Copyright and Licensing

Impact Surgery is an open access journal. All articles are published with clear copyright and licensing terms to ensure transparency for authors, readers, and third parties, and to support the lawful reuse of published work. Authors are required to agree to the journal’s copyright and licensing terms as a condition of publication.

Copyright ownership

Authors retain copyright in their work unless otherwise stated. By submitting a manuscript to Impact Surgery, authors confirm that they are the original copyright holders or have obtained the necessary rights to submit the work for publication. Where a manuscript includes material owned by third parties, such as figures, tables, images, or extended quotations, authors are responsible for obtaining written permission for reuse prior to submission. Evidence of permission must be provided on request.

Licence to publish

Articles published in Impact Surgery are made available under a Creative Commons licence. The standard licence is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The applicable licence will be clearly indicated on the published article. Authors should ensure that they understand the terms of the licence prior to submission.

Author rights

Under the Creative Commons licence, authors retain the right to reuse their work in future publications, presentations, teaching materials, and derivative works, provided that appropriate acknowledgement of the original publication in Impact Surgery is given. Authors may deposit the published version of their article in institutional or subject repositories without embargo, in accordance with the terms of the licence.

Third-party material

Material that is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons licence must be clearly identified in the manuscript with an appropriate credit line. Such material may not be reused without permission from the original copyright holder. Authors are responsible for ensuring that all third-party material complies with copyright law and licensing requirements.

Permissions and acknowledgements

Where permissions are required, authors must obtain them prior to publication and include appropriate acknowledgements within the manuscript. Failure to secure necessary permissions may result in removal of the material or delay in publication.

Post-publication use and reuse

Readers may copy, distribute, adapt, and build upon articles published in Impact Surgery in accordance with the terms of the applicable Creative Commons licence. Any reuse must include proper citation of the original article and must not misrepresent the authors’ work.

Changes to licensing terms

The licensing terms applied at the time of publication remain in force permanently for that article. Changes to journal policy do not affect the licence under which an article has already been published.