Aims & Scope

The journal is created for the global exchange of knowledge in the fields of theoretical and clinical medicine, paediatrics, dentistry, technologies of medical diagnosis and treatment, medical psychology, nursing, public health, biology, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, biotechnology, and bioengineering. The journal adheres to the principles of evidence-based medicine. The journal's audience includes scientists, clinicians, and students. The journal practices a policy of immediate open access ("diamond" access) to published content, supporting the principles of free dissemination of scientific information for the sake of general societal progress. The journal publishes original research, literature reviews, clinical case reports, lectures, and commentaries.

General information about the journal

Periodical title: Inter Collegas
Founder, editorial office and publisher: Kharkiv National Medical University.
USREOU code: 01896866.
Contact information:
Address: 4, Nauky Ave., Kharkiv, 61022, Ukraine
Tel.: +38 063 069 9000
(Monday to Friday 9:00-17:00 Ukrainian time, except public holidays)
E-mail: ic.journal@knmu.edu.ua, as.shevchenko@knmu.edu.ua
Online ISSN: 2409-9988.
Periodicity: quarterly (4 issues per year).
Year of foundation: 2014.
DOI: 10.35339/ic

Scientific profile of the journal (cluster): Biology, Biotechnology, Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Specialties: E1 - Biology and Biochemistry, G21 - Biotechnology and Bioengineering, G22 - Biomedical Engineering, I1 - Dentistry, I2 - Medicine, I3 - Pediatrics, I4 - Medical Psychology, I5 - Nursing (by specialization), I6 - Medical Diagnostic and Treatment Technologies (by specialization), I7 - Therapy and Rehabilitation (by specialization), I9 - Public Health.

The journal is classified as a professional scientific publication of Ukraine in the field of medical sciences, Category B (24 September 2020) in the specialties 221 - Dentistry, 222 - Medicine, 223 - Nursing, 225 - Medical Psychology, 227 - Therapy and Rehabilitation, 228 - Pediatrics.

Journal indexing and archiving

The journal is indexed in:
Google Scholar
Ulrichsweb
WorldCat
Ulrichsweb
Index Copernicus

Journal rating in Index Copernicus ICV 2023: 81.20; ICV 2024: 85.99.

The journal is archived in repositories:
V.I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine 
Scientific Library of Kharkiv National Medical University
on Zenodo (with indexation in OpenAIRE)
on LOCKSS

License and other conditions for publishing articles

All journal manuscripts undergo plagiarism checking and double-blind (anonymous) peer review.

Since 2022, all journal articles have been published under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

The publication of all articles is free of charge.

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.