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The medical journal " Vestnik otorinolaringologii" was founded in 1936 with a view to highlighting the most important theoretical and practical aspects of otorhinolaryngology and serve as a major source of reliable up-to-date information for specialists working in this field of medicine.
Language of publication: Russian. English version of the most interesting articles is marked as En-version and available in free access in PDF.
The medical journal "Vestnik otorinolaringologii" was founded in 1936 with a view to highlighting the most important theoretical and practical aspects of otorhinolaryngology and serve as a major source of reliable up-to-date information for specialists working in this field of medicine.
Publications in the journal reflect the current state of research on ear, throat, and nose pathology as well as recent progress in the practical application of the newly acquired knowledge. They cover a wide range of topics of interest for domestic and foreign authors, such as pathophysiological mechanisms of ENT diseases, ENT surgery, oncological and occupational ENT pathology, rehabilitation, and other problems of modern otorhinolaryngology discussed by researchers in this country and worldwide. The journal is intended for practicing otorhinolaringologists, research scientists, students and teachers of the departments of otorhinolaryngology at higher education institutes and faculties of postgraduate education, for other professionals working in related fields and showing interest in otorhinolaryngology.
Publication in Vestnik otorinolaringologii is a matter of honour and prestige: the names of the authors and their articles appear in the most popular domestic and foreign databases, such as Russian Index of Science Citation (RISC), Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science (Russian Science Citation Index – RSCI), Medline, which is a measure of the author’s research activity and its recognition by the world scientific community. The journal is highly ranked among the otorhinolaryngologists of Russia and CIS countries.
It is included in the list of the leading peer-reviewed scientific journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission for publication of thesis results.
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Andrey I. Kryukov
Editor-in-Chief, Prof., MD, PhD, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Honored scientist of the Russian Federation, director, L.I. Sverzhevsky Research Institute of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow Health Department; head of Department of Otorhinolaryngology, state educational institution of higher professional education “N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University”, Russian Ministry of Health; chief specialist in otorhinolaryngology for Moscow Health Department; member of expert advisory boards for the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being (Rospotrebnadzor) and the Russian Ministry of Health (Moscow, Russia)
Natal’ya L. Kunel’skaya
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Prof., MD, PhD, Deputy director for science, L.I. Sverzhevsky Research Institute of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow Health Department, Professor of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Department of General Medicine, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Anna V. Muzhichkova
Executive Secretary, PhD, Assistant, Department of Otorhinolaryngology named after Academician B.S. Preobrazhensky, Faculty of Medicine, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Evgeny V. Nosulya
Scientific Editor, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Russian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Russian Ministry of Health (Moscow, Russia)
Irina Vasilenko
Member of the Editorial Board, MD, PhD, Executive MBA, FACS Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Chair, Women in Facial plastic Surgery Committee, European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS); Member of the Editorial Board, Facial Plastic Surgery; Co-founder & CEO, YOUnique Rhinoplasty (Milan, Italy)
Viktor V. Vishnyakov
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, Board certified physician, head of Department of Otorhinolaryngology, A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State Medical Stomatological University (Moscow, Russia)
Aleksandr V. Gurov
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Pediatric Faculty of the State educational Institution of higher professional education, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Russian Ministry of Health (Moscow, Russia)
Vladimir V. Dvoryanchikov
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Director, Saint-Petersburg Institute of Ear, Nose, Throat, and Speech (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
Olga V. Karneeva
Member of the Editorial Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Deputy Director for Training and Research, National Medical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngology, FMBA of Russia (Moscow, Russia)
Sergey A. Karpishchenko
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, I.P. Pavlov Sankt-Peterburg State Medical University (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Leonid G. Kozhanov
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Branch No. 3 of the City Clinical Oncology Hospital No. 1 of the Moscow Department of Health (Moscow, Russia)
Andrey S. Lopatin
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Senior Consultant and Surgeon, Policlinic 1, Business Administration of the President of Russian Federation, board certified physician, president of Russian Society of Rhinologists, member of editorial boards of the journals “Bent” (Belgium) and “Rinologiya” (the Ukraine) (Moscow, Russia)
Magomed M. Magomedov
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Department of General Medicine, Faculty of General Medicine of the State educational institution of higher professional education “N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University”, Russian Ministry of Health; member of European Association of Plastic Surgeons, board certified physician (Moscow, Russia)
Neylya A. Mileshina
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Professor of the Department of Surdology, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (Moscow, Russia)
Pietro Palma
Member of the Editorial Board Prof., MD, FACS Former Consultant Nasal Plastic Surgeon & Clinical Professor; Director, International Milano Rhinoplasty Masterclass; Past-President, International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgery Societies (IFFPSS); Past-President, European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS); Past-President, Italian ORL Society of Facial Plastic Surgery; Chair, International Relations Committee, European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery; Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Co-Editor, Rhinoplasty Archive; Department ORL/HNS, University Hospital, University of Insubria (Varese, Italy); Founder, YOUnique Rhinoplasty® (Milan, Italy)
Vera B. Pankova
