Overview
The Editorial Team of the Stony Brook Orthopaedics Research and Patient Safety/Quality Improvement Journal works to ensure that this journal is a source of interesting, relevant, and stimulating material for those practicing, training, and otherwise interested in musculoskeletal disorders, injuries, and diseases.
Editorial policies
The Editorial Team of the Stony Brook Orthopaedics Research and Patient Safety/Quality Improvement Journal works to ensure that this journal is a source of interesting, relevant, and stimulating material for those practicing, training, and otherwise interested in musculoskeletal disorders, injuries, and diseases.
One of the Editors will make an initial appraisal of each manuscript to determine if it fits in the scope of the journal. Manuscripts passing initial review are then assigned to an appropriate editor to facilitate peer review. Once the review process has been completed, the editor will recommend acceptance, revision, or rejection of the manuscript. For manuscripts recommended for revision, authors are requested to submit their revisions, along with a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ comments within four weeks. Revised manuscripts will undergo an additional review that will be performed by the original reviewers whenever possible. Final decisions on all manuscripts will be made by the Co-Editors.
Manuscripts must not be under review by another journal during the review period and will be maintained as confidential documents until publication. Appeals, complaints, or allegations of misconduct will be taken with utmost seriousness, regardless of whether those involved are internal or external to the journal, or whether the submission in question is pre- or post-publication. All appeals, complaints, or issues of potential misconduct regarding the journal or its content should be raised with the Co-Editors.
The Editorial Team will consider requests for corrections or retractions from manuscript authors, as well as from others that raise legitimate concerns over scholarship. Any decisions will be made by a committee comprising at least one Editor, one Associate Editor, and one Assistant Editor. Any resulting corrections or retractions will be denoted on the Table of Contents for the appropriate issue. If any member of the Editorial Team has any ethical or scientific concerns over a manuscript these will be reviewed by a similar committee, which will then decide if the manuscript should be corrected, retracted, or a statement amended to the manuscript reflecting these concerns.
To preserve independence and avoid any potential conflicts of interest, no advertisements will be accepted in this journal.
