Aims and Scope
Uro-Technology Journal (UTJ, Online ISSN 2836-1741) formerly known as Clinical Surgery Research Communications, is an open access, peer-reviewed, international journal available online. The journal publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, letters to the editor, rapid communications, and case reports in English, emphasizing the basic and clinical research relevant to all urologic diseases, the novel technological developments in the field of urology and their application in the clinical practice. The diagnosis, therapy, epidemiology, prevention, biomarkers, pathology, surgical innovations (such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, mini-invasive surgery) in urology are included but not limited to the scope of this journal. The journal publishes papers on a wide range of urological issues such as oncology, functional urology, reconstructive urology, andrology, sexual medicine, laparoscopy, robotic surgery, endourology and surgical technologies. The editorial team welcomes basic and translational research articles in the field of urological diseases.
Information for Authors
UTJ follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s guidelines and the ICMJE recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journal.
Manuscripts submitted must be the original work of the author(s) and must not be published previously or under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Journal Information
Official Publication
Journal Statistics
• Launch date: 11 September 2017
• Publication model: Open access
• ISSN: 2836-1741 (Online)
• Digital archive: Portico
• Frequency: Quarterly published
• DOI: 10.31491/UTJ
Indexing/Abstracting
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Copyright and License to Publish
UTJ is a peer reviewed, open access journal. All content of the journal is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.
Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a Submission Statement (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Guidelines), which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
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Editorial Office
Email: utj@antpublisher.com