About the Journal
Role of The Journal/Society
Editorial Process and Direction: The Indian Society for Trauma and Acute Care plays a central role in the editorial direction of the journal “Journal of Injury and Acute Care”. Specifically:
- Editorial Board Appointment: The Indian Society for Trauma and Acute Care appoints the Editor-in-Chief and oversees the composition of the editorial board.
- Editorial Policy and Scope: The aims and scope of the journal are determined by the Indian Society for Trauma and Acute Care in consultation with the editorial board to ensure alignment with the Association’s mission and the needs for the community.
- Peer Review Process and Final Decisions: The Editor-in-Chief, who is appointed by and reports to the Indian Society for Trauma and Acute Care manages the peer review process, makes final decisions on manuscripts, and ensures editorial independence and scientific integrity.
- Strategic Direction: Major decisions regarding journal strategy, policy updates, or editorial initiatives are made under the guidance of the Indian Society for Trauma and Acute Care Executive Committee.
Role of Scientific Scholar
Scientific Scholar serves solely as the publishing partner, providing publishing infrastructure, manuscript management system, website hosting, copyediting, production, and distribution services to support the journal’s publication process. Scientific Scholar does not influence or participate in the editorial decisions or the peer review process.
Aims & Scope
Aims:The Journal of Injury and Acute Care envisages to advance the field of trauma, injury prevention, and acute care surgery by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed original research, reviews, clinical studies, case reports, and evidence-based guidelines. The journal serves as an academic platform to disseminate innovative scientific knowledge, promote best practices, and nurture cross disciplinary collaboration in Emergency settings.
Scope:The Journal of Injury and Acute Care covers a wide range of topics related to trauma and acute care management, including but not limited to:
- Trauma Surgery
- Surgical Critical Care
- Injury Prevention and Public Health
- Emergency and Acute Care Surgery
- Pre-hospital Care
- Interventional Radiology in Trauma
- Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Trauma
- Perioperative Care in Trauma Patients
- Trauma Nursing
- Post-Trauma Care
- Innovative Technologies in Acute Care
- Ethical and Legal Aspects in Trauma Care
The journal invites contributions from clinicians, researchers, and allied health professionals worldwide, promoting interdisciplinary knowledge exchange to enhance patient care and clinical outcomes in the field of injury and acute care surgery.
Audience
Our audience includes researchers from the field of Trauma, Injury prevention and Acute Care Surgery.
Review Process
JOIAC has a highly rigorous peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.
Editorial Team
The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the purpose for the journal.
About the Editor
Professor of Surgery,
JPN Apex Trauma Centre,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi, India
Email: editor@joiac-istac.org
Facts About the Journal
Abstracting and Indexing Information
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Journal Ethics
The Journal of Injury and Acute Care is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section
Plagiarism Policy
The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.Archival Policy
We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
Journal of Injury and Acute Care is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.Advertisements
While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content are not biased or influenced by the advertisement.
“Pop-up” and “banner” advertisement appears at a fixed location on the page and does not interfere with the manuscript in any form.
The Editorial Board has full and final approval over the content of all advertisements.
Advertisers will never be shown any manuscripts or other content prior to publication.
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Publisher
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With offices in both the USA and India, Scientific Scholar proudly serves a global research community.
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