Overview
eCM Journal (European Cells & Materials, ISSN: 1473-2262 ) provides a multidisciplinary high-level forum for preclinical biomedical research (Orthopaedics, Cell & tissue engineering, Biomaterials science, and Biomedical engineering). Research fields include, but are not limited to Musculoskeletal, Stem cells, Drug/gene carrier design, Bionanomedicine, and Application of biomaterials.
eCM Journal Impact Factor 2024: 3.1. JCR 5-year Impact Factor: 3.3. SJR H index: 99. Just released: Scopus CiteScore 2024: 6.7
Indexing & Abstracting (Services): Web of Science; DOAJ; ISSN; Scopus; SJR; Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Google Scholar, PubsHub and SHERPA/RoMEO databases.
Digital archive of manuscripts through CLOCKSS. eCM is a member of CROSSREF (Crossref Digital Object Identifiers (DOI:10.22203/eCM), tagged to article metadata)
Journal History
In 1999, eCM started the concept of free science publication. eCM was one of the first open access scientific journals in the world and initiated the transparent review process (now known as open peer review), including a transparent route to becoming a member of the eCM International Review Panel. Now, eCM adopts the internationally recognized Double-Blind Peer Review (DBPR) system.
eCM was published from Volume 1 until Volume 45 by AO Research Institute Davos. Please read HERE for a history of the Journal. Starting with Volume No 46 July-December 2023., eCM journal is published by FORUM MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING, USA.
Privacy Policy
1. Introduction and Scope
eCM Journal provides a multidisciplinary high-level forum for biomedical research (Orthopaedics, Cell & tissue engineering, Biomaterials science, and Biomedical engineering). eCM Open Access Scientific Journal (Eur Cell Mater) is published by FORUM MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING, USA, (in this Notice, “publisher”). Your personal information is stored by the publisher. Personal information is that which does, or could, identify you.
This Privacy Notice is provided in the context of the publisher`s role in collection, use, transfer, security and eventual disposal (collectively “processing”) of your personal information or data. Throughout this notice, “eCM”, “we”, “us” or “our” means the publisher.
2. Changes to This Notice
We will update this Notice from time to time and will communicate material changes to you before they become effective by the best means available to us (for example, by a prominent notice on eCM websites).
3. Personal Information Collected
Personally identifiable information: Detailed information about authors and reviewers is collected to accurately identify them in the submission system and to communicate with editors and production staff. Personal information collected at the time of submission is also used to register authors and reviewers for accounts in the submission system. Visitors may choose not to provide personally identifiable information, but may not be able to use some or all of the features of the site.
4. Purpose of Processing
4.1. Relationship management: we use ProPub to manage our workflow for the eCM journal and send you e-mails relating to your paper submissions, reviewing and editing activities. Occasionally, we will send you news relevant to the journal using an e-mail delivery system
4.2. Marketing: to keep in contact with you about our news, events, new website features, services or new products that we believe may interest you.
4.3. Analytics: to use data analytics to improve our website, services and experiences.
Note: EU GDPR article 6 (lawfulness of processing) information: as data controller, each publisher determines the legal basis upon which it processes the personal data of European individuals. These bases may include your consent and the necessity of fulfilling a contract with you.
5. Recipients of The Information
Your personal information that we hold will be:
5.1. Accessed by publisher employees whose roles require access to your data. Our personnel are bound to confidentiality terms, which cover their obligations to protect personal data.
5.2. Transferred to a third party as a result of any merge, acquisition or similar corporate event involving Clarivate or WorldPay.
5.3. Disclosed when required to by law.
6. Information Security
We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical security measures to protect your personal information from accidental loss and unauthorised access or use. These measures include firewalls, role-based data access, intrusion-detection software and physical access controls to data centres. However, we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, unauthorised acquisition or alteration of your data will never occur.
7. Data Retention
The period for which your information will be retained will be set by you, as you can delete your user account at any time ProPub and can unsubscribe at any time from eCM Journal news mail using the link at the bottom of the circulated e-mail.
8. International Transfer
eCM Open Access Scientific Journal currently owned by Forum Multimedia Publishing LLC.
9. Your Right and Choices
You may contact us with questions or requests concerning our use of your information, for example to request access to the data that we hold about you, or request that it be corrected or erased. If you registered the information (as in section 3) on ProPub, where it is then held, we will contact them on your behalf for correction or erasure of data if we are unable to do it directly.
10. Sharing Data Directly with Third Parties
You might end up providing personal information directly to third parties as a consequence of your interactions with our website and other services offered by us. For example, you may attend an event hosted by us where you communicate personal information directly with other attendees. We are not responsible for how such third parties use personal data provided by you.
Please be responsible with personal information of others when using our website and the services available on it. We are not responsible for your misuse of personal information or for the direct relationship between you and others when takes place outside of the website or our services.
Editorial Process
Each manuscript undergoes evaluation by the editorial office, the Editorial Board, and external reviewers, and the journal strictly adheres to a double-blind peer-review policy. The editorial process is conducted in accordance with the regulations of the Forum Multimedia Publishing, LLC.
Editorial Independence
Editorial independence dictates that the decision to accept or reject a manuscript is based solely on the scientific merit of the article, without consideration of any other relationships, such as pressure from the publisher to the journal editor. This means that the Editor is independent in their decision-making and will not be influenced by any external body or organization.
To ensure impartiality in decision-making and to avoid any potential conflict of interest, authors serving on the Journal's editorial board will not be involved in any editorial processing of manuscripts (including review, editing, and final decisions). The editors will also not be involved in decision-making for manuscripts written by family members or colleagues, or related to products or services in which the editors have an interest or other perceived conflicts of interest. Any such submissions are subject to all the regular procedures of the journal, and peer review is independent of the editors involved and their research teams. For example, articles from the Editor-in-Chief will be assigned to a Deputy Editor or, in the absence of a Deputy Editor, to an Editorial Board with relevant expertise (who does not have any conflicts of interest with the Editor-in-Chief). After receiving review comments from external reviewers, the manuscript will be returned to the Deputy Editor or a member of the Editorial Board (with whom the Editor-in-Chief does not have any conflicts of interest) for a final decision.
Additionally, if the manuscript is accepted, we will also ask the authors to indicate in a footnote the appropriate conflict of interest (e.g., relationship to the journal, whether sponsorship is included, etc.). Here is an example: XXX is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, and XXX declares no conflict of interest by not participating in the peer review process. Author XXX is responsible for all content of the manuscript.