The journal was founded in Founded in 1997. Previously published under the title "Annals of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery". Since 2019, the journal has been published by Media Sphere Publishing House.
Language of publication: Russian. English version of the most interesting articles is marked as En-version and available in free access in PDF.
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The journal was founded in Founded in 1997. Previously published under the title "Annals of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery".
Since 2019, the journal has been published by Media Sphere Publishing House.
Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine is the oldest journal dedicated to plastic surgery. The journal was founded in 1997 with the support of the Russian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, a national public organization.
The goals and objectives of the journal are to provide opportunities for Russian and foreign specialists to sanctify the results of their original scientific research in all areas of plastic surgery, as well as to attract promising young specialists to scientific work on topical issues of plastic surgery and to create a communication platform for expanding cooperation between leading specialists of the world.
Articles published in the journal are devoted to scientific and practical problems of plastic surgery in the field of reconstruction and aesthetics, touch upon general and private issues of the specialty plastic surgery. The manuscripts submitted should make a new scientific or practical contribution to the relevant field of plastic surgery.
The journal Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine is aimed at specialists working in the field of aesthetic and reconstructive medicine: practicing physicians, scientists, doctoral candidates, post-graduate students and other researchers.
All manuscripts of the articles submitted to the Journal of Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine and designed according to the rules for the publication in the journal, are sent for review to two specialists in the direction of the article. If the article is executed at the intersection of different scientific disciplines, the manuscript of the article can be sent to several reviewers.
The journal is included in the list of the leading peer-reviewed journals and editions of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, in which scientific results of dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science should be published. Included in the RSCI database.
The journal is sent free of charge to more than 150 Russian scientific and medical libraries.
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Natalya E. Manturova
Editor-in-Chief, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, MD, PhD Head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cosmetology and Cellular Technology of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Vyacheslav S. Vasilev
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, MD, PhD, plastic surgeon, oncologist, member of the Russian Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (RSPRAS), American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), International Society of Plastic Regenerative Surgeons (ISPRES), Society of Regenerative Medicine (SRM), Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons of the Chelyabinsk Region (APRAS) (Moscow, Russia)
Elena V. Verbo
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Prof., MD, PhD, Central Research Institute of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Reconstructive Face and Neck Surgery with Microsurgery (Moscow, Russia)
Ruben T. Adamyan
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery, Federal State Scientific Institution Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery (Moscow, Russia)
Yaroslav O. Grusha
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Department of Orbital and Eye Reconstructive-Plastic Surgery (Moscow, Russia)
Nikolay A. Daikhes
Member of the Editorial Board, MD, PhD, Corr. Member of RAS, Prof., Director of the Federal State Budget Institution Scientific and Clinical Center of Otorhinolaryngology of the Federal Medico-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation, Chief freelance specialist of otorhinolaryngologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Moscow, Russia)
Sergey Yu. Ivanov
Member of the Editorial Board, Corr. Member of the RAS, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Surgical Dentistry Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, Russia)
Natalya P. Korableva
Member of the Editorial Board, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Faculty of Postgraduate and Additional Professional Education, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University. Deputy chief physician for therapeutic work of A3BEAUTE clinic (St. Petersburg, Russia).
