Aim and Scope

Our peer-reviewed journal “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery” is aimed at bringing together experimental and clinical knowledge on minimally invasive arrhythmology, cardiovascular surgery, and endovascular surgery in the Russian Federation.

Our main goal are (1) to publish top research on all aspects of experimental and surgical arrhythmology, cardiovascular surgery, endovascular surgery, intensive care and treatment of comorbid patients present with CVD.; (2) to initiate communication between healthcare specialists and researchers, as we believe that interdisciplinary relationships between genetics, cardiooncology, medical device R&D as they relate to minimally invasive cardiovascular surgery will be of particular interest; (3) to introduce advanced approaches and knowledge into clinical practice to expand the impact of the Russian medical community and Russian research achievements in the global research space.

Section Policies

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

LITERATURE REVIEW

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

CASE REPORTS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

REVIEW ARTICLES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

REVIEW ARTICLES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 times per year

Open Access Policy

The journal “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery” provides free access to its content to all readers over the age of eighteen under the provisions and basic principles of information openness and practical guidelines for research and publication set by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Our open-access policy is under the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition:

“By “open access” to this [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 should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited”.

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

Peer-Review

A double-blind peer review method is mandatory for processing of all manuscripts submitted to the journal “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery”. “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery” performs a peer review of all materials, received by the Editorial Office: editorials, original articles, reviews, clinical cases, and guidelines. Comments and letters to the Editor-in-Chief are not subjected to peer review. Peer reviewing ensures maintaining high quality of the journal’s content and allows assessing the concrete contribution to the development of main research areas on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

Initial assessment

Before appointing a reviewer, the Editor-in-Chief and editorial assistant confirm:

1. The compliance of the submitted manuscript to the Aims and Scope of the journal;
2. The accompanying documents and authors’ signatures (see Author Guidelines);
3. The format and structure of the submitted manuscript (see Author Guidelines);
4. The funding statement, conflict of interests, contributions of each author to the submitted manuscript (see Author Guidelines, Conflict of Interest);
5. The compliance of the submitted manuscript to ethical policy of the “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery” (Approvals obtained from Ethics Committees when publishing the findings of researches on humans or laboratory animals or written informed consent collected from patients when submitting clinical cases);
6. The uniqueness and originality of the manuscript. Incoming material is checked for plagiarism and borrowing (see Author Guidelines).

At the stage of initial evaluation, the submitted material is reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and editorial assistant and may be returned to the authors for revision. Articles suitable for the further review will be subjected to the evaluation by two independent reviewers. If the submitted material does not correspond to the Aims and Scope of the journal, the Editorial Board may reject the manuscript without conducting a peer review.

Reviewers Selection

All manuscripts submitted to the journal that requires the expert evaluation are subjected to a double-blind peer review. The name of the reviewer can be disclosed at the author’s request. Disclosure of a reviewer’s name does not affect the process and the principle of further work. The name of a reviewer is disclosed by the Editor-in-Chief if the reviewer declares the manuscript to be unreliable or contain falsified information.

All reviewers are acknowledged experts on the subject of the reviewed materials and have publications on the subject of peer-reviewed articles within the last 3 years. All reviews are stored in the publishing and editorial office for 5 years and may be requested by any interested author. The Editor-in-Chief selects independent reviewers from the biomedical community. After agreeing to review a manuscript, the reviewer receives materials for peer reviewing. Manuscripts for review are sent to the reviewer via the electronic manuscript submission system. The peer-reviewing should be performed in 14 days.

Each reviewer must disclose to editors any relationships or activities that could bias his or her opinion of the manuscript, and should recuse himself or herself from reviewing specific manuscripts if the potential for bias exists. Reviewers must not use knowledge of the work they’re reviewing before its publication to further their own interests (see Conflict of Interest). In case the reviewer cannot perform the reviewing, he or she can recommend to the Editor-in-Chief other reviewers in this field of knowledge. Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor follow the principles and recommendations of the World Organization of Medical Editors on selecting the reviewer.

Peer review of statistics

Original research manuscripts containing statistical analysis are sent to the peer review of statistics. The requirements for the description of statistical methods are presented in the rules for authors (see Author Guidelines).

