Meditsinskiy Akademicheskiy Zhurnal
(Medical Academic Journal)
Peer-reviewed journal of basic and applied sciences
ISSN 1608-4101 Periodicity: once in three months (4 issues per year)
The journal “Meditsinskiy Akademicheskiy Zhurnal” published since 2001 is an official journal of the Northwest Branch of the Russian Academy Sciences. Its initiator and Editor-in-Chief in 2001-2009 was Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Boris Ivanovich Tkachenko whose contribution to the development of the journal is invaluable. The first Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal was Academician of RAMS V.A. Nagornev, and its Executive Secretary was Corresponding Member of RAMS N.S. Sapronov.
In September 2009, the position of Editor-in-Chief was taken by Corresponding Member of RAMS I.P. Dudanov, of Deputy Editor-in Chief, by Corresponding Member of RAMS N.S. Sapronov, and of Executive Secretary, by Prof. P.D. Shabanov.
The high publication level and wide appreciation by specialists in the course of formation and development of the journal were ensured by outstanding contributors, including Academicians E.K. Ailamazyan, N.A. Belyakov, Yu.D. Ignatov, Yu.V. Lobzin, V.I. Mazurov, N.A. Maystrenko, and A.A. Totolyan, and Corresponding Members of RAS I.A. Yeriukhin, S.A. Ketlinskiy, M.M. Odinak, Ye.A. Selivanov, and S.A. Simbirtsev.
Since 2010 up to the present time, Editor-in-Chief of the journal is Academician G.A. Sofronov. Since 2012, its Deputy Editor-in-Chief is Academician N.A. Belyakov, and its Executive Secretary is A.B. Dmitriyev PhD. The Editorial and Advisory Boards of the journal include prominent scientists representing the Northwest of Russia and distinguished scientific schools of Saint Petersburg.
Since 2012, the journal is published by the publishing house Baltiyskiy Meditsinskiy Obrazovatelnyi Tsentr (Baltic Medical Educational Center).
Journal’s scope
The journal publishes the results of basic and applied research in the fields of medicine and biology, theoretical and tutorial reviews, experimental and clinical papers, short communications, discussions, case reports, scientific chronicles, and comments on jubilees and other events.
The research fields covered by the journal are:
- Fundamental medicine,
- Clinical medicine,
- Preventive medicine,
- Laboratory diagnostics,
- Microbiology and virology,
- Physiology and pathophysiology,
- Biochemistry and biophysics,
- Molecular pathology,
- Clinical and experimental immunology,
- Current topics in pharmacology, and
- Innovative biotechnologies.
The target audience of the journal comprises scholars involved in basic research, physicians having different specialties, biochemists, geneticists, morphologists, pharmacologists, microbiologists, virologists and other specialists, the academic stuff of medical and biological higher educational institutions, post-graduates, and students.
Papers published in the journal are authored by Full and Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professors, Doctors and Candidates of medical and biological sciences, and leading researchers affiliated with institutes of the Russian Federation and CIS countries.
The journal accepts manuscripts corresponding to its coverage and not submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts that present stages of unfinished work or violate the ethical principles of human and animal research are rejected.
All regular articles, reviews and lectures are published free, except for advertising and commercial submissions. All manuscripts pass mandatory reviewing for assessing the level and quality of data and compliance with other requirements. Each regular paper must be accompanied with a short abstract and keywords in Russian and in English and supplied with author references important for developing of unified informational medium.
The Editorial and Advisory Boards of the journal comprise 39 members including 16 Academicians and 14 Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and 9 Professors and Doctors of biological and medical sciences.
Editor-in-Chief: Genrikh Aleksandrovich Sofronov – MD, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientific director of Research Institute of Experimental Medicine.
He is a well-known toxicologist and ecologist, molecular biologist and geneticist, administrator of science and medicine, and manager of a number of Russian and international research projects. His has educated several scores of Doctors and Candidates of sciences, and was involves as an author or editor in the publication of numerous manuals and monographs.
Contact information:
Postal address: Institute of Experimental Medicine, 12 Ul. Akademika Pavlova, Saint Petersburg 197376, Russia
Phone: +7(812)234-6868
E-mail: gasofronov@mail.ru
Deputies Editor-in-Chief:
Nikolai Alekseyevich Belyakov – MD, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Chair of Socially Important Infections of First I.P. Pavlov State Medical University of Saint Petersburg, Head Scientific Advisor of Institute of Experimental Medicine, specialist in physiology, general pathology, clinical pathophysiology, and socially important infections, the author or editor of manuals and monographs, including those used in postgraduate training of physicians.
Contact information:
Postal address: Editorial Office of Akademicheskiy Meditsinskiy Zhurnal, Institute of Experimental Medicine, 71 Kamennoostrovskiy Prospekt, Saint Petersburg 197022, Russia
E-mail: medicalacademicjournal@gmail.ru
Alexander Valentinovich Dmitriev — Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the FSBSI Institute of Experimental Medicine, Professor of the Department of Fundamental Problems and medical technologies of St Petersburg State University, professor of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology of St Petersburg State Institute of Technology
Contact information:
Postal address: Institute of Experimental Medicine, 12 Ul. Akademika Pavlova, Saint Petersburg 197376, Russia
E-mail: medicalacаdemicjournal@gmail.com
Executive secretary:
Aleksey Viktorovich Sokolov — Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics of the Department of Molecular Genetics of the FSBSI Institute of Experimental Medicine.
Contact information:
Postal address: Institute of Experimental Medicine, 12 Ul. Akademika Pavlova, Saint Petersburg 197376, Russia
E-mail: biochemsokolov@gmail.com
The journal is registered by the Ministry of Press, Television and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, Certificate PI № 2-4952 of 17.01.2001.
The journal is distributed by subscription via:
Catalog Index ‘Rospechat’ — 88756
The digital version of the journal is available at the WWW sites of Institute of Experimental medicine, Baltic Medical Educational Center (www.bmoc.spb.ru).
Link to the Russian Index of Scientific Citing (RINTs): http://elibrary.ru/title_about.asp?id=8831
The digital version of the journal is uploaded to the above WWW sites immediately upon print, and free access to full texts is opened 12 months later.