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Journal overview

Aims and scope:

Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that encompasses all aspects of human reproductive health. It covers both male and female issues, from the physical to the psychological and the social. Submissions on sex, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, and related topics such as social and emotional impacts are welcome.

Clinical subjects include sterility, infertility and assisted reproduction, pregnancy problems, PPD, infections and disease, surgery, diagnosis, menopause, HRT, pelvic floor problems, reproductive cancers and environmental impacts on reproduction, although this list is by no means exhaustive.

Former title:

Prior to 1/1/2010 this journal was titled Clinical Medicine: Reproductive Health (ISSN 1178-6299.) 

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by:

• CAS
• OAIster
  

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Information for authors

Call for papers:

Read the Editor in Chief's latest call for papers here.

Submission types accepted:

Submissions of the following types of manuscripts are accepted:

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. Case reports must meet appropriate ethical standards.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

Register as a peer reviewer:

Do you wish to register as a peer reviewer?  Or are you already a registered peer reviewer but you need to update your contact details?   To register or update your details visit the peer reviewer registration form. 

Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

Dr Blumenfeld is director of the “Women’s Health Centre”, and in charge of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Kupat Holim Meuchedet health fund. He is also a senior physician of reproductive endocrinology and infertility in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the RAMBAM Medical Centre in Haifa, Israel. He has published over 150 papers on reproductive health, mostly from a clinical perspective. He has been a board member, reviewer or referee for dozens of organizations and journals.

Dr. Zeev Blumenfeld is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in the Faculty of Medicine at Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). Previously he was a senior lecturer, and before that taught anatomy, embryology and neuroanatomy at Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, where he got his MD. He has also held a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at UCSF. He teaches obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, reproductive physiology and infertility to medical and post-graduate students.

His interests lie in reproductive endocrinology, inhibin and activin in human reproduction, hypophysiotropic and neuroregulatory modulation of fetal human pituitary glands, infertility and assisted reproduction, immunologic problems in infertility, and prevention of POF in young women receiving gonadotoxic chemotherapy.  Read an interview with Dr Blumenfeld.

>> Dr Blumenfeld's latest call for papers

Editorial Board

Rudi Ansbacher, MD MS
Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical Centre, Women's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Raul Artal, MD FACOG FACSM
Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, School of Medicine, Saint Louis University, St.Louis, Missouri, USA

Sebastian Carranza-Lira, MD
Reproductive Medicine Department, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, DF, Mexico

Petra Marcela Casey, MD FACOG
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Camil Castelo-Branco, MD PhD
Professor Dr, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Katrina Raquel Davis, MD
Associate Professor, OB/GYN Department, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Graeme Dennerstein, MBBS
Consultant Gynecologist and Obstetrician, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Laurie Elit, MD MSc FRCS
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Steven R. Goldstein, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

Faruk Hadziselimovic, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University Basle Kindertageskilinik Liestal, Liestal, Switzerland

Jan Hořejší, MD PhD DrSc
Professor, Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 2nd Medical Faculty and Teaching Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Sangeeta Jain, MD MS
Assistant Professor, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

Raksha Joshi, MBBS MS CPE MBA FRCOG FACOG
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Monmouth Family Health Centre, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

Yitzhak Koch, PhD
Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Lee A. Learman, MD PhD
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistico, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA

Lior Lowenstein, MD MS
Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Liselotte Mettler, MD
Prof. Dr., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Peter Oppelt, MD
Privat-docent, Vice-Director, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany

Karl Ulrich Petry, MD Dr.med.habil
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Klinikum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Scott Brian Ransom, DO MBA MPH
President and CEO, Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology, Health Management and Policy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Jahid Sehouli, MD
Professor and Vice-Director, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Charité/ Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gina Suzanne Sucato, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Bettina Toth, MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Campus Großhadern, Munich, Germany

Hans Verstraelen, MD MPH
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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