IJS Protocols

The International Journal of Surgery (IJS) impact factor risen 121% to 13.400, ranked 5th in the SURGERY category. Thank you to all our wonderful authors, readers, reviewers, Editors and staff.

Delighted that IJSPG surpassed 10 million downloads in 2021. That’s a full text article seen or downloaded every 3 seconds!

We are delighted with our impact factor rising to 6.071 (from 3.357). We are now ranked 15 out of 272 surgical journals (we were 40th last year). A huge thank you to our authors, reviewers, editors, readers and publishers @ELSSurgery theijs.com

Wonderful to see the updated PRISMA 2020 statement published in the IJS. Thank you Matthew Page and colleagues for publishing this valuable work with the IJS theijs.com. The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systemat... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wonderful to see our special issue on Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery published. Well done to Burcin Ekser and the team of Co-Editors @ijspg #surgery #livertransplantation #hepatobiliary sciencedirect.com/journal/intern…

Has our definition of beauty really changed over time? All three ladies have a unique look. harleyclinic.com

Celebrating 10 years of surgical case reports with IJS Case Reports casereports.com (open access to 5,000 articles). The top case reports from 2013 onwards won the prestigious Thomas E. Starzl Prize: ijspg.com/journals/thoma…

Americans complied with coronavirus lockdowns, helping to curb pandemic, new CDC study finds a.msn.com/01/en-us/BB18G… with @AnnalsJournal study finds locksdowns are effective: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

@DVervoort94, @LenaETrager, @Cediazc, @Priyansh_Shah56, @eric_etchill, @RawnSalenger and I present a systematic review protocol looking at adult cardiac surgical cost variation across the globe. In Press @ijsprotocols. Thank you for the collaboration! #GlobalCardiacSurgery

We are pleased to tell you our impact factor for 2019 has climbed to 3.357, up 6.3%. A big thank you to all our authors, reviewers, editors and readers for helping to make this happen. Interested in @IJSurgery - find out more here: theijs.com #impactfactor

I've had queries from #EMCA #ConversationAnalysis people asking for advice on suitable research registers for their study. Best option found so far is Research Registry @researchreg

The socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19): A Review #COVID19 #Covid_19 #coronavirus sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are pleased to announce the Winner of the Harold Ellis Prize 2019. Congratulations to @DrJamesGlasbey @beamishaj @ASiTofficial @ijspg: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Evidence based management guideline for the COVID-19 pandemic just published in @ijsurgery #covid19 #coronavirus: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

All articles 2+ years old in our archive for @IJSurgery are freely accessible - that’s over 3,000 articles: backarchive.com - part of our contribution to #openscience #openaccess

WHO declares Global Emergency: Review of 2019 Novel #Coronavirus (COVID-19) – a comprehensive review of current knowledge (freely accessible @ijspg) sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Covid-19 #IJSPG #IJS #coronavirus #globalhealth #publishing #research #Wuhan #SARSCoV2 #covid19FOAM

Excellent first Assistant Commissioning Editor (ACE) training and troubleshooting meeting @ijspg Thank you @sohocoffee for hosting and keeping everyone focussed #publishing #Editorial #commissioning #editor

#repost "In 2019, @IJSurgery publishing group had 1 full text download every 5 seconds,reflecting on our contribution to surgical education globally.Thanking those who read, submit, review + edit #peerreview #scientificpublishing #medicaljournal #surgery #surgeryeducation #Asit "

#NRCM2017 was 2 years back, but editorial of the meeting has just been published @IJSurgery (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31851748) Most of themes discussed still relevant today + still discussed - trainees in trials, students in #collaborative research, PPI and many more! #SoMe4Surgery

Playing classical music during operations can make surgeons faster and more accurate: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…