Focus and Scope

Journal of Surgical Dermatology (JSD) is focused on publishing up-to-date and clinically-relevant information on all dermatological procedures. The Journal aims to play a significant role in reporting cases involving reconstructive and cosmetic skin surgeries, as well as skin cancers. Moreover, reports on scientifically novel topics will be published periodically. All submitted original research articles, reviews, perspectives and case reports will be peer-reviewed and if accepted, will be published as Open Access articles. 

Some key words for JSD include, but are not limited to:

• Ambulatory phlebectomy
• Blepharoplasty
• Body contouring
• Botulinum toxin injections
• Chemical peelings
• Cryosurgery
• Dermabrasion and microdermabrasion
• Dermoscopy
• Dressing
• Excisional surgeries
• Fat injections
• Flaps
• Hair transplantation
• Iontophoresis
• Laser surgeries
• Liposuctions
• Mechanical resurfacing
• Mesotherapy
• Microneedeling technology
• Micropigmentation
• Mohs micrographic surgery
• Nail surgery
• Phlebology
• Photodynamic therapy
• Platelet rich plasma therapy
• Sclerotherapy
• Skin cancers
• Skin grafts
• Soft tissue augmentation
• Subcision and acne scar surgery
• Ultrasound therapy
• Ultraviolet therapy 

Section Policies

Editorials

Editorials provide an opinion on a specific topic related to surgical dermatology. It is a short and concise article which will not be peer-reviewed. A maximum of 10 references are allowed in an Editorial. Editorials are generally invited articles, but if you wish to write and Editorial, kindly contact the Editorial Office.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Original Research Articles

Original Research Articles are the primary mode of scientific communication, it includes all reports of original research in dermatology. ORAs are peer-reviewed and should clearly state methodology, results and discussion. It is important that each ORA contain conflict of interest declarations and other relevant information (such as informed consent, etc.) if patients or participants are involved.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Reviews describe new developments, summarizes progress or collects published evidence for analysis. It is crucial that Reviews contain all the references used to perform the study and write the manuscript.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Case Reports

Case reports are detailed reports of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of one (1), two (2), or up to three (3) clinical cases. Case reports are peer-reviewed and must provide appropriate clinical images or figures of the cases being reported.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Correspondences

Correspondences may be Letters to the editor or Responses from the authors, etc. They are not peer-reviewed and should not contain more than 10 references.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Perspectives

Perspectives provide the author's view on dermatology related topics based on personal experience and ideas fueled from performed procedures or surgeries. Perspectives should contain all appropriate references and clinical images (especially if author is describing specific procedures).

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Short Communications

Short communications report a brief and concise study. Short communications are not peer reviewed, and as a guideline, must not have more than 30 references.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Surgical Dermatology undergo rigorous peer review.

• The initial submission made by the author is reviewed by in-house editors to ensure its adherence to the editorial policies of JSD.
• The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) determines if the topic of the manuscript is within the scope of JSD. For more details of JSD’s aim and scope, click here.
•  On the advice of the EIC, The Managing Editor selects and assigns reviewers to the manuscript.
• After the evaluations by the reviewers have been received, the EIC makes one of the following recommendations: Accept manuscript, Accept manuscript with minor revisions, Major revisions required or Reject manuscript.
• If the decision is minor revisions, the authors have 15 days to resubmit the revised manuscript.
• If the decision is major revisions, the authors have 30 days to resubmit the revised manuscript.
• Upon resubmission, the EIC makes the final decision on whether the manuscript can proceed for production. In cases where a major revision was needed, the manuscript will be first sent to the initially assigned reviewers again for their evaluation and reassessment, before the EIC makes the final decision.
• Authors may appeal for a rejected submission. Appeal requests must be made in writing to jsd@piscomed.com with detailed reasons for the appeal and point by point responses to the reviewers’ remarks. Decisions on appeals are final.

 

 

Publication Frequency

The Journal of Surgical Dermatology is a quarterly journal and will be published once every 3 months. Each issue will be published at the end of January, April, July and October every year.

Open Access Policy

The Journal of Surgical Dermatology is a Gold Open access journal.

