medicine" has a high-quality coverage of the target audience on specialized medical topics. The publication has existed since 2002, has a stable audience and is presented at key exhibitions, which allows you to create various advertising special projects.

Advertising policy

  1. Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine can publish advertising and marketing materials (AMMs) for a fee.

  2. AMMs cannot cover more than 10% of the overall area of the journal.

  3. AMMs are designed for practising medical specialists and professionals and do not contain information on any harmful products. AMMs are meant for medical practice, medical education or medical treatment.

  4. All AMMs are accepted and published under the responsibility of the advertiser who is authorised to publish advertising materials.

  5. Advertisers are fully responsible for the information in AMMs published and their authenticity.

  6. Any advertising publications submitted to the editorial office should comply with Russian legislation and Federal Law No. 38-FZ On Advertising dated 13/03/2006 (as amended from time to time). Pharmaceutical ads should comply with Federal Law No. 61-FZ On the Circulation of Drugs dated 12/04/2010.

  7. Any AMMs should be accompanied with the advertiser and trademark or signature and should comply with Russian law.

  8. Advertisers cannot have an influence on the editing and advertising policy of the editorial office.

  9. AMMs submitted to the editorial office should be separated from materials for the editorial board and reviewers.

  10. AMMs are placed in a designated section, at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the issue or on its cover pages.

  11. The editorial office guarantees a specific place for advertising materials provided this is stipulated by the advertising agreement.

  12. Once the advertiser has proven that AMMs comply with the contractual provisions, the editorial office is not responsible for any errors in ads and losses incurred by the advertiser.

  13. If the advertiser fails to pay, the editorial office may bring the advertiser to justice and demand payment.

  14. The advertiser agrees to compensate for any losses which the editorial office incurs because of AMMs , including claims and suits for defamation, breach of confidentiality clauses, copyright or piracy.

  15. Advertising in the journal does constitute the promotion or endorsement by the editorial office or editorial board of the product, company or service being advertised. The editorial office can be mentioned in AMMs only upon receipt of written consent from the editorial office. Any references on the journal’s website can be included only upon receipt of consent by the editorial office.

  16. The editorial office shall not disclose any personal information of website users or subscribers to advertisers.

  17. Advertisers shall not have an influence on requests by users on the journal’s website.

  18. The editorial office can amend these provisions from time to time. Such amendments will not apply to any materials already accepted for publication.

Advertising Material Requirements

Edged format catalogs 210 x 297 mm.

Graphic materials

  • Raster graphics. Accepted in TIFF, JPEG format. Full-color images should be converted to the CMYK model; two-tone - black, cyan; black and white - grayscale. The resolution of the image should be twice the lineature of the raster at a size of 1: 1 (i.e. 300 dpi for the lineature of 150 lpi). Images must be accompanied by a control printout.
    Extraneous Alpha channels MUST NOT be present in images!
  • Vector graphics. Accepted only in EPS, CDR, PDF format. All texts must be converted to curves. The raster files (TIFF) included in the images should not be linked, but should be inside the file and have the appropriate size (1: 1). All colors used in images must be CMYK. Images must be accompanied by a control printout.
    Striped ads should take into account 5 mm trimmed on each side.

Any layout of materials is accepted only in the formats listed above!

Dimensions of advertising modules

1 right through.........215 x 307 (210x297 + 5 mm per sawn-off on each side)
1 in the dial bar.......170 x 257

If there are links to pages in the ad strip, you must temporarily replace them with two capital letters "XX" and attach the font that links are made to the ad module.

ATTENTION!

  1. Advertising and information modules must STRICTLY comply with the above dimensions;
  2. A control printout is required;
  3. If there are errors, inconsistencies in the advertising text and if technical requirements are not met, the information materials are returned to the advertiser for revision.

 

Copyright

According to the license agreement signed by the authors, the authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive license to use the article created by the authors as soon as this agreement enters into force.

All published manuscripts are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License .

 

Management and editorial policy

The Journal policies follow the principles of transparency and best practices established by the following documents: Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals (ICMJE) and Principles of Transparency and best practice in Scholarly Publishing (joint statement COPE, DOAJ, WAME, and OASPA)

A decision on publication of an article is made exclusively on the basis of its quality and appropriate peer review. All editorial decisions are made without any intervention of the owner or affiliated organizations and irrespective of financial, political or personal relations of the editor-in-chief and members of the editorial board.

The Editor-in-Chief has the final say in terms of the Journal branding and publication of promotional content or sponsored issues. The Editor-in-Chief is also provided with the opportunity to directly address the first persons of the Owner in case of undecidable contradictions.

The Journal regularly audits its editorial and ethical policies with the involvement of independent experts in the field of medical scientific periodicals and new members of the Advisory Board for compliance with the best international standards and practices in the development and maintenance of a transparent and ethical process with respect to editors, authors and reviewers.


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