Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Urologist is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of urological disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.

Publication by The Urologist is dependent primarily on their validity and coherence, as judged by peer reviewers, who are also asked whether the writing is comprehensible and how interesting they consider the article to be .

The Urologist strives to provide publication of important manuscripts to the widest possible audience worldwide, in the easiest and most user friendly way .It is designed to improve publication access of both well-established urologic scientists and less well-established writers, by allowing interested scientists worldwide to participate fully.

The Urologist offers a very fast publication schedule while maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically. The five steps an author went through are described under submissions.

As an electronic-only journal, The Urologist offers authors the opportunity to publish large data sets, large numbers of illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other papers).

Thanks to the support of the Association of Italian urologist , publication on “The Urologist “ is completely free of charge. What the association covered, and for how long, is set out on the journal sponsorship page.

Section Policies

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Peer Review Process

A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to “The Urologist” alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. On submission, editors review all submitted manuscripts initially for suitability for formal review. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws, or lack of a significant message are rejected before proceeding for formal peer-review. Manuscripts that are unlikely to be of interest to the “The Urologist” readers are also liable to be rejected at this stage itself.

Manuscripts that are found suitable for publication in “The Urologist” are sent to two or more expert reviewers. The selection of these reviewers is at the sole discretion of the editor. The journal follows a double-blind review process, wherein the reviewers and authors are unaware of each other's identity. Every manuscript is also assigned to a member of the editorial team, who based on the comments from the reviewers takes a final decision on the manuscript. The comments and suggestions (accept/reject/revise the manuscript) received from reviewers are conveyed to the corresponding author within 7 days of manuscript submission. If required, the author is requested to provide a point by point response to reviewers' comments and submit a revised version of the manuscript. This process is repeated till reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript.

Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs are sent to the corresponding Author. The corresponding Author is expected to return the corrected proofs within three days. It may not be possible to incorporate corrections received after that period. The whole process of submission of the manuscript to final decision and sending and receiving proofs is completed online. To achieve faster and greater dissemination of knowledge and information, the journal publishes articles online immediately on acceptance.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The two papers the archive preserved with their full text are on the articles page; the tables of contents of all eight numbers are in the archives.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. Which parts of the platform survived and which did not is recorded on the page about this publishing system. More...