About World Journal of Surgical Oncology

What is World Journal of Surgical Oncology?

World Journal of Surgical Oncology is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal publishing articles related to surgical oncology and its allied subjects such as epidemiology, cancer research, biomarkers, prevention, pathology, radiology, cancer treatment, clinical trials, multimodality treatment and molecular biology. Emphasis is placed on original research articles and clinical case reports. The journal will also provide balanced, extensive and timely review articles on selected topics.

World Journal of Surgical Oncology considers research in surgical oncology and related fields. Oncology is a multidisciplinary super-speciality of which surgical oncology forms an integral component, especially when it comes to solid tumours. It is a fast growing speciality. Surgical oncologists around the world are involved in research extending from detecting the mechanisms underlying causation of cancer, to its treatment and prevention. The role of a surgical oncologist also extends across the whole continuum of care. With continued developments in diagnosis and treatment, the role of a surgical oncologist is ever-changing. Hence, the journal aims to keep the new generation surgical oncologist abreast with latest developments in their field and in related fields that will ultimately influence the work of surgical oncologists.

There are very few journals in the field of surgical oncology; these are available at a subscription that is beyond many, especially in developing and under developed countries. Moreover, there is no Open Access journal catering for surgical oncologists. As most of the journals are print journals with space constraints, there was a demand for a journal where one could publish without space constraints but with a wide readership. As the journal had global readership without any restriction it was aptly named as World Journal of Surgical Oncology with world-wide representation on the editorial board. To facilitate rapid publication and to minimize administrative costs, World Journal of Surgical Oncology accepts only online submission.

Content overview

World Journal of Surgical Oncology considers the following types of articles:

• Research - reports of data from original research.
• Case reports - 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.
• Reviews - comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope; these articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
• Technical innovations - articles that 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.
• Meeting reports - short reports on conferences that the authors have attended, usually invited by the Editorial Board. It is best for these articles to be published as soon after the meeting as possible, and they should focus on the key developments presented and discussed at the meeting.

Peer review policies

World Journal of Surgical Oncology follows a stringent peer review process. Each submitted article is first reviewed by the Editorial board and then sent to at least two reviewers for peer review. Reviewers are selected from the database and after a detailed search of MEDLINE. The chosen reviewers will have expertise on the subject they are reviewing. The electronic review process facilitates faster publication, with attempts to complete the peer review process in 3-4 weeks.

Edited by Manoj Pandey, World Journal of Surgical Oncology is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in World Journal of Surgical Oncology

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, MEDLINE and Embase.

Articles in World Journal of Surgical Oncology 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 Surg Onc 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, World Journal of Surgical Oncology 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 Surgical Oncology 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 Surgical Oncology is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher 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 Surgical Oncology however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

World Journal of Surgical Oncology's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, 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.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in World Journal of Surgical Oncology will be available.

World Journal of Surgical Oncology 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.