Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

«Eastern Ukrainian Medical Journal» (EUMJ) publishes peer-reviewed original and relevant articles in the fields of medicine and biomedicine.

The Publication Ethics is aimed at creating an accessible scientific medical edition meeting nowadays needs. It provides open access that raises the level of scientific research and promotes national and world scientific experience.

 І. General provisions of Publication Ethics

The editors take full responsibility for the quality of the published items and their relevance to the scope and aims of the journal.

All scientific facts and proposed new ideas in the articles are carefully checked to offer ethically sound and potentially valuable materials positively influencing the healthcare development in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world.

The editors value high input of local editorial board members who are supported by professional guidance of experts from many other countries.

The editorial board members are chosen based on their professional credentials and adherence to the globally acceptable research and publication ethics standards.

The editors will try their best to solicit quality articles of seasoned authors with experience in research, clinical practice, and publishing.

All authors choosing this Journal for publishing their research results and reviews will be offered editorial guidance and expedient peer review to facilitate publication of truly valuable articles.  

  The following main recommendations of the editorial associations are regularly consulted by the responsible editors to ensure the quality and ethical soundness of the publication:

The Journal editors also endorse the following editorial documents to ensure wide visibility of the publication and prevent violations of publication ethics:

In addition, the Journal supports the declarations aimed at:

II. Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief

 The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for maintaining high publication standards by upgrading his/her own editorial credentials and adhering to the recommendations of the editorial associations and locally/regionally publicized documents related to the quality and ethical standards of the periodicals.

An extra effort should be taken by the Editor-in-Chief to ensure the relevance of the Journal to the interests of healthcare providers in Ukraine and in other countries of the world .

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for compliance of the articles with the direction of the Journal and for offering editorial board membership to the best local, regional, and international scholars with strong professional interest in their field and experience in peer reviewing and editing.

Processing the Journal’s submissions is managed by the Editor-in-Chief, who is the main authority to reject, return the manuscripts to the authors for revision, or accept them after thorough evaluation of reviewer comments and recommendations of responsible section editors.

Occasionally the Editor-in-Chief may submit his/her own editorials and full papers for possible publication by the Journal. In that case, internal and external peer review should be arranged by other editors/editorial board members who are free of any conflict of interest.

IІI. Duties of Editorial Board Members

 All members of the Editorial Board are chosen for the initial three-year term that can be extended further based on the evaluation of their contributions. They are responsible for:

  1. Regularly acting as reviewers of the submissions in their field of expertise;
  2. Attending online and face-to-face editorial meetings of the Journal to revise editorial strategies and discuss matters arising;
  3. Submitting full research papers and reviews of interest to the audience of the Journal;
  4. Acting as ambassadors of the Journal at relevant local and international congresses and other meetings to attract the best submissions;
  5. Regularly upgrading their editorial skills by attending science editing meetings;
  6. Acting responsibly in line with the Practices of Publication Ethics;
  7. Ethically promoting the Journal’s published contents using popular social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

 IV. Reviewer Duties

 The reviewers are experts in their professional field who are picked by the Editor-in-Chief to fairly and objectively evaluate the submissions. They are responsible for the quality and confidentiality of their evaluations. While reviewing, they have to consult relevant standards of the EQUATOR Network and adhere to the statements of the global editorial associations, including those by the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).  To increase the Journal’s transparency and get deserved reviewer credits, the reviewers will be acknowledged by publicizing their names annually. They may also choose to list their contributions on their ORCID iDs and forward the Journal’s official acknowledgements for their reviewer accomplishments to Publons. The reviewers are responsible for: 

  1. Providing timely, courteous, and evidence-based evaluations of the assigned submissions;
  2. Declaring financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interests that may question their objectivity during the peer evaluations;
  3. Reporting to the Editor-in-Chief any suspicion of duplication and plagiarism in the evaluated submissions;
  4. Avoiding any unethical act such as copying and re-using the submissions under evaluation for their own interests;
  5. Comprehensively evaluating the submissions and suggesting the amendments that may improve the quality and ethical soundness;
  6. Suggesting highly relevant references missed by the authors of the submissions, but avoiding references that may be judged as unethical self-citations;
  7. Providing fair recommendations on whether or not the submissions to accept/revise/reject, with clear understanding that the final

V. Author Duties

 By submitting their articles, the Journal authors should aim to enrich the archive by ethically sound, well argued, and potentially testable hypotheses. They may also submit letters, reviews, expert opinion pieces, and original research articles with implications for the advancement of healthcare in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world. Submitting articles that contain unethically copied ideas, texts, and graphics is unacceptable. The authors are responsible for:   

  1. Submitting manuscripts with well checked and properly referenced scientific facts and ideas;
  2. Adhering to relevant research reporting standards of the EQUATOR Network;
  3. Fully disclosing Author Contributions and any external editing support, including that by commercial editing agencies;
  4. Stating about any previously published congress abstract(s) overlapping with the materials in the current submission;
  5. Ensuring that the current submission is not simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere;
  6. Providing full information about approval of their original research by local ethics committee(s);
  7. Declaring adherence to established ethical norms of experimental and clinical research, including mandatory statements on written informed contents of all the participants of their research;
  8. Providing full information on funding and sponsorship;
  9. Disclosing relevant financial or nonfinancial conflicts of interest;
  10. Actively promoting their published articles by sharing on social media platforms and repositing on scholarly networking sites and institutional repositories.