The Urologist was the open access journal of AURO.it, the association of Italian urologists. It ran from 2012 to 2015, published eight issues, and charged nothing at either end: free to read, free to publish. This page is the way into everything the journal set down about itself.
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What the journal published
Original articles, reviews and case reports in urology and andrology. Bladder cancer ran through it from the first number to the special issue on radical cystectomy, alongside stone disease, endourology, prosthetic and reconstructive surgery, and andrology. The declared subject range is in focus and scope; what actually appeared is in the eight tables of contents, twenty-three items in all, and in the title index, which the web archive preserved only as far as it had been captured.
How a paper got in
Editors screened every submission first and rejected out of scope or technically unsound work before formal review. What passed went to two or more referees under a double-blind process, and the decision reached the corresponding author within seven days of submission. Revision cycles ran until referees and editor were satisfied; accepted papers were copy edited, proofed within three days and published online on acceptance. The sequence in the journal's own wording is on the peer review page.
Who ran it
AURO.it funded and published the journal, and its secretariat is still the address for anything concerning a published paper: the contact page has it. The names behind the issues are on the editorial team page, reconstructed from the issues themselves, because the journal never published a masthead of its own. What publication cost, and who paid it, is on the sponsorship page.
The record, where it can be checked
Nothing on this page has to be taken on trust. Each line below is recorded somewhere that is not this site, and the link goes to that record rather than to another page of our own.
| Title and ISSN | Key title The Urologist, ISSN 2279-9419, online, registered in Italy and marked a confirmed record by the national ISSN centre: entry in the ISSN Portal. |
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| Publisher | AURO.it — Associazione Urologi Italiani, a non-profit scientific society of Italian urologists, currently chaired by Carlo Introini, head of urology at the Galliera hospital in Genoa: auro.it. |
| Secretariat | Via Boezio 4/c, 00193 Roma, telephone +39 375 5223315, info@auro.it — the same details the association gives in its own privacy notice; the office listed on Google Maps is the Ligurian one, at Pietra Ligure. |
| What was published | Eight issues between March 2012 and August 2015, twenty-three items, double-blind peer review, no charge to authors or readers at any stage: tables of contents and title index. |
| Licence | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, authors retaining copyright, self-archiving permitted without embargo: licence text and copyright notice. |
| Editorial platform | Open Journal Systems, closed with the last issue; what survives of the submission records is set out on the publishing system page. |
| The Italian sections | Written after the journal closed, by the editorial desk, on AIFA, EMA and EAU documents, and checked by a physician before publication: method and revision cycle in how the sheets are written, limits in the medical warnings. |
| Medical reviewer | Francesco Lafranceschina, urologist and andrologist, consultant at the Ospedale della Murgia in Altamura, entered on the register of physicians of the province of Bari under number 13137 in March 2006, two papers indexed in PubMed: his own professional site (urologomed.it), the profile we publish, and the pages he has not signed, listed under medical review. |
What happened to it
The last issue went online on 18 August 2015 and nothing followed. The accounts, the registration and the mailing list closed with the editorial platform. What remains is the published record, free to read and to redeposit under CC BY 3.0, and two Italian sections written now rather than archived: the farmacopea and the condition pages.