Dear colleagues, authros and readers!
Abstract
Ten years exactly
have passed since the time the first issue of our journal was published. The
idea of publishing the journal was timed to the 50th anniversary of the
Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery (Russian Academy of Medical
Sciences) named after Academician B.V. Petrovsky. A policy article by
professors P.D. Tishchenko and B.G. Yudin on the problem of integrity of
scientific research opened that issue. This was especially important in
relation to the statement of our editorial team about our intention not only to
unite all surgical specialties into a single intellectual space, but also, to
the fullest extent, combine our application developments with the current
fundamental research, methods of genetic and molecular medicine. Now is the
time when surgical reverse ventricular remodelling is being discussed along
with the reverse cardiomyocyte remodelling, and the term ‘molecular cardiac
surgery’ appears in scientific publications for a good reason.
Nowadays, our journal
has been certified not only for surgery, but for genetics, anatomical pathology
and transplantology as well. And it is emblematic that this issue, in the year
of the 60th anniversary of the Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery,
opens again with an article on bioethics, the bioethics of fundamental
medicine, as a reminder that, without socio-humanistic support, efficiency of
all our surgical efforts will not be fully sufficient: an article on bioethical
problems of genomic cardiovascular diseases in precision medicine. Today,
bioethics of science in Russia is not simply important but, rather, extremely
important. Because liberalization of the centuries-old life concepts has
introduced elements of the policy of all-permissiveness into the scientific
community: publications without original content for the sake of quantity;
defenсe of ‘twin’ theses duplicating studies from way back; determining winners
of scientific competitions before they are held; publication of monographs
copying, in the worst form of plagiarism, original Western research... Only
self-control and self-respect of the scientific community can eliminate such
practices that undermine the meaning of our activities.
The editorial team congratulates all current and
former employees of Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery on the
anniversary date and invites you to continue fruitful cooperation: the value of
a scientific publication is determined not only by quality of the presentation
(which is done by the GEOTAR publishing house on the level accepted
internationally), but also by novelty of surgical ideas and solutions. I am
confident that our joint efforts will make it possible for us to multiply the
achieved results during the next decade.
Editor-in-Chief Sergey Dzemeshkevich
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