Scandinavian Journal of Surgery
The Scandinavian Journal of Surgery is a peer-reviewed, open access journal owned by the Finnish Surgical Society. The journal is published four times a year. Reviews are carried out by members of the Editorial Board and other international reviewers representing various surgical specialties. Articles are published in American English. All contributions should conform to the recommendations stated in the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (1964). The journal does not perform linguistic revisions and submissions that do not comply with the journal format or are considered out of scope will be returned to the authors before initiating the review process.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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The Scandinavian Journal of Surgery (SJS) is the official peer reviewed journal of the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society.
It publishes original and review articles mainly from the following surgical fields and specialties (in alphabetical order):
Acute care surgery and visceral trauma
Bariatric and metabolic surgery
Breast surgery
Cardio-thoracic surgery
Colorectal surgery
General surgery
Endocrine surgery
Esophageal surgery
Hand surgery
Hepato-biliary surgery
Hernia surgery
Neurosurgery
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Orthopedic surgery
Pancreatic surgery
Pediatric surgery
Pediatric orthopedic surgery
Perioperative Care
Plastic surgery (including melanoma)
Surgical Training
Transplant surgery
Traumatology (orthopedics)
Upper gastrointestinal surgery (excluding esophagus)
Urology
Vascular surgery
The main aim of the journal is on the rapidly advancing front of clinical surgery, providing new knowledge to the global surgical community.
| Paulina Salminen | Turku University Hospital, Finland |
| Pauli Puolakkainen | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
| Malin Sund | Umeå University Hospital, Sweden / University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Pamela Buchwald | Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Sweden |
| Jussi Kärkkäinen | Kuopio University Hospital, Finland |
| Aleksi Reito | Tampere University Hospital/Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement, Finland |
| Johannes Schultz | Akershus University Hospital, Norway |
| Toni Seppälä | Tampere University, Finland |
| Magnus Sundbom | Uppsala University, Surgical Sciences, Sweden |
| Sheraz Yaqub | Oslo University Hospital, Norway |
| David Aghayan | Oslo University Hospital, Norway |
| Christian Beisland | University of Bergen, Norway |
| Kristoffer Watten Brudvik | Oslo University Hospital, Norway |
| Tine Engberg Damsgaard | Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Mikael Ekelund | Clinical Sciences Surgery, SUS Lund, Sweden |
| Katrine Emmertsen | Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark |
| Juha Grönroos | Turku University Hospital, Finland |
| Tomas Gudbjartsson | Landspitali University Hospital, Iceland |
| Harri Hakovirta | Turku University Hospital, Finland |
| Emma Hansson | Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden |
| Olli Helminen | Oulu University Hospital, Finland |
| Päivi Helmiö | Turku University Hospital, Finland |
| Ilkka Kaartinen | Tampere University Hospital, Finland |
| Arto Kokkola | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
| Virve Koljonen | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Hartwig Körner | Stavanger University Hospital, Norway / University of Bergen, Norway |
| Knut Jørgen Labori | Oslo University Hospital, Norway |
| Johanna Laukkarinen | Tampere University Hospital, Finland |
| Anna Lepistö | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
| Nina Lindfors | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
| Tom Mala | Oslo University Hospital, Norway |
| Almantas Maleckas | Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania |
| Panu Mentula | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
| Hannu Miettinen | Kuopio University Hospital, Finland |
| Kim Erland Mortensen | The Artic University of Norway, Norway |
| Arno Nordin | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
| Torsten Olbers | Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden |
| Mikko Pakarinen | Children's Hospital, Pediatric Surgery, Helsinki, Finland |
| Marco Patti | University of Chicago, USA |
| Bjorn Rosengren | Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden |
| Hanna Seppänen | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Joonas Sirola | Kuopio University Hospital, Finland |
| Kjetil Søreide | Stavanger University Hospital, Norway |
| Helena Taflin | Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden |
| Anders Thorell | Ersta Hospital, Sweden |
| Sara Tornberg | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
| Johanna Turtiainen | University of Eastern Finland, Finland |
| Tove Tvedskov | Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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