About Thyroid Research

What is Thyroid Research?

Thyroid Research is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that encompasses all aspects of thyroid hormones and thyroid diseases and their interaction with the cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastroenterological, metabolic and nervous systems.

The aim of the journal is to present the newest knowledge related to thyroid hormones and thyroid diseases and any related fields, thus encompassing a wide range of thyroidology topics including, diagnosis, pharmacological and other treatment methods, invasive treatment, physiological mechanisms of thyroid hormone action and regulation, immunological aspects, genetics, new guidelines in disease management, thyroid related diseases and complications.

Thyroid Research aims to provide a platform for scientists and physicians from all over the world on which to publish manuscripts on thyroidology; the fastest developing area of endocrinology.

Content overview

Thyroid Research considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• 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.
• 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.
• Letter to the Editor: can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers.

Peer review policy

Thyroid Research operates a closed peer-review process on all manuscripts and reviews approved via initial screening by the Editorial Board. Final decisions on manuscripts by the Editors-in-Chief are based on at least two reviewer reports. Where necessary a statistician will also be asked to review the manuscript.

Edited by Andrzej Lewiński, Josef Köhrle, Maria Alevizaki and Barbara Jarząb, Thyroid Research is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Thyroid Research

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

Articles in Thyroid Research 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:

Thyroid Res 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Thyroid Research does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

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

General journal policies

Thyroid Research 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. Thyroid Research however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Thyroid Research'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 Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Thyroid Research will be available.

Thyroid Research 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.