Pediatric Surgery Latam aims to give visibility to pediatric surgery research from Latin America and the Caribbean, with international review standards and open access for readers.
Overview
Aims and scope
The journal publishes original research, reviews, case reports and series, surgical techniques and innovation in minimally invasive and robotic surgery, with emphasis on evidence useful for clinical practice and on the reality of hospitals in the region.
Specialties covered
- General pediatric surgery
- Neonatal surgery
- Pediatric urology
- Surgical oncology
- Pediatric trauma
- Minimally invasive and robotic surgery
- Congenital anomalies
- Anesthesia and perioperative care
- Surgery in limited-resource settings
- Frequency
- Biannual Configurable by the editorial board. Continuous publication of accepted articles planned.
- Access
- Open No subscriptions or paywalls for readers.
- Review
- Peer Proposed initial scheme: double anonymous. To be confirmed before launch.
- Languages
- ES · EN Manuscripts in Spanish, English or both; metadata in both languages.
Open access
Open access policy
Proposed policy, pending editorial approval. This text is a working draft and may change before the journal launches.
All published content will be freely available online. The license (proposed: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0), copyright terms and the fee policy will be defined and published after editorial approval.
Indexing
Roadmap
Databases the journal will apply to once it meets each one's requirements. The journal is not indexed yet.
- First stage
- Google Scholar
- Short term
- DOAJ
- Latindex
- SciELO · Redalyc
- Medium term
- Scopus
- PubMed / MEDLINE
Institution
Institutional information
To be completed. Publisher, address, ISSN and editors will be published here once verified.
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