About us
Atlante Italiano delle Variazioni Anatomiche: a resource on the non-pathological differences of the human body.
What it is
The portal documents human anatomical variation: the non-pathological differences in the shape, course and number of the structures of the body. Every entry carries the Latin terminology, the bibliographic references and, when the content is not original, the work it comes from.
It exists because no organic resource on this subject was available in Italian: the reference literature is almost entirely in English, and those who study or work in Italian meet it translated in fragments, or not at all.
How far along it is
Under construction, and not as a figure of speech. Little content has been published; part of it is the translation of somebody else’s work, declared as such. There is no constituted scientific board yet, and the portal’s legal pages are incomplete: they say so themselves, at the top, listing what is missing.
We publish no statistics, no lists of collaborators and no announcements of sponsorship until they exist. A page that anticipates them asks for trust on the basis of something the reader cannot check, which is precisely what this project tries to avoid.
How we work
- Every article declares the scrutiny it received, and the levels are not equivalent: an editorial check is not peer review, and the two badges say different things.
- Anything that is not original is declared as such, with work, authors, licence and the changes made.
- Corrections and retractions stay visible: a retracted article does not vanish, because others may have cited it.
Independence
The project is editorially independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any pre-existing work on anatomical variation. The translations published here are permitted by the public licence of the source works, not by any relationship with those who wrote them.
Who runs the portal
Contributing
The portal welcomes contributions from healthcare professionals and researchers. Proposing an article requires an account and a professional profile verified by the editorial team: it underpins what every entry declares about its own reliability.