Ethics of Peer Review

The Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery asks the reviewers to follow the basic principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE):

• Agree to review manuscripts for which they have the subject expertise required to carry out a proper assessment and which they can assess in a timely manner;
• Respect the confidentiality of peer review and not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review, during or after the peer-review process, beyond those that are released by the journal;
• Not use information obtained during the peer-review process for their own or any other person’s or organization’s advantage, or to disadvantage or discredit others;
• Declare all potentially conflicting interests, seeking advice from the journal if they are unsure whether something constitutes a relevant interest;
• Not allow their reviews to be influenced by the origins of a manuscript, by the nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or other characteristics of the authors, or by commercial considerations;
• Be objective and constructive in their reviews, refraining from being hostile or inflammatory and from making libelous or derogatory personal comments,
• Acknowledge that peer review is largely a reciprocal endeavor and undertake to carry out their fair share of reviewing and in a timely manner;
• Provide journals with personal and professional information that is accurate and a true representation of their expertise
• Recognize that impersonation of another individual during the review process is considered serious misconduct

Reviewer’s report and suggestions

After peer reviewing the manuscript, the reviewer gives his or her report suggesting that:

• Manuscript may be accepted. Reviewers have no major remarks. The paper is to be handled by a proofreader. The timeline of publication is set by the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and the Editorial Board.
• Manuscript requires revision. The paper needs minor or major revision and second time reviewing. The corresponding author receives an anonymous reviewers’ comments by email, need to revise paper and then upload revised version to the Journal's site.
• Manuscript should be rejected. The corresponding author receives a well-argued denial.

The editorial office send copies of reviews or motivated refusals to the authors of the submitted manuscripts, and may send their copies to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon the corresponding request to the editorial office.

Manuscript revision

If the review contains recommendations for correcting and finalizing the manuscript, the editorial office of the journal sends the reviews to the author for the revision. The revision of the manuscript is limited up to 2 months from the date of sending the electronic message to the corresponding author via email and the electronic system. The revised manuscript is then submitted by the corresponding author for the second-round peer-review.

In case of disagreement with the comments of the reviewer, the author can provide a well-argued answer to the editorial office of the journal. If the author and reviewers have irreconcilable differences concerning the manuscript, the editorial board may send the manuscript to the third reviewer. The decision in conflict situations is made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Refusal to correct a manuscript

If the authors decide not to revise their articles, they have to notify the editorial office in writing of their refusal from publishing the manuscript. Should the authors fail to return the revised version within 3 months after receiving the review, even in the absence of the authors’ notice of their refusal to revise the paper, the editorial office will strike it off the register. In such cases, the authors are duly notified that their manuscript will not be published owing to the expiration of the time specified for revision of the paper.

Appeal

The author has a right to lodge an appeal to the Editor-in-Chief during 30 days from the rejection of the article in case if the author doesn’t agree with the decision of the Editorial Office and finds that the article was rejected unfairly. The appeal should include all the comment made by the Editors and Reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief can change initial decision in a case that unfairness of the comments would be proved and/or the Authors would support their point of view. The Editor-in-Chief has a right to appoint the second round reviewing and chooses independent reviewers from national and international biomedical community. If the Editor-in-Chief chooses the Reviewers who are non-Russian speakers, the Editorial Office translates the manuscript free of charge once the Authors’ agreement is received. If the Reviewers recommend the manuscript for the publication and state the previous reviews as unfair, the Editor-in-Chief initializes internal inquiry in competency of the Reviewers and the Publishing Editor with their temporary suspension. The Authors will be notified by written notice about the re-registration of the article.

After the decision on the manuscript publication has been made, the Editorial Office notifies the Author and sets time limits for the publication.

Publishing Ethics

The Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement of the peer-reviewed journal “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery” are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct guidelines, requirements for peer-reviewed medical journals, elaborated by the "Elsevier" Publishing House and Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals developed by ICMJE.

1. General duties and responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery

1.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor are accountable for everything published in the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery.

1.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery strive to meet the needs of readers and authors, strive to constantly improve their journal and maintain the integrity of the academic record;

1.3. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery have processes in place to assure the quality of the material they publish, champion freedom of expression and preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards;

1.4. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed;

1.5. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery seek the views of authors, readers and reviewers improving their journal’s processes, encourage and are aware of research into peer review and publishing and reassessing the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery processes in the light of new findings and work to provide appropriate resources, guidance from experts and high-quality specialists;

1.6. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery use the best practices to define the role of authors and contributors as well as to determine ghost, guest or gift authorship;

1.7. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery encourage responsible behavior and discourage misconduct and insist on recusing those members from editorial decisions who have relationships or activities that pose potential conflicts related to articles under consideration.