Manuscripts submitted to JSD are fully peer-reviewed (Original research articles, Reviews, Perspectives and Case reports only) and if accepted for publication, are freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.

JSD operates on the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) publishing license that defines permitted re-use, which allows for the copying, distribution, and transmission of the published work, provided the correct attribution of the original creator is stated.

Editorial Policies

The journal will not accept a manuscript that has been published or is under consideration for publication in any other journal. The author needs to notify the journal if the data presented in the manuscript has been ever presented in conferences or other similar forums. The author will need to fill up the submission checklist to ensure that these criteria are fulfilled.

Conflict of Interest

The Journal of Surgical Dermatology functions on a double blind peer review system to avoid conflicts and potential bias. The author(s) should hold responsibility in declaring any conflicts of interest with respect to their work. The author(s) must provide details of any relationship with financial bodies or funding agencies that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All authors, members, reviewers and editors must disclose any association that poses a conflict of interest in connection with the manuscript. The corresponding author must download and complete the ICMJE Conflict of Interest Form on behalf of all the authors regarding to potential conflicts of interest, and submit the form as a supplementary document during the article submission process. Conflict of Interest declarations or statements are published in each manuscript as provided by the author(s).

Statement of Informed Consent

Patients have a right to their privacy and it should not be violated without informed consent. Authors should protect their patients’ right to privacy by requesting written consent from the patients or patient’s guardian to publish his/her data, including photographs and radiological images, prior to publication. To protect the patient’s anonymity, clinical photographs should be cropped appropriately (or eye bars can be utilised) to ensure that the patient is unrecognizable. Other details such as the race, ethnicity, religion or cultural background of a subject under study should be mentioned only when it is believed to have an impact on course of the disease and/or treatment discussed in the study. If changing the biographical details and/or identifying characteristics is done in order to protect anonymity, authors should provide assurance that the changes do not falsify the scientific meaning of a manuscript/report. The informed consent form/agreement should be included in as a supplementary document of a manuscript during submission. Statements of informed consents are published in each manuscript as provided by the author(s).

Human and Animal Rights Statement

Humans: When the submitted manuscript involves experiments performed on human subjects, including healthy volunteers, authors should adhere to the Declaration of Helsinki principles of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008 and indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the author's Institutional Review Board or Research Ethics Committee. Any possible adverse consequences of the work for ecosystems, populations or individual organisms must be weighed against the possible gains in knowledge and its practical applications.

Animals: When reporting experiments involving animals, authors should indicate whether relevant international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were conducted accordingly. All animal work must specifically require authors to include details of animal welfare (such as species, number, gender, age, weight, housing conditions, welfare, training and the fate of the animals at the end of the experiment) and relevant details of steps taken to ameliorate suffering in all work. For studies involving client-owned animals, author(s) must possess (and attach) a document of informed client consent and adhere to a high standard (best practise) of veterinary care.  These details should be included in the Materials and methods section of the article.

The Journal of Surgical Dermatology encourages authors submitting manuscripts that report a clinical trial, to submit relevant registration documents that bear the clinical trial registration number and name.

Code of Ethics and Practices

PiscoMed Publishing requests all members involved in the journal publishing process to adhere the “Code of Conduct for Editors” and “Code of Conduct for Publishers” as stipulated by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). The guidelines define the best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing, aiding the journals and publishers to achieve this.

Language

All articles should be written in English—either British or American as long as consistency is observed.

Units of Measurement

Units of measurement should be presented using only System International (SI) units.

Plagiarism Detection

The journal will strictly not accept manuscripts that are found to be plagiarized. The journal will verify the originality of the submitted manuscripts with iThenticate, the plagiarism detection software.

If a manuscript uses a text copied directly from another source, this text must be written in quotation marks and original source must be cited. If any kind of plagiarism is detected during the review process, the manuscript will be rejected.

Authors and researchers can also use iThenticate to screen their work before submission by visiting http://www.ithenticate.com.

Indexing and Archiving

The Journal of Surgical Dermatology is currently indexed in CNKI, J-gate and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) databases. All articles published in JSD are immediately searchable via Google Scholar. JSD is also being continually evaluated by other academic databases for inclusion.

JSD is archived by Portico and the National Library Board of Singapore.