Acta Orthopaedica

Acta Orthopaedica is the open access journal owned by the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation and published by MJS Publishing, Medical Journals Sweden AB, which carries basic research and clinical studies in orthopaedics and related subdisciplines for an international readership.《北欧骨科学报》是北欧骨科联合会拥有、瑞典 MJS Publishing 出版的开放获取期刊，面向国际读者刊发骨科及相关分支领域的基础研究与临床研究。

Scope

• The journal takes original articles from all parts of the world, both basic research of interest to the field and clinical studies in orthopaedics and related subdisciplines.该刊接收来自世界各地的原创论文，既刊发本领域关注的基础研究，也刊发骨科及相关分支领域的临床研究。

• Its subject sections follow the working life of an orthopaedic service, covering basic science, general orthopaedics, foot and ankle, hand and wrist, hip, infection, knee, oncology and tumour, paediatrics, radiostereometry, shoulder and elbow, spine, sports medicine and trauma.刊物按骨科服务的实际工作分栏，涵盖基础科学，一般骨科，足踝，腕手，髋部，感染，膝部，肿瘤，小儿骨科，放射立体测量，肩肘，脊柱，运动医学与创伤各科。

• Besides original papers it accepts registered reports and study protocols, and it publishes monographs, doctoral theses and congress transactions as supplements.除原创论文外，它还接收注册报告与研究方案，并把专著、博士论文与会议文集作为增刊出版。

• The supplements have been a backbone of Nordic orthopaedic scholarship, and more than 350 of them have appeared since the journal began.增刊一直是北欧骨科学术的支柱之一，创刊以来已出版 350 余种。

• A statistical pair sits beside the subject editors, and every author is asked to follow a written guidance on statistical methods and reporting.学科编辑之外另设统计编辑，每位作者都须遵循一份关于统计方法与报告的书面指南。^[1]

• Its review is transparent, since author and referee identities are disclosed to one another, while a referee may still ask to stay anonymous towards the authors.它的评审过程是透明的，作者与审稿人的身份彼此公开，审稿人仍可选择对作者保持匿名。

• Published manuscripts are commonly read by two external referees and, when the design calls for it, by the statistical editors as well.已发表的稿件通常经两位外部审稿人审阅，必要时还会交统计编辑把关。

• The journal keeps a register study section for large national and registry datasets, a hallmark of Nordic orthopaedic research.刊物设有注册研究专栏，用来承载国家数据库与登记系统中的大宗数据，这是北欧骨科研究的一大特色。

• Its educational articles, editorials, perspectives and letters to the editor give the clinical community a running commentary on practice.其教育性文章与社论，还有观点文章和致编辑的信，为临床同行提供一份关于诊疗实践的连续评论。

• Case reports and technical notes have a section of their own, and errata appear as a separate category.病例报告与技术札记设有专门栏目，勘误则作为单独类别刊出。

• The archive of the journal is free to read from the first volume onward, and its articles are deposited with PubMed Central and with the CLOCKSS and LOCKSS preservation services.该刊的档案自第一卷起即可免费阅读，文章同时存放于 PubMed Central 以及 CLOCKSS 与 LOCKSS 保存服务。

• It is indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded, Medline, Scopus, Embase and the Directory of Open Access Journals, among a long list of other services.它被 Science Citation Index Expanded、Medline 以及 Scopus 与 DOAJ 等长串数据库收录。

• Every article is published under Creative Commons terms, which leaves the copyright with the authors and permits reuse with attribution.每篇文章都以 Creative Commons 许可发布，版权留在作者手中，他人注明出处即可再利用。

• The owner is a federation of Nordic orthopaedic societies, and the journal presents itself as a non profit publication.刊主是由北欧各骨科学会组成的联合会，该刊自称是一家非营利出版物。

• Authors may suggest referees, and the final choice of reviewer stays with the co editor.作者可以推荐审稿人，最终人选由副主编决定。

• The title sits in orthopaedics rather than in general medicine, and its subject list places it among the journals that report laboratory work on musculoskeletal science.该刊归属骨科而非综合医学，其主题列表把它列在报告肌肉骨骼科学实验室工作的期刊之中。

History

• The journal was founded in 1930 by a group of Scandinavian orthopaedic surgeons who wanted an outlet for Nordic research with an international audience.该刊由一群斯堪的纳维亚骨科外科医生创办于 1930 年，他们希望为北欧研究打开一个面向国际读者的出口。

• It ran from 1930 to 2004 under a Scandinavian title, abbreviated Acta Orthop Scand, and the catalogue record gives its run as volume 1 in 1930 to volume 75 number 6 in December 2004.它以带斯堪的纳维亚字样的刊名从 1930 年办到 2004 年，编目缩略作 Acta Orthop Scand，记录显示其自 1930 年第 1 卷至 2004 年 12 月第 75 卷第 6 期。

• Volume numbering was never restarted, so the volume that appeared in 2005 continued the count of the Scandinavian years and the sequence still runs unbroken today.卷号从未重排，2005 年出版的那一卷直接接续斯堪的纳维亚时期的计数，这条序列至今未曾中断。

• In 2005 the title was shortened to its present form, and the journal took the print ISSN 1745-3674 with the electronic ISSN 1745-3682.2005 年刊名缩短为现在的形式，并启用印刷 ISSN 1745-3674 与电子 ISSN 1745-3682。

