2025
June
5 June: MIS received the 2024 CiteScore, which is 1.2 in the category of surgery. This marks a steady increase from the 2023 CiteScore of 1.1 and reflects the growing academic recognition of the journal's contributions to the field.
18 June: MIS received the first impact factor of 0.7, ranked 249 out of 312 journals in the "Surgery" category, placing it in Q4.
April
14 April: Prof. Lianxin Liu, from The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, was appointed as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of MIS.
2024
September
5 September: MIS has been indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), the papers published from 2022 are included in Web of Science.
2023
May
5 May: MIS received the first CiteScore, which is 0.9 in the category of surgery.
2022
August
15 August: MIS was accepted for inclusion in Scopus.
2021
June
15 June: the first Editorial Board Meeting of MIS successfully held, which was co-hosted by the Editor-in-Chief Giulio Belli and Honorary Editor-in-Chief Prof. Michel Gagner. Thirty-Three Editorial Board members participated in the meeting.
March
26 March: Prof. Michel Gagner, the world-renowned pioneer of laparoscopic surgery, joined MIS as Honorary Editor-in-Chief after the Editorial Office's interview.
January
23 January: MIS held the first online webinar on Controversies in Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery: A Panel Discussion by International Experts.
2020
November
6 November: MIS published its 200th paper.
2019
May
19 March: Prof. Giulio Belli, from General and HepatoPancreatoBiliary Surgery, Loreto Nuovo Hospital, Naples, Italy, was appointed as the new EiC of MIS. Prof. Charles F. Bellows stepped back after two years' service as the founding EiC. We highly appreciate his great contributions to the journal development in the past two years.
2017
March
31 March: Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) was launched, which released its inaugural issue in April, and was initially published as a continuous journal.
