STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Surgical Associates Ltd have announced the launch of a new author-pays online general surgical journal dedicated to publishing case reports only. The journal, International Journal of Surgery Case Reports (IJSCR) has been created to publish case reports previously submitted to the International Journal of Surgery, a peer reviewed journal owned by Surgical Associates Ltd.
Case reports include stories, anecdotes and patient-based learnings that complement evidence-based medicine and are essential to the advancement of healthcare. This new online peer reviewed journal will only publish case reports which are clinically interesting, authentic, educational and understandable to an international audience of surgeons and clinicians in related specialties.
Ultimately, these case reports will form a rich database, a corpus of clinical information which could be mined for interesting trends/patterns, disease modeling and for the purposes of surveillance, especially of rare diseases. Also, Elsevier will send to PubMed Central (PMC) the final authoritative version of each case report and will authorise its public posting on PMC, and PMC mirror sites, immediately. These sites will also link directly to the case report which will be made universally accessible on Elsevier's websites.
The editorial board is led by Editor in Chief, Professor R. David Rosin and Managing and Executive Editor, Dr. Riaz Agha. Professor Rosin is currently Professor of Surgery, University of the West Indies at the Cavehill campus and Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados. He is a past Senior Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Past President of the British Association of Surgical Oncologists and the Association of Cancer Surgeons.
Dr. Riaz Agha is currently Founder, Managing and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Surgery and a Junior Doctor at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge. He is a Council Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), a National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence Scholar and also sits on the Web Committee for the World Association of Medical Editors.
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