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The corresponding author acts on behalf of all co-authors of the article, is responsible for coordinating all versions of the manuscript with the other authors, provides, on behalf of all authors, consent to the editorial office for the processing and publication of all co-authors' personal data, and bears responsibility for the accuracy of the information regarding conflicts of interest.

All journal manuscripts undergo plagiarism screening and peer review using a double-blind procedure (authors do not know the reviewers, and reviewers do not know the authors). Reviewing is carried out by specially selected reviewers who have the relevant expertise and qualifications and undergoes editing. Each publication has an active DOI code. The editorial board encourages the submission of open (FAIR) data together with the manuscript and publishes them alongside the article. The article and its metadata may also contain links to FAIR data published in institutional, national and/or international research data repositories, with the DOI of such data indicated. Each article that describes the results of research involving humans and laboratory animals includes information on compliance with international and national bioethical standards, the obtaining of voluntary informed consent from patients or their legal representatives, the results of the ethics committee review of the study design and methods, and compliance with confidentiality in the storage of personal data.

Author Fees

The editorial office sends an invoice for payment to the authors of articles accepted for publication. The payment only partially reimburses the publisher's costs of publishing the magazine. Publication in the journal is paid by the authors in the amount:

- postgraduate student of the Kharkiv National Medical University separately (the article has one author) ‒ 45 UAH (approximately 1.1 USD) per manuscript page;
- an employee of the Kharkiv National Medical University separately (the article has one author) ‒ 55 UAH (approximately 1.3 USD) per manuscript page;
- all others, and if the article has more than one author ‒ 75 UAH (approximately 1.8 USD) per manuscript page.

If a published article is withdrawn by the editorial board due to discovered facts of dishonesty (re-publication, falsification of data, etc.), the payment is not refunded.