Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Journal Highlights
- Launched in 2007.
- Gold open access journal – all articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication.
- Rigorous peer review.
- Listed in PubMed and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus, ProQuest and MEDLINE.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focuses on pioneering efforts and innovative studies across all areas of respiratory disease. Please see the aims and scope tab for further information.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
This journal flipped to open access on September 1, 2017.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease promotes inclusive, open science that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of the respiratory disease community.
Diversity as a core value embodies inclusiveness, mutual respect, and multiple perspectives.
We welcome editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers and authors from all backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, races, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, mental or physical (dis)abilities, ages, career stages, socioeconomic status or any other individual status.
We are committed to continually improving our editorial and review processes whilst playing our part in eradicating bias and inequality in all forms.
Submission information
Submit your manuscript today at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tar.
Please see the submission guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
Open access information
Unsolicited manuscripts submitted to Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease are subject to an article processing charge (APC) of $3,000 USD. The APC for a Plain Language Summary is $5,000 USD.
These articles will be published under a Creative Commons licence and will be made openly available.
The APC is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Contact
Please direct any queries to respiratory@sagepub.co.uk.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease is an open access journal which delivers the highest quality peer-reviewed original research articles, reviews, and scholarly comment on pioneering efforts and innovative studies in the medical treatment of respiratory disorders. The journal has a strong clinical and pharmacological focus and is aimed at an international audience of clinicians and researchers in respiratory medicine and related disciplines, providing an online forum for rapid dissemination of recent research and perspectives in this area.
The editors welcome original research articles across all areas of respiratory medicine.
The journal is dedicated to publishing clinical research. We do not publish preclinical research, including basic laboratory research and animal studies.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease covers themes including but not limited to:
- Airway and Obstructive Lung Diseases
- Diagnostic and Interventional Pulmonology
- Interstitial and Fibrotic Lung Diseases
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
- Rare Lung Diseases
- Respiratory Failure and Critical Care
- Respiratory Infections and Inflammation
- Sleep Medicine
- Thoracic Oncology and Pleural Disease
Review articles include expert opinion/perspective reviews (including single-drug and drug class reviews), narrative reviews and therapeutic area reviews. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, postmarketing and health economic and pharmacoeconomic reviews are also welcomed. The appropriate EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed (e.g. CONSORT for randomized, controlled trials and PRISMA for systematic reviews/meta-analyses). The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment.
The journal adheres to a blind review process in which the reviewer's name is routinely withheld from the author unless the reviewer requests a preference for their identity to be revealed. Manuscripts are reviewed by at least two referees.
View the journal’s Editorial Board here.
| Nazia Chaudhuri, MB ChB, PhD, FRCP | Ulster University, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Sheeba Khan | SAGE Publishing, New Delhi, India |
| Dana Albon, MD, MS, FCCP | University of Virginia, Virginia, USA |
| Shaney Barratt, BMBS, MRCP, PhD | North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK |
| Humberto Choi, MD | Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA |
| Corrado Pelaia, PhD | Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy |
| Antonio Spanevello MD, FERS | University of Insubria, Varese, Italy |
| Adriano Tonelli, MD, MSc | Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA |
| Tom Wilkinson, MA, MBBS, MRCP, PhD | Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK |
| Manisha Witmans, MD, FRCPC, FAASM | University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada |
| Min Xie, MD | Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Wuhan, China |
| Sairam Raghavan, MD | Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA |
