How articles are prepared for publication in the scientific journals of the Kharkiv National Medical University

Kharkiv National Medical University (KhNMU) is the founder and publisher of periodical (quarterly) peer-reviewed scientific journals of open access "Medicine Today and Tomorrow" (ISSN print 2414-4495, ISSN online 2710-1444), "Experimental and Clinical Medicine" (ISSN print 2414-4517, ISSN online 2710-1487) and "Inter Collegas" (ISSN online 2409-9988). We have analyzed the work with manuscripts of articles of these journals and present readers with a detailed description of the procedures that should help the authors of articles to effectively cooperate with the editors of these scientific journals in preparing their articles for publication. The article will also be useful to members of editorial boards and editorial councils of journals. This publication will help article reviewers determine their readiness for the procedure. We described both the existing rules and procedures for working with manuscripts, as well as the changes that will come into force from the beginning of July 2025. The article describes the structure of the manuscript, issues of ethics of the researcher and author, copyright, plagiarism checking, reviewing and editing of manuscripts, the policy of the journal in cases of violation of ethics, the mission of the journals. The editorial board uses a double blinded peer review procedure with the participation of at least two reviewers for each article. Reviewers are invited by editors. The reviewers have the appropriate specialization and experience in the subject matter of the articles they propose. The editorial board is loyal to the lack of experience of young authors, but is intolerant of falsification of research results and plagiarism, creating conflict situations while working on manuscripts. The publication of articles and their further use is under the terms of the Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA). The editorial board relies on the principles of evidence-based medicine and publishes articles that contain contradictory issues from the point of view of evidence with a note about their disagreement with the position of the authors. Keywords: evidence-based medicine, double-blind peer review, Committee on Publication Ethics, open-access scientific journals.