The Sechenov Medical Journal was founded in 2010 as the official printed publication of Sechenov University, the oldest leading national medical university with its history beginning from the Medical Faculty of Imperial Moscow University. 

Mass media state registration certificate PI № ФС77-78884 dated August 28, 2020 issued by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor).

Information about the structure, activities and focus of the Sechenov University is available on the website https://www.sechenov.ru/eng/.

Since its founding, the chief editor of the journal has been Academician of the RAS, Professor Peter V. Glybochko, Rector of Sechenov University.

The Journal publishes original articles, reviews, and clinical cases concerned with important clinical and basic research in the field of pathological physiology, internal diseases, obstetrics and gynaecology, oncology, surgery and neurosurgery.

We aim to develop an interdisciplinary approach because of the unique scope of the journal's specialities: from fundamental to clinical sciences and publications in biomedicine (from biotechnology to medicine).

We are expanding our international audience reach, so in 2021 we moved from publishing metadata in English to publishing 50% of full-text articles in English. The journal is completely open to English-language manuscripts, and we see our task in further expanding the English-language content.

Sechenov Medical Journal has been included in the K2 category of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and is equivalent to the K1 category in terms of indexing in Scopus. Sechenov Medical Journal is indexed in the international scientific database Scopus since 2023.