About the Journal
PURPOSE AND GOAL OF THE JOURNAL
The journal is in the list of scientific specialized publications of Ukraine of category B:
in the field of medical sciences (the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine №409 from 17.03.2020): in the field of specialization 222 Medicine “Neurology”, “Psychiatry, Narcology”, 225 Medical Psychology;
in the field of psychological sciences (the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine №627 from 14.05.2020): in the field of specialization 053 Psychology «Medical Psychology».
Journal of Psychiatry, Neurology and Medical Psychology publishes survey papers, articles, results of original and experimental research, articles of debatable nature, short reports, lectures, reviews, cases from clinical practice, materials of informative nature, works on teaching neurology, psychiatry and medical psychology, and other materials devoted to pressing problems of neurology, psychiatry, narcology and medical psychology.
The journal is published for the purpose of high-quality communication of scientists, development of national scientific potential and its integration into the world scientific space.
The journal is published 2-4 times a year.
The journal supports the policy of open access to the published content, supporting the principles of free dissemination of scientific information.
After the authors have submitted the article, the editor checks the materials for compliance with the rules and the journal profile, as well as for the existence of illegal borrowings. If the article does not meet the requirements, it is rejected.
The journal uses a double-blind review mechanism (authors do not know the information about the reviewers, and the authors are unknown to the reviewers). Submitted materials are published only after having received positive feedback from two reviewers appointed by the editorial board (in the case of a disputable situation, a third reviewer is involved). Members of the editorial board of the journal who are the specialists in the subject matter to which the manuscript belongs, are invited to the review as well as the third-party researchers (as the exception) whose interests coincide with the subject of the presented work. The reviewer evaluates the submitted materials in terms of the originality of the results, the conformity of the analysis with the conclusions, and makes the decisions on acceptance of the article without changes, after elimination of the comments or their rejection. The editor examines the reviewed materials, makes comments, and decides on the possibility of their publication. The review process takes one month. After the authors of the articles have received the reviews, they are given two weeks (with the possibility of correction) to remove the reviewers’ and editors’ remarks.
There is no charge for submitting the manuscript / article. There is also no payment for the design and formatting of the article materials.
The technical editor verifies the submitted text for plagiarism using detection software Unicheck.
This system determines the percentage of borrowed text by the following index: the percentage of text that determines the level of borrowings found in certain sources, which consist of text fragments containing at least 8 words in a row.
If according to the results of the check the percentage of borrowed text exceeds 15%, the submission is rejected.
The editorial staff adheres to the "open access" policy of the published material in accordance with the Budapest Initiative.
Full text of scientific articles of the journal, their constituent parts and corresponding metadata are available in the public domain on the website of the journal, as well as in various citation systems and databases (ISSN, Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, DOAJ, Index Copernicus).
For each author in all articles of the journal the following is indicated:
- current workplace and position;
- academic degree and academic title;
- postal and e-mail addresses;
- contact information of the author responsible for correspondence (in Ukrainian / Russian and English).
This allows the author to communicate directly with experts from different countries. Each article is assigned a DOI, and the attached metadata contain additional information suitable for computer processing and other identifiers of the posted materials.
The editorial board of the journal is guided by the standards of publishing ethics, standards of material review, principles of licensing, observance of copyright and related rights, which are contained in relevant international standards, professional codes and manuals including the following:
- International standards of the Committee on Publications Ethics (Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE);
- Creative Commons licenses;
- Budapest Open Access Initiative;
- Guidelines for Reviewers, published by Elsevier;
- Code of Ethics for Scientific Publications " The Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors”, compiled by the Committee on Publication Ethics ;
- Academic Integrity Publication: International Standards for Editors (compiled by O. O. Guzhva, I.O. Soldatenko, Kh .: V.N. Karazin KhNU, 2017);
- International standards for authors;
- All experiments using living organisms must comply with the principles of bioethics. The journal's bioethical policy takes into account the recommendations of the International Association of Veterinary Editors "European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals, Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes" (Strasbourg, 1986). Research of materials or data received from human beings must comply with the requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki. Experiments of this nature should only be conducted after obtaining informed consent from the participant.
Open Journal Systems supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for journal content. The LOCKSS Program is an open-source, based at Stanford University Libraries. It provides libraries and publishers open source digital preservation tools to preserve and provide access to persistent and authoritative digital content.
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The Journal's metadata is in the international scientometric, full-text and abstract databases, like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Google Scolar, Index Copernicus, Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Crossref, Harvard Library, ResearchBib etc.
