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JISAKOS ORIGINAL RESEARCH
ISAKOS Young Investigator’s Scholarship and Research Mentoring Program
The Young Investigator’s Program was developed by the
ISAKOS Scientific
Committee as a
mentor-mentee
program for young
investigators
from developing
countries with
limited access to
research resources.
The program seeks to
assist young surgeons
advance research by
awarding a Fellowship
at an ISAKOS recognized research facility and funding high-impact projects in the applicants’ countries.
The ISAKOS Young Investigator’s Program is a two part program:
Part I: Twenty scholarship recipients will receive a $1,500US stipend to support travel and participation at the ISAKOS Congress in Cancun, Mexico. Registration fees for the Congress will also be waived. Awardees will attend a research symposium where four finalists will present their research.
Part II: The four finalists will be interviewed by the ISAKOS Scientific Committee—two winners will be selected. Each winner will receive a $10,000US stipend to complete a research project along with the guidance of a research mentor (determined by the researcher and ISAKOS Scientific Committee). Research must be completed within the assigned term, and regular reports will be required as research progresses.
Application Deadline: September 1, 2018
For application requirements, visit
isakos.com/Awards/YoungInvestigator
From Rookie to Pro: JISAKOS Now Publishes Original Research!
That is how I think of ISAKOS, as a voyage into the unknown, with JISAKOS as its compass, and also its record.
And I was fortunate with my excellent crew; an editorial board of field-leaders, Leendert Blankevoort as managing editor, and BMJ as diligent publisher.
When we launched, we had more questions than answers. I was hoping that JISAKOS would gradually come to guide the discussion, and come up with some solutions. And apart from our scientific content, that we could also become a platform for ethics and the credibility of research. Everything was before us.
And so, to the Present...
After two years, it is worth considering how JISAKOS has fared. So far, in 2017 alone we published authors from 17 countries and we had more than 100 citations from other scholarly journals; our users have increased by 32% (from 33,745 in 2016 to 44,418 in 2017); and our page-views by 20% (from 104,414/annum to 123,876); whilst Twitter and Facebook demonstrate our global presence, with followers in more than 45 countries, and more than 2,000 impressions a day. That’s quite impressive, for the new kid on the block!
But now we are soliciting original research, and we expect a rapid increase in submissions. To cope with this, we expanded the editorial board. All this is exciting, and just a little bit daunting...
So, I would ask you all to submit manuscripts. Help us make JISAKOS a great journal, something that is regarded as essential reading for orthopaedic surgeons, not just in the US or Europe or Asia, but around the world.
Now wouldn’t that be fine!
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