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For questions about submissions currently under editorial consideration please contact the journal Editorial Office at bmcsurgery@biomedcentral.com.

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For any other queries, contact the Open Research Support team.

Submissions

Manuscripts should be submitted through our online submission system. We will acknowledge receipt of your submitted manuscript by email.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    1.9 - 2-year Impact Factor
    2.2 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.135 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.502 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    29 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    131 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    1,809,339 downloads
    257 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

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