About Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

What is Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research?

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of clinical and basic research studies related to musculoskeletal issues.

Orthopaedic research is conducted essentially at clinical and basic science levels. With the advancement of new technologies and the increasing expectation and demand from doctors and patients, we are witnessing an enormous growth in clinical orthopaedic research, particularly in the fields of traumatology, spinal surgery, joint replacement, sports medicine, musculoskeletal tumour management, hand microsurgery, foot and ankle surgery, paediatric orthopaedic, and orthopaedic rehabilitation. The involvement of basic science ranges from molecular, cellular, structural and functional perspectives to tissue engineering, gait analysis, automation and robotic surgery. Implant and biomaterial designs are new disciplines that will complement clinical applications. Multidisciplinary research with collaboration amongst clinicians and scientists from different disciplines will be the trend in the coming decades. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research will provide the platform for exchange of new clinical and scientific information in the most precise and expeditious way to achieve timely dissemination of information and cross-fertilization of ideas.

Content overview

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. Opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board usually write these articles. They have an educational aim and are 2000-3000 words
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. All case report articles should be accompanied by written and signed consent to publish the information from the patients or their guardians.
• Technical Notes: short, single accounts of novel scientific work that describes innovative techniques of data collection or analysis. They provide a mechanism for publishing scholarly material where developing a full research article is unnecessary or inappropriate.

Peer review policies

Submitted manuscripts that are deemed suitable for peer review will be assigned to three reviewers. The reviewers will have up to three weeks to review the submitted article. After the receipt of the recommendation from the reviewers, the Editors-in-Chief will decide on whether to accept or reject the manuscript.

Edited by Kai-ming Chan and Cheng-kung Cheng, Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central and Scopus.

Articles in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

J Orthop Surg Res 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research will be available.

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.