| Ian M Adcock, PhD | Imperial College London (National Heart and Lung Institute), London, UK |
| Gary Anderson, PhD | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Igor Z Barjaktarevic, MD, PhD | UCLA Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine & David Geffen School of Medicine, USA |
| Peter Barnes, FRS, FMedSci | Imperial College London (National Heart and Lung Institute), London, UK |
| Vito Brusasco, MD | University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy |
| Peter Calverley, FMedSci, MD, PhD | University of Liverpool, Liverpoool, UK |
| Rory Chan , MBChB, PhD | University of Dundee, School of Medicine, Dundee, UK |
| Claus F. Vogelmeier, MD | University Hospital Gießen und Marburg, Marburg, Germany |
| Yong-hua Gao, PhD, MD | Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China |
| David Mannino, MD | University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA |
| Maria-Gabriella Matera, MD, PhD | The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy |
| Alexander Mathioudakis, MD, PhD, MRCP(UK) | University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Jane McDowell, MD, PhD | Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Clive Page, PhD | King's College London, London, UK |
| Reynold Panettieri (Jr.), MD | Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA |
| Irfan Rahman, PhD | University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA |
| Stephen Rennard, MD | Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, NE, USA |
| Nuttapol Rittayamai, MD | Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Joan B. Soriano, MD, PhD | Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain |
| Robert Stockley, MD | Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK |
| Neil C. Thomson, MD | University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK |
| Alice M Turner, MBChB, PhD | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK |
| J. Christian Virchow, MD | The University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany |
| Richard Zuwallack, MD | St Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT, USA |
| Walter De Wever, MD | University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
| Goksel Altinisik, MD | Chest Department, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey |
| Francesco Amati, MD | Humanitas University, Milan, Italy |
| Fatma Arslan, MD | Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey |
| Roberto G Carbone, MD, FCCP | University of Genoa, Genova, Italy |
| Ulrich Costabel, MD, PhD | Ruhrland Klinik, Essen, Germany |
| Ahmed Fahim, MD, FRCP, MBBS | New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK |
| Fernando Martinez, MD, MS | UMass Chan Medical School, Massachusetts, USA |
| Afroditi K. Boutou, MD, MSc,PhD | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Michael K. Stickland, PhD | Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
| Malik Bisserier, PhD | Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla/New York, United States |
| Dr. Zsófia Lázár, MD, PhD | Semmelweis University, Dept. Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary |
| Zeenat Safdar, MD, MS, FACP, FCCP, ATSF | Houston Methodist Hospital, USA |
| Isabella Annesi-Maesano, MD, PhD, HDR | INSERM, Paris, France |
| Francesco Blasi, MD | University of Milan, Milan, Italy |
| Oleg Epelbaum, MD | Westchester Medical Center, New York, USA |
| Francisco-Javier González-Barcala, MD, PhD | University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Grant Waterer, MD | University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia |
| Lourdes M. DelRosso, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, California, United States |
| Gabriel Natan Pires, PhD | Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Paschalis Steiropoulos, MD, PhD | Department of Pneumonology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece |
| Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoglu, MD, FEBTS | Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey |
| Saibin Wang, MD | Jinhua Municipal Central Hospital, Jinhua, China |
| Simone Gambazza, PhD | Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy |
| Annalisa Orenti, PhD | University of Milan, Milan, Italy |
| Ms Barbara Toson, MStatEc | FHMRI Sleep, College Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park / South Australia , Australia |
| Rayid Abdulqawi, MD, PhD | King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Dr. Ahmad R. Alsayed, PhD, MSc, PharmD | Applied Science Private University, Jordan |
| Francesco Ardesi, MD | University of Insubria, Varese, Italy |
| Kerri Aronson, MD, MS | Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA |
| Ahmed K. Awad, MD | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Massimiliano Bassi, MD, PhD | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
| Angela Bellofiore, BSc | Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy |
| Ariel Berlinski, MD | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR, USA |
