Journal Sections

• Clinical Cases
• Reviews
• Original Articles
• Clinical Medicine
• Preventive Medicine
• Editorials
• Problem Articles
• Anniversaries

Journal Scope

• Dermatovenereology
• Surgery
• Urology and Andrology
• Rehabilitative Medicine
• Otorhinolaryngology
• Healthcare Management
• Plastic Surgery
• Endovascular Surgery
• Radiology
• Forensic Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine
• Infectious Diseases
• Traumatology and Orthopedics
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Internal Diseases
• Endocrinology

Periodicity

Published four times a year.

Open Access Policy

The journal "Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education" provides open access to its content, based on the principle of free and open access, which fosters the global exchange of knowledge and research results.

Content is available under a license Creative Commons 4.0 License

Attribution. Non Commercial. No Derivatives. International.

Archiving

The archive consists of the full texts of peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and reference lists published in the journal. These materials are of significant scientific value, as they embody the most significant results of scientific research.

Information regarding all articles published in the journal is stored on the publisher's server and is openly accessible on the journal's website.

The journal is available via open access on the Scientific Electronic Libraries platform:

Reviewing

The editors of the journal "Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education" adhere to two review circles. All articles sent to the editor initially undergo an anonymous internal and external review process.

Articles are assessed according to the following criteria:

• originality
• scientific relevance
• relevance of the selected research methods
• interpretation of research results
• bibliography

The editors provide a double (by specialty and by the reliability of the research results) independent expert assessment of manuscripts. Articles submitted to the editors of the journal “Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education” must comply with the profile of the Journal and the rules for submitting manuscripts by the authors.

All scientific articles submitted to the editorial office of the journal undergo mandatory blind reviewing (the reviewer does not know the authors of the manuscript, the authors of the manuscript do not know the reviewers).

The review procedure includes the following steps:

1. Internal review.
   An examination of the article by the scientific editor of the journal is carried out to determine whether the article meets the basic requirements for manuscripts:
   • All articles received by the editor are checked using the Anti-Plagiarism system for the presence of borrowings.
   • The manuscript of a scientific article received by the editorial office of the journal is examined for compliance with the subject of the journal and the requirements for its design, registered and sent for review to two reviewers for the purpose of their expert assessment.
2. External review.
   The journal "Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education" has adopted a double-blind review format. The choice of two independent experts is determined by the editor-in-chief, scientific editor and members of the editorial board, taking into account the thematic focus of the submitted materials.

Reviewing of articles is carried out on a voluntary and free basis.

Independent experts are selected from among persons who have an academic degree of at least a candidate of medical sciences and who do not have scientific financial or any other relationships with the authors of the article and the editors of the journal.

Reviewing of articles is carried out both by members of the editorial board and by invited reviewers - leading experts in the relevant field of medicine in Russia and other countries.

The reviewer cannot be the author or co-author of the work being reviewed, as well as the scientific supervisors of applicants for an academic degree and employees of the department in which the author/co-authors of the article work.

The review procedure is confidential. Reviewers are notified that manuscripts submitted for review are the intellectual property of the authors and are classified as non-disclosure information. Reviewers are not permitted to use manuscripts for their own purposes. Violation of anonymity and confidentiality is possible only in the event of a statement about the unreliability or falsification of materials. Unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts may not be used.

The review is compiled according to the standard form proposed by the editors with the obligatory coverage of the following provisions:

• relevance of the presented article;
• scientific novelty of the research direction discussed in the article;
• practical significance of the problem posed and/or the results obtained in the field of knowledge under consideration;
• adequacy and modernity of research methods;
• sufficiency and information content of the research material;
• correctness and completeness of discussion of the results obtained;
• compliance of the conclusions with the purpose and objectives of the study;
• admissibility of the volume of the manuscript as a whole and its individual elements (text, tables, illustrative material, bibliographic references);
• adequacy, quality and expediency of placing tables, illustrative material in the article and their compliance with the topic being presented;
• quality of the article’s design: style of presentation, adequacy of terminology and its compliance with that accepted in the field of knowledge under consideration.

The reviewer is obliged to give an objective assessment of the manuscript. Personal comments to the author(s) are unacceptable. The reviewer must clearly and reasonably express his opinion.

The reviewer should, whenever possible, identify significant published work relevant to the topic and relevant to the manuscript being reviewed that is not included in the bibliography of the manuscript. Any statement in a review that some observation, conclusion, or argument from the reviewed manuscript has previously been found in the literature must be accompanied by an accurate bibliographic reference. The reviewer should bring to the attention of the editor-in-chief any significant similarity or overlap between the manuscript under review and any other previously published work.

The review period is 45 days, but at the request of the reviewer it can be extended.

Based on the results of consideration of the manuscript, the reviewer makes recommendations on the further fate of the article (each decision of the reviewer is justified):

• the article is recommended for publication in its present form;
• the article is recommended for publication after correction of the shortcomings noted by the reviewer;
• the article needs additional review by another specialist;
• the article cannot be published in the journal;

The procedure for informing authors about the results of the review.

Based on the results of the review, the article can either be rejected, sent to the authors for revision, or accepted for publication. If the review contains recommendations for correcting and finalizing the article, the editors of the journal send the text of the review to the author with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article or to refute them with reason (partially or completely). Revision of the article should not take more than 2 months from the date of sending an email to the authors about the need to make changes. The article revised by the author is re-submitted for review.

