Fırat Ozan, MD, Prof,
Editor-in-Chief
University of Health Sciences Kayseri City Training and Research Hospital, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Kayseri, Turkey; editorial@jomdos.org
ISSN: 3062-3545
Publication Policies
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery aims to publish current, qualified and original studies in the field.
The editorial and publication processes of the Journal are conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The Journal conforms to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (https://doaj.org/apply/transparency/).
The applications uploaded to the journal page are subject to a preliminary evaluation by the journal editor. During the preliminary evaluation process, the articles deemed appropriate are passed to the evaluation stage, while the articles that do not meet the publication conditions may be sent back to the responsible author for correction, formatted or rejected. During the evaluation stage, the editor sends the article to the appropriate advisors (referees) for review. The refereeing process is conducted in a double-blind manner. In necessary cases, the responsible author may be asked to make corrections/edits in line with the referee and editor opinions. Requesting corrections from the author does not mean that the article will be published. These corrections must be completed and sent to the journal within 21 days at the latest. The responsible author is informed whether the article has been accepted or rejected.
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery provides open access to scientific publications. The published issue and the full texts of the articles in it can be accessed free of charge. No fee is charged from the author(s) for the publication of their articles.
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Open Access Policy
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery provides immediate open access to its content on the principle of making research freely available to the public supporting a greater global exchange of knowledge. Open Access Policy is based on rules of (BOAI) Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/ By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its 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. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain is given to authors to retain control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Copyright
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery allows articles to be shared in accordance with the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Accordingly, authors and readers can copy, reproduce and adapt the works provided that they comply with the conditions of giving appropriate attribution, not using the material for commercial purposes and sharing their adaptations with the same license. No royalty is paid for the articles published in the journal.
Authorship Criteria
During the uploading of the article to the journal page, it is mandatory to fill out and upload the “Copyright Agreement Form”, which includes the name, surname, ORCID number, date and wet signatures of all authors.
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery (JMOS) has accepted the standards of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Authors must meet the authorship criteria in the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication”.
Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review by the Editor-in-Chief if they do not comply with the instructions to authors or are outside the scope of the Journal. As reported at http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf.
Ethical Responsibility
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery publishes articles that comply with ethical and scientific standards. The ethical, scientific and legal responsibilities of the articles published in the journal belong to the author(s) and do not reflect the views of the editor and editorial board members. Ethics Committee Approval must be obtained for all prospective and, if necessary, retrospective studies, including studies conducted with experimental animals, and the date of receipt together with the Ethics Committee Approval number must be stated in the “Ethical statement” section of the article. An approval of research protocols by the Ethics Committee in accordance with international agreements (Helsinki Declaration, revised 2013, Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals - https://www.nap.edu/catalog/5140/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals) is required for experimental, clinical, and investigational drug studies, and some case reports. Identifying information and photographs of patients cannot be published in the journal without the written informed consent of the patient (or legal guardian).
In studies conducted on animals, committee approval indicating compliance with international ethical rules must be obtained from the relevant animal ethics committee. Articles submitted for publication in the journal must not have been previously published or sent for publication elsewhere. Studies previously presented at congresses must be stated in the Covering Letter sent to the Editor. If the article covers some of the topics in a previously published article of the author(s), this situation must be stated in the Cover Letter and a copy of the previous article must be uploaded to the journal page together with the new application files. The names of the persons, institutions or organizations that do not meet the authorship criteria but contributed to the study can be included in the "Acknowledgements" section.
COPE, along with WAME and other organizations, state that artificial intelligence (AI) tools cannot be listed as authors of a paper. AI tools cannot meet authorship requirements because they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-corporate entities, they cannot assert the existence or absence of conflicts of interest or manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, in the production of images or graphic elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must transparently disclose in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. All authors are fully responsible for the content of their paper, including the parts produced by the AI tools, and therefore are held accountable in the event of any breach of publication ethics.
It is aimed that all parties (author, editor, referee, publisher and reader) participating in the creation of a scientific study contribute to the proper progress of science. In scientific studies prepared in accordance with this goal, compliance with scientific and ethical principles is important. Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery has adopted ethical principles based on the guidelines prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and recommended that all individuals contributing to the creation of a scientific study adopt them. Some of the articles of this guideline are stated below.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
To ensure the accuracy of the data related to the study, to keep regular records related to the study and to provide access to these data upon possible request.
To ensure that the submitted article has not been published or accepted elsewhere.
If the content presented by the author is consistent with previously published or submitted content, to accept this contradiction and to quote it and, when necessary, to provide the editor with a copy of any work that may have similar content to his work, to obtain permission to reproduce it and to use and cite any content from other sources as a source.
To ensure that all studies involving human or animal subjects comply with national and international laws and guidelines (e.g. WMA Helsinki Declaration, NIH Laboratory Animal Use Policy, EU Animal Use Directive), to ensure that necessary approvals are obtained, to respect subject confidentiality, to indicate relevant ethics committee approvals and research details in the “Materials and Methods” section of the study.
In case of any conflict of interest, if an ethical violation is detected regarding the article, the author will share this with the editor and publisher and, if deemed necessary, publish an error statement, an annex, a compensation statement or withdraw the study.
Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
Authors should act balancedly, objectively and fairly in the performance of their duties without any discrimination based on gender, religion or political belief, ethnic or geographical origin.
To evaluate the studies submitted to the journal according to their content without giving any privilege to any author.
To take the necessary measures to prevent possible conflicts of interest and evaluate the existing statements, if any.
To deal with sponsored studies or special studies in the same way as other studies.
In case of complaints about ethical violations, to implement the necessary procedures in accordance with the policies and procedures of the journal. To give the authors the opportunity to respond to the complaint and not to hesitate to apply the necessary sanctions regardless of the identity of the author.
To reject the work that does not comply with the purpose and scope of the journal.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
In order for the editor to contribute to the decision-making process, the manuscript should be reviewed in a timely manner and the reviews should only accept the critical evaluation of the work in the editors' field of expertise.
The evaluation should be done objectively only with regard to the content of the work. The work should be evaluated without taking into account religious, political and economic interests.
To make suggestions that will help improve the quality of the article to be published, to examine the work critically, and to convey their comments to the author in a constructive and polite manner.
To protect the confidentiality of the information provided by the editor and the author, to destroy the work in accordance with the principle of confidentiality after the evaluation process, to notify the editor if there is a situation that does not comply with the blind review process and not to evaluate this work.
To be aware of potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative, or other relationships) between the author and the editor and, if necessary, to alert the editor to withdraw his or her support for this article.
Conflict of Interest
Authors are responsible for declaring all personal and financial relationships that may be related to their work. If there is a commercial connection or institution(s) providing financial support for the study, the relationship with the commercial product, drug, company, etc. used, or the absence of any conflict of interest, should be filled out in the Conflict of Interest Form, uploaded to the system, and stated in the “Conflict of Interest” section in the text. The conflict of interest form can be obtained from https://icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/.
Plagiarism or duplication
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery does not allow plagiarism in any form. We define plagiarism as the situation where an article reproduces another work with similarity and without citation. The acceptable similarity rate is below 20%. Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism or duplication. In case of an ethical issue regarding plagiarism or duplication, the Editorial Board will act in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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