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Navigation surgery

Guest Editors:
Sandro Hodel, MD, Balgrist University Hospital, Switzerland
Masashi Uehara, PhD, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan

Submission Status: 15 December 2024

Shoulder and elbow pathologies

Guest Editor:
Gül Baltaci, PhD, Istanbul Atlas University, Türkiye

Submission Status: Open until 09 October 2024

Advances in minimally invasive orthopedic surgeries

Guest Editors:
Hisashi Koga, MD, PhD, Iwai Medical Foundation, Japan
Javier Ferrer Torregrosa, DPM, Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Spain

Submission Status: Open until 14 August 2024

3D printed implants in orthopedic surgery

Guest Editors

Kai Xie, PhD, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Nanfang Xu, MD, PHD, Peking University Third Hospital, China

Submission Status: Open until 26 July 2024

Nutrition and metabolism in musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Paul Morgan, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Mao Zhang, Stanford University, United States

Submission Status: Open until 16 July 2024

Musculoskeletal rehabilitation and physiotherapy

Guest Editors:
Helen French: RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland
Tom Wainwright: Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Submission Status: Open until 22 June 2024

Prosthetics and orthotics

Guest Editors:
Christina Zong-Hao Ma: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Gabriel Moisan: University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Canada

Submission Status: Open until 15 June 2024

Bone reconstruction technologies

Guest Editors:
Youshui Gao: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zhiyong Hou: Hebei Medical University, China

Submission Status: Open until 8 June 2024

Musculoskeletal molecular endotypes

Guest Editors:
Ali Mobasheri: University of Oulu, Finland
Guangju Zhai: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Submission Status: Open until 30 May 2024

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Regenerative medicine: focus on cartilage, discs and tendons

Guest Editors:
Gianfilippo Caggiari
: University of Sassari, Italy
Liang Gao: University of Saarland, Germany
Eugenio Jannelli: University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Giuseppe Rovere: Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, Italy
Payman Vahedi: Islamic Azad University Medical Branch of Tehran, Iran
 

Translational musculoskeletal research: Bridging the gap between lab and clinic

Guest Editors:
John Houten: Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy
Ara Nazarian: Harvard Medical School, USA
Imran Khan Niazi: New Zealand College of Chiropractic, New Zealand
Biao Wang: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
 

Psychosocial aspects of musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Anita Amorim: University of Sydney, Australia
Derek Clewley: Duke University, USA
Imran Khan Niazi: New Zealand College of Chiropractic, New Zealand
Markus Rupp: University Medical Center Regensburg, Germany
Bart Staal: HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
 

Technologies and innovations to manage spine degeneration

Guest Editors:
Pongsthorn Chanplakorn: Mahidol University, Thailand
Xing Du: First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
John Houten: Maimonides Medical Center, United States
Koroush Kabir: University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Hyeun-Sung Kim: Gangnam Nanoori Hospital, South Korea

 

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)

Guest Editors:
Adewale Adebajo:
University of Sheffield, UK
Angie Botto-van Bemden: Patient Advocate, USA
Ciarán Martin Fitzpatrick: BMC Medicine, UK

Collection published

Robotic surgery

Guest Editors: Graziano Ceccarelli, Aslam Ejaz, Stefano Scabini, John Houten, Yu Zhao, Tsun-Yuan Tsai


Digital health in musculoskeletal care

Guest Editors:
Aurélie Najm:
University of Glasgow, UK
Diederik De Cock: KU Leuven, Belgium
Latika Gupta: SGPGI, India
Koroush Kabir: University Hospital Bonn, Germany

Collection published

Advances and challenges in imaging rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Domenico Albano:
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Italy
Francesco Carrubi: University of L'Aquila, Italy

Collection published

Work and musculoskeletal health

Guest Editor:
Bart Staal:
HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Collection published

Osteoarthritis - from basic and translational approaches to clinical practice

Guest Editor:
Ali Mobasheri:
University of Surrey, UK

Collection published

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.3 - 2-year Impact Factor
    2.8 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.288 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.716 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    27 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    143 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    5,883,887 downloads
    5,748 Altmetric mentions 

    Transparency and Openess
    TOP Factor Score - 8

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    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

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