Aim and Scope

"National Journal glaucoma" (“Natsional'nyj zhurnal glaukоma”) is a scientific peer-reviewed journal. To assess the quality of publications the articles are reviewed by a staff of medical professionals among whom there are most prominent ophthalmologists of multiple medical institutions and Universities of Russia.

The journal publishes articles concerning various research on physiological and pathological aspects of intraocular pressure and associated ophthalmic pathology.

Our journal includes the following columns:

Original articles that include the results of the author’s scientific research in all areas of glaucoma. We welcome high level articles characterized by academic novelty and practical utility. Theoretical work is considered a priority.

Literature reviews that contain analysis of the latest achievements in all the areas of glaucoma and associated ophthalmic pathology treatment according to the latest literature

Section Policies

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

NAMES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

LITERATURE REVIEWS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

OBITUARY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

OPINION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

Open Access Policy

"National Journal glaucoma" (“Natsional'nyj zhurnal glaukоma” 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

1. All scientific articles submitted for publication are subject to peer review.
2. Editorial staff states if an article corresponds to the journal’s profile and design requirements, and sends it first to the executive editor who assesses the scientific value of the article and appoints a reviewer with similar specialization. The articles are reviewed by the members of the Editorial Board, top ophthalmologists of the Russian Federation.
3. Reviewing time (2 weeks) can be extended at reviewer’s request or if the situation so requires.
4. After analyzing the article the reviewer can advise one of the following:
   1. to publish the article as it is;
   2. to publish the article if the drawbacks specified by the reviewer are corrected;
   3. to review the article additionally by another specialist;
   4. to reject the publication.
5. Reviewing is confidential. It is conducted by the double-blind method, which means that neither the author, nor the reviewer knows each other’s name. Breach of confidentiality is possible only if there is a reviewer’s statement of consent about reporting his name to the author.
6. If a review has recommended to correct and revise the article, the editorial office secretary sends the text of the review to the author requesting him to take the recommendations into consideration when preparing a new variant of the article or dispose them reasonably (wholly or partially). An article revised by the author is to be reviewed again.
7. If an author and a reviewer have irrepressible conflicts concerning an article, the editorial board has a right to send the article to another reviewer. In conflict situations the decision is made by the editor-in-chief.
8. An article not recommended for publication by a reviewer is not to be re-reviewed. The negative review report is sent to the author by e-mail, fax or by post.
9. Original copies of reviews are kept in the editorial office for three years.

Indexation

Articles in "National Journal glaucoma" (“Natsional'nyj zhurnal glaukоma”) are indexed by several systems:

• Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database, accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RSCI project is under development since 2005 by “Electronic Scientific Library” foundation (elibrary.ru).
• Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.
• SOCIONET
• Base
• VINITI RAS
• WorldCat

Publishing Ethics

Authorship

All persons designed as “authors” should meet the criteria of the concept. Each author should have participated in the work sufficiently to take responsibility for its content. Authorship credit should be based on the following facts:

  1) substantial contribution to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
  2) drafting the article or reviewing and introducing fundamental changes in it;
  3) final approval of the version to be published.

Acquisition of funding or data collecting, as well as general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship.

Editors have the right to request and publish information about the contributions of each person in writing the article.

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the section “Acknowledgements”. The group of authors/contributors should jointly make the decision about the order in which their names are given.

Conflict of Interests

Conflict of interest concerning a particular manuscript exists when one of the participants of reviewing or publication process — an author, reviewer, or editor — has obligations that can potentially influence his or her action (even if it doesn’t actually happen). Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, and paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationship, academic competition, and intellectual passion.

All participants of the peer-review and publication process must disclose all conflicts of interests.

When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for disclosing all financial and other relationship that might bias their work. Authors should identify all individuals and institutions, who provided financial assistance, as well as other financial and personal support. Authors should describe the role of the study sponsor(s) in study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data.

Authors should provide editors with the names of persons they feel should not be asked to review a manuscript because of potential, usually professional, conflicts of interest.

Reviewers must disclose to editors any conflicts of interests that could bias their opinions of the manuscript; they should recuse themselves reviewing specific manuscripts if the potential for bias exists. In return, the editorial staff should have the possibility to judge the objectiveness of the review and decide whether to refuse the reviewer’s service.

Editorial staff may use information disclosed in conflict-of-interest and financial-interest statements as a basis for editorial decisions.

Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts must have no personal, professional, or financial interest/involvement in any of the issues they might judge. Other members of the editorial staff, if they participate in editorial decisions, must provide editors with a current description of their financial interests (as they might relate to editorial judgment) and recuse themselves from any decisions in which a conflict of interest exists.

Observance of Patients’ Rights and Confidentiality

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be violated without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials, hospital numbers and case records, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent/guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Authors should disclose to these patients whether any potential identifiable material might be available via Internet as well as in print after publication. Authors should submit written informed consent of the patient to the journal, and it should be indicated in the published article.

Protection of Human Subjects and Animals in Research

When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentations (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as reviewed in 2000. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

Publication of Negative Findings

Many studies with negative results are actually indecisive. The possibility of indecisive results publication is specially considered by the editorial staff; as such articles are frequently of no biomedical value and require the journal’s resources.

Redundant Publications

The editorial staff will not consider manuscripts that are simultaneously being considered by other journals, as well as the papers on work that has already been reported in large part in a published article or is contained in another paper that has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere, in print or in electronic media. This policy does not preclude the journal from considering a paper that has been rejected by another journal, or a complete report that follows publication of a preliminary report, such as an abstract or poster displayed at a professional meeting.

Correspondence

If necessary the readers can send their comments, questions and pointed remarks for the published articles and their comments will be published. The corresponding authors can respond to the remarks if they wish.

Author’s copies are not provided.

The articles previously published or submitted to another journal are not accepted. The editorial staff reserves the right to shorten and review the articles submitted.

The articles written and designed out of accordance with the present requirements will not be considered. The manuscripts rejected are not returned to the authors.

Detailed clauses of “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” established by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, ethical principles in particular, are located at our site (translated version of 2006), and original version (English version of 2010) can be found at www.ICMJE.org.

Founder

• Federal state budgetary institution “Research Institute of Eye Diseases”

Author fees

Publication in "National Journal glaucoma" (“Natsional'nyj zhurnal glaukоma”) is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Arcticle 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

"National Journal glaucoma" (“Natsional'nyj zhurnal glaukоma”) 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 "National Journal glaucoma" (“Natsional'nyj zhurnal glaukоma”)), 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 "National Journal glaucoma" (“Natsional'nyj zhurnal glaukоma”) 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 (by SHERPA)