If the authors refuse to revise the materials, they must notify the editors of their refusal to publish the article. If the authors do not return the revised version after 3 months from the date of sending the review, even in the absence of information from the authors refusing to revise the article, the editors will remove it from the register. In such situations, the authors are sent a corresponding notification about the removal of the manuscript from registration due to the expiration of the period allotted for revision.

If the author and reviewers have irresolvable contradictions regarding the manuscript, the editorial board has the right to send the manuscript for additional review. In conflict situations, the decision is made by the editor-in-chief at a meeting of the editorial board.

Indexing

Publications in the journal "Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education" are included in systems for calculating author and journal citation indices. A "citation index" is a numerical metric characterizing the significance of a given article, calculated based on subsequent publications that cite the work in question. The journal is indexed in abstracting and full-text databases, as well as in scientometric and search systems:

Publication Fee

Publication in the journal is free for authors.

The Editorial Board does not charge authors fees for open-access publication, peer review, journal production, website maintenance, or the electronic archiving of manuscripts..

Founder and Publisher

Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian Biotechnological University (ROSBIOTECH)"

Scientific Publication Ethics

The editorial policy of the journal "Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education" is based on international standards of editorial ethics, which apply to the activities of all participants in the publication process: editors, reviewers, and authors.

Article Retraction Policy

Article retraction is a mechanism for correcting published information and alerting readers that a publication contains serious flaws or erroneous data that cannot be trusted. Grounds for retracting an article may include duplicate publication, detected plagiarism, serious errors in the research, or other violations.

In accordance with the rules of the Scientific Publications Ethics Council of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP), the grounds for article retraction are:

• detection of improper borrowing (plagiarism) in the publication;
• duplication of the article across multiple publications;
• detection of falsification or fabrication in the work (e.g., manipulation of experimental data);
• detection of serious errors in the work (e.g., misinterpretation of results) that cast doubt on its scientific validity;
• improper authorship (inclusion of individuals who do not meet the criteria for authorship);
• undisclosed conflicts of interest (and other violations of publication ethics);
• the article did not undergo the peer-review process.

The primary objective of retraction is to correct published information and ensure its integrity, rather than to punish authors who have committed violations.

Article retraction is initiated upon an official request from the journal's editorial board or the author. When an article is retracted, it remains within the journal; however, the article's metadata, the file itself, and database entries are updated to indicate that the article has been withdrawn.

Disclosure Policy and Conflicts of Interest

- Unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts may not be used in personal research without the written consent of the author.

- Information or ideas obtained during the review process that relate to potential advantages must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain.

- Reviewers must not participate in the review of manuscripts in the event of conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other interactions and relationships with any of the authors, companies, or other organizations associated with the submitted work.

Borrowing and plagiarism

Upon receipt of a manuscript, the Editorial Board of the journal *Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education* subjects the material to a plagiarism check using the Antiplagiat system. Should extensive instances of borrowing be detected, the Editorial Board will proceed in accordance with COPE guidelines.

The permissible limit for borrowed material (including self-citations)—provided it is properly attributed in accordance with established rules (i.e., with a reference to the original source)—is no more than 30% of the total article volume. This requirement does not apply to review articles; such materials are evaluated by the Editorial Board on an individual basis.

If suspicions of plagiarism are substantiated, or if technical methods designed to conceal its presence are detected, the manuscript will be rejected and will not proceed to further review. The authors will be notified of the rejection, citing the suspicion of plagiarism as the grounds for the decision.

Preprint and Postprint Archiving Policy

Upon submission of an article, the author is required to confirm that the work has not been previously published or accepted for publication in another academic journal. When citing an article published in the journal "Vestnik Meditsinskogo Instituta Nepreryvnogo Obrazovaniya", the publisher requests that a link to the DOI be included.

Articles previously posted by authors on personal or public websites—provided such sites are not affiliated with other publishers—are eligible for consideration.

Advertising Policy

Any advertising material submitted to the editorial office must comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation and Federal Law No. 38-FZ "On Advertising" dated March 13, 2006 (including all amendments and supplements); furthermore, the space allocated for advertising may not exceed 5% of the publication's total print space.

Ethical Oversight

The journal *Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education* shares COPE’s view that publication ethics encompasses not only ensuring the integrity and reliability of published research but also ethical conduct regarding research subjects. This category includes vulnerable populations, laboratory animals, human subjects (in cases where such research is conducted), confidential data, and business or marketing practices.

Human Rights Policy

When presenting the results of experimental studies involving human subjects, authors must indicate whether the procedures performed complied with the ethical standards set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki. If the study was conducted without adherence to the principles of the Declaration, authors must justify the chosen approach and provide assurance that the approach was approved by the ethics committee of the institution where the research was conducted.

Subscription

The electronic version of the journal is provided under an open-access Creative Commons 4.0 License

Attribution. Non Commercial. No Derivatives. International.

Generative AI Usage Policy

In light of the growing use of generative AI and AI-enabled technologies in the preparation of scientific manuscripts, the "Bulletin of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education" is introducing a policy governing their application. The journal will continue to monitor developments in this field and, as necessary, will update this policy to ensure a responsible and ethical approach.