About this journal

Aims and scope

Case Reports in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery is an open access journal for case reports in plastic surgery, hand surgery and related research. The journal is published on behalf of the non-for-profit Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica Society.

The journal aims to bring new trends and observations to the scientific community so that it can further promote current work and research.

Subjects of interest to the journal are plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, including cranio-maxillofacial surgery, cleft lip surgery, palate surgery and hand surgery concerning:

  • Original operative methods
  • Newly discovered syndromes
  • Rare complications

Case Reports in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery publishes case reports and case series.

All submitted manuscripts will be double anonymized peer reviewed, and extended collections of case reports and series may be published as supplements, dealing with special topics such as microvascular surgery, hand surgery, craniofacial surgery or burns.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 72K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.5 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 0.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.454 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.158 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 47 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 47 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 68% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Chief Editor
Fabio Santanelli di Pompeo - Sant’Andrea Hospital, School of Medicine and Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy

Associate Editors
Florian Früh - Kantonsspital Aarau, Klinik für Plastische Chirurgie und Handchirurgie, Switzerland
Jeff Larson - Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin
Angelo Leto Barone - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Bülent Saçak - Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Paolo Sassu - Mölndal Hospital, Sahlgrenska University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Fabrizio Schonauer - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
John W. Shuck - MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas
Michael Sorotos - University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Simon Talbot - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Editorial Board
Eric Arnaud - Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
Zoran Marij Arnez - Cattinara Hospital, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Oscar Aszmann - Universitätsklinik f. Chirurgie, Vienna, Austria
Matteo Atenzi - Plastic Surgery and Microsurgery unit, University Cagliari Hospital, AOU Cagliari
Eric Auclair - Clinique Esthetique De Paris Spontini, Paris, France
Sühan Ayhan - Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Juan Barret - Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Beatriz Berenguer - Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
Amin Belmahi - IBN SINA Hospital, Rabat, Morocco
Michael Bentz - University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Wisconsin, USA
Phillip Blondeel - University Hospital Gent, Belgium
Christian Bonde - Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Laurence Boon - Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, Brussels, Belgium
Ahmet Bozkurt - Luisenhospital Aachen, Aachen University Teaching Hospital, Aachen, Germany
Corstiaan Breugem - University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Håkan Brorson - Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
Maurizio Calcagni - University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
José Ramón Castelló - Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain
Edward J Caterson - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Grigorios Champsas - "A. Sygros" Hospital, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
Ming Huei Cheng - Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
David CC Chuang - Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Mark Clemens - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Adriana Cordova - Palermo university, Palermo, Italy
Francesco D'Andrea - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Lee Dellon - John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Efterpi Demiri - Arisotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Dimitris Dionyssiou - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Gabriel Djedovic - Academic Teaching Hospital of Feldkirch, Austria
Avni Tolga Eryilmaz - Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Andrea Figus - Plastic Surgery and Microsurgery unit, University Cagliari Hospital, AOU Cagliari
Manfred Frey - Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Alexandru Georgescu - Rehabilation Hospital Cluj Napoca, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Goetz Giessler - BG Trauma Center Murnau, Murnau Germany
Pietro Giovanoli - University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Beatriz Gonzalez Meli - Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
Moustapha Hamdi - Universitair Ziekenhuis, Brussels, Belgium
Christoph Heitmann - Breast Center at the English Garden, Munich, Germany
Benoit Hendrickx - Universitair Ziekenhuis, Brussels, Belgium
Bernardo Hontanilla - University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Marco Innocenti - Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
Outi Kaarela - Department of Surgery, University of Oulu, Finland
Daniel Kalbermatten - University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Dimitris Karypidis - University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece
Christopher Khoo - Maidenhead, United Kingdom
Moshe Kon - Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Petros Konofaos - University of Tennessee Health, Tennessee, USA
Isao Koshima - The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Epaminondas Kostopoulos - "A. Sygros" Hospital, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
Lucie Lessard - McGill University, Montreal General Hospital Site, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Chih-Hung Lin - Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Hans Gunther Machens - Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
Donald MacKay - Interim Chair Department of Surgery, PennState Hershey, USA
Giovanni Maltese - Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Monica Mattesich - Private Practice Praxis am Museum Museumstraße 20, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Carty Matthew - Faulkner Hospital, Massachusets, USA
Nigel Mercer - Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
Claudia Meuil Simmen - Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Stan Monstrey - Univesity Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Alexander Munhoz - University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Roni Moscona - Tel Aviv, Israel
Milomir Ninkovic - Bogenhausen Academic Teaching Hospital, Munich, Germany
Dan Mon O'Dey - Burn Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Ozlenend Ozcan - Akdeniz University Hospital, Antalya, Turkey
Norbert Pallua - Burn Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Giovanni Papa - Cattinara Hospital, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Othon Papadopoulos - "A. Sygros" Hospital, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
Piercamillo Parodi - Facoltà Di Medicina di Udine, Udine, Italy
Paolo Persichetti - Campus Bio Medico, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Chen KT Philippe - Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Linda Philips - University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Jan Plock - University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Bohdan Pomahac - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Julian Pribaz - Plastic Surgery Department, University of South Florida Health, Tampa, FL, USA
Corrado Rubino - University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Marzia Salgarello - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
Thomas Schoeller- Marienhosptal, Abteilung für Plastiche Chirurgie, Stuttgart, Germany
Arnold Schuurman - Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Anton H. Schwabegger - Associate Professor Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
Gennaro Selvaggi - Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jose Maria Serra-Renom - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Michail Sorotos - Sant’Andrea Hospital, School of Medicine and Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy
Kenneth J. Stewart - Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Chun Yoon Sun - Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Ali Teoman Tellioglu - Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey
Julia Terzis - New York University Medical Center, New York, USA
Serhan Tuncer - Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Dietmar Ulrich - UMC st, Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Berend van der Lei - University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Paul van Minnen - Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Jyrki Vuola - Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Fu-Chan Wei - Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Paul Werker - University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Marie Wickmann - Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Esther Vogelin - Department of Plastic- und Hand Surgery, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern
Jan Vranckx - KUL Leuven University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium
MU Xiongzheng - Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Chen Yu-Rai - Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Assaf Zeltzer - Universitair Ziekenhuis, Brussels, Belgium
Robert Zimmermann - Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Editorial Office email: [email protected]

Abstracting and indexing

Case Reports in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:

Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Open Access Journals Integrated Service System Project (GoOA)
Pubmed (NLM)
PubMed Central (NLM)
Scopus

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