About Journal of Ovarian Research

What is Journal of Ovarian Research?

Journal of Ovarian Research is an open access, peer reviewed, online journal that aims to provide a forum for high-quality basic and clinical research on ovarian function, abnormalities, and cancer. The journal focuses on research that provides new insights into ovarian functions as well as prevention and treatment of diseases afflicting the organ.

• Ovary development, hormone secretion and regulation
• Follicle growth and ovulation
• Infertility and Polycystic ovarian syndrome
• Regulation of pituitary and other biological functions by ovarian hormones
• Ovarian cancer, its prevention, diagnosis and treatment
• Drug development and screening
• Role of stem cells in ovary development and functions.

Content overview

Journal of Ovarian Research considers the following types of article:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Brief communications: brief reports of data from original research.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. All case report articles should indicate that informed consent to publish the information was granted from the patients or their guardians.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.

Peer review policies

Journal of Ovarian Research operates a closed peer review policy. Upon submission manuscripts will be screened by one of the Editors-in-Chief. Manuscripts deemed suitable will be sent to at least two experts in the field for review and where appropriate, a statistician's advice will be sought. The journal aims to provide authors with a first decision (accept/revise/reject) within six weeks of submission. Final decisions will be made by the Editors-in-Chief.

Should authors be unhappy with decisions taken by the Editors, a further report by an additional reviewer will provide the basis for a discussion between at least two Editors-in-Chief whose subsequent decision will be final.

Edited by David T. Curiel, Sham S. Kakar, Fumikazu Kotsuji and Stefano Palomba, Journal of Ovarian Research is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in Journal of Ovarian Research

All articles are listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and are covered by PubMed Central and CAS.

Articles in Journal of Ovarian Research should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

J Ovarian Res 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Journal of Ovarian Research does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Journal of Ovarian Research using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Journal of Ovarian Research is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is open access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Journal of Ovarian Research however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

Journal of Ovarian Research's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

Journal of Ovarian Research is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.