Human & Veterinary Medicine - International Journal of the Bioflux Society

Online ISSN 2066-7663; Print ISSN 2066-7655

Since 1928

Peer-reviewed (each article is independently analyzed by two specialists).

Published annually by Bioflux Publishing.

The journal covers all fields of human and veterinary medicine and publishes original papers, short communications, case reports, and review articles. Each published article is evaluated by two reviewers and at least one specialist in foreign languages. Peer-review policy: double-blind peer review. The editors use software that screens for plagiarism. Electronic submission is required. Authors are informed about the editorial decision (acceptance or rejection) within 3–8 weeks after submission. The average overall time from manuscript submission to publication is 10 weeks.

Contact for submission: ioan.mag@usamvcluj.ro

Our journal, HVM Bioflux, offers a good opportunity to publish papers in a timely manner, in color, both in print and online, open access, with unlimited pages. The journal allows author(s) to retain copyright without restrictions.

This is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The journal has no article submission charges. The journal has a waiver policy for authors from developing countries (only in cases of very high-quality manuscripts).

For papers submitted since January 2011, a publication fee of 150 USD or 650 LEI must be paid after acceptance. Authors may choose a fast-track publication option, enabling publication within less than 3 weeks, if the article is accepted. In this case, the publication fee is 300 USD or 1200 LEI. When the manuscript’s first author is a member of the Editorial Board (HVM Bioflux), no publication fee is required.

Please attach a scanned payment document and send it to: ioan.mag@usamvcluj.ro

Some papers require English language editing; the fee for this service is 50 USD for both members and non-members of the Editorial Board.

Payment to: Bioflux SRL

SWIFT code: BTRLRO22
Account no.: 213USDCRT00L2861401

IBAN:

USD: RO68BTRL01302202L28614XX – BANCA TRANSILVANIA (Cluj-Napoca)
EURO: RO19BTRL01304202L28614XX – BANCA TRANSILVANIA (Cluj-Napoca)
LEI: RO44BTRL01301202L28614XX – BANCA TRANSILVANIA (Cluj-Napoca)

Rejection rate: 40%.

Historical

The monthly scientific journal Miscarea Medicala was founded on January 1, 1928, by Dr. M. Canciulescu and his colleagues and functioned as a private journal throughout its existence. The headquarters of the publication was located on Unirii Street no. 102–104, Craiova, Romania. The serial publication ran until 1948 and changed its name several times. In 1930, the journal supplement became Miscarea Medicala Romaneasca; in 1932, the serial became Miscarea Medicala Romana; and in 1944, it changed its name again to Acta Medica Romana. Although the first issues were printed at Societatea Prietenii Stiintei (Craiova), some subsequent editions appeared under the aegis of Scrisul Romanesc, Craiova, which later ceased activity. However, the journal Miscarea Medicala remained an independent private publication.

The editors of the last volume (1948)—Canciulescu M., Parhon C.I., Anghelescu C., Ciuca M., Daniel C., Gomoiu V., Danielopolu D., Ionescu-Mihaiesti C., Levaditi C., and Nicolau S.—intended to resume publication of the periodical, but this did not occur. One of the last surviving editors, Dr. Victor Gomoiu (1882–1960), took over the archive, the collection, and the publishing rights. After his death, his wife, Mrs. Viorica Gomoiu (1899–1989), donated the archive, the collection, and the publishing rights to the History Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy in Craiova, which functioned within the University of Craiova (Faculty of Medicine) and in cooperation with the Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Craiova branch.

The preservation of the archive and the initiative to re-edit the publication are due to Professor Mihail Scheau Ph.D., Professor Gheorghe Manolea Ph.D., and Ion Patrutoiu Ph.D. With their support, in 2007, a pre-contract was concluded between the Romanian Committee of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Craiova branch) and Bioflux SRL (Bioflux Publishing House) to unify the national journal Acta Medica Romana with the international journal projected to appear in 2007 under the name Human & Veterinary Medicine (HVM Bioflux). Because Human & Veterinary Medicine gained significant recognition, in 2016 a definitive contract was established to unify the two journals and editorial teams.

The digitization of the historical collection was carried out through a contract between Bioflux Publishing House (Bioflux SRL) and the Central University Library “Lucian Blaga,” Cluj-Napoca.

Human & Veterinary Medicine is now a biomedical serial publication with one issue per year, coordinated by Editor-in-Chief Stefan Cristian Vesa Ph.D. and Director Ioan Valentin Petrescu-Mag Ph.D..

Statement of human and animal rights

When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"- February 2006 – cited by Pubmed, Medline database).

Statement of informed consent

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should identify individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"- February 2006 – cited by Pubmed, Medline database).

