Journal profile · Medicine-Surgery
Sechenovskii vestnik
ISSN 2218-7332 · eISSN 2658-3348 · Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University) · Russian Federation
Sechenovskii vestnik: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 16 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Sechenovskii vestnik is published by Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Innovations in Medical Education and Health and Medical Education, together about 20.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Sechenov Medical Journal is the official publication of the Sechenov University, one of the most famous medical schools in Russia. Information about the structure, activities and focus of the Sechenov University is available on the website https://www.sechenov.ru/eng/. The mission of the Journal is to provide an open platform for bringing together researchers, experts and practitioners in various fields of clinical and fundamental medicine to answer the most pressing questions and challenges of our time in the field of medicine. The Sechenov Medical Journal aims to provide readers in Russia and abroad with open free information on topical issues of both fundamental - like cell biology, pathophysiology, biomedicine - and clinical sciences such as obstetrics and gynaecology, oncology, surgery, neurosurgery, internal medicine along with the best clinical practices. Objectives: provide readers with quality content via careful selection of articles, carefully considering the interest and relevance of the topic, the originality and novelty of the proposed ideas, the reliability of the materials presented;provide researchers (authors) transparent publication process;adherence to international standards of publication ethics for all participants and at all stages of the publication process;implement modern publishing practices, including open publication of peer-reviews (Electronic Scientific Library (elibrary.ru)), publication of checklists for original studies and clinical cases (Equator-network), online first publications;attract and support young researchers in producing of high-quality scientific papers by the publication of educationalarticles on biomedical statistics and research design;create special issues on current topics of the journal with the involvement of the most significant international experts;respond to the global challenges of our time. Our content is targeted at a wide range of researchers, specialists, general practitioners and family physicians. Our special focus is on young researchers and residents whom we see as the future of science and medicine. The journal publishes original, experimental, pilot studies, reviews, clinical cases and unique clinical practices (How I Do It): the best scientific data of famous scientists from all the world, keeping up the expansion of the audience. We aim to develop an interdisciplinary approach because of the unique scope of the journal's specialities: from fundamental to clinical sciences and publicati
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Surgery
Editor-in-chief Peter V. GlybochkoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Russia 22, United Kingdom 4, Italy 4, Serbia 2, Switzerland 1 (36 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine7.5%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine6.7%
- Health and Medical EducationHealth Professions6.7%
- Medical and Biological SciencesMedicine5.4%
- History of Science and MedicineArts and Humanities5.4%
- Human Health and DiseaseMedicine5%
- Statistical Methods in EpidemiologyMathematics4.6%
- Asthma and respiratory diseasesMedicine4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | Q3 | 436/597 | 26th |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | Q4 | 359/466 | 23rd |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | Q4 | 170/218 | 22nd |
| Oncology | Q4 | 358/428 | 16th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.13LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.34LetPub ·
- h-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.57OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 468 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 | 15 | 70 |
| 2025 | 16 | 16 | 69 |
| 2024 | 23 | 23 | 74 |
| 2023 | 30 | 30 | 68 |
| 2022 | 25 | 25 | 52 |
| 2021 | 51 | 51 | 33 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted3
- clinical casesSechenov Medical Journal publishes original articles, reviews, and clinical casesLength not stated
- original articlesSechenov Medical Journal publishes original articles, reviews, and clinical casesLength not stated
- reviewsSechenov Medical Journal publishes original articles, reviews, and clinical casesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use Use of artificial intelligence in the preparation of an article
In connection with the spreading practice of using programs based on artificial intelligence, including in the preparation and writing of scientific articles, the editorial board of the Sechenov Medical Journal considers it necessary to focus the authors' attention on the following provisions. Chat-bots such as ChatGPT (and similar ones) can under no circumstances be listed as the author of the ar…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship 2. Authorship
2.1. The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
All participants in the peer-review and publication process should consider and disclose all relationships that could be a potential source of conflict of interest (financial relationships (e.g. employment, consulting, shareholding, patents, or paid peer review), personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual convictions). a) AuthorsAll authors have to disclose all financial and pe…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing Policy
The Sechenov Medical Journal encourages authors to make the research data that support their publications available. When reviewing an article, the editors of the Sechenov Medical Journal have the right to require authors to provide primary research data confirming the results presented in the article. Definition of research data Research data includes any recorded factual material that are used t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Follows COPE rules for publication ethics violations. Model summary
If violations of publication ethics are found, the Editorial Board acts in accordance with the rules of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Copyright retained by authors; first publication under CC BY 4.0. Model summary
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Sechenov Medical Journal is an open access journal. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors retain copyright to their work. Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiativ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer-Review
Simplified submission format at initial submission ("Your Paper, Your Way"). Model summary
This topic was last updated: May 07, 2026 Evaluating a scientific manuscript in Sechenov Medical Journal is carried out in several steps. A total of 94% of all manuscripts submitted to the journal were unsolicited. Of these, about 20% were accepted for publication. The average manuscript turnaround time of the serial publication is 16 weeks. Sechenov Medical Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific j…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism screening with Anti-Plagiarism System; manual checks of illustrative materials. Model summary
By submitting a manuscript to the Sechenov Medical Journal, authors certify that all submitted material, including text, figures, tables, raw data, and other accompanying files, is their original work, has been prepared independently, and is not simultaneously under review or submission to other journals. The editorial team checks all incoming materials with the help of the Russian text plagiarism…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint and postprint Policy
Prior to acceptance and publication in "Sechenov Medical Journal", authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites. As part of the submission process, authors must declare and link to any preprint publication and confirm that the submission has not been previously published or submitted to another journal. After a manuscript has been published in "Sechenov …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)
- Country or region
- Russian Federation
- Language
- Russian
- ISSN
- 2218-7332
- Electronic ISSN
- 2658-3348
- Society / sponsor
- Sechenov University
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 17, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Sechenovskii vestnik
How long does peer review take at Sechenovskii vestnik?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Sechenovskii vestnik?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Required; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Sechenovskii vestnik based?
Of the 36 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Russia (22), United Kingdom (4) and Italy (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Sechenovskii vestnik?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Sechenovskii vestnik is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SCIE; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Sechenovskii vestnik open access, and what is the APC?
Sechenovskii vestnik is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .