Clinical Ophthalmology
Submission checklist and article types
Clinical Ophthalmology is an open access journal from Dove Medical Press covering clinical aspects of eye disease and its treatment. It publishes original research, clinical trial reports, protocols, reviews, editorials and commentary, with a practical focus on diagnosis, therapeutics and clinical outcomes.
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press
- ISSN (online)
- 1177-5483
- ISSN (print)
- 1177-5467
- Specialty
- Ophthalmology
- Journal website
- www.dovepress.com/clinical-ophthalmology-journal
Article types
| Article type | Reporting guideline | Extra Journal-specific Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical Trial Report | CONSORT | 1 |
| Commentary | Depends on study design | 0 |
| Editorial(invitation only) | Depends on study design | 0 |
| Original Research | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Protocol | Depends on study design | 1 |
| Review | Depends on study design | 2 |
The guideline shown is the one that usually applies to that article type. For original research it depends on the design: see the reporting guidelines. Every review also covers about 80 general content checks; the requirement counts above are the additional checks specific to this journal.
Check your manuscript against Clinical Ophthalmology
Choose Clinical Ophthalmologyand your article type, upload your manuscript, and get a scored report on how it meets the journal's requirements and the reporting guideline for your study design, with prioritized fixes before you submit.