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Journal overview

Aims and scope:

Bone and Tissue Regeneration Insights is an open access, peer reviewed journal which covers all aspects of healing and regeneration of tissue, tendon, bone and nerve. Bone regeneration and remodeling, osseointegration, fracture healing, wound healing and nerve regeneration are all topics of interest.

Submissions on the healing and regenerating processes at the molecular and cellular levels, methods of assisting these processes, mediating factors, and implants and associated technologies are also encouraged.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by:

• OAIster

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.

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference

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 Kerstin Rolfe is a Group Leader in Tissue Regeneration through the Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust (RAFT), Mount Vernon Hospital, in the UK. She is also an Honorary Lecturer on the subject at University College London. Prior to this she was a Project Leader in Skin Regeneration at RAFT.

Dr Rolfe has published a number of papers of various aspects of regeneration and healing of skin and tendons. She is a member of several organizations including the European Tissue Repair Society and the European Society of Dermatological Research. Her research interests include the gene and protein expression involved in scarring and healing of tendons and skin.

>> Dr Rolfe's latest call for papers

Editorial Board

Edward DiCarlo, MD
Associate Professor Clinical Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Joseph Freeman, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Martin Gotte, PhD
Head, Research Laboratory, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

David Harris, PhD
Director, Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank, and Professor of Immunology, University of Arizona, AZ, USA

Raghu Kalluri, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Matrix Biology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, MA, USA

Sangamesh Kumbar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Othopaedic Surgery, Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut Health Centre, Farmington, CT, USA

Chris Mason, MBBS, PhD, FRCS
Professor of Regenerative Medicine Bioprocessing, Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, University College London, UK

Kimberly Mace, PhD
Healing Foundation Fellow, Section of Tissue Formation and Repair, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Kevin McHugh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Study, Harvard Medical School and Beth Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Rebecca Wells, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Roger Kenneth Whealands, MA, VetMB, PhD, DEO, DipECVS, MRCVS
Professor Equine Orthopaedics, Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Herts, UK

George Yip, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Peter Steven Zammit, PhD
Reader in Muscle Cell Biology, Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK

Robert Zweigerdt, PhD
Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore

Note: this journal's editorial board is under development.  

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