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About the Journal of Otolaryngology Advances
Journal of Otolaryngology Advances (JOA) publishes clinical, surgical, translational and basic-science research in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery. Published by Open Access Pub, JOA is peer-reviewed and fully open access, covering ENT biology, diagnosis, medical and surgical management, rehabilitation and outcomes.
ISSN 2379-8572 (electronic) Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 Publishing since 2014 CC BY 4.0
What the journal is
JOA is a specialist journal, not a general medical one. Its subject is a single anatomical and functional territory — the ear, the nose and paranasal sinuses, the larynx and upper airway, and the head and neck — and the clinical, surgical and scientific work that territory generates.
The journal considers clinical, translational, laboratory and methodological studies, diagnostic and device evaluations, surgical research, reviews, perspectives and case reports with a substantive ENT lesson. A central, substantive ENT contribution establishes scope eligibility. Methods and evaluation must support the claims and be appropriate to the study type; clinical deployment or demonstrated patient benefit is not required for every laboratory, mechanistic or early-stage device study.
Otolaryngology is unusual in how tightly its evidence is bound to measurement. A hearing threshold, a sinonasal symptom score, a swallow study, a voice recording and a margin on a resected specimen are all quantities, and each is produced under conditions that decide what it means. The journal treats those conditions as part of the finding, and expects a manuscript to report them.
The seven scope domains include otology, neurotology and audiology; rhinology and the anterior skull base; laryngology, voice and airway; head and neck surgery and oncology; pediatric ENT; imaging, diagnostics and outcomes; and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. The Aims and Scope defines these domains and their boundaries.
What the journal asks of a manuscript follows from its design. The study types it publishes, and what each is expected to establish:
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Randomized clinical trials and comparative studies
A prespecified comparison with defined primary and secondary outcomes, a stated follow-up period, and adverse events reported alongside benefit.
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Prospective and retrospective cohort studies
A clearly defined cohort and selection method, with the confounding the design cannot remove acknowledged rather than argued away.
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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
A reproducible search, stated inclusion criteria, and an assessment of the quality of the evidence being combined.
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Technical reports and surgical innovations
Enough procedural detail for the technique to be repeated, with the conditions, instrumentation and case selection it depends on made explicit.
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Case series and case reports
A defined method and stated outcomes, and a lesson that reaches beyond the individual patient. A single case can raise a question; it does not establish efficacy, causality or prevalence.
Why the journal exists
Disorders of the ear, nose, throat and head and neck are common, they are frequently treatable, and their consequences are functional: how a person hears, breathes, speaks, swallows and is understood.
ENT research addresses both the mechanisms underlying hearing, balance, voice and airway function and the diagnosis and management of disease. Clinical studies may assess function, safety or quality of life; laboratory and methodological work may establish biological mechanisms, measurement validity or technical performance. The evidence required depends on the question and claims.
Specialist assessment connects methods and findings to their ENT context. Reviewers evaluate the relevance and rigor of clinical, surgical, biological and technical work without treating a completed clinical intervention as a requirement for every study.
Open access follows from the same reasoning rather than from a marketing position. Otolaryngological care is delivered by surgeons, audiologists, speech and hearing scientists, radiologists and pathologists working in very different settings, many without institutional subscriptions. Evidence that cannot be read where care is delivered does not change practice.
Who the journal serves
JOA is written for the clinicians and scientists who diagnose, treat and study disorders of the ear, nose, throat and head and neck, and for the researchers whose work bears directly on that practice.
- Otolaryngologists and ENT surgeons in general and subspecialty practice
- Otologists and neurotologists, and clinicians working with implantable hearing devices
- Audiologists and hearing scientists
- Rhinologists and endoscopic sinonasal and skull-base surgeons
- Laryngologists and clinicians working on voice, airway and swallowing
- Head and neck surgeons and reconstructive surgeons
- Pediatric otolaryngologists
- Radiologists and pathologists reporting head and neck studies and specimens
- Clinical researchers and trainees working on ENT diagnosis, treatment and outcomes
A central, substantive ENT contribution establishes scope eligibility. Methods and evaluation must support the claims and be appropriate to the study type; clinical deployment or demonstrated patient benefit is not required for every laboratory, mechanistic or early-stage device study. The Aims and Scope states the interdisciplinary boundaries.