Larisa S. Kruglova
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Vice-Rector for Educational Work, Head of the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Cosmetology, Federal State Budgetary Institution of Additional Professional Education "Central State Medical Academy" of the Presidential Administration (Moscow, Russia)
Andrey P. Polyakov
Member of the Editorial Board, MD, PhD, Head of the Microsurgery Department, P.A. Herzen Scientific Research Institute of Radiology - Branch of the National Research Center of Radiology of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Moscow, Russia)
Nikolay N. Potekaev
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Skin Diseases and Cosmetology of the State Budget Institution of Higher Professional Education "N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research University of Public Health" (Moscow, Russia)
Vladimir A. Sobolevskiy
Member of Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of Department, Research Institute of Clinical Oncology N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Moscow, Russia
Anna G. Stenko
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology and Cosmetology at the Central State Medical Academy of the Russian Presidential Administration (Moscow, Russia)
Viktor A. Stupin
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Hospital Surgery No.1, Faculty of Medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Natalya S. Tataurshchikova
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, allergologist-immunologist, Institute of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology (Moscow, Russia)
Alessio Redaelli
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, Professor of Aesthetic Medicine and Practical Phlebology in Italian and foreign schools (Agora School Milan, Italy – IAPEM, Milan Italy – University of Turin, Medical Sciences – American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine, USA)
Kumar Lokesh
Member of the Editorial Board, MBBS, MS, Head of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, BLK Super Specialty Hospital (New Delhi, India)
Wolfgang M. Gubisch
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Honorary Doctor of the University of Athens, Senior Director of the Clinic for Fascial Plastic Surgery Marienhospital (Stuttgart, Germany)
Yves Saban
Member of the Editorial Board MD, Associate Professor, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy)
Karimdzhon P. Artykov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of Surgical Diseases Department No.2, Tajik State Medical University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Scientific Director of the Republican Centre for Restorative and Reconstructive Surgery (Tajikistan)
Anatoliy E. Belousov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Plastic Surgery, State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Russia)
Sergey B. Bogdanov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Burn Center of the Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1 (Krasnodar, Russia) (Russia)
Andrey A. Bogov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Chief Plastic Surgeon of the Republic of Tatarstan, Head of the Department of Plastic Microsurgery of the Hand, Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia)
Aleksey M. Borovikov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, (Russia)
Sergey A. Vasilev
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology, South Ural State Medical University (Russia)
Igor O. Golubev
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Microsurgery and Trauma Department Federal State Budgetary Institution National Medical Research Center for Traumatology and Orthopaedics named after N.N. Priorov Ministry of Health of Russia (Russia)
Sergey A. Gyusan
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery at the Stavropol Regional Clinical Hospital (Russia)
Vadim N. Zelenin
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, MD, PhD, Chief Freelance Specialist in Plastic Surgery of the Southern Federal District, Head of the Center for Plastic Surgery of the Lancet Clinic (Russia)
Aleksandr S. Zelyanin
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University Clinical Hospital No.1, Professor of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the State Budget Institution of Higher Professional Education I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University) of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Russia)
Aleksei A. Ivanov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, MD, PhD, SimBioTech LLC (Russia)
Artur K. Ismagilov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of Oncology and Surgery at the KSMA State Budget Institution of Professional Education, chief freelance specialist - plastic surgeon of the Volga Federal District of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Russia)
Ilya B. Kazantsev
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, MD, PhD, plastic surgeon, associate professor of the Department of Surgery with a course of mobilization training and disaster medicine Siberian State Medical University (Russia)
Andrey D. Kaprin
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Acad. of the RAS, Prof., MD, PhD, Director General of the NRRC of Radiology, Director of the P.A. Herzen Scientific Research Institute of Oncology, Head of the Department of Urology with a Course of Oncourology, FPCMR PFUR (Russia)
Arutyun S. Karayan
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery Department of the B.V. Petrovsky Russian Research Center for Surgery (Russia)
Anatoliy A. Kulakov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Acad. of the RAS, Prof., MD, PhD, Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Central Research Institute of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Head of the Clinical and Experimental Implantology Department (Russia)
Konstantin B. Lipskiy
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University) (Russia)
Irina G. Marinicheva
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Oral Surgery, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Russia)
Vladimir N. Podgaiskii
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Compostiology, Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (Belarus)
Viktor E. Radzinskiy
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Corr. Member of RAS, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology with a course in Perinatology at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Russia)
Akhmed Ya. Rakhimov
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, plastic aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon, member of the Russian Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (RSPRAS), ICOPLAST, OSEM, PLASTA, Russian Surgical Society "Wounds and Wound Infections" (Russia)
Yuriy Yu. Rusetskiy
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, MD, PhD, Head of ENT departament, Scientific Center of Children's Health (Russia).
