Indexing

Impact Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed journal committed to global visibility, discoverability, and high editorial standards. We meet key eligibility criteria for leading indexing services and are actively preparing submissions to major indexing services.

To support this, we ensure:

  • Persistent identifiers via DOIs (prefix: 10.62463)

  • Open licensing under CC BY 4.0

  • Compliance with COPE and ICMJE guidelines on ethics and transparency

  • Clear peer review and editorial processes

  • Bimonthly publication schedule with stable issue frequency

  • Long-term digital preservation through the PKP Preservation Network (LOCKSS)

  • Machine-readable metadata and XML workflows to facilitate discoverability

We welcome collaboration with indexing services and aggregators that share our aim to promote open, high-quality surgical science.

Digital Preservation
Impact Surgery participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). Complete copies of every published article are archived in a distributed LOCKSS network hosted by partner libraries worldwide. If the journal’s own site were ever unavailable, the preserved versions held in the PKP PN would remain openly accessible. Further details on the PKP PN programme are available from the Public Knowledge Project.