Aims and scope
About the Journal
The Indian Journal of Surgery is the official publication of the Association of Surgeons of India. More than 30,000 members of the Association have access to full articles and there are large number of subscribers worldwide for this Journal.
The Journal is a hybrid journal published by Springer Nature. It offers a wide spectrum of high-quality, double-blind peer reviewed articles both online and in-print and has a large readership with network of subscribers. It has global presence with active participation by over 45 countries. It publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, surgical technique and innovation, case reports & images, consensus documents, views and opinions, biographies of influential teachers and surgeons and letters to editor.
The Journal spans general surgery, gastro-intestinal surgery, minimal access surgery, surgical oncology, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, trauma & emergency surgery, rural surgery, low-cost innovations, experimental surgery, surgical education and academic surgery. To some extent we also publish articles on plastic surgery, urology, pediatric surgery, radiology, anesthesiology, orthopedics, ENT, maxillofacial surgery etc. surgical practice and research. This makes it an overall rounded reading for wide range of practicing surgeons especially general surgeons. This has allowed the Indian Journal of Surgery becoming popular day-by-day.
The Journal provides a forum for surgeons from India and abroad to exchange ideas, to propagate the advancement of science and the art of surgery and to promote friendship among surgeons in India and abroad. This has been a trusted platform for surgeons in communicating up-to-date scientific information to the community.
Peer Review
Indian Journal of Surgery – IJOS is stringent on quality of peer review (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-022-03315-5). The improved double- blind peer review process and a detail peer review mostly given within 40 days of arrival of manuscript has resulted in 3 times increase in the number of manuscripts now being submitted for publication. A large number of authors and contributors repeatedly thank the reviewers and editors for helping them in revising the manuscripts. All articles including editorials are submitted online by the authors. Technical scrutiny is done at the Springer Journal Editorial Office (JEO). Then the manuscript is forwarded to Editor-in-Chief. IJoS processes 20-25 new submissions each week which makes it to approximately 2500 manuscripts a year. We have a policy of manuscript triage, approximately a 3rd of manuscript can be rejected prima-facie, another 1/3rd of manuscripts are rejected after due diligence of a peer review process. Our effort remains to give enough justification before we reject a manuscript. Majority manuscripts get 2 or more revisions, less than 1% manuscript are prima-facie accepted and copy edited. We provide up to level II copy editing. From time to time we educate our reviewers and request them to provide a structured review. If the research question is relevant and the methodology used to answer the research question is correct we handhold the researcher to improve the manuscript even if takes 4 or 5 revisions. There is now a well-oiled process of peer review in place. There is a reviewer fatigue and we constantly induct new reviewers in our list which now has over 1500 content and methodology experts. The turn-around time has come down much to the satisfaction of authors.
Data transparency
All authors are requested to make sure that all data and materials as well as software application or custom code support their published claims and comply with field standards.
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Conflict of Interest and Ethical Standards: http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-6-791531-0
Informed Consent: http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-6-608209-0
Statement of Human and Animal Rights: http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-6-608309-0