Submissions

Please see our information on Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Back to top

Our policy is to ensure that the research described in the published articles meets moral and ethical principles and standards. To achieve this, we try to evaluate the ethical aspects of any submitted work in which humans or animals are involved.

All procedures describing experiments involving humans and animals should be carried out under the bioethics standards declared in the relevant laws:

• World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki

• European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals used for Experimental and other Scientific Purposes

• Article 26 "Rules of treatment of animals used in scientific experiments, testing, educational process, production of biological preparations" of the Law of Ukraine "On protection of animals from cruel treatment" and others.

The authors should conduct research in a way that ensures adequate steps have been taken to minimize harm to participants, to avoid coercion or exploitation, to protect the confidentiality, and to minimize the risk of physical and psychological harm.

The manuscript should clearly state that informed consent has been obtained from all people who have been the subject of research.

Research involving animals should be conducted taking into account the 3Rs principles:
"The 3Rs are a widely accepted ethical framework for conducting scientific experiments using animals humanely: Replacement — use of non-animal methods; Reduction — methods which reduce the number of animals used; Refinement — methods which improve animal welfare”.

Experimental studies carried out on humans or animals must necessarily be approved by the Ethics Committee (Commission) of the scientific institution on the basis of which the study was conducted. The note about it and no. of the minutes of the meeting should be specified in the manuscript. Legal and ethical approval must be obtained prior to the study.

The experimental procedure should be carefully described in the section "Materials and methods".

In case of impossibility of full observance of the specified norms, the author should justify the change of the Protocol, approve it by the local Committee on Bioethics and note the corresponding changes in the section "Materials and methods".

Back to top

When submitting a manuscript, the authors are responsible for disclosing all competing interests that are likely to appear to interfere their work (financial or private relationships with organizations, commercial companies, producers and distributors of medications, medical and laboratory facilities relevant to the article. All authors must disclose potential conflicts of interest that could be considered to bias the results or conclusions represented in the article.

The author must include the information on a conflict of interest at the end of the manuscript (prior the references) in the section ‘Information disclosure statement’ under the heading ‘Conflict of interest statement’. If any author has no a conflict of interest, you should state: ‘The author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.

More information on the web page Conflict of interest

Back to top

The authors should provide with the third-party financing of research work (grants, pensions, donations, medical entities supplying equipment, medications and/or other support contributing to research or writhing an article). It is important to describe in details the role of sponsors in study design; collection, analyzing and interpretation of the data; decision of results publication; preparing and correction of the article. If a sponsor did not participate, the authors should state it. If a research had no any funding, the article should include: ‘The research had no sponsor support’. Information about funding should be placed at the end of a manuscript (prior references) in the section ‘Information disclosure statement’ under the heading ‘Funding’.

Back to top

Please ensure that you have obtained written consent from any patients that are identifiable from the images or videos in your manuscript before you submit your manuscript. Indicate in your manuscript text that you have obtained written consent for any patient(s) that are identifiable from the images or videos. Formal consents are not required for the use of entirely anonymised images from which the individual cannot be identified - for example, x-rays, ultrasound images, pathology slides or laparoscopic images, provided that these do not contain any identifying marks and are not accompanied by text that might identify the individual concerned. For identifiable images, if consent has not been obtained, it is generally not sufficient to anonymise a photograph simply by using eye bars or blurring the face of the individual concerned. For more information, please review the Informed Consent Policy.

Back to top

Authors, who are published in this Journal, agree to the following conditions:

1. The authors reserve the right to authorship of the work and pass the first publication right of this work to the Journal under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely distribute the published research with the obligatory reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of the work in this Journal.

2. The authors have the right to conclude separate supplement agreements that relate to non-exclusive work distribution in the form of which it has been published by the Journal (for example, to upload the work to the online storage of the Journal or publish it as part of a monograph), provided that the reference to the first publication of the work in this Journal is included.

Back to top

A submitted manuscript is a confidential material. Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal will not disclose submitted manuscript to anyone except individuals who partake in the processing and preparation of the manuscript for publication (if accepted). These individuals include editorial staff, corresponding authors, potential reviewers, actual reviewers, and editors. However, in suspected cases of misconduct, a manuscript may be revealed to third parties that may require it for the resolution of the misconduct. Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal shall follow the appropriate COPE flowcharts wherever necessary.

Back to top

Materials are accepted by online submission system https://theunj.org/submission/wizard or e-mail unj.office@gmail.com

All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by e-mail.

Back to top

In the academic environment, the priority is the authenticity and uniqueness of the works of the participants in the scientific process, since any scientific work should complement what has already been said, that is, bring intellectual benefit. Borrowed research results do not bring any scientific benefit and only harm science.

All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism, duplication of publications and reuse of text using the Unicheck Plagiarism Service.

Back to top

1. Manuscripts submitted by the editorial office are subject to mandatory peer review to ensure the quality control of scientific work.

2. The editor-in-chief determines the compliance of the manuscript with the journal profile and main requirements to the scientific content of the material and sends the manuscript for review to two independent experts (members of the editorial board and/or external reviewers), who are recognized as specialists in the subject matter of the reviewed material.

3. The peer review is double-blind: the identities of both the referees and the authors are kept anonymous. The manuscript is sent to reviewers without specifying the names.

4. Reviewing is confidential. Reviewers are informed that the manuscripts submitted to them are the property of the authors and contain confidential information. Breach of confidentiality is only permitted in cases of claiming plagiarism or falsification of materials, in other cases its keeping is obligatory.

5. The reviewer has the option to decline reviewing a manuscript, but he is obligated to promptly inform the editorial office of his refusal.

6. The maximum peer review period is 14 days. Correspondence between the editorial office and reviewers is carried out electronically with strict adherence to confidentiality requirements.

7. The peer review should be complete and substantiated, written in a polite and friendly manner with a mandatory conclusion in one of the following forms:

- "Recommended for publication";

- "Reject for revision";

- "Not recommended for publication".

8. If the review contains comments on the manuscript, it is sent to the author with a proposal to consider the expert's recommendations when revising the manuscript or refute them with arguments. The revised manuscript is sent for examination to the same reviewer. Author-reviewer communication occurs only through the editorial office, in electronic form, with strict observance to anonymity.

9. A manuscript that has received discrepant referee reviews may be sent for additional review or the issue of its publication may be considered by the editorial board.

10. If the manuscript receives two negative reviews, the editor-in-chief has the right to immediately reject the manuscript and not publish it.

11. The final decision on the publication of the article is made by the editor-in-chief.

Back to top

The publication costs for Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal are covered by the Romodanov Neurosurgery Institute, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.