About Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair

What is Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair?

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal featuring high-quality studies providing novel insights into the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases characterized by chronic wound healing and fibrogenesis.

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair focuses on the discovery and characterization of the mechanisms of fibrogenesis and tissue repair. Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair covers five major areas of fibroproliferative disorders: gastrointestinal and liver disease; renal disease; rheumatology and connective tissue disease; pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease. Particular emphasis is given to studies leading to a significant advancement in the fields of genetic predisposition, diagnostic biomarkers and drug discovery. The journal will also publish important advancements in regenerative medicine and cell therapy related to fibroproliferative disease, and in the involvement of the stroma in cancerogenesis and tumor metastasis.

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair is the first journal dedicated to understanding, diagnosing and treating fibroproliferative diseases. Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair aims to help fill the gap in communication that exists between scientists working in different subspecialties of experimental and clinical medicine and to allow them to rapidly exchange ideas and work on common targets.

Content overview

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair considers the following types of articles:

Research: reports of data from original research. These articles will form the major content of the journal.
Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal.
Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board.

Peer review policies

Manuscripts will be reviewed by internationally recognized experts in the field, selected in part from our Editorial Board. Reviews will be rapid and the suitability of a paper for publication will be assessed solely on criteria of scientific excellence. Final decisions will be made by the Editor-in-Chief and Section Editors.

Edited by Massimo Pinzani, Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central.

Articles in Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Fibrogenesis Tissue Repair 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair does not have issue numbers either. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Institute for Scientific Information to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair will be available.

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.

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