Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing minimally invasive surgery as a technology-enabled, clinically driven, interdisciplinary integrated discipline.
Aims
Unlike journals that focus primarily on technological development, MIS is centered on the clinical integration, validation, and impact of emerging technologies, instruments, and materials in real surgical practice. The journal aims to address a critical question in modern surgery:
How can innovations in technology, devices, and materials meaningfully improve surgical performance, decision-making, and patient outcomes in minimally invasive procedures?
MIS emphasizes the last-mile translation of surgical innovation, where advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, imaging, devices, biomaterials, and engineering are applied, evaluated, and optimized within real-world clinical settings.
All submissions should demonstrate clear relevance to surgical practice, with an emphasis on improving intraoperative performance, clinical decision-making, or patient outcomes.
Scope
MIS prioritizes research that is anchored in surgical practice, particularly in complex, high-impact, and evolving areas of minimally invasive surgery. The journal is especially interested in studies demonstrating how technologies, instruments, and materials are used, adapted, and validated in real operative environments, rather than in isolation.
1. Clinical Complexity and Surgical Innovation
- Oncologic surgery
- Complex anatomical resections
- High-risk patient populations
2. Technology-Enabled Surgery and Devices in Practice
- AI-assisted surgical decision-making
- Robotic-assisted procedures and instrument integration
- Image-guided and navigation systems for precision surgery
- Novel surgical instruments and devices optimized for minimally invasive applications
- Biomaterials and engineered tools that enhance operative outcomes
3. Integrated Surgical Systems and Workflows
- Combined use of AI, robotics, and navigation in unified surgical workflows
- Human-machine collaboration in operative settings
- Optimization of intraoperative processes, ergonomics, and device-material synergy
4. Translational, Physiological, and Recovery-Oriented Insights in Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Surgical modulation of the tumor microenvironment and immune response during minimally invasive procedures
- Biomarkers and functional indicators for guiding surgical decision-making and predicting recovery, complications, and outcomes
- Integration of molecular and functional imaging into minimally invasive surgical workflows
- Mechanisms underlying postoperative recovery, surgical stress response, and complication development
- Biological and material-related mechanisms influencing surgical outcomes and tissue healing
- Physiological impact of minimally invasive techniques on organ function and recovery
- Integration of perioperative strategies (e.g., enhanced recovery after surgery, ERAS) with minimally invasive approaches
5. Clinical Evidence and Real-World Evaluation in Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Prospective, randomized, and controlled clinical studies evaluating minimally invasive techniques, surgical technologies, devices, and biomaterials
- Comparative effectiveness research assessing different surgical approaches, platforms, or perioperative strategies
- Real-world evidence, registry-based studies, and large-scale clinical data analyses
- Outcomes research, including functional recovery, complication profiles, quality of life, and long-term prognosis
- Learning curves, surgical standardization, and quality improvement in minimally invasive procedures
- Health economics, cost-effectiveness, and value-based evaluation of surgical innovations
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses synthesizing evidence on emerging surgical technologies, devices, and materials
- Evidence-based assessment and validation of new techniques, instruments, and integrated surgical systems
6. Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Surgeons collaborating with engineers, material scientists, and industry partners
- Translational researchers developing clinically applicable devices and biomaterials
- Multidisciplinary teams addressing complex surgical challenges
Article Types
Original Articles, Review Articles, Meta-Analyses, Systematic Reviews, Video Articles, Commentaries, Letter-to-Editor, Opinions, Perspectives, Research highlight, Brief Communications, Guidelines, Meeting Abstracts, and Conference Reports.
Ownership
The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc.
Publishing Model
Gold open access. All articles published by MIS are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.
Copyright and License to Publish
Articles in MIS are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.
Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting MIS, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Editorial Board
For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.
Editorial Policies
All manuscripts submitted to MIS should adhere to MIS's Editorial Policies.
Peer Review
The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.
Publication Ethics Statement
Mini-invasive Surgery is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines.
The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of Mini-invasive Surgery take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.
Journal Information and Statistics
- Launch date: March 31, 2017
- Publication model: Open access
- ISSN 2574-1225 (Online)
- Digital archive: Portico
- Frequency: Continuously published
- DOI: 10.20517/2574-1225
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