Conflict-of-interest statement

Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how well conflict of interest is handled during writing, peer review, and editorial decision making. Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author's institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from those with negligible potential to those with great potential to influence judgment, and not all relationships represent true conflict of interest. The potential for conflict of interest can exist whether or not an individual believes that the relationship affects his or her scientific judgment. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"- February 2006 – cited by Pubmed, Medline database). However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition or intellectual passion, and the Chief Editor will do his best to avoid them, using specific policies in the process of peer-review.

Authors responsibilities

- All authors have significantly contributed to the research

- All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes, in case of detection

- List of references should be provided by authors

- Information on financial support should be provided by authors in Acknowledgement section

- It is forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.

Peer-review, publication policies and publication ethics

- Judgments is external and objective

- Reviewers have no conflict of interest

- Reviewed articles are treated confidentially prior to their publication

- Bioflux Publishing House takes reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred

- In the event that the publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately

- Corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies are accepted. Correction of any published article after the official publication date is not allowed in the same document. A scientific journal is not a website. Corrections, clarifications and apologies written by the authors are allowed by separate Note or Erratum. Retracting of a manuscript is made by publisher in the case when plagiarism or other particular issues are reported.

- This is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

- In the case that our journal is no longer published, Bioflux Publishing House has agreements with several databases which are allowed to conserve and republish the old content at any time and unlimited number of copies, both as electronic and hardcopies. Bioflux Publishing House is archived by The Legal Deposit Bucharest (National Library) and by The County Legal Deposit in Cluj-Napoca (Octavian Goga Library). 

Data Sharing Policy

1. Policy Statement

HVM Bioflux is committed to promoting transparency, reproducibility, and integrity in scientific research. We support responsible data sharing as an essential component of scholarly communication and encourage authors to make the data underlying their findings openly available whenever possible.

This policy applies to all manuscripts submitted to the journal and is consistent with international standards for editorial best practices and research transparency.

2. Author Responsibilities

Authors are required to:

• Include a Data Availability Statement in all submitted manuscripts.
• Clearly indicate whether the data supporting the findings of the study are:
• Publicly available,
• Available upon reasonable request, or
• Restricted due to ethical, legal, or confidentiality considerations.
• Ensure that shared data are accurate, complete, and sufficiently documented to allow replication and verification of the reported results.

Authors are strongly encouraged to deposit their data in recognized public repositories appropriate to their discipline.

3. Data Availability Statement

All manuscripts must include a Data Availability Statement specifying one of the following:

• The repository name, persistent identifier (e.g., DOI), and access link if data are publicly available.
• The conditions under which data may be accessed if restrictions apply.
• A clear explanation if no new data were generated or analyzed.

Example statement:

"The data supporting the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [DOI or URL], or from the corresponding author upon reasonable request."

4. Recommended Data Repositories

Authors are encouraged to use trusted repositories that provide:

• Persistent identifiers (e.g., DOI)
• Long-term preservation
• Public accessibility
• Appropriate metadata and documentation

Examples include institutional repositories, discipline-specific repositories, or general repositories such as Zenodo, Dryad, Figshare, or equivalent platforms.

5. Ethical and Legal Considerations

Data sharing must comply with:

• Patient privacy and confidentiality requirements
• Informed consent provisions
• Institutional and national regulations
• Ethical approval conditions

Sensitive data involving human participants must be de-identified prior to sharing, unless explicit consent for identifiable data sharing has been obtained.

Where legal or ethical restrictions prevent public sharing, authors must clearly state these limitations.

6. Editorial and Peer Review Access

Editors and peer reviewers may request access to underlying data during the review process to evaluate the scientific validity of the manuscript. Authors must provide such data upon request, unless prohibited by legal or ethical constraints.

Failure to provide requested data may result in rejection of the manuscript.

7. Compliance and Enforcement

Failure to comply with this policy may result in:

• Manuscript rejection,
• Publication delays,
• Retraction of published articles if data integrity concerns arise.

The journal reserves the right to request data verification at any stage before or after publication.

8. Exceptions

Exceptions to data sharing requirements may be granted in cases involving:

• Legal restrictions,
• Ethical or privacy concerns,
• Proprietary or confidential data.

Such exceptions must be clearly justified in the Data Availability Statement.

9. Policy Scope and Alignment

This policy is aligned with international editorial standards and supports the principles of:

• Research transparency
• Reproducibility
• Scientific integrity
• Responsible data stewardship

The journal periodically reviews and updates this policy to maintain compliance with evolving indexing and ethical standards.

10. Contact Information

Questions regarding this policy should be directed to the Editorial Office at:

ioan.mag@usamvcluj.ro

Advertising policy  

Our journals do not accept or display any form of advertising, sponsored content, or commercial promotions. No third-party advertising networks are used, and there is no advertising revenue associated with our publications.