| Afroditi K. Boutou, MD, MSc,PhD | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Diana Calara, MD, PhD | Department of Pneumology and Allergology, “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova |
| Ilaria Campo, PhD | Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy |
| Nazli Çetin, MD | Department of Pulmonology, Afyonkarahisar State Hospital, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey |
| Toufic Chaaban, MD | Department of Internal Medicine, Gilbert and Rose Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon |
| Warawut Chaiwong, PhD | Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| Chongxiang Chen, PhD | The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China |
| Wei-Chih Chen, MD, PhD | Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD | National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, South Korea |
| Alexandru Corlateanu, MD, PhD | Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Moldova |
| Maxime Cormier ,MD, FRCPC | McGill University, Canada |
| Dr. Alexandru-Florian Crisan, PT., PhD. | Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania |
| Mathieu D. Saint-Pierre, MD, FRCPC | Montfort Hospital, Institut du Savoir Montfort, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Sajal De, MD, FCCP | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, India |
| Himanshu Deshwal, MD, PhD, MSc | Section of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine West Virginia University School of Medicine Morgantown, USA |
| Asli Gorek Dilektasli, MD | Bursa Uludag University, Turkey |
| Ilias E. Dimeas, MD | University of Thessaly Larissa, Greece |
| Giles Dixon, BMedSci, MRCP, MBChB, PGCME | Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK |
| Valérian Dormoy, MSc, PhD | University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France |
| Ahmed E Kabil, MD, MSc | Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt |
| Dr Paul Ellis, MBChB, PhD | School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Omer Faruk Demir, PhD | Ankara Atatürk Sanatorium Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey |
| Stefan Marian Frent, MD, PhD | University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania |
| Dr. Ophir Freund, MD | Pulmonary Institute, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel |
| Mohan Giri, PhD | The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China |
| Canan Gunduz Gurkan, MD | Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Ruvistay Gutierrez-Arias, MD, PhD, MSc | Instituto Nacional del Tórax, Santiago, Chile |
| Mahmoud Hajipour, PhD | Hepatology and Nutrition Research Center, Research Institute for Children’s Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
| Hamid Reza Hemmati, MD | Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran |
| Zhi-De Hu, PhD, MD | Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, China |
| Ying Huang, PhD | Jinan University, China |
| Irena Šarc, MD, MSc | Golnik Clinic - University Clinic for Lung Diseases and Allergy Shingles, Slovenia , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Noeul Kang, MD, PhD | Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea |
| Spencer Joseph Keene, PhD, MSc | Victor Philip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Fayez Kheir, MD, MSc | Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| Elena Kondratyeva, MD | Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia |
| Evangelia Koukaki, MD, MSc, PhDc | University of Athens, Sotiria Chest Diseases Hospital, Greece |
| Maria Koulopoulou, MSc | King's College Hospital NHS Foundation, London, UK |
| Amit Kumar Saha, PhD | Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA |
| Ismail Cuneyt Kurul, MD | Gazi University, Anakara, Turkey |
| Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc | Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK |
| Heyi Le, MD | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, NY, US |
| Carli J. Lehr, MD, PhD | Cleveland Clinic Health System, USA |
| Xin Li, M.D., Ph.D | Fuwai Hospital, CAMS & PUMC and National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China |
| Konstantinos Loverdos, MD, PhD | Thoracic General Hospital of Athens “I Sotiria”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece |
| Evelyn Lynn, MD | Royal Brompton Hospital, Fulham Wing, London, UK |
| John Mackintosh, MBBS | Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
| Maeve Georgia MacMurdo, MBChB, MPH | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Angelantonio Maglio, MD, PhD | Surgery and Dentistry “Scuola Medica Salernitana”, University of Salerno, Italy |
| Mahsa Malekahmadi, PhD | Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
| Matthew Markovetz, PhD | Marsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina, NC, USA |
| Jyothi U. Menon, PhD | University of Rhode Island, USA |
| Tejas Menon Suri MD, DM | Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research, New Delhi, India |
| Mizuki Momoi, MD, PhD | Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan |
| Mayuri Mudgal, MD | Camden Clark Medical Center, West Virginia University, Parkersburg, WV, USA |