• The Copenhagen publisher Munksgaard printed the Scandinavian years, and the imprint moved to Basingstoke in England when Taylor and Francis took the journal over in 2005.斯堪的纳维亚时期由哥本哈根的 Munksgaard 印行，2005 年 Taylor and Francis 接手后印地移到英格兰的 Basingstoke。

• From 2022 the journal is published by Medical Journals Sweden in Uppsala, while the Taylor and Francis site still carries the volumes and the archive.自 2022 年起该刊由乌普萨拉的 Medical Journals Sweden 出版，而 Taylor and Francis 的站点仍承载各卷与档案。

• From volume 93 in 2022 the journal publishes articles as they are accepted and gathers them into one annual volume, after six issues a year up to volume 92 in 2021.自 2022 年的第 93 卷起，文章录用即发表并汇成一卷年刊，此前到 2021 年第 92 卷为止每年出六期。

• It has been an open access title since 2005, when it was set up as a platinum journal that charged authors nothing, and it still publishes open access articles only.自 2005 年起它就是开放获取刊物，当时按白金模式运作、不向作者收费，如今也只刊发开放获取文章。

• Since the move to Uppsala an article processing charge of EUR 2,400 has been levied on original articles, reviews and educationals, while editorials and letters stay free.迁到乌普萨拉之后，原创论文、综述与教育性文章需缴 2400 欧元的文章处理费，社论与致编辑的信仍然免费。

• A ninety year anniversary article in 2020 looked back on the first volume and on the place of Nordic orthopaedic surgery in the making of the speciality.2020 年一篇九十周年纪念文章回顾了创刊卷，也回顾了北欧骨科手术在学科形成过程中所占的位置。^[2]

• The medical library catalogue lists the journal as the official publication of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation, and the national medical library also records the older supplement series under the same numbering.医学图书馆的编目把该刊列为北欧骨科联合会的官方出版物，国家医学图书馆同时把早期增刊系列记在同一套编号之下。

• The supplement issue number 315 is also called volume 76, which is the clearest sign that the numbering of the parent journal carried straight through the change of title.第 315 号增刊同时被称作第 76 卷，这正是母刊卷号在更名时直接接续的明证。

• The journal used to appear as a bimonthly in the Scandinavian years, and the supplement series ran under its own numbering from number 315 in 2005 until it closed in 2015.在斯堪的纳维亚时期该刊为双月刊，增刊系列自 2005 年第 315 号起单独编号，至 2015 年停刊。

• The whole run since 1930 can be read online without charge, and the publisher backfilled digital object identifiers for the older volumes down to the 1960s.自 1930 年起的全部卷次都可在线免费阅读，出版方还为 1960 年代起的旧卷补录了数字对象标识符。

• The published record shows a steady output in recent years, with about a hundred papers appearing in each annual volume.出版记录显示近年的产量相当稳定，每一年度卷大致刊出一百篇论文。

• The print run was carried for two decades from a Copenhagen address, and the catalogued imprint still reads Copenhagen with the Munksgaard name.纸质版由哥本哈根的地址承印了二十年，编目中的印地至今仍写着哥本哈根与 Munksgaard 的名字。

Editors

• The editor in chief is (Søren Overgaard), who works in the department of orthopaedic surgery and traumatology at Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg and in the department of clinical medicine at the University of Copenhagen.主编是（Søren Overgaard），就职于哥本哈根 Bispebjerg 医院的骨科与创伤外科部门，以及哥本哈根大学的临床医学系。

• A deputy editor, (Li Felländer-Tsai), sits at the division of orthopedics and biotechnology of the Karolinska Institutet and at the department of trauma, emergency surgery and orthopedics of the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.副主编（Li Felländer-Tsai）来自斯德哥尔摩的卡罗琳斯卡医学院骨科与生物技术专业，以及卡罗琳斯卡大学医院的创伤与急诊外科部门。

• A co editor with special responsibility for society matters is (Aleksi Reito) of the centre for musculoskeletal diseases at Tampere University Hospital and the Coxa hospital for joint replacement in Finland.兼任学会事务的共同编辑（Aleksi Reito）来自芬兰坦佩雷大学医院的肌肉骨骼疾病中心与 Coxa 关节置换医院。

• Ten subject editors carry the fields of the journal. (Paul Gerdhem) covers spine at Uppsala, (Taco Gosens) covers upper limb and hip work in the Netherlands, and (Ilkka Helenius) covers paediatrics in Helsinki.学科编辑共十位，各有分管方向。（Paul Gerdhem）负责乌普萨拉的脊柱方向，（Taco Gosens）负责荷兰的上肢与髋部工作，（Ilkka Helenius）负责赫尔辛基的小儿骨科。

• (Ivan Hvid) covers paediatrics, lower extremity and experimental orthopaedics in Oslo, (Keijo Mäkelä) covers hip and knee arthroplasty in Turku, and (Per-Henrik Randsborg) covers knee, sports, arthroscopy and arthroplasty in Oslo.（Ivan Hvid）负责奥斯陆的小儿骨科、下肢与实验骨科，（Keijo Mäkelä）负责图尔库的髋膝关节置换，（Per-Henrik Randsborg）负责奥斯陆的