„Forum Dermatologicum” is an official journal of Youth Forum of the Polish Society of Dermatology. It is targeted to wide audience of dermatologist and venerologist as well as other specialists. Medicine students, nurses and cosmetologist will benefit from the journal due to its interdisciplinary and various subject published.

Manuscripts submitted for publication in the Journal are evaluated as to whether they present scientific/educational merit within the announced topic. Received manuscripts are initially examined by the Journal editors. Manuscripts with insufficient priority for publication are rejected. Incomplete submissions or manuscripts not prepared in the required style are sent back to the authors without scientific review.

If manuscripts are accepted for review, they are evaluated by at least two outside referees. The peer review process is confidential and identities of authors and reviewers are not released. In cases author(s) of manuscripts and reviewers are no more anonymous, reviewers sign the declaration stating no conflict of interests, i.e. no direct personal relationships (first- and second-degree kinship, legal ties, relationship by marriage), superior/subordinate professional relations or direct scientific cooperation within the two years preceding the review. Referees are asked to provide a written review together with recommendation of acceptance, requirement for revision or rejection of the article. Review forms are available at the Journal web page. Names of reviewers of individual manuscripts are not revealed; the list of reviewers cooperating with the Journal is announced once a year. Final decisions as to whether the article is published remain with the Editor-in-Chief.  

Reviewers’ criteria for manuscripts qualification

• Title reflects the subject undertaken
• Assumptions are proper
• Work of practical nature
• Work of educational nature
• Aims are clearly defined
• Appropriate methodology*
• Ethical criteria fulfilled*
• Research-based work*
• Results are adequately presented*
• Statistical analysis is reliable*
• Discussion refers to results*
• Conclusions based on study findings*
• Conclusions refer to aims*
• Suitably chosen, proper number and up to date references
• Proper length
• All figures and tables are required
• Standard of written English acceptable

* criteria exclusively for research papers

This publication is intended for doctors and students of medicine. Every effort has been made to provide actual information, especially on medicine dosage, however, it is advisable that doctors make final decisions on their usage. This publication is not meant to replace a proper medical diagnosis or therapy. Responsibility taken by authors is suitable for this kind of publication and is not tantamount to responsibility for an individual medical advice.

The publisher has made every effort concerning reliability of the publication and the included information on the assortment, medicines and their prices. Yet the only legal information valid in the Republic of Poland are legal acts and in terms of trade – price offers of drugstores. As far as the information on medicines is concerned, the only lawful information is an updated characteristic of a medicinal substance and its producer’s leaflet.

The authors, consultants and publishers of this publication do not take any responsibility for possible mistakes or harms resulted from the information usage. Any cases of legal claims connected with medicines and chemical substances being under clinical examination are not going to be taken into consideration.

All articles published in “Forum Dermatologicum” are available in gold open access formula and are published under Creative Common Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0, International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) allowing to download articles and share them with others as long as they credit the authors and the publisher, but without permission to change them in any way or use them commercially.