Journal of Surgery Proceedings welcomes original clinical and translational studies that advance modern procedural practice. Priority areas include laparoscopic surgery, robotic-assisted surgery, thoracoscopic interventions, gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary procedures, trauma and emergency surgery pathways, perioperative optimization, and surgical outcomes science.

We also encourage work in surgical education, competency assessment, simulation, workflow engineering, digital operating room tools, and quality-improvement frameworks that can be implemented at scale. Manuscripts with strong real-world applicability and measurable patient impact are highly valued.

Evidence synthesis articles, multicenter cohort analyses, implementation studies, and pragmatic protocol reports are welcome when they provide rigorous methods and clear interpretation boundaries. Submissions should explicitly connect findings to operative decision-making, recovery pathways, or system-level performance.

We accept original research, systematic reviews, narrative reviews, case reports, case series, short communications, editorials, commentaries, and letters to the editor. Special issue proposals and themed collections are also encouraged where guest editorial oversight is credible and scope is clearly defined.

Authors should select the most appropriate article type and align structure accordingly. A mismatch between manuscript objectives and article category is a common source of delay. If uncertain, request pre-submission guidance with title, abstract, and design summary.

Submissions from interdisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged, including collaborations across surgery, anesthesiology, critical care, nursing, biomedical engineering, epidemiology, biostatistics, and health-policy analysis.

Authors should position manuscripts around one practical decision point: what changes for surgeons, perioperative teams, or health systems if these findings are adopted. Clear implementation impact statements help editors route papers to reviewers who can judge both technical quality and real-world value.

Competitive submissions usually present robust methods and disciplined interpretation boundaries. Overstated conclusions, unclear endpoint labels, and fragmented supplementary references remain common avoidable weaknesses. Before submission, run a control pass for terminology consistency and evidence mapping across tables, figures, and appendices.

Interdisciplinary studies are welcome when integration is explicit. If your manuscript combines surgical technique, outcomes analytics, and policy interpretation, explain how each layer contributes to the final conclusion. This reduces reviewer ambiguity and improves decision efficiency in first-round review.

For presubmission fit checks, send a concise synopsis to [email protected] with title, objective, design, and expected clinical audience. Early fit confirmation can significantly reduce administrative reclassification and improve workflow speed.

Editors prioritize submissions that state a clear surgical question, provide reproducible methods, and demonstrate practical impact for perioperative decision making. Manuscripts that combine novelty with disciplined interpretation are more likely to move quickly to high-quality external review. Before submission, confirm that your discussion section does not overstate causality beyond design limits and that all key outcomes are consistently labeled across manuscript assets.

Strong first submissions reduce revision cycles and improve final publication timelines.

Authors who include implementation boundaries and realistic adoption context in the discussion are consistently easier to evaluate and route, resulting in faster and more stable editorial outcomes.