Biomedical Sciences Today

A fast, peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary publication platform

About

Biomedical Sciences Today (BMST) is a peer-reviewed, fast publishing, open access digital journal published by MDT Canada in Canada for worldwide access. It aims to create a platform to share all kinds of advance studies in biomedical area from various disciplines. The journal is supervised by an international editorial board of renowned professionals from various disciplines in biomedical research. It offers three different types of platforms for publication of original biomedical related research articles in forms including Commentary, Letter or Regular Article. Another platform for Review Articles is dedicated for invited authors to share their knowledge summarizing the progress of any topic, subject or technique. For non-invited authors, please send your proposal including title and brief discussion of the theme (about 200 words) to us through bmst@mdtcanada.ca.

Scope

Biomedical Sciences Today covers all areas of general discoveries and fundamental research in biological, biophysical, biochemical, biomedical engineering, medical sciences, marine biology, plant biology, disease and various other life science related fields. It also covers biomedical applications utilizing techniques including physics, chemistry, engineering, nanotechnology, computational biology, biostatistics, bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, etc.. News column offers a platform for biotechnology companies or research labs to advertise their new products, services, clinical trials, discoveries, etc. General biomedical breaking news may also appear here.

Publishing procedure

We commit to follow a very active and fast publishing platform that provides notification of any new paper’s publication worldwide. We give every submitted paper equal consideration. Each paper including invited review paper will be assigned to an editor with background related to the scope of the paper and the paper will undergo a standard peer-reviewed procedure. The authors will receive the final Editor’s decision regarding submitted paper within 1 month of submission. If the paper is accepted it will be published online within 7 days.

Editing

For helping those who need English language editing, correction, etc. our dedicated editing team offers this service within 3 days of request. The request, if needed, has to be made before submitting manuscripts. The editing fee will be determined based on the estimation of editing works required. Note that before authors are satisfied with final edited manuscripts, no peer-reviewed process will be initiated.

Copyright

BMST gives the copyrights to authors for their open access published papers. All open access articles published in BMST are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

In any publication, there can be used various descriptive name(s), trade name(s), trademark(s), etc. Often they may not be specifically identified, sources may not be mentioned but still that does not lack implying that they are not properly protected by appropriate laws and regulations that are applicable. Authors provide information that matter with other parties and as open access journal BMST gives full credits and responsibilities on authors regarding the originality and validity of those information. So authors take responsibility to mention the sources, take their permissions and so on in a proper way and keep them in their records as long as they are needed.

The journal will make all efforts to have all information in this journal to be true and accurate before sending materials to press. But still neither the authors, the referees, the editors, nor the journal’s publisher can accept any legal responsibility for errors, additions or omissions that may be made. The publisher and journal make no legal warranty, express or implied, with respect to all the materials that are contained herein.

Disclosure Policy

Conflict of interests: Authors declare no conflict of interests

The above line should be stated in the manuscript after acknowledgment section if that applies for the publication of the article. Otherwise, the authors are responsible to mention the possible conflicts, and provide necessary documents to clear those. BMST does not take responsibility on this matter.

Definition or Nature of ‘Conflict of interests’: Although there is no real definition BMST would provide but this to be guaranteed by the authors. Competing interest exists among communities, professionals. Sometimes, secondary interests may also appear to creating professional, judgmental, right establishing, validity issue making, financial gain or loss, administrative, etc. issues. BMST and it’s publisher require that the authors reveal solutions to any possible sources of conflict of interests in their submitted/accepted manuscripts.

Clinical Study

Regarding publishing clinical studies, BMST and it’s publisher aim to comply with all of the relevant recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) on trials registration. Therefore, authors are requested to register the clinical trials that are presented in their manuscripts in a public trials registry and include the trial registration number and relevant information at the end of the abstract.

Ethical Guidelines

Human experiments: all works must be conducted following the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). Papers that describe the detailed experimental work on human subjects who carry a risk of harm must include an official stamped statement that the experiment was conducted with the understanding and the consent of the human subject. The Ethical Committee of the institute, organization, university, etc. must approve the experiments’ plan before performing them.

Animal experiments: Nutritional, general animal care, drug application, anesthetic, surgical procedure, etc. used during animal experiments must be explained in the paper. Authors are responsible to take all possible steps to avoid animal suffering during various steps of experiments.

Index

Currently, our journal is indexed by Google Scholar.

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ISSN 2369-2103