Clinical Virtual Research Center Journal of Ophthalmology
Clinical Virtual Research Center Journal of Ophthalmology publishes the most recent findings in all areas of ophthalmology, optometry, and visual sciences in the peer-reviewed, open-access CVRC journal in a timely manner.
Clinical Virtual Research Center Journal of Ophthalmology
Clinical Virtual Research Center Journal of Ophthalmology publishes the most recent findings in all areas of ophthalmology, optometry, and visual sciences in the peer-reviewed, open-access CVRC journal in a timely manner. The journal's objectives are to enhance timely communication of research findings and serve as a guide for scholars and eye care specialists seeking the most recent developments in the domains of optometry, ophthalmology, and visual sciences. The CVRC Journal of Ophthalmology accepts original research articles covering all fields of ophthalmology, optometry, and visual sciences, as well as reviews, mini-reviews, case reports, and letters to the editor.
Editorial Board
- Mashael Al-Namaeh, O.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.O., Associate Professor and the clinical director of research at the Clinical Virtual Research Center & Adjunct professor at Kentucky college of Optometry, University of Pikeville
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Aaron McNulty, O.D., F.A.A.O., Associate Professor at the Clinical Virtual Research Center & Adjunct professor at Oklahoma College of Optometry, Northeastern State University
Authors Instructions
APC
All article types have an APC of $500; however, "Letter to Editor" articles have an APC of $300. For the first ten articles published in the journal there is no APC charge.
Article Types
1. Research Articles
- Our area of interest is clinical research with clearly established objectives, methods, results, and discussion.
- Abstract: Maximum 300 words. The abstract should include: Background; Objectives; Design; Methods; results; conclusion.
- Word count: up to 5000 words is recommended
- Figures/ Tables: no limit
2. Review Articles
- The following types of high-standard quality will be considered
- Literature reviews
- Systemic reviews
- Meta-analyses
- Abstract: maximum 300 words
- Word count: 4000-5000 words
- Figures/Tables: no limit
3. Case Reports and case series
- The case reports should describe unique cases and should include review of the current literature and implications for clinical care
- Abstract: maximum 300 words
- Word count: 2000-2500 words
- Figures/Tables: no limit
4. Letter to the Editor: We accept outcomes that are null or negative as long as the publications have a solid hypothesis testing background.
- Abstract: none
- Word count: 1000 words or less
- Figures/Tables: There is a limit of one figure or one table
5. Editorials
- Abstract: none
- Word count: 1000 words or less
- Figures/Tables: There is a limit of one figure or one table
6. Dissertations
- Abstract: maximum 450 words
- Word count: 70,000 words or less
- Figures/Tables: There is a limit of one figure or one table
Peer review
Each manuscript submission will be undergo an automated check for plagiarism and will reviewed by a least two subject experts in a single-blind workflow. Manuscripts that have been previously posted as preprints may submit open reviews of the preprint for consideration by the editorial team. Reviewers have the option of posting their reviews publicly on the ScienceOpen platform after an article has been published. All public reviews will receive a Crossref peer-review DOI.
Data policy
By publishing in the journal authors are required to make research data available to editors and reviewers, and to readers upon request. For some research data, deposition in repositories is required and this is encouraged for all research data. For some papers, the decision to publish will be affected by whether or not authors share their research data.
