About the Journal

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Aims and scope

AboutOpen is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing real world evidence and other clinical studies, reviews and point of views, case series, and single clinical cases that contribute to increase our knowledge and experience in clinical medicine, pharmacy, healthcare technology and other healthcare related disciplines. Accepted articles span the full spectrum of medical science, pharma, biotech and healthcare technology and can be published either in English or in local languages with English abstract.  It considers for publication original contribution not previously published in any language or country and not under consideration for publication elsewhere and is addressed to researchers and health professionals of all levels, who will find openly accessible literature on their specialty, with no paywall and no registration.

The journal adopts a single anonymized peer-review process, which means that reviewer identity is not made visible to authors, author identity is visible to reviewers, reviewer and author identity are visible to the editors..Full details on the peer review process and editorial policies can be found here

AboutOpen publishes new articles as soon as they receive final approval from the authors and are assigned page numbers (online first, as customary now for scientific journals) and then collected in an issue, to guarantee rapid publication times and a timely content availability for its indexing databases. Authors retain the copyright of their article published are free to reproduce and disseminate their work. Full details can be found here.

Articles published by AboutOpen are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Full information on the open access policy can be found  here.

All of this journal content is archived in Portico, which provides permanent archiving for electronic scholarly journals.