[IJS Short Reports IJS Short Reports is the first peer-reviewed, international, open access journal seeking to publish "negative" studies across the full breadth of the surgical field. We consider all forms of original research from case series to trials as well as non-confirmatory, unexpected, controversial and provocative results. We aim to provide rapid submission to decision times whilst maintaining a high-quality peer-review process that focusses on the quality of the article and the transparency of the reporting rather than the magnitude and direction of the results.
The surgical community needs to know what works and what doesn't work in order to drive research in the correct direction, aid collaboration, prevent duplication and wasted resources. Other issues our community grapples with, is underpowered studies, poor statistical methods, poor reproducibility and external validity, poor methodology and reporting of studies. Publishing negative results brings the focus away from the results themselves to the research questions, the hypothesis and the robustness of the methodology used to investigate it. Such studies are all too often rejected by journals due to the direction of their results, rather than the quality of the methodology and the data and the contextual significance of the research questions they answer.
IJS Short Reports is part of the IJS Publishing Group , a scientific publishing house established in 2003.]