About the Journal
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics is a double-blind peer-reviewed open-access journal (Online ISSN 2456-6993) and published biannually. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics is started with an idea of a journal that will be international, intelligent, interactive and at the same time clinically relevant. The editors welcome submissions from all over the world. The stress is on latest research in the field of orthopaedics including aetiopathology, clinical and radiographic outcomes, surgical technique and implant design, biomechanics, and biomaterials. Special focus will be on surgical techniques and Videos.
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics is the official journal of Bombay Orthopaedic Society and is published twice a year.
Ownership and Management
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics is owned and managed under and published by Bombay Orthopaedic Society (BOS), and Indian Orthopaedic Research Group overlooks the publication.
About the Bombay Orthopaedic Society
Over the years, fifty-five to be exact, Bombay Orthopaedic Society (BOS) has grown into an illustrious body, solely devoted to Orthopaedics and its sub-specialities. It is being run by its members who are dedicated to its cause with no personal gains.
The Silver Jubilee Conference of the Indian Orthopaedic Association (IOA) which was held in Mumbai in 1980, was a feather in the cap of Mumbai orthopaedic surgeons. All strata of Orthopaedic Surgeons put in their hearts and hard work to make this conference a big success. Even today, after more than forty years, it is considered a gold standard for conference organization from the social, managerial and academic perspectives.
Bombay Orthopaedic Society (BOS) along with Maharashtra Orthopaedic Association (MOA) had organized the Golden Jubilee Conference of the IOA in Mumbai in the year 2005. The organisers had made it a memorable conference for all the attendees.
2015 was a landmark year for the Bombay Orthopaedic Society (BOS) as it celebrated its 50th year of existence and also conducted the Golden Jubilee ‘WIROC Grande’ 2015.
The Bombay Orthopaedic Society (BOS) now has the Privilege to conduct the 65th Conference of the Indian Orthopaedic Association, IOACON 2020 in Mumbai in conjunction with its state chapter.
Why the new Journal?
There are two main reasons; to produce a body of literature that is clinically relevant and to make this knowledge freely accessible to all. Journals have shown trend to move towards a more rigid framework of scientific publications, meanwhile losing the focus that Journals are meant to directly influence and improve patient care. Charging for downloading articles imposes another limitation on dispersion and use of knowledge. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics intends to counter these two issues by creating a journal that is intelligent, interactive, and clinically relevant and at the same time completely Open Access.
The Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics will be a biannual (2 issues per year) online journal. The online version will be an open access source. The journal publishes original articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, instructional lectures, case reports, technical notes and letters to the editor.
Aim & Scope of the Journal
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics will publish research in the field of Orthopaedics, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery including aetiopathology, clinical and radiographic outcomes, surgical technique and implant design, biomechanics, biomaterials, and Congenital disorders.
Open Access Policy
Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it at no cost and with limited restrictions with regards to reuse. Open access publications are freely and permanently available online to anyone with an internet access. The journal allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium (which is non-commercial), provided the article is properly attributed. All the articles are published, without any technical, financial, gender limitations, in an agreed format on the journal website and deposited in archive and indexing databases as applicable to the journal. All articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), thereby making it fully citable and searchable by title, author name(s) and the full text.
Why open access publishing?
Restricted access to scientific research and advancements through subscription pay wall hinders communication within the scientific community. Moreover, restricted access can also hinder the education and dissemination of scientific knowledge to the aspiring younger generations who are keen to pursue a career in science. Increased productivity and development of science can only be achieved by diffusing knowledge and providing the facilities for creating permanent repositories such as Open Access.
The use of a Creative Commons 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC 4.0) enables user/reader/peer to use the content with clear permission in a way that it can be reused and redistributed as long as the article source is appropriately given credit for non-commercial purpose.
Digital Preservation / Archiving:
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics content is available on the journal website.
Self-Archiving Policy for Authors
Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published PDF in their institutional repository or any suitable subject repository (according to the end-user license of the article, i.e., strictly for non-commercial re-use) immediately upon publication. The deposited version should contain the URL and link to the online published version on the publisher’s website to clearly identify it as the definitive version of record.
Abstract and Citation information
Authors can share the Abstract and “How to cite” information (e.g., Title, Author name, Publication dates) of their article anywhere at any time including social media such as Facebook, blogs and Twitter, with proper attribution to the original source (the Publisher website) or include the DOI number in the social media post that links it to the published article on the Journal website.
Submitted Version
Submitted version or the preprint version is recognized as the author version of an article before submission to a journal for peer review. The author accepts full responsibility for the article, and the content and layout are set out by the author.
Authors can post their preprint version on preprint servers of the authors’ choice, authors’ or institutional websites, preprint servers or preprint commenting platforms, intended for non-commercial use. When submitting the manuscript to the journal, authors must disclose all pertinent information regarding preprint publication, such as the DOI and licencing terms. The author must make sure that the preprint record is updated with a publication reference after it is published, including the DOI and a URL link to the journal website where the paper has been published.
Accepted Manuscript
The accepted manuscript is the peer reviewed version (not the final published version) as accepted for publication by the journal that includes modifications based on reviewers’ suggestions. This version excludes copy editing and type setting changes.
The journal does not recommend the authors to upload accepted manuscript to their personal website/ institutional or other non-commercial subject-based repositories.
Published Version
Published Version is defined as the final version of the article that has been made available by the Publisher on the respective journal website by formally and exclusively putting the article either in ‘online first’ or releasing it as a part of the complete issue of that journal. This is the final, definitive, citable version of your paper, which has been copyedited, typeset, has metadata applied, and has been allocated a DOI.
Authors may share the published version with private groups within their institution or through private groups on non-commercial repositories that are signatories to the STM Voluntary principles for article sharing on Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCN). The PV may not be uploaded or shared on commercial websites or repositories unless the website or repository has signed an agreement with the publisher permitting such uploading or sharing.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
This Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement is based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors as per Committee on Publication Ethics, ICMJE & WAME. Please visit Policy page for more details.
Editor
Dr. Sachin Kale
E-mail: editor.jcorth@gmail.com
Editorial Team: Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics
website: www.jcorth.com
