About Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research

What is Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research?

Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of research in surgery-related disciplines.

Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research promotes the exchange of ideas, concepts and findings in any area of surgery. The journal is interested in basic, translational, and clinical research and aims at opening up new avenues for the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of surgical problems, and be a bridge between different surgical specialities. Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research will consider articles from any area of surgery-related research, including, but not limited to:

• surgical research • clinical studies • surgical techniques
• bioengineering • new techniques • new products
• endoscopy • teaching and stimulation • minimally invasive surgery

The journal will also consider articles in all related fields such as:

• general surgery • cardio-thoracic surgery • trauma
• orthopedic surgery • neurosurgery • surgical critical care
• pediatric surgery • plastic-and reconstructive surgery • vascular surgery
• breast surgery • endocrine surgery • gynecology
• urology • surgical pathology • otolaryngology
• transplantation • surgical oncology • bariatric surgery
• colo-rectal surgery • miscellanous

Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research, a forum for exciting findings in the field of surgery related research, is an open access journal, providing an unparalleled opportunity to present information to specialists and the public. The online appearance of Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research allows the immediate publication of accepted articles and the presentation of large amounts of data and supplemental information.

Content overview

Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research considers the following types of articles:

• Research: comprehensive reports of data from original research, that reveal novel concepts of general importance and interest to the scientific community, with conclusions that deliver a substantial advance in the understanding of an important surgical problem. The work should not only be of exceptional significance within its field but also of interest to researchers outside the immediate area. The journal encourages 'advanced clinical investigations' which are research articles of the highest quality with focus on surgery related topics.
• Short communications:
preliminary results of exceptional interest that are particularly topical and relevant, and for which fast publication is essential.
• Hypotheses: ideas or critics of ideas with discussion that will deliver a substantial advance in the understanding of an important problem.
• Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board. They focus on specific issues and are about 800 words. Commentaries can be broken down into several types including ethics, technology, research-related, review-related, general interest, debates and reviews of recently published papers from other journals in the field.
• Reviews: invited articles describing new developments of interdisciplinary significance and highlighting unresolved questions and future directions; it provides a critical but balanced view of the field. Reviews should focus on one topical aspect of a field rather than providing a comprehensive literature survey, they can be controversial but should indicate opposing viewpoints. 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.
• Case studies: describe a major healthcare intervention, usually from a public health perspective. Case study articles that include a rigorous assessment of the processes and impact of the intervention as well as recommendations for future interventions will be considered favourably. Note that Case study articles should not describe an individual patient - authors should use the case report format for such descriptions.
• Meeting report: a short description of a conference that the author has attended. It is usually best for the article to be published as soon after the meeting as possible, and should focus on the key developments presented and discussed at the meeting. These articles are usually commissioned but reports and suggestions may also be submitted for the editors' consideration.
• Letters to the Editor: they can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers.
• Book reviews: short summaries of the strengths and weaknesses of a book. They should evaluate its overall usefulness to the intended audience and are usually about 400 words.

Peer review policies

• Manuscripts, which fall within the scope of Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research, will be assigned to at least two expert reviewers. The reviewers will have up to three weeks to review the submitted article and the comments are sent to the authors without delay.
• Peer reviewers will have four possible options for each manuscript:
• accept without revision
• accept after revisions
• neither accept nor reject unitl the author(s) make revisions and resubmit
• reject because the work presented is scientifically unsound.
• Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research allows two revisions of an article.

Edited by James Becker and Michel Gagner, Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Annals of Surgical Innovation 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 Annals of Surgical Innovation 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:

Ann Surg Innov Res 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research does not have issue numbers either. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Annals of Surgical Innovation 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

Annals of Surgical Innovation 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. Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Annals of Surgical Innovation 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 Institute for Scientific Information to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research will be available.

Annals of Surgical Innovation 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.

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