Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) is an international peer-reviewed, open access, online journal.
Aims and Scope
The journal serves as a global platform for the dissemination of innovative ideas, clinical findings, emerging techniques, novel instruments and materials, as well as the integration of artificial intelligence and interdisciplinary approaches that enhance the precision, efficiency, and outcomes of minimally invasive surgery.
The journal covers a broad spectrum of research related to minimally invasive procedures in diagnosis and treatment, including but not limited to endoscopy, robotic surgery, AI-assisted technologies, and interdisciplinary methods.
The journal welcomes high-quality submissions across diverse specialties: general surgery, urology, bariatric surgery, colorectal surgery, trauma surgery, breast surgery, transplant surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, cosmetic surgery, and otolaryngology.
The journal publishes Original Articles, Review Articles, Meta-Analyses, Systematic Reviews, Video Articles, Commentaries, Letters to Editor, Opinions, Perspectives, Guidelines, and Brief Communications.
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
Indexing & Archiving
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