About Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes

What is Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes?

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.

Content overview

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

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
• Methodology articles: 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 articles: 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 Protocols: 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 reports: 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 Axel Ekkernkamp, Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes

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

Articles in Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 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:

J Trauma Manage Outcomes 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 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 Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 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. Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also 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 Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes will be available.

Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 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.