Clinical Ophthalmology Mission

We publish rigorous, clinically relevant research in all areas of medical and surgical eye care. We welcome original studies, case reports and series, clinical trials, protocols, and translational research that offer new insights into the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of ocular diseases.

We welcome, but are not limited to, submissions in the following areas:

• Retinal and macular disorders, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal detachment
• Vitreoretinal and ocular oncology surgery, as well as emerging techniques in complex retinal conditions
• Corneal disease, refractive surgery, cataract management, and anterior segment surgery
• Ocular angiogenesis, fibrosis, and neuroprotection in vision-threatening diseases
• Clinical imaging, diagnostic biomarkers, and novel technologies in ophthalmic practice
• Outcomes of interventional and surgical treatments, including innovations in intraocular lenses and laser therapies
• Multicenter clinical trials and real-world evidence studies in ophthalmology
• Research connecting molecular findings with clinical phenotype and therapeutic response in inherited retinal diseases

Guidelines

Submissions are always open! Register at app.sciencebank.com to submit.

We welcome diverse article types and encourage submissions of null, negative, and contradictory results, as well as replication studies.

Our community adheres to the ScienceBank's editorial policies. To submit your work for editorial consideration, make sure you comply with its Author Guidelines. There you will find all of the needed information related to supported article types, document formatting, submission checklists, etc.

Additionally, please get familiar with the general policies before submitting:

1. Authorship policy
2. Disclosure of Funding Sources policy
3. Competing Interests policy
4. Copyright policy
5. Data and Material Availability policy
6. Software and Code Sharing policy
7. Policy for reporting research with animals and with humans
8. Ethics policy
9. Post-publication procedures

Multilingual submissions and peer review

Currently, our editorial pool is open to receive articles in English.

If you want to submit in a different language, please contact us at edops@sciencebank.com with your proposal to assess if we have the capacity to evaluate your paper.

Publishing fees

This community publishes fully open access, and authors keep their copyright under an open licence. Fees depend on Society membership:

• Society members publish with no article processing charge (APC).
• Non-members pay a flat, transparent fee of 1,000 USD to publish. [Charged at submission and refunded if the article is not published.]
• Waivers are available on request under ScienceBank's Fees and Payment policy, including for researchers from low- and middle-income countries.

For questions about fees, membership or waivers, contact edops@sciencebank.com. To understand what the publishing fees cover and all the benefits of publishing at ScienceBank, please refer to the "Publishing fees" section in the Fees and Payment policy.

Type of peer review

Our community offers a single-blind review system, which means:

• Authors’ and institute’s names are visible to reviewers and editors during peer review
• Reviewers’ and editor’s names and their institutes are anonymized throughout the peer-review process but made visible upon publication or rejection
• Reviewers' names and institutes are anonymized to each other during the peer review process
• For accepted articles, names of the editors and reviewers will be visible alongside the final article

Peer review process

1. Pre-screening: All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial screening by the ScienceBank team to ensure policy compliance with our policies, originality (using the software of Similarity Check), and the overall quality.
2. Pre-acceptance: If a manuscript passes the initial screening, an editor from our community will evaluate whether it has the enough amount and quality of information (according to article's needs and the field standard) to proceed to peer review. In the case of potential conflicts of interests with our current editors and the authors, ScienceBank will suggest an appropriate editor from another community.
3. Peer review: After pre-acceptance, two external reviewers are invited to evaluate the manuscript and provide constructive feedback aimed at improving it. Editors will then scope reviewers' comments to offer authors clear guidance on the revisions needed for resubmission.