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JISAKOS EDITOR IN CHIEF’S MESSAGE
FAQs about JISAKOS
In this first JISAKOS Editor-in-Chief’s Message, I shall answer some frequently asked questions.
The Journal of ISAKOS was launched in January 2016. Since then, we have published some 170 peer-reviewed articles. Recently, we have had an increase in submissions, mainly of original research articles but also of Current Concepts Reviews
and Technical Notes. Our current acceptance rate for original
What Can JISAKOS Do That Others Have Not Already Accomplished?
Heineken hinted that their beer included special ingredients and had a famous motto: “Heineken refreshes the parts that other beers cannot reach.” That is rather how I see JISAKOS and our special editorial ingredients. Our “State-of- the-Art” articles reveal where we are now: the present state of diagnosis and treatment, the pros and cons of various alternatives, and future possibilities for the field. On the basis of this information, we can predict how the field may develop and, more importantly, where it may need to develop. JISAKOS can perform this task, I firmly believe, because JISAKOS alone has global reach. Each State-of-the-Art article is written by at least three experts in the field, from around the world, to ensure that our content reflects diversity in terms of geographic practice and experience. Our aim is to spread knowledge and research globally and thereby to improve our patients’ quality of life.
The “dial” graphic on our cover suggests the global nature of ISAKOS. But it also suggests a compass. ISAKOS is always on the move, and JISAKOS is the both compass for that journey as well as its record. We are fortunate indeed to have an excellent crew: an editorial board of true leaders in the field, Leendert Blankevoort as managing editor, and BMJ as our publisher. The members of our editorial board represent all major geographic regions, thereby reflecting the journal’s readership and helping to ensure that the journal receives the highest-quality manuscripts from those regions. The board members also represent a wide range of subspecialties, including degenerative knee, knee, shoulder, orthopaedic sports medicine, arthroscopy, foot and ankle, hip, elbow and wrist, rehabilitation, team coverage, and sports injury prevention. The board members serve as the journal’s ambassadors around the word, raise awareness about the journal, solicit quality manuscripts, and welcome and spotlight submissions from around the world.
We are also fortunate to have over 200 excellent reviewers, whose role is to protect the scientific quality of the journal. We are very grateful to them.
research is 44%, which compares favorably with other journals.
Can JISAKOS Keep Me on the Right Track?
This is what we are here to do. Clinical developments in orthopaedics have accelerated in recent years, and there has been a huge increase in publications. As a result, it is difficult to know what to read and how to spend your precious reading time. We try to keep our readers informed of the latest research and evidence-based guidelines. To that end, we solicit articles about the competing approaches to topics in our field (e.g., diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation and prevention, follow-up and sequelae) and about how the findings can be applied in practice.
In all of our endeavours, we seek to earn our members’ trust in their journal so that they will be confident that “this is what my society has selected as important for me to study in my scarce and valuable time.”
Will My Article be Registered in PubMed?
The short answer is, “yes!” As soon as JISAKOS is registered with Index Medicus — and we are applying this year — all of our published articles, from 2016 on, will be retrospectively registered.
Apart from our State-of-the-Art reviews, we welcome original research, systematic reviews, current concepts reviews, case reports, and technical notes. We also regularly publish “Classic” articles, each of which describes a major concept or technique that either has become central to orthopaedics or has receded into obscurity. These Classic articles honor some of the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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