Aims & Scope

Caucasian Medical Journal (Caucasian Med J) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal and the official publication of the Azerbaijan Gastroenterology and Invasive Endoscopy Society. The journal aims to disseminate high-quality scientific knowledge and promote evidence-based clinical practice across all fields of medicine.

The journal publishes the following types of manuscripts:

Review Articles addressing current and emerging topics in medicine;
Original Research Articles presenting clinical, translational, and experimental studies;
Case Reports highlighting rare, challenging, or educational clinical cases;
Practical Articles for Physicians focusing on real-life clinical decision-making, diagnostic approaches, and treatment strategies.

All submitted manuscripts undergo an independent, unbiased, double-blind peer-review process.
Caucasian Medical Journal is published electronically in English, with three issues per year released in April, August, and December.

No fees are charged to authors for article submission, processing, or publication.

The editorial and publication processes and ethical policies of the journal are shaped in accordance with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The journal is in conformity with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

Editorial Policies are based on “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journal (ICMJE Recommendations).” (2016, http://www.icmje.org/)

Caucasian Medical Journal is indexed in DOAJ, EBSCO, Gale, Türkiye Atıf Dizini, IdealOnline, and Crossref.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

The Open Access Policy is based on rules of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Creative Commons

This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

CC BY-NC: This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, remix, transform, and build upon the material.

CC BY-NC includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

Permission Requests

Permission is required to use anything published under the CC-BY-NC license for commercial purposes (selling, etc.) to protect the copyright owner and author rights. Republication and reproduction of images or tables in any published material should be done with proper citation of the source, providing authors' names, article title, journal title, year (volume), and page of publication, and copyright year of the article.

Material Disclaimer

All commercial rights of publication of all articles published in the Caucasian Journal of Medicine belong to the Azerbaijan Gastroenterology and Invasive Endoscopy Society. No citation without reference could be done, and none of the sections of this journal could be multiplied without permission. All opinions published in the journal belong to their authors.

Financial expenses of the Caucasian Medical Journal are covered by the Azerbaijan Gastroenterology and Invasive Endoscopy Society.

Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that ensure the retrieval and distribution of information now available in digital formats to guarantee long-term, perpetual access. The preservation policy includes the following measures:

Website Archiving

All of the electronic content (website, manuscript, etc.) is stored in three different sources. Content on a server is online and accessible to readers. A copy of the same content is preserved as a backup on two other sources. Should a server fail, other resources can be brought online, and the website is expected to be available in 24-36 hours.

Abstracting/Indexing Services

Our journal's abstracting/indexing services store essential information about articles. In addition, some of our journal’s abstracting/indexing services archive metadata about the article and electronic versions of the articles. In this way, copies of articles are presented to the scientific community through these systems as an alternative to journals.