Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Research

JOCOGR publishes clinical research in obstetrics and gynecology: original studies, systematic reviews and case reports. Most of its articles so far are in gynecologic oncology and pathology, covering endometrial, ovarian and trophoblastic disease, and in high-risk pregnancy, covering pregnancy-induced hypertension, gestational diabetes, gastroparesis in pregnancy and postpartum complications. It has also published work on pregnancy of unknown location and scar pregnancy, infertility and ovarian reserve, pelvic floor dysfunction and stress urinary incontinence, and pain and recovery after hysterectomy and caesarean section.

It is written for obstetricians, gynecologists, gynecologic oncologists and pathologists, fertility specialists, urogynecologists, obstetric anaesthetists and midwives, and for researchers whose studies involve pregnant women or gynecology patients. Recent articles include hormone and infertility data from clinics in Cameroon and the United Arab Emirates, a survey of pregnant women in Saudi Arabia, and single cases from obstetric and gynecology practice.

When citing the journal in short, use JOCOGR; the ISSN of its online edition is 2766-2756. Directive Publications publishes it, and checking that ISSN together with the publisher's name is the simplest way to tell this journal apart from obstetrics titles with similar wording.

At this stage JOCOGR carries no Journal Impact Factor, so there is no such figure to quote for it. Searches for this journal's impact factor often surface figures for journals with similar names, which are different journals. A figure only describes JOCOGR if it is tied to ISSN 2766-2756.

Yes. Reviewers receive an anonymised manuscript and their own names are not shown to the authors, so an obstetric or gynecologic study is judged on its methods and clinical value. Whether the authors will pay the APC or have requested a waiver is kept from the editors handling a JOCOGR manuscript, so money has no bearing on the decision.

Yes. Anyone, from a clinician on a labour ward to a trainee or a patient, can open and download each JOCOGR article and its PDF on directivepublications.org with no subscription or login. The CC BY 4.0 licence on every article leaves copyright with its authors while allowing anyone to reuse the text or figures, provided the source is credited.

Nothing is charged when you send a manuscript to JOCOGR or while it is with reviewers. If the paper is accepted, an article-processing charge (APC) is invoiced, and the figure for your article type is displayed during online submission. A team from a maternity or gynecology unit without research funding may ask for the APC to be waived or reduced, and should ask no later than submission (details in Publication Charges and the Waiver Policy).

JOCOGR manuscripts are sent through the submission page of directivepublications.org; when the form asks which journal the paper is for, pick Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Research. Upload an anonymised main file, Vancouver-style references and the declarations block described in the Author Guidelines. Add the matching reporting checklist: CONSORT for a randomized trial such as a caesarean-care study, STROBE for a cohort such as a hysterectomy series, PRISMA for a systematic review, or CARE for a case report. Register clinical trials prospectively and give the registration number in the abstract.

Yes. JOCOGR has published obstetric and gynecologic case reports such as methotrexate treatment of a pregnancy of unknown location in a woman with pre-existing leukopenia, and disseminated intravascular coagulation linked to a scar pregnancy. Plan the write-up around the CARE reporting guideline, and include a sentence confirming that the patient's written informed consent is on file. Ask her separately and explicitly for consent before including any identifiable details or images, such as clinical photographs.

Studies involving pregnant women, women after childbirth or gynecology patients must name the approving ethics committee and its reference number, confirm that the work followed the Declaration of Helsinki, and state that each participant gave written informed consent. Trials, for example of feeding or pain relief after surgery, must be registered before enrolment begins. The journal follows COPE principles on authorship, competing interests, corrections and retractions.

Compare what you see with records kept outside this website. The ISSN Portal lists ISSN 2766-2756 for the journal, and Wikidata item Q140566963 gives the same ISSN, this website and Directive Publications as the publisher.

No. JOCOGR (ISSN 2766-2756) belongs to Directive Publications and has no link with any other journal whose title combines "clinical", "obstetrics", "gynecology" and "research". When an invitation email or a search result names a similar title, check its ISSN and publisher before you submit.