Indexing

Impact Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed journal committed to global visibility, discoverability, and high editorial standards. The journal is designed to meet the technical, editorial, and governance criteria required by recognised indexing and abstracting services and is actively preparing applications to major indexing platforms.

Indexing readiness

To support indexing and discoverability, Impact Surgery ensures that published content meets established technical and editorial standards. These include the use of persistent identifiers, transparent editorial processes, and structured metadata to facilitate citation, linking, and long-term access.

The journal provides:

-Persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs) for all articles (prefix: 10.62463)
-Open licensing under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)
-Clear peer review and editorial governance processes
-Compliance with recognised publication ethics standards, including COPE and ICMJE guidance
-A regular bimonthly publication schedule with stable issue frequency
-Machine-readable metadata and XML workflows to support indexing and interoperability

PubMed Central and other services

The journal intends to apply for inclusion in PubMed Central once eligibility criteria are met. Inclusion in PubMed Central is subject to independent review and approval by the National Library of Medicine. Acceptance into PMC allows full-text articles to be archived and made searchable via PubMed. As the journal develops, applications will also be made to other appropriate indexing and abstracting services. Indexing status will be updated on this page as applications are submitted and decisions are confirmed.

Digital preservation

Impact Surgery provides long-term digital preservation of its published content through participation in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). All published articles, together with associated files, are deposited in a distributed LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) network managed by participating academic and research libraries worldwide. The PKP Preservation Network ensures that the journal’s content remains secure, preserved, and accessible over time, including in the event of service interruption, website failure, or journal discontinuation. Preservation deposits are made automatically at the time of publication and are maintained independently of the journal’s primary hosting platform. The PKP Preservation Network is operated by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a non-profit organisation supporting open-source scholarly publishing infrastructure. Additional information about PKP PN is available from the Public Knowledge Project.

Transparency

The journal makes no claims of indexing until formal acceptance by an indexing service has been confirmed. Information on indexing and archiving arrangements is provided to support transparency for authors, readers, and stakeholders.