| Sanjeevan Muruganandan, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, CCPU | Northern Health, Victoria, Australia |
| Giuseppe Muscato, MD | Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy |
| Ruben Mylvaganam, MD, MS | Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Boon Hau Ng, MBBS, MMed | University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia |
| Santi Nolasco, MD | Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Cataia, Italy |
| Betül Özdel Öztürk, MD | Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey |
| Anastasia Papaporfyriou, PhD | Department of Pulmonology, Internal Medicine II, Vienna University Hospital, Vienna, Austria |
| Raj Parikh, MD, MPH | Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, Hartford Hospital, United States |
| Esra Pehlivan, PT, PhD | Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkiye |
| Chiagozie Pickens, MD, MSc | Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States |
| Michael R DePietro, MD | Incyte Corporation, Wilmington Delaware, US |
| Mandeep Singh Rahi, MD, FACP | Yale New Haven Health – Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, USA |
| Guilherme Rodrigues, PT, MSc, PhD student | University of Aveiro, Portugal |
| Dr. Alfian- Nur Rosyid | Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia. |
| Narongkorn Saiphoklang, MD | Thammasat University, Pathum thani, Thailand |
| Cristiana Sieiro Santos, MD, MSc | Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León, Spain |
| Te-Chun Shen, MD, PhD | China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan |
| Wagner Alves Silva, PT, PhD | Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo PUC-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Jacopo Simonetti, MD | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy |
| Zeynep Çelebi Sözener ,MD | Ankara University, Turkey |
| Kim Styrvoky, MD | Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, Florida, USA |
| Dominic L. Sykes, MBBS, BSc, MRCP | Hull York Medical School, Hull, UK |
| Matthew T. Siuba, DO, MS | Integrated Hospital Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Corrado Tagliati, MD | AST Ancona, Ancona, Italy |
| Vito Terlizzi, MD | IRCCS, Cystic Fibrosis Regional Reference Center, Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy |
| Lucia Vietri | University of Ferrara, Italy |
| Haitao Wang | Center for Cancer Research, NCI, Bethesda, USA |
| Ha-Kyeong Won, MD, PhD | Veterans Health Service Medical Center, Seoul, Korea |
| Xianghuai Xu, MD, Ph.D | Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University |
| Melek Yakar, MD | Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey |
| Fumihiro Yamaguchi, MD, PhD | Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Japan |
| Andrea Ban Yu-Lin, Mb Bch Bao, MMed, FAPSR, FAMM | Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Umberto Zanini, MD | University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy |
| Wenzhi Zhan, MD, PhD | The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China |
| Dr. Yi Zhang, PhD | Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China |
- Open Access
- Article processing charge (APC)
- Article Types
- Editorial policies
4.1 Peer Review Policy
4.2 Authorship
4.3 Acknowledgements
4.4 Funding
4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
4.6 Research ethics and patient consent
4.7 Clinical Trials
4.8 Reporting guidelines
4.9 Data - Publishing policies
5.1 Publication ethics
5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement - Preparing your manuscript
6.1 Word processing formats
6.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
6.3 Supplementary material
6.4 Reference style
6.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
7.1 ORCID
7.2 Information required for completing your submission
7.3 Corresponding author contact details
7.4 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
8.1 SAGE Production
8.2 Continuous publication
8.3 Promoting your article - Further information
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tar to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease will be reviewed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. Publication costs of the journal are covered by the collection of article processing charges which are paid by the funder, institution or author of each manuscript upon acceptance. There is no charge for submitting a paper to the journal.
For general information on open access at SAGE please visit the Open Access page or view our Open Access FAQs.
2. Article processing charge (APC)
Unsolicited manuscripts submitted to Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease are subject to an article fee of 2,000 USD (+VAT where applicable*) payable upon acceptance. These articles will be published under a Creative Commons Licence and will be made openly available.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease considers the following kinds of article for publication:
- Original Research Articles, describing new experimental findings, or analyses (e.g., posthoc, subgroup, meta-analysis where an overall statistic is derived).
- Review Articles. The Editors wish to encourage the following types of review, but request that authors contact them in advance:
- General reviews - reviews that provide a synthesis of an area that fits within the aims and scope of the journal;
- Perspective reviews - review articles that address important new areas of general interest and afford the author the opportunity to present a forward-looking perspective on the topic;
- Drug reviews - review articles focusing on the available evidence for the use of a particular drug or combination therapy
- Systematic Reviews - these should be reported according to the PRISMA reporting guidelines (please see section 2.8);
- Meta-analyses - these should be reported according to the PRISMA reporting guidelines (please see section 2.8);
- Structured case reports - outlining an interesting case, and including a full review of the pertinent literature and a section on implications for clinical care;
- Case series studies or clinical series - descriptive study of a small group of patients (with the same disease or receiving the same treatment) including a full review of the pertinent literature and a section on implications for clinical care;
- Study protocols
- Letters to the Editor - these should be as concise as possible and up to 1000 words.
The journal considers the results of rigorous, well-designed studies that demonstrate “no effect” or that fail to replicate previous work (“negative data”) as important to the advancement of science. Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease welcomes short reports on null or negative results as long as the papers are based on strong hypothesis testing.
The journal's policy is to obtain at least two independent reviews of each article. Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer's name is always concealed from the submitting author. Referees will be encouraged to provide substantive, constructive reviews that provide suggestions for improving the work and distinguish between mandatory and non-mandatory recommendations. All manuscripts accepted for publication are subject to editing for presentation, style and grammar. Any major redrafting is agreed with the author but the Editor's decision on the text is final.
As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of 3 peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below:
- The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
- The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
- Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted
You will also be asked to nominate peers who you do not wish to review your manuscript (opposed reviewers).
Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite/reject any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
- Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
- Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
- Approved the version to be published,
- Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
4.3.1 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
It is the policy of Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here.
4.6 Research ethics and patient consent
Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.
For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.
Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally authorized representative.
Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants.
All research involving animals submitted for publication must be approved by an ethics committee with oversight of the facility in which the studies were conducted. The journal has adopted the Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare for Veterinary Journals published by the International Association of Veterinary Editors.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
The relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed depending on the type of study. For example, all randomized controlled trials submitted for publication should include a completed CONSORT flow chart as a cited figure and the completed CONSORT checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses should include the completed PRISMA flow chart as a cited figure and the completed PRISMA checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. The EQUATOR wizard can help you identify the appropriate guideline.
Other resources can be found at NLM’s Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives.
SAGE acknowledges the importance of research data availability as an integral part of the research and verification process for academic journal articles.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease requests all authors submitting any primary data used in their research articles alongside their article submissions to be published in the online version of the journal, or provide detailed information in their articles on how the data can be obtained. This information should include links to third-party data repositories or detailed contact information for third-party data sources. Data available only on an author-maintained website will need to be loaded onto either the journal’s platform or a third-party platform to ensure continuing accessibility. Examples of data types include but are not limited to statistical data files, replication code, text files, audio files, images, videos, appendices, and additional charts and graphs necessary to understand the original research. The editor may consider limited embargoes on proprietary data. The editor can also grant exceptions for data that cannot legally or ethically be released. All data submitted should comply with Institutional or Ethical Review Board requirements and applicable government regulations. For further information, please contact the editorial office at respiratory@sagepub.co.uk
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
5.1.1 Plagiarism
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
5.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
6.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease adheres to the SAGE Vancouver reference style. View the SAGE Vancouver guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote or Zotero to manage references, you can download the appropriate output style file to help format your references quickly.
6.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE has become a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID.
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one.
7.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
7.3 Corresponding author contact details
Provide contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
8. On acceptance and publication
If your paper is accepted for publication after peer review, you will first be asked to complete the contributor’s publishing agreement. Once your manuscript files have been sent to SAGE Production, the corresponding author will be asked to pay the article processing charge (APC) via a payment link. Once the APC has been processed, your article will be prepared for publication and can appear online within an average of 30 days. Please note that no production work will occur on your paper until the APC has been received.
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, SAGE is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease editorial office as follows:
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