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About Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes

Aims and scope | Open access | Article-processing charges | Indexing services | Publication and peer review process | Editorial policies | Citing articles in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes | Why publish your article in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes?

This page includes information about the aims and scope of Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors.

Aims & scope

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal encompassing all diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic aspects of trauma.

The journal's main focus is placed on interventions with proven efficacy or inefficacy in improving clinically relevant outcomes such as mortality, morbidity, quality of life, function and costs.

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes serves as a scientific platform for clinical researchers and practitioners involved in the different stages of caring for patients with musculoskeletal, visceral, and multiple injuries. Authors are explicitly invited to submit the results of negative studies.

Please contact the Editorial Team for further details.

Open access

All articles published by Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

Authors of articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement.

Article-processing charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1115/$1715/€1310 for each article accepted for publication. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. Generally, if the submitting author's institution is a Member the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page. A limited number of waivers for article-processing charges are also available at the editors' discretion, and authors wishing to apply for these waivers should contact the editors.

Indexing services

All articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes include:

  • Citebase
  • Google Scholar
  • OAIster
  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central
  • Scirus
  • Scopus
  • SOCOLAR
  • Zetoc

The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands).

BioMed Central is working closely with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes will be available.

Publication and peer review process

Criteria for publication

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes considers the following types of articles:

  • Research: reports of data from original research.
  • Review: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are also written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
  • Methodology: 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.
  • Hypothesis: short articles presenting an untested original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable, and be about 1500 words.
  • Study protocol: describe proposed or ongoing research, providing a detailed account of the hypothesis, rationale, and methodology of the study. If the study is a randomised controlled trial it must have an International Standardised Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN).
  • Short report: brief reports of data from original research.

Peer-review policies

All manuscripts will be subject to immediate screening by the Editorial Board. Appropriate manuscripts will be sent to at least two referees. Peer review will be open, meaning that all versions of the article and the reviewers' comments will be published alongside the final version of the article.

Edited by Bertil Bouillon, Cong-Feng Luo, and Michael Wich, Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes operates an 'open peer review' policy meaning reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. The pre-publication history including all submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses will be linked to from the published article.

Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes, a personalized section of the site.

Reprints

High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints.

Supplements

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. All full length articles (proceedings, reviews or research articles) are indexed by PubMed. PubMed displays the title of the supplement only in the case of meeting abstract collections. For further information, please contact us.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.

Citing articles in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes

Articles in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. J Trauma Manage Outcomes [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. J Trauma Manage Outcomes 2009, 1:115.

refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Why publish your article in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes?

High visibility

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results.

Speed of publication

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles are published with their final citation immediately upon acceptance in a provisional PDF form. The article will subsequently be published in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed.

Flexibility

Online publication in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other papers).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.

In addition, articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.

Authors of articles published in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement).

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