Gynecology Obstetrics Reproductive Medicine

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Benefits of Data Sharing Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Reproductive Medicine (GORM) is an open-access journal that aims to create a transparent publishing policy. We think that sharing datasets is a crucial step for creating transparency. Shared datasets would contribute to the literature even more and sharing data is a great way for validation of the published studies. Furthermore, data sharing wou…

The publication process at GORM aims improvement and dissemination of scientific information objectively and respectfully. Therefore, the policy in this process helps in improving the quality of the articles. Peer-reviewed articles support and materialize the scientific method and hence it is of utmost importance that all parties included in the publication process (authors, readers and researcher…

All the articles published in GORM are licensed with "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0)". This license entitles all parties to copy, share and redistribute all the articles, data sets, figures and supplementary files published in this journal in data mining, search engines, web sites, blogs and other digital platforms under the condition of providing references. All authors reta…

We have moved to the new website in 2016 with open-access features, but we have also published the retrospective available archive as open access. GORM adopts the policy of open access and every open-access article will be at once and always free for everyone to read and download. If the author and the citation to the source are given the credit, articles can be utilized constructively by everyone…

All submitted articles are subject to initial appraisal by Editor-in-Chief or one of the Editors/Section Editors before peer review. We reject a number of articles without external peer review with the aim of giving authors rapid decisions (usually within 10 days). We aim to reach a first decision on all manuscripts within six weeks of submission. Rejection is often much quicker than this. We aim …

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Gynecology Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine (GORM) advises authors to adhere to the reporting guidelines available for many different study designs when drafting their study. These contain a checklist of minimum points that the authors should cover in their manuscript. A list full of all of the reporting guidelines endorsed by the EQUATOR Network can be found here.