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Board certified physician, head of Department of Clinical Investigation and Occupational Pathology, Federal state budgetary institution “All-Russian Institute of Railway Hygiene”, Federal service for customers' rights protection and human well-being surveillance (Rospotrebnadzor), member of Presidium of the All-Russian Society of Audiologists (Moscow, Russia)
Alla N. Petrovskaya
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Honoured doctor of the Russian Federation, board certified physician, ENT-doctor, Psychiatric hospital named after Yu.V. Kannabikha Moscow Healthcare Department (Moscow, Russia)
Irena V. Pogonchenkova
Member of Editorial Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Chief freelance specialist for medical rehabilitation and sanatorium treatment of the Moscow Department of Health, Director of the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Medical Rehabilitation, Restorative and Sports Medicine (Moscow, Russia)
Mikhail M. Polunin
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of Department, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Valery M. Svistushkin
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of Department of Otorhinolaryngology, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow, Russia)
Georgy A. Tavartkiladze
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Director of the Russian Research and Practical Centre of Audiology and Hearing Aid, Russian Federal Medico-Biological Agency; head of Department of Surdology, Russian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Russian Ministry of Health; president of International Academy of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery; president of International and Russian Societies of Audiologists; member of editorial boards of the journals “Acta Otolaryngol” and “International J. of Audiology” (Moscow, Russia)
Elena A. Turova
Member of Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Deputy Director for Research at the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Medical Rehabilitation, Restorative and Sports Medicine of the Moscow City Healthcare Department (Moscow, Russia)
Andrey B. Turovsky
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Deputy director of the medical unit, L.I. Sverzhevsky Research Institute of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow Health Department (Moscow, Russia)
Maya A. Khan
Member of the Editorial Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Chief freelance specialist for medical rehabilitation (children) of the Russian Presidential Administration, Honored Physician of Moscow, Head of the Department of Medical Rehabilitation for Children and Adolescents at the Moscow Scientific-Practical Center for Medical Rehabilitation, Restorative and Sports Medicine (Moscow, Russia)
Yury K. Yanov
Member of the Editorial Board, Member of the RAS, Prof., MD, PhD, Director of St. Petersburg ENT and Speech Research Institute, Russian Ministry of Health (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Alexander G. Volkov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Rostov State Medical University (Russia)
Evgeny A. Gilifanov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Pacific State Medical University (Russia)
Arsentiy O. Gusan
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Head of Department "Otolaryngology- head and neck surgery", Medical Institute, North Caucasian State Humanitarian Technological Academy (Russia)
Alexander I. Izvin
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Science and Education, Academician of RAE, Professor of Orthopedic and Surgical Dentistry with a course of ENT-diseases, Tyumen State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Russia)
Elena P. Karpova
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Torial council, Russian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education (Russia)
Musos Yu. Korkmazov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, South Ural State Medical University (Russia)
Vladimir N. Krasnozhen
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Kazan State Medical Academy (Russia)
Segrey A. Likhachev
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Republican Research and Practical Centre of Neurology and Neurosurgery (Belarus)
Oleg V. Mareev
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Saratov State Medical University named after V. I. Razumovsky (Russia)
Yury V. Nazarochkin
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, Astrakhan Branch of the Research and Clinical Centre of Otorhinolaryngology, Russian Federal Medico-Biological Agency, Astrakhan State Medical University (Russia)
Vadim A. Nasyrov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Kyrgyz state medical academy named after I.K. Ahunbaev (Kyrgyzstan)
Valentin I. Popadyuk
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Russia)
Rafik M. Rzaev
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Azerbaijan Central Railway Hospital, (CJSC) (Azerbaijan)
Elena E. Savelyeva
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Bashkir State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Russia)
Fedor V. Semenov
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Kubansky State Medical University (Russia)
Azizaga M. Talyshinskii
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Azerbaijan Medical University (Azerbaijan)
Rais K. Tulebaev
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Astana Medical University (Kazakhstan)
Elena V. Khrustaleva
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Altai State Medical University (Russia)
Andrey V. Shakhov
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Assoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Head of the Ear, Throat, and Nose Diseases Department, Privolzhsky Research Medical University (Russia)
Artur К. Shukuryan
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Yerevan state medical university after M.Heratsi (Armenia)
Igor A. Shul'ga
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Prof., MD, PhD, Orenburg State Medical University (Russia)
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When preparing a manuscript, authors should follow Recommendations on conducting, describing, editing and publishing the results of scientific work in medical journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
When reviewing an article, the editorial board can check the material using Anti-plagiarism system. If multiple borrowings are found, the editorial board acts according to the rules COPE.
In preparing the manuscript, authors should follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
The Editorial Board can check the material using the Anti-Plagiarism system. In the case of multiple borrowings, the Editorial Board operates in accordance with COPE rules.
The journal “Vestnik otorinolaryngologii” publishes articles concerning all aspects of upper respiratory tract and ear morbidity as well as related problems and other medical disciplines. The following rules should be strictly observed by the author(s) submitting an article to the journal.
1. The article must be submitted with a covering letter from the institution to which the authors are affiliated and approved in writing by the research supervisor whose signature on the title page should be attested by the institution’s round stamp (download blank form - MS Word .doc).
2. The manuscript must be submitted either electronically (as a single file ready for printing out) or printed on one side of A4 size paper together with an electronic copy (CD-R disk). Both, the manuscript and all the appendices should be typewritten in the Times New Roman font using a 14 point font size with a 1.5 spacing between rows and the left margin of no less than 3 cm. An original full length research paper should not exceed 8 pages, casuistic reports and clinical notes must be no longer than 3 pages. Lectures and review or summary articles may be longer (up to 12 – 14 pages).
3. The first (title) page of the manuscript must contain the article heading followed by the full name (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic), scientific degree and academic rank of the author(s). Start the next paragraph with the information about the host institution (department, faculty, laboratory) including its full name, city, postal code, country, and the full name of the head (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic along with scientific degree and academic rank). The name of each author and the institute with which he (she) is affiliated must be marked by a unique digital index. You must specify the ORCID for the author who submits the article, and preferably for each author of the article. If there is no ORCID number, you need to obtain it by registering at https://orcid.org/. We recommend to check the correct spelling of the institution's name on the site https://grid.ac.
4. It is recommended that the material of a research articles should be organized in the following order: a concise literature review, aim of the study, methods, results and discussion, conclusion. The text of the manuscript must be thoroughly edited and verified by the author(s) before submission. It should be presented in a logical clear fashion without redundancies and repetitions of the data included in the tables and figures. The international system of units (SI) should be used throughout the article. Special attention should be given to the tables, doses of pharmaceutical products, formulas, figures, and quotations.
5. The number of illustrations included in the article must be such as absolutely necessary to clarify the text (no more than three). Each illustration must be presented on a separate sheet of paper. Legends for the figures are also presented on separate pages, they must explain parts of the figure, symbols, arrows, and other notations. A figure consisting of a few fragments must have the common title followed by a separate description of each fragment. Legends to microphotographs should contain information on the degree of magnification and the staining technique. The figures must not repeat materials of the tables.
Signatures and all text data must be sent in Russian and English!
The text of the manuscript should contain references to the tables and figures; the place where a concrete table or figure should appear in the text is indicated by a square on the left margin with the number of the table (figure).
Captions for figures and photos, notes must be in Russian and English.
6. The list of references should be typewritten with a 1.5 spacing on a separate page, each reference appearing on a new line. The references should be numbered sequentially in the order in which they are cited in the text. Each reference contains the following information: (1) all the authors and (2) the title of the article or the book; (3) books enter the list of references with the publisher’s imprint (city where they were published followed by colon, name of the publishing house, and the year of publication). In the case of reference to a selected chapter of a book, it must begin with the names of all the authors of the chapter and its title, the capitalized notation “In:” followed by the names of the author(s) or editor (s) of the book, its title, and the publisher’s imprint.
References to the articles in serial publications are included in the list of references with the names of all authors, full title of the article, name of the journal and the year of publication (without a punctuation mark between them) followed by semicolon, number (for Russian-language journals) or number and volume (for foreign journals), colon, page numbers (from – to).
The names of individual authors mentioned in the text should be cited in full (surname preceded by the first letters of the name and patronymic), with the names of the foreign authors appearing in the native spelling. Each reference in the text should be given as an Arabic numeral enclosed by square brackets in accordance with the attached list of references.
Please pay attention! The only correct form of doi-link:
https://doi.org/10.5468/ogs.2016.59.1.1
Do not use «doi:», «dx.doi.org», etc. Within the link onlyhyphen is used.
There is no dot after doi and URL!
7. Each original research paper must be supplemented by an abstract to be translated into the English language with the title of the article, the full names of the authors (surname, the first letters of the name and patronymic), and the name of the institution(s) with which they are affiliated. The size of the abstract should not exceed 25 lines. The structured abstracts should be divided into the following sections: the aim of the study, its methods and main results. The abstract must be accompanied by 3-5 key words to facilitate indexing of the article in the information storage and retrieval systems. The authors feeling confident in the English language are encouraged to translate the abstract.8. The paper must be signed by all the authors. Detailed information about each author should be presented on a separate page in the end of the manuscript including surname, first name, and patronymic, scientific degree, academic rank, place of employment, postal and electronic addresses, contact telephone numbers.
All the articles submitted for publication in the journal are subjected to peer review. The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes in the manuscript and ask the authors(s) for the reduction of longer articles. The articles published previously or pending publication in another journal are not considered by the Editorial Board. Nor does it consider the manuscripts failing to meet the above submission criteria and procedures.
All the articles including those containing the results of original investigations carried out by post-graduate students and applicants for a scientific degree are published for free.
The authors can send articles prepared for publication in accordance with the present instruction to the Editorial Board via e-mail: vestnik-lor@mail.ru or by regular mail to the following address: Editorial Board of the journal “Vestnik otorinolaringologii”, Media Sfera Publishers, P.O.B. 54, 127238 Moscow, Russia.
A.V. Nikolaeva
Managing editor for the journal "Vestnik Otorinolaringologii", e-mail: vestnik-lor@mail.ru
All the manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal are peer reviewed (single-blind peer review).
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.
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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