Research Micro is an open access journal, and all articles are free to access, download, share, and re-use. Open access maximizes the dissemination and discovery of your research by fellow scientists, colleagues and clinicians, thus increasing citation and usage, and interdisciplinary collaborations. By making your work freely available to more people, we help enable you and the wider scientific community to advance science.

Authors are the owners. Under Creative Commons licensing, authors retain copyright in their open access publications. The articles are published under a Creative Commons license CC-BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, for any purpose under the condition that appropriate credit is given, that a link to the license is provided, and that must indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to BioMedTree.

We partner with highly qualified scientists, academic editors and an extensive network of expert peer reviewers. This journal uses single-blind peer-review model (identity of the reviewers is not known to the authors). Our editorial team provides rigorous, objective and constructive peer review, and will support you throughout the publication process. Submission of papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of this journal, will be sent to Editors, who are not affiliated with the author or their institution and will be subject to our ethical editorial policy guidelines. Research Micro is led by ethical and editorial policy guidelines to ensure that the research we publish is scientifically robust (or sound), and of the highest quality.

All accepted articles are published on a continuous basis and are posted online immediately as they are ready for publication. Yearly volume will comprise of four issues. The published articles will be assigned a unique DOI number (Digital Object Identifier).

As an open access journal, we ensure that your work is immediately accessible and highly discoverable across a range of platforms including our website, social media and professional networks. The journal is preparing to be indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Google Scholar, DOAJ etc. Our goal is to help your research reach more people and maximize its impact, to the scientists, public and for the greater good of the society.

Our editorial process focuses on the robustness and validity of research under consideration, from methodological, analytical, statistical and ethical perspectives, rather than making subjective decisions on your manuscripts. We ensure whether the presented scientific data supports or refutes your hypotheses. Reviewers will assess the technical soundness and scientific validity of your methods, analysis and interpretation, all of which must be appropriate, properly conducted, ethically robust and fully supported by the data. We do not reject manuscripts based on novelty or simply because your results were negative and did not support your initial hypotheses. The publisher subscribes to the guidelines and principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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