About World Journal of Emergency Surgery

What is World Journal of Emergency Surgery?

World Journal of Emergency Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of clinical and basic research studies related to emergency surgery (traumatic and non-traumatic) and its allied subjects.

Emergency surgery is a multidisciplinary super-specialty involving all surgical specialties and all emergency medicine specialties; hence all surgeons and physicians around the world are involved in this field. Emergency surgery is divided into traumatic emergency surgery and non-traumatic emergency surgery. Both specialties are a fundamental part of the surgeon's daily work. Emergency surgery includes general emergency surgery, vascular emergency surgery, thoracic emergency surgery but also urologic, cardiac, paediatric, musculoskeletal, gynaecological, transplant emergency surgery and all surgical specialties.

Content overview

World Journal of Emergency Surgery 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Study protocol: describes proposed or ongoing research, providing a detailed account of the hypothesis, rationale, and methodology of the study.

Peer review policies

World Journal of Emergency Surgery follows a stringent closed peer review process. Each submitted article will first be reviewed by the Editorial board and manuscripts that are deemed suitable for peer review will be assigned to at least two expert reviewers. The Editors-in-Chief will decide on whether to accept or reject a manuscript based on reviewer recommendations. The goal is to make a first decision within four weeks.

Edited by Fausto Catena and Ernest Moore, World Journal of Emergency Surgery is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in World Journal of Emergency Surgery

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

Articles in World Journal of Emergency Surgery 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:

World J Emerg Surg 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, World Journal of Emergency Surgery 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 World Journal of Emergency Surgery using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

World Journal of Emergency Surgery 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. World Journal of Emergency Surgery however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

World Journal of Emergency Surgery'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 World Journal of Emergency Surgery will be available.

World Journal of Emergency Surgery 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.