1. Aims and Scope
2. Ownership
3. Publishing Model
4. Copyright and License to Publish
5. Editorial Board
6. Editorial Policies
7. Manuscript Processing System
8. Peer Review
9. Publication Ethics Statement
10. Journal Information and Statistics
11. Indexing & Archiving
12. Contact
1. Aims and Scope
Surgical Technology International (ISSN 1090-3941) is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal that publishes original research and advances in surgical techniques, innovations, and clinical practice across all fields of surgery. Our aim is to encourage surgeons to publish their experimental and theoretical findings with comprehensive detail, promoting transparency, reproducibility, and the global exchange of surgical knowledge.
Scope:
General Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Orthopaedics
Gynecology
Urology
Spine and Neurosurgery
Advanced Wound Healing
Plastic Surgery
Bariatric Surgery
2. Ownership
The journal is owned by Accscience Publishing.
3. Publishing Model
Gold open access. All articles published by STI are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access Policy.
4. Copyright and License to Publish
Copyright
Copyright is retained by authors.
License
Articles in STI 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.
For more information about the Editorial Board Members, please refer to the Editorial Board.
All manuscripts submitted to STI should adhere to AccScience Publishing's Editorial Policies.
7. Manuscript Processing System
ASP serves a diverse global community of scholars, committed to freely sharing cutting-edge research under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. To enhance the precision, academic rigor, and timeliness of our publications, we have developed the proprietary, cutting-edge manuscript processing system known as the OSS (Online Submission System).
8. Peer Review
The journal adheres to rigorous and double-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process.
9. Publication Ethics Statement
STI adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to contribute to the field of scholarly publication by publishing high-quality scientific works. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of STI take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to deal with such cases with a zero-tolerance policy. To verify the originality of the content submitted to the journal, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications. For more details, please refer to Research and Publication Ethics.
ISSN: 1090-3941 (Online)
Frequency: Semiannual
DOI: 10.36922/STI
11. Indexing & Archiving
12. Contact
Please contact the Editorial Office for further information or assistance.