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 encompasses all aspects of clinical and basic research related to traumatic and non-traumatic emergency surgery and its allied subjects.

Emergency surgery spans a wide range of disciplines including the surgical and emergency medicine specialties. As such World Journal of Emergency Surgery aims to provide a platform for surgeons and physicians to publish their research and rapidly exchange ideas and findings. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: emergency surgery, acute care surgery, trauma surgery, intensive care, trauma management and resuscitation.

The online presence of World Journal of Emergency Surgery, as well as it's open access policy ensures that the articles published in the journal are highly visible and reach a wide audience, whilst immediate publication on acceptance ensures all findings are disseminated as quickly as possible.

Translations

The open access journal Archivos de Medicina offers authors whose papers have been accepted for publication in World Journal of Emergency Surgery the option of publishing a Spanish translation of their article. Further details can be found here.

Content overview

World Journal of Emergency Surgery considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Review: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope.
• Case report: 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.
• Commentary: 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.
• Letter 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: 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 policy

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 expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in World Journal of Emergency Surgery

All articles are listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and are 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, part of Springer Science+Business Media. BioMed Central is 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 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.

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.