Igor E. Khatkov
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Prof., Corr. Member of the RAS, MD, PhD, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A.I.Evdokimov (Russia)
Aleksandr I. Tsukanov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Plastic Surgery Department, Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital (Tussia)
Ekaterina A. Chaikovskaya
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, PhD, Head of Clinical Research Group, Institute of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology (Russia)
Valentin I. Sharobaro
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Aesthetic, Reconstructive Surgery, Cosmetology and Cellular Technologies, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Russia)
Alisa A. Sharova
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery, Cosmetology and Cellular Technologies, Pirogov Russian National Research University (Russia)
Sergey A. Yasonov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, MD, PhD, Department of Oral Surgery, Russian Children's Clinical Hospital (Russia)
Jaume Masia
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Prof., MD, Head of Plastic Surgery at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and the Hospital del Mar. Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Autunoma University. Head of the Department of Microsurgery and Breast Reconstruction at the Planas Clinic. President of SECPRE. President of GERMA. Member of the Spanish Educational Committee for Plastic Surgery (Spain)
Nazim Cerkes
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Prof., MD, President of the International Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Turkey)
Moustapha H. Hamdi
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Brussels (Belgium)
Osvaldo Saldanha
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Prof., MD, Past President of Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, Current Scientific Program Director of SBCP, Chairman of “Dr. Ewaldo Bolivar de Souza Pinto” Plastic Surgery Residency Program, Certified by the Board of Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (SBCP), Board Member of Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (Brazil)
Jeong Tae Kim
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Prof., MD, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Hanyang University (South Korea)
Yixin Zhang
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Prof., MD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and Chief, Division of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Vice Chief, Dept of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital (China)
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References
1. Medvedev BI, Syundyukova EG, Sashenkov SL. Placental expression of erythropoietin in preeclampsia. Rossiiskiy vestnik akushera-ginekologa. 2015;15(1):4-8. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17116/rosakush20151514-8
2. Matsumoto K, Nakamaru M, Obara H, Hayashi S, Harada H, Kitajima M, Shirasugi N, Nouga K. Surgical Strategy for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Concurrent Symptomatic Malignancy. World Journal of Surgery. 1999;23(3):248-251. https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00013189
All references to journal articles must include a DOI, a unique Digital Object Identifier of the article in the CrossRef system. Whether the article’s DOI is available on the website https://search.crossref.org/ or https://www.citethisforme.com should be checked. To obtain the DOI, the article’s title in English must be entered into a search box. In addition to DOI, the latest site automatically creates properly formatted references in English in the AMA citation style. The vast majority of foreign journal articles and many Russian-language articles, which have been published since 2013, are registered in the CrossRef system and have a unique DOI.
Please, pay attention to the only proper format for citing DOI.
Example:
https://doi.org/10.5468/ogs.2016.59.1.1
Variants with “doi:”, “dx.doi.org”, etc. should not be used. Only a hyphen should be used in the body of a reference.
A point should not be put after DOI and URL (http)!
