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Editorial
. 2024 Dec 9;18(1):34.
doi: 10.1186/s13037-024-00416-w.

Patient Safety in Surgery: scaling the journal's global visibility and scientific renown

Philip F Stahel  1   2   3   4
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Patient Safety in Surgery: scaling the journal's global visibility and scientific renown

Philip F Stahel. Patient Saf Surg. .
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Keywords: Journal citation reports; Patient safety in surgery; Peer review process; Publication metrics.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable (Editorial). Consent for publication: Not applicable (Editorial). Competing interests: P.F.S. is the journal’s founding editor and Editor-in-Chief journal’s editorial board. P.F.S. is employed by HCA Healthcare. The views expressed in this editorial exclusively represent the author’s personal perspective and do not necessarily represent official views of HCA Healthcare or any of its affiliated entities.

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Patient Safety in Surgery is a peer reviewed open-access journal published by BMC/Springer Nature since 2007
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The journal’s global readership in 2023. (Source: BMC/Springer Nature)
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Patient Safety in Surgery publication metrics for 2023. (Sources: BMC/Springer Nature; Journal Citation Reports™ Clarivate 2023)
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Top-10 countries of origin for published articles in 2023. (Source: BMC/Springer Nature)
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    1. Stahel PF, VanderHeiden T. Open access journals - the future in scientific publishing? In: Mauffrey C, Scarlat MM, editors. Medical writing for the Orthopaedic Surgeon. Heidelberg: Springer; 2018. p. 81–6.
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    1. Stahel PF, Weckbach S. Patient safety in surgery: practical tips for authors to circumvent the journal’s high rejection rate. Patient Saf Surg. 2020;14:39. - PMC - PubMed
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