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New Content ItemMikhail joined BMC Series in 2023. He is a Doctor of Medicine with clinical experience centered in oncology and reconstructive surgery, as well as academic experience in anatomy and histology. After completing residency in 2018, he obtained a double PhD in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Oncology. In line with his clinical and academic work, he led several research projects in the field of regenerative medicine, including a postdoctoral position at Mayo Clinic. Mikhail is passionate about accessibility and transparency in research, both principles upheld by BMC Series journals. His goal as an editor is to promote these principles of open access to help authors maximize the impact of their research and reach a rapidly growing audience.  


Associate Editor
Mikhail Sinelnikov, MD, PhD, Springer Nature, USA

Editorial Quality Editor
Evan Smithson, MPhys, Springer Nature, UK

Manuscript Editors
Harshal Dhondge, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Nikhil Ghate, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Vaishnavi Nimbalkar, MSc, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, M.Tech, B.Tech, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Senior Editorial Board Members
Nada Alachkar, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Beatrice Goilav, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Bernard Jaar, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA
Laura Plantinga, University of California San Francisco, USA
Giorgina Piccoli, University of Torino, Italy; Centre Hospitalier Le Mans, France
Claire Sharpe, King's College London, UK

Editorial Board Members
Khaled Abdel-Kader, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Marco Allinovi, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
Kenneth Andreoni, University of Florida Academic Health Center, US
Mabel Aoun, Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon
Lois Arend, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Eric Au, University of Sydney, Australia
Jean-François Augusto, Angers University Hospital, France
Debasish Banerjee, St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Ilia Beberashvili, Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Israel
Justin Belcher, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Vincenzo Bellizzi, University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona di Salerno, Italy
Sebastjan Bevc, University Medical Center Maribor, Slovenia
Ann Bonner, Griffith University, Australia
Dorin-Bogdan Borza, Meharry Medical College, United States
Kate Bramham, King's College London, United Kingdom
Hui Cai, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Ben Caplin, University College London, United Kingdom
Cristina Capusa, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
Carmen Elena Cervantes, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Gordon Chun Kau Chan, MB ChB, MRCP, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Fouad Chebib, M.D., Mayo Clinic, USA
Cécile Couchoud, Agence de la biomédecine, France
Héléne Cronjé, PhD, Lane Clark & Peacock LLP and the University of Copenhagen, UK
Adamasco Cupisti, University of Pisa, Italy
Erol Demir, MD, Koc University Hospital, Turkey
Biagio Raffaele Di-Iorio, ASL AVELLINO, Italy
Ali Duzova, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey
Ciro Esposito, University of Pavia, Italy
Evaldo Favi, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Italy
Min Feng, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Tibor Fulop, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Jennifer Gander, Kaiser Permanente Georgia, USA
Giacomo Garibotto, University of Genoa, Italy
Francesco Garzotto, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV IRCSS (research hospital) and Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences University of Padova, Italy
Christoforos D. Giannaki, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Fabrizio Grosjean, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy
Jakob Gubensek, University Medical Center Ljubljana & Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Prakash Gudsoorkar, MD, FASN, FNKF, University of Cincinnati, USA
Ankur Gupta, Palmerston North Hospital, New Zealand
Seung Seok Han, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea
Ramy Hanna, MD, UC Irvine , USA
Mohamad Hanouneh, MD, Nephrology Center of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, USA
Manfred Hecking, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Imed Helal, Charles Nicolle Hospital-Tunis, Tunisia
Miguel Hueso, Hospital Universitari Bellvitge and Institutd’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Spain
Wisit Kaewput, M.D., MFRCPT, Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Thailand
Yuji Kamijo, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan
Sam Kant, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Kianoush Kashani, Mayo Clinic, USA
Frieder Keller, University Hospital Ulm, Germany
Nicolas Kozakowski, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Nithya Krishnan, University Hospitals Coventry, UK
Abigail Lay, PhD, University of Manchester, UK
Darren Lee, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Australia
Krzysztof Letachowicz, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
Guisen Li, Institution of Nephrology, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, China