How the journal publishes
The principles below govern every manuscript. Each is stated here in summary; the page that owns the rule states it in full.
- Editorial independence
- Editorial decisions are taken by the handling editor and the editorial board on the evidence of peer review. The article processing charge falls due only after a decision has been made and has no bearing on it.
- Screening
- All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Decision criteria
- Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- Editorial responsibility
- The journal is led by an Editor-in-Chief working with an international editorial board across the otolaryngological subspecialties. Members, their affiliations and their specialties are listed on the editorial board page.
- Open access
- Every article is open access from the day it appears. No part of the journal sits behind a subscription and readers pay nothing. Publication is funded by an article processing charge, stated in full on the article processing charges page.
- License and copyright
- Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Authors retain copyright in their own work, and any reader may copy, redistribute, adapt and build on a published article provided the original work is credited.
- Identifiers and discoverability
- Registered articles carry a Crossref DOI under the prefix 10.14302, so the version of record can be cited and resolved permanently. The indexing page sets out the journal's discoverability and metadata arrangements.
- The published record
- Errors identified after publication are addressed through published corrections or retractions, and the correction is linked to the article it concerns. The editorial policies page states how the journal handles corrections, retractions and post-publication concerns.
Clinical and research responsibility
JOA considers research involving people, human samples, animal models and laboratory or computational methods. The ethics and reporting requirements apply according to the study design and materials used.
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Ethics and consent
Studies involving people require appropriate ethics approval and documented informed consent. Manuscripts must show that patient privacy has been protected, and that identifying material is published only with consent.
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Trial registration
Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript.
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Reporting quality
Reporting follows the standard appropriate to the design — CONSORT, STROBE or PRISMA. Primary and secondary outcomes are defined, follow-up duration is stated, and adverse events and limitations are reported.
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Data availability
Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
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Disclosure
Competing interests and funding sources must be disclosed, and authorship must reflect substantial contribution to the work.
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Correcting the record
Where an error, a concern or a dispute affects a published article, the journal addresses it through a published correction or retraction rather than a silent change.
These are summaries. The editorial policies page carries each requirement in full, and the instructions for authors page states what a manuscript must contain to satisfy them.
The published record
JOA has published since 2014. The archive preserves the journal’s published record; the Aims and Scope defines eligibility for new submissions.
Three records from that archive, chosen to show the range rather than the sequence:
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The Comparison of Functional Outcomes Between Supraglottic Horizontal Laryngectomy and Supracricoid Partial Laryngectomy
Suat Bilici, Artunc Kaan Turanoglu, Ozgur Yigit, Ecem Sevim Longur
The complete record, by volume and issue, is on the archives page. Archive totals reflect the journal's current published record.
The publisher
Journal of Otolaryngology Advances is published by Open Access Pub, an open-access scholarly publisher. The publisher provides the editorial platform, the submission system, DOI registration through Crossref, production and preservation; the journal's editorial board decides what the journal publishes.
Publisher-wide policies on publication ethics, peer review, corrections and retractions apply to this journal alongside its own editorial policies. The journal's identity as a serial — its title, ISSN and DOI prefix — is registered independently of the publisher's own records and can be checked directly.
- Journal title
- Journal of Otolaryngology Advances
- Abbreviation
- JOA
- Discipline
- Otolaryngology – head and neck surgery
- ISSN
- 2379-8572 (electronic)
- DOI prefix
- 10.14302, registered with Crossref
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub
- Publishing model
- Fully open access; no subscription and no reader charge
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, with copyright retained by the authors
- First volume
- 2014
Where to go next
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Aims and scope
The full scope, the study designs the journal accepts, and the boundary of what falls outside it.
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Editorial board
Every member, with role, affiliation, country and specialty.
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Archives
The complete published record, by volume and issue.
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Editorial policies
Ethics, consent, trial registration, data availability, corrections and retractions in full.
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Instructions for authors
Manuscript limits, reporting requirements, file formats and the submission checklist.
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Indexing
Identifiers, metadata arrangements, deposit routes and preservation.
Contact the editorial office
Questions about scope, about whether a manuscript fits the journal, or about a published article can be sent to the editorial office. Authors preparing a submission should read the instructions for authors first.
Journal of Otolaryngology Advances (JOA)
ISSN 2379-8572 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 ·
Published by Open Access Pub ·
Articles are published under CC BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors.