BMC Surgery, in partnership with Research Square, is launching In Review. This new option provides authors with on-demand information on the status of their manuscript, enables them to share their work with funders and their research community, and allows their colleagues to comment and collaborate - all whilst their manuscript is under review.
Announcing the launch of In Review
Featured article: Beliefs of Trainee Surgeons towards Placebo
This is a survey on the attitudes and beliefs of British Orthopaedic trainee surgeons towards placebo in the context of surgical research as well as clinical practice. Results showed that most trainees believe that the placebo effect is real but its mechanisms of actions and its pervasive nature remain underappreciated.
Read MoreAims and scope
BMC Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on surgical research, training, and practice.
Editor
Assistant Editor
- Megan Barling, BMC, London
Section Editors
- Marco Allaix, University of Torino, Italy
- Mustafa Cikirikcioglu, University Hospital of Geneva
- Maurits de Brauw, Slotervaart Hospital
- René Fahrner, University Hospital Jena, Germany
- Mark Hammerberg, Denver Health Medical Center
René Fahrner - Section Editor
Dr. René Fahrner graduated in medicine at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany and completed his doctoral thesis in the field of liver transplantation. His research interests are basic and clinical research in general and visceral surgery with the main focus on liver surgery including liver injury and regeneration as well as immunological aspects.
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2017 Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact
1.692 - 2-year Impact Factor
1.979 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.027 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.693 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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