Examples of formatting different types of references:
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Vega K. Heart Transplantation Is Associated with an Increased Risk for Pancreaticobiliary Disease. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1996;124(11):980. https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-124-11-199606010-00005 |
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Article in the issue with supplement |
Crinò L, Cappuzzo F. Present and future treatment of advanced non–small cell lung cancer. Seminars in Oncology. 2002;29(3)(suppl 9):9-16. https://doi.org/10.1053/sonc.2002.34266 |
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Book (authors) |
Ringsven MK, Bond D. Gerontology and leadership skills for nurses. 2nd ed. Albany (NY): Delmar Publishers; 1996. |
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Book (edited by) |
For the whole book:
For the part in the book: |
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Legal materials (bills, codes, enactments, orders, federal standards, regulations) (Citation is allowed only if available in the Internet public domain) |
Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 323-F3 of November 21, 2011. "On the Fundamentals of Health Protection of Citizens of the Russian Federation". The link is active as of 12.12.2014. http://www.rosminzdrav.ru/documents/7025-federalnyy-zakon-323-fz-ot-21-noyabrya-2011-g |
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Patent |
Rabiner RA, Hare BA, inventors; OmniSonics Medical Technologies Inc, assignee. Apparatus for removing plaque from blood vessels using ultrasonic energy. US patent 6,866,670. March 15, 2005. |
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Media and electronic materials |
Hormone replacement therapy [audio]. National Public Radio. August 5, 2002. Accessed March 4, 2004. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1147833 |
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Journal article in electronic format |
Duchin JS. Can preparedness for biological terrorism save us from pertussis? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158(2):106-107. Accessed June 1, 2004. http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/158/2/106 |
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For their expert evaluation, all materials submitted to the journal, which correspond to its topics, should be peer reviewed. All peer reviewers are recognized experts on the topics of peer reviewed materials and have publications on the subject of a peer reviewed article over the past 3 years. Peer reviews are kept in the Publishing House and the Editorial Office for 5 years.
The journal’s Editorial Board sends the copies of peer reviews or a reasoned refusal to the authors of the submitted materials and also those of peer reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon receipt of the relevant request to the Editorial Board.
The journal’s Editorial Board keeps assessing of the quality of peer reviewing, by using the Russian version of the questionnaire Review Quality Instrument (Version 3.2), van Rooyen S., Black N., Godlee F.J Clin Epidemiol 1999; 52: 625—629.
Original articles should indicate the contribution of each author to which stage taken by him/her to prepare the article:
Example:
Authors: I.I. Ivanov, P.P. Petrov, S.S. Sidorov
Participation of authors:
When submitting their manuscript, authors are responsible for disclosing their financial and other interests of conflict, which are able to affect their work.
All essential conflicts of interest must be included in the manuscript (in the footnote on the title page).
If there are sponsors, authors must indicate their role in determining the design of investigation, in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting the data, and in deciding to publish the findings. The fact that the sources of financing have not participated in such actions should also be noted.
Do not publish:
If the article depicts human experiments, it should indicate whether they comply with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experiments (which is part of the institution in which the work has been done, or which is regional) or the 1975 Helsinki Declaration or its 2000 revision.
When describing animal experiments, the article should show whether the keeping and use of laboratory animals comply with the rules adopted at the institution, the recommendations of the National Research Council, and national laws.
The Editorial Office can be contacted as follows:
Head of Editorial Board — V.V. Charechanskaya
E-mail: psurgery@mediasphera.ru
All the manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal are peer reviewed by two independent experts who are non-members of the Editorial Board of the journal.
The journal provides peer reviewing of all the submitted materials that are within the remit of the journal for expert evaluation. All peer reviewers are the acknowledged experts who specialize in the field relevant to the reviewed materials and have had publications relevant to the topic of the article being reviewed over the past 3 years. The peer reviews are stored in the publishing and editorial office for 5 years.
The article is sent to reviewers without names or contact information of the authors (the so-called blind review).
Reviewers treat the article as confidential material and strictly follow the author’s right for non-disclosure of the data reported in the manuscript before the article is published. The reviewer may engage additional experts only with permission from the Editorial Board and on a confidential basis.
Reviewers’ comments are sent to the author without disclosing the reviewers’ identity. The Editorial Board makes a final decision whether to publish the manuscript or not after the peer reviews and authors’ answers were received. The Editorial Board sends copies of peer reviews or a substantiated rejection to the authors and also sends copies of the peer reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation if a request has been received by the Editorial Board.
In some cases, the Editorial Board can send the article for an additional peer review, including statistical and methodological reviewing.
The Editorial Board constantly monitors the quality of peer review using the Russian version of the Review Quality Instrument questionnaire (Version 3.2), van Rooyen S., Black N., Godlee F. J Clin Epidemiol 1999;52:625-9.
The Russian version of the Review Quality Instrument questionnaire is available here (download - MS Word .doc).
The Editorial Board of the journal expects that the review process will help to:
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