Required
- Data sharing via repositories for some research data
- Data availability statements
- Data sharing on request
Optional / Encouraged
- Data citation
- Data sharing via repositories for all research data
- Prepare and share Data Management Plans
| Feature | Text |
| Definition of research data | This policy applies to the research data that would be required to verify the results of research reported in articles published in the journal. Research data include data produced by the authors (“primary data”) and data from other sources that are analysed by authors in their study (“secondary data”). Research data includes any recorded factual material that are used to produce the results in digital and non-digital form. This includes tabular data, code, images, audio, documents, video, maps, raw and/or processed data. |
| Definition of exceptions | Research data that are not required to verify the results reported in articles are not covered by this policy. This policy does not require public sharing of quantitative or qualitative data that could identify a research participant unless participants have consented to data release. The policy also does not require public sharing of other sensitive data, such as the locations of endangered species. Alternatives to public sharing of sensitive or personal data include:
Stating the procedures for accessing your research data in your article and managing data access requests from other researchers. |
| Embargoes | Embargoes on data sharing are only permitted with the agreement of the Editors. |
| Supplementary materials | Sharing research data as supplementary information files is discouraged. Research data of the types listed in “Mandatory data sharing (specific papers)” must not be uploaded as supplementary information files. The journal will require authors to deposit these in an approved repository as a condition of publication. |
| Data repositories | The preferred mechanism for sharing research data is via data repositories. Please see <recommended repository list> or https://repositoryfinder.datacite.org/ for help finding research data repositories. Research data of the types listed in “Mandatory data sharing (specific papers)” must be uploaded to an appropriate repository. The journal will require authors to deposit these in an approved repository as a condition of publication. |
| Data citation | The journal encourages authors to cite any publicly available research data in their reference list. References to datasets (data citations) must include a persistent identifier (such as a DOI). Citations of datasets, when they appear in the reference list, should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite and follow journal style. |
| Data licensing | The journal encourages research data to be made available under open licences that permit reuse freely. The journal does not enforce particular licenses for research data, where research data are deposited in third party repositories. The publisher of the journal does not claim copyright in research data. |
| Researcher/ author support | Questions about complying with this policy should be sent to info@scienceopen.com |
| Data availability statements | The journal requires authors to include in any articles that report results derived from research data to include a Data Availability Statement as part of the submission process. The provision of a Data availability statement that is compatible with the journal’s research data policy will be verified as a condition of publication. Data availability statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Where research data are not publicly available, this must be stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for accessing the data. Data Availability statements must take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple types of research data):
The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party name] but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [third party name]. |
| Data formats and standards | The journal encourages authors to share research data using data formats and standards recognised by their research community. Please see FAIRsharing.org for more information on established data sharing formats and standards. The journal prefers research data to be shared in open file formats – those that do not require proprietary software to access - where possible. For example, tabular data should be shared as CSV files rather than XLS files. |
| Mandatory data sharing (specific papers) | For certain types of research data, submission to a community-endorsed, public repository is mandatory. The journal will require authors to deposit data of these types in an approved repository as a condition of publication. |
| Research data and peer review | Peer reviewers are encouraged to check the manuscript’s Data Availability statement. Where applicable, they should consider if the authors have complied with the journal’s policy on the availability of research data, and whether reasonable effort has been made to make the data that support the findings of the study available for replication or reuse by other researchers. Peer reviewers are entitled to request access to underlying data (and code) when needed for them to perform their evaluation of a manuscript. |
| Data Management Plans | The journal encourages authors to prepare Data Management Plans before conducting their research and encourages authors to make those plans available to editors, reviewers and readers who wish to assess them. |
Ethics policy
All material presented must be acquired according to ethical standards and approved by legally appropriate ethical committee(s).
We encourage authors to be aware of standardised reporting guidelines when preparing their manuscripts:
- Case reports - CARE
- Diagnostic accuracy - STARD
- Observational studies - STROBE
- Randomized controlled trial - CONSORT
- Systematic reviews, meta-analyses - PRISMA
- Animal research / In vivo experiments - ARRIVE
In all cases of publication ethics the journal will refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines: https://publicationethics.org/
Reporting research that involves human subjects or data requires a declaration that the investigations were carried out following the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/). Approval from the institutional review board (IRB) or other appropriate ethics committee must be obtained before undertaking the research to confirm the study meets national and international guidelines. A statement including the project identification code, date of approval, and name of the ethics committee or institutional review board must be included as ‘Institutional Review Board Statement’ article. For example: "All subjects gave their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of XXX (Project identification code)." The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
Reporting research that involves animals required a statement that authors have the relevant approval for their study from an appropriate ethics committee and/or regulatory body before the work starts. The ethical statement provides editors, reviewers and readers with assurance that studies have received this ethical oversight. Authors are responsible for complying with regulations and guidelines relating to the use of animals for scientific purposes. Authors should ensure that they follow the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research.
The manuscript should follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) according to those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly. Additionally, when studies describe groups by race, ethnicity, gender, disability, disease, etc., explanation regarding why such categorization was needed should be clearly stated in the article.
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source.
Collection Information
| ScienceOpen disciplines: | Ophthalmology & Optometry, Vision sciences, Medicine |
| Keywords: | Ophthalmology, Optometry, Vision Science |
| DOI: | 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-MED.CL0ZWLD.v1 |