Jeong-Hoon Lim, MD, PhD, Kyungpook national university, South Korea.
Christine Liu, Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Denise Mafra, Federal University Fluminense, Brazil
Mitra Mahdavi-Mazdeh, Tehran University of Medical sciences, Iran
Rahul Mainra, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Amali Mallawaarachchi, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Andrew Mallett, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Australia
Amy J McKnight, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Priti Meena, All india institute of medical sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
Yun Miao, MD, Ph.D., Southern Medical University, China
Roberto Minutolo, Second University of Naples, Italy
Safak Mirioglu, Istanbul University, Turkey
Eikan Mishima, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Masayuki Mizui, Department of Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Chi Chiu Mok, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong SAR
Francesc Moreso, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Spain
David Mudge, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Health and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia
Eman Nagy, MD, Mansoura University, Egypt
Khaled Nashar, Allegheny Health Network, USA
Ramón Paniagua, Unidad de Investigación Médica en Enfermedades Nefrológicas, Mexico
Ernesto Paoletti, University of Genoa-San Martino Hospital Genoa, Italy
Jung Tak Park, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea
Kearkiat Praditpornsilpa, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Nikoleta Printza, Aristotle University, Greece
PS Priyamvada, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, India
Frederic Rahbari-Oskoui, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Indu Ramachandra Rao, Kasturba Medical College, India
Kevin Regner, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Giuseppe Regolisti, Clinica e Immunologia Medica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Werner Ribitsch, Clinical Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Xiong-Zhong Ruan, University College London Medical School, UK
Domenico Santoro, University of Messina, Italy
Anjali Satoskar, The Ohio State University, USA
John Sayer, MB ChB Ph.D., Newcastle University, UK
Donal Sexton, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Silvi Shah, University of Cincinnati, USA
Sheyan Shirazian, Columbia University, USA
Manish D Sinha, Evelina London Children's Hospital, UK
Dimitrie Siriopol, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania
Edward Smith, University of Melbourne, Australia
Andrew Smyth, HRB Clinical Research Facility Galway, Ireland
Nattachai Srisawat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Austin Stack, University College Limerick, Ireland
Alexander Staruschenko, Medical College of Wisconsin, United States
Ernest Sumaili, University of Kinshasa, Congo
Kalathil Sureshkumar, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, USA
Paweena Susantitaphong, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Shigeru Tanaka, MD, PhD, Kyushu University, Japan
Ekamol Tantisattamo, University of California Irvine, USA
Charat Thongprayoon, Mayo Clinic, USA
Massimo Torreggiani, ICS Maugeri, Italy
Kriang Tungsanga, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Kiyotaka Uchiyama, MD, PhD, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan
Peter Van-Buren, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Amanda Vinson, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.D., Dalhousie University, Canada
Ashish Verma, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, USA
Liesbeth Viaene, AZ Groeninge Kortrijk, Belgium
Thorsten Wiech, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute of Pathology, Germany
Renske Wiersema, Haaglanden Medical Center, Netherlands
Eranga Wijewickrama, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Adam Wilk, Emory University, USA
Leslie Wong, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Kevin Woollard, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Alexander Woywodt, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / Univ. of Manchester, United Kingdom
Henry H.L. Wu, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Australia
Hongjian Ye, MD, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yet-sen University, China
Anselm Zdebik, University College London, UK
Fude Zhou, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, China

Editorial Advisors
Michelle Estrella, University of California, San Francisco USA
Ken Farrington, Lister Hospital, UK
Kevin Harris, University of Leicester, UK
Bruce Hendry, King's College, London,
David Jayne, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
Amir Kazory, University of Florida, UK
Benjamin Laskin, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Webb, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Blog Editors
Daphne Knicely, University of Virginia, USA
Sumeska Thavarajah, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.3 - 2-year Impact Factor
    2.8 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.064 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.746 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    28 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    158 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    3,053,628 downloads
    3,742 Altmetric mentions 

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