About the Journal

The Journal of Onychology and Nail Surgery (JONS) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of the study of human nail in health and disease. The journal is owned by the Nail Society of India and published by the Scientific Scholar.

Aims & Scope

Onychology- The study of human nail in health and disease states.

Audience

Our audience includes health care workers dealing with the study of human nail in health and disease states. These include dermatologists, internists, surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons and podiatrists.

Review Process

JONS has a highly rigorous peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.

Editorial Team

The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences pertaining to onychology. They provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus on the purpose for the journal.

About the Editor

Dr Chander Grover, MD, DNB, MNAMS, FIAD is currently working as Director Professor, Department of Dermatology and STD, University College of Medical Sciences, and GTB Hospital, Delhi, India. She has vast and varied experience (Academic, Research and Clinical care) in onychology and nail surgery. She has a teaching Experience of over 21 years. She is currently the Vice President of Nail Society of India (2023-2024), for which she was also the Founding Secretary (2012 onwards). She has held various positions in IADVL (Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists), IADVL Academy, IADVL- Special Interest Group on Dermatosurgery and IADVL- Delhi State Branch. She is the Deputy Editor for Indian Dermatology Online Journal, Managing Editor for UCMS Journal of Medical Sciences, and has served as Section Editor with IJDVL (2012-2022). She also serves on the Editorial Board of reputed journals like Skin Appendage Disorders, Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS, & Indian J Medical Specialities.
She is a prolific author with >185 Pubmed Indexed articles (h-index:32). Some of these have been awarded in various categories and extensively cited. She has authored/ co-authored or edited 8 books or monographs. Apart from this, she has >80 non-indexed articles and >80 chapters in books to her credit. She has been invited for >300 national and international lectures including WCD 2023 Keynote lecture, prestigious BM Ambady Oration of IADVL (2018) and PN Behl Oration of ACSI (2023). Among her notable awards are (chronologically) Prof VN Sehgal Award- 2021 by IADVL, Young Cutaneous Surgeon Award-2019 by ACSI, Best Thesis Based Award- 2018, Best Young Dermatologist Award- 2002 and Dr. VN Sehgal Gold Medal for Excellence in Dermatology, 2002. She is the recipient of various scholarship, grants and fellowships including WCD ‘Travel Scholarship’-2019, Honorary Fellowship, RSF, Kolkata, International Fellowship of American Academy of Dermatology- 2015, and AAD Reciprocal Scholarship- 2006. Her areas of interest include Nail disorders (especially nail biopsy, therapeutics, and histopathology), Dermatosurgery (especially nail surgery, nail tumors), Dermatoscopy (especially onychoscopy and nail fold capillaroscopy), and Pediatric dermatology.

Facts About the Journal

It is a peer-reviewed international journal with a double-blind review process. Its frequency of publication is Semi-annual (2 issues a year). It publishes the article once it’s accepted after peer review.

Benefits

An article published in the journal can be viewed without a fee by readers all over the world. The author also gets to retain copyright to the article and the figures. This allows authors to extend their exposure in the world of medical research and get worldwide recognition for their work.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

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Journal Ethics

The Journal of Onychology and Nail Surgery is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.

Archival Policy

We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

Journal of Onychology and Nail Surgery is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Ahead of Print Policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Journal of Onychology and Nail Surgery has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Subscription Information

To subscribe to this journal, please log on to https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions.

Publisher

Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.

The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.