SICOT-J has announced its restructured Editorial Board. The new board includes esteemed scientists and well-respected members of the community, who are highly specialised and skilled in Orthopaedics and in their own field of interest. They are prestigious authors, scientists and surgeons with longstanding careers in Orthopaedics who join the journal as Deputy, Associate or Section Editors.
The role of Deputy Editor is similar to that of the Editors-in-Chief. The role of Associate Editor is very much that of an ambassador for the journal. The Editors-in-Chief plan to keep the involvement of Deputy and Associate Editors in the peer review process of articles to a minimum, but welcome any support they can provide with regards to projects for the journal’s editorial development. The Editors-in-Chief will be seeking their advice and input constantly.
In January 2021, Dr. Andreas F. Mavrogenis was appointed as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of SICOT-J alongside Dr. Jacques Caton, who continues to serve as co- Editor-in-Chief.
A number of new Section Editors have also been appointed to the updated Editorial Board. The role of the Section Editors is to review specific manuscript types that are closely related to their field of expertise (knee, hip, spine etc.). Often, these editors make final decisions on their assigned manuscripts, but the Editors-in-Chief may wish to review decisions. Section Editors are therefore the ‘backbone’ of the journal’s review process.
Overall, the new-look Editorial Board aims to oversee and improve the review process of the journal, to bring a wealth of experience to support and develop the journal, to increase the quality of the published papers so as to increase the pool for citations for the journal, and therefore, to increase the visibility and the prestige of the journal.
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