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Aims and scope

World of Health is the official journal of the European Specialist Nurses Organisation, which publishes articles related to health topics that have not been previously published. The journal is open to all medical and health professionals, as well as to authors who are not healthcare professionals but whose articles deal with health and healthcare issues. Regardless of what the author’s citizenship might be, all received manuscripts will be given equal attention. Manuscripts are accepted and published in standard English languages, and language accuracy is the responsibility of the author. The journal is published twice per year.

Distribution

World of Health is a Diamond Open Access journal. All articles published online are freely and immediately accessible to readers worldwide, with no fees charged to authors at any stage of the submission or publication process. While all articles are freely available online, printed editions of the journal are available for purchase. This model allows us to support the sustainability of the journal without compromising open access principles. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), which permits sharing and adaptation for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that proper credit is given to the original author and source, and that any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

The journal aims to be indexed in reputable open-access databases in the field of health and medicine.

Manuscript types

The World of Health Journal publishes articles in following categories:
Editorials,
Original scientific articles,
Review articles,
Case reports,
Meeting reports,
Letters to the editor.

Acceptance of a categorized article obliges the author not to publish the same article elsewhere without the permission of the editorial board. After receiving the manuscript, the editor-in-chief evaluates whether to immediately forward it for review, return it to the author or reject.

Review

Original scientific articles, review articles, and case reports are subject to peer review by external reviewers. The review is double-blind – the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, nor is the identity of the author(s) known to the reviewers. Authors are encouraged to suggest several potential reviewers who are experts in the field relevant to the manuscript. The editor will independently decide whether to send the manuscript for review to experts proposed by the author or to some other qualified specialist. It is possible for manuscripts to be accepted and published in a shorter form, with prior agreement with the authors.

Ethical aspects in publication

The editorial board of the journal follows the ethical principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in its work.

Ethical approvals

Authors of all manuscripts involving human participants must submit the approval of their institution’s ethics committee (institutional review board (IRB) or other competent committee). This approval and its number should be reported in the Methods section.

Authorship

Authors of submissions reporting research findings should meet all four of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
  • Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
  • Final approval of the version to be published; and
  • Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

People who have only participated in data collection or are researchers’ superiors but have not actively participated in the creation of the manuscript cannot be qualified as authors. The editor has the right to ask the author to explain the contribution of each of them. The order of authors is determined by agreement by the authors.

Plagiarism and text recycling

Manuscripts are checked for plagiarism (“appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit to the source or author”). Text recycling is allowed in the Materials and Methods section but not permitted in other sections of the manuscript.

Correction and retraction

If a substantive error is discovered in an article, we will endeavour to correct the record as soon as possible, either by issuing a correction notice or by retracting the article. We follow the 2017 recommendation from JAMA on how to deal with corrections: see Christiansen S, Flanagin A. Correcting the Medical Literature: “To Err Is Human, to Correct Divine”. JAMA. 2017;318(9):804–805. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.11833.

Competing interests

Potential financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in the manuscript.

Data sharing statement

Authors are encouraged to store raw data in data repositories. For more information about storage methods and repositories you can contact Editorial office.

Funding

Authors should indicate the sources of funding for their work.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS

The manuscripts should be sent for submission via the WoH Track system. The authors are invited to contact the journal via e-mail worldofhealth@worldofhealth.hr in case any questions arise. The material sent to the World of Health Journal must contain:

• Cover Letter
  • Title Page
  • Main manuscript with Images and Tables included in the text.

A cover letter should contain:
• the name of the corresponding author,
• the names of all authors and their academic titles,
• a short description of the research or information related to the paper, which could be useful to the editor (2 to 3 sentences),
• an author’s opinion on the type of the paper (original scientific paper, professional paper, case report, etc.),
• the reason why authors believe that their paper might be interesting to the readers of “World of Health”,
• a statement with which authors confirm that the paper was not previously published nor is currently in the process of being received in another journal,
• a statement confirming that all authors have read and approved the manuscript
• authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to publish the article under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
• a statement with which the authors confirm that there are no ethical problems, i.e., that the authors have all the necessary ethical approvals, and that the research has been carried out with respect to the ethical principles, statement with which the authors confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest.

MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING

The received scientific manuscripts should be written in accordance with: “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals” by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors „ (ICMJE) (available on the website http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/) and follow ethical guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Length of the Manuscript

• Original scientific articles and reviews: 3,000–6,000 words
• Preliminary reports and professional papers: 2,000–4,000 words
• Other types: up to 1,500 words
  (Word count do not include tables and references. )

The title page

The title page of the manuscript should appear on a separate page and include the following elements:

• Full title of the paper
• Authors’ full names and affiliations (institution, department, city, state/province, country, and ORCID if available)
• Corresponding author’s professional e-mail address
• [Optional] Institution and Institutional full postal address (for editorial use only, not published without explicit consent)

Affiliations should be marked with superscript numbers.

Example:

Stephen Brown¹, Daniela Taylor²

¹ Faculty of Health Studies, University of Dublin, Department of Physiotherapy, Dublin, Ireland.

² Clinical Hospital Centre Dublin, Department of Psychiatry, Dublin, Ireland.
* Author for correspondence: stephen.brown@gmail.com

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable data protection laws, authors are informed that personal data collected during the submission process (such as names, affiliations, ORCID iDs, and professional email addresses) will be used solely for the purposes of manuscript processing, peer review, publication, and scholarly communication.

Only information necessary for publication (e.g., author names, affiliations, ORCID, and corresponding author’s email address) will be made publicly available with the published article. Authors are encouraged to use professional, institutional email addresses for correspondence.

If a full postal address is requested, it will be used exclusively for internal editorial purposes and will not be published or shared without the author’s explicit consent.

By submitting a manuscript, authors consent to the collection and processing of their personal data as described above.

For any inquiries regarding data protection or to request access, correction, or deletion of personal data, please contact the editorial office at: worldofhealth@worldofhealth.net.

3.2. Text, images, and tables

The text should be saved as a Ms Word (*.docx) or Office Open format (*.odt).

• Format page: A4.
  • Page margins: 2.5 cm all around.
  • Font size: Calibri, 12 pt.
  • Line spacing: Double.
  • The page numbers: In the bottom right-hand corner, only the text of the paper is numbered.
  • Figures and graphic elements are presented in grayscale mode, except in special cases decided by the editor. Acceptable image formats are: *.jpg, *.bmp or *.tiff; the required resolution is 300 dpi. Use only non-copyrighted images, include source and written permission for publication.

Author names and affiliations must not appear in the main manuscript body.

Abstract

• Max 300 words
• Structured abstracts are required for original scientific articles (Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusion)
• Other manuscript types may use unstructured abstracts
• Abstracts are published in English

Keywords

3 to 6 keywords immediately after the abstract, using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) from Index Medicus: [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html]

Original Scientific Articles Must Include the Following Sections

• Introduction,
• Methods,
• Results,
• Discussion,
• Conclusion,
• References.

Introduction

The introduction is a brief and clear description of the problem and purpose of the research. The introduction should clearly state the hypothesis of the research and describe the main and secondary objectives of the research. It should include previously published information on this subject in the scientific literature and highlight how this research will contribute to a better understanding of the topic.

Methods

Describe the research design, procedures, and tools so that the study can be replicated.

Structure:

• Respondents or materials (type of research, time and place, inclusion/exclusion criteria, demographics, ethics approval)
• Methods (procedures, instruments)
• Statistical evaluations (statistical methods used, software package, and significance level – P value)

Results

Results should be presented clearly and accurately, but without discussion and interpretation. The most significant results of the research are presented first. The data presented in the tables should not be stated in the text again. Graphs should be used instead of tables that would not be viewable due to the large data number. Report P values to three decimal places (e.g., P = 0.036).

Discussion

The discussion is a critical review of the data presented in the Results section, i.e., their interpretation. The arguments presented in the discussion should be supported by the results obtained and referred to previously in one’s own and other studies. All claims that are not original need to be supported by a proper quoting of the authors (The Vancouver System). The discussion should not repeat the data presented in the Introduction or Results section. In this section, readers should be introduced with the study limitations. The conclusion is a shorter paragraph that usually consists of 1-3 sentences summarizing the main conclusions of the article.

Acknowledgments

The purpose of this section is to thank all the people who helped with the research but are not the authors of the article. It is suggested that the sources of funding research are mentioned in this section.

Guidelines for referencing

The reference list shows the sources of other research, i.e., the authors list the researchers they cited in their work. Reference is specified by ordinal number, according to the order of quotation in the text (the first reference is number 1). Literature quotations quoted in the text should be marked with numbers in round brackets. The Vancouver referencing style is used for the literature.

The examples of correct literature citing are available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html.
The abbreviations listed in the NLM catalogue, available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals, should be used when quoting a journal title.