Aims and Scope

Surgical Case Reports is an official journal of the Japan Surgical Society. This open access, peer-reviewed, online journal will consider any original case reports in the fields of gastroenterological surgery, cardiovascular surgery, thoracic surgery, breast and endocrine surgery, pediatric surgery, transplant surgery, acute care surgery, and abdominal wall surgery.

The purpose of the journal is to contribute to the progress of surgery by providing clinicians and researchers with an educational forum in which to disseminate their personal experience and novel treatments to a wide readership and by reviewing various interesting cases encountered by colleagues all over the world, from whom contributions are welcomed. Our emphasis is not placed solely on novelty, or perceived impact, but also on the educational value and the potential to improve clinical practice.

Copyright and Open Access Policy

All articles in Surgical Case Reports are published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International). This license allows users to share and adapt an article, even commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given.

Copyright on any open access article in Surgical Case Reports is retained by the author(s).

Authors grant the Japan Surgical Society a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. A Licence to Publish form is available here. All authors of the manuscript should be listed in this form and the corresponding  author should upload this to the submission system along with the manuscript files.

Some funding bodies require articles funded by them to be published under a specific Creative Commons license. Before submitting your work to the journal, check with the relevant funding bodies to ensure that you comply with any mandates.

Publication Charge

Authors who publish open access in Surgical Case Reports are required to pay a publication charge described in Table 1 below.

Table 1

Membership	Publication fee
Member of JSS	30,000JPY (tax excluded)
Non-member of JSS	95,000JPY (tax excluded)

Color art is free of charge for online publication. Color reprints charges are also not levied.

Waiver policy

Waivers for publication charges are provided automatically when the corresponding author is from a “Group A” Research4Life country. In cases of demonstrated financial hardship, the journal will consider a pre-submission application for a waiver from any corresponding author to the Editorial Office. Applications cannot be made after the peer review process has begun.

The ability of an author to pay the publication charge does not influence editorial decisions. To avoid any possibility of undue influence, Editors involved with the decision-making process for articles are not involved in any deliberations on waivers.

Journal Information