2. Relations with readers

2.1. Readers of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery are informed about who has funded research or other scholarly work and whether the funders had any role in the research and its publication, provided with a transparency policy to encourage maximum disclosure about the provenance of non-research articles and informed about steps taken to ensure that submissions from members of the journal’s staff or editorial board receive an objective and unbiased evaluation;

2.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery ensure that all published reports and reviews of research have been reviewed by suitably qualified reviewers (including statistical review where appropriate) and ensure that non-peer-reviewed sections of their journal are clearly identified

3. Relations with authors

3.1. The decisions of the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery to accept or reject a paper for publication is based on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the remit of the journal;

3.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery do not reverse decisions to accept submissions unless serious problems are identified with the submission;

3.3. The Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery has a declared mechanism for authors to appeal against editorial decisions;

3.4. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery regularly publish guidance to authors on everything that is expected of them and regularly update it;

3.5. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery provide the guidance about criteria for authorship and/or who should be listed as a contributor following the standards set by ICMJE in the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.

4. Relations with reviewers

4.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery ensure that appropriate reviewers are selected for submissions and follow the COPE flowchart in cases of suspected reviewer misconduct;

4.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery insist on reviewers disclosing any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission;

4.3. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery acknowledge the contribution of reviewers to the journal and encourage academic institutions to recognise peer review activities as part of the scholarly process;

4.4. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery are guided by the COPE flowcharts in cases of suspected misconduct, monitor the performance of peer reviewers and take steps to ensure this is of high standard;

4.5. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Publishing Editor and Editorial Board of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery ensure that the reviewer database reflects the community for the journal, add new reviewers and update it regularly.

5. Relations with editorial board members

5.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery provide new editorial board members with guidelines on everything that is expected of them and should keep existing members updated on new policies and developments;

5.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery have policies in place for handling submissions from editorial board members to ensure unbiased review;

5.3. The Editor-in-Chief of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery regularly reviews the composition of the editorial board.

6. Relations with journal owners and publishers

6.1. The relationship of the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery to the owner are based firmly on the principle of editorial independence;

6.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery make decisions on which articles to publish based on quality and suitability for the journal and without interference from the journal owner.

7. Editorial and peer review processes

7.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor ensure that peer review at the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery is fair, unbiased and timely;

7.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery ensuring that people involved with the editorial process receive adequate training and keep abreast of the latest guidelines, recommendations and evidence about peer review and journal management, are kept informed about research into peer review and technological advances and adopt peer review methods best suited for the biomedical community;

7.3. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery will refer troubling cases to COPE, especially when questions arise that are not addressed by the COPE flowcharts, or new types of publication misconduct are suspected.

8. Quality assurance

8.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor take all reasonable steps to ensure the quality of the published material, recognize that the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery has specific Aim and Goals and, therefore, use several systems to detect falsified data either for routine use or when suspicions are raised.

9. Protecting individual data

9.1 The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery obey the Federal Law No 149-FL issued on 27.07.2006 (revised in 29.06.2018) “On Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information”.

10. Encouraging ethical research involving humans or animals

10.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery endeavour to ensure that the research under consideration was carried out according to the relevant internationally accepted guidelines and seek assurances that it has been approved by an appropriate body (e.g. research ethics committee, institutional review board);

10.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery may request evidence of ethical research approval and to question authors about ethical aspects if concerns are raised or clarifications are needed;

10.3. The Editor-in-Chief of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery appoints a journal ethics advisor to advise on specific cases and regularly review journal policies.

11. Dealing with possible misconduct

11.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery follow the COPE flowcharts if they suspect misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to them;

11.2. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery first seek a response from those suspected of misconduct and if they are not satisfied with the response, the relevant employers, or institution, or some appropriate body will be requested to investigate.

12. Ensuring the integrity of the academic record

12.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery taking steps to reduce covert redundant publication, ensure that published material is securely archived and any errors, inaccurate or misleading statements can be corrected promptly and with due prominence.

13. Intellectual property

13.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery work to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions, adopt systems for detecting plagiarism in submitted items and strongly support authors whose copyright has been breached or who have been the victims of plagiarism.

14. Encouraging debate

14.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor encourage and are willing to consider cogent criticisms of work published in the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery.

15. Complaints

15.1. The Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor of the Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery respond promptly to complaints and ensure there is a way for dissatisfied complainants to take complaints further as set out in the COPE flowchart on complaints.

16. Conflicts of interest

16.1. The Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery has specific system for managing the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors and Publishing Editor own conflicts of interest as well as those of their staff, authors, reviewers and editorial board members.

16.2. The Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery has a declared process for handling submissions from the editors, employees or members of the editorial board to ensure unbiased review.

Founder

• A.V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery

Author fees

Publication in “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery" is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Article processing charges.

The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Plagiarism detection

“Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery" use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery", authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.

As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in “Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

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Revenue Sources

The publication of the journal is financed by the funds of the parent organization, at the expense of the publisher, publication of advertising materials, publication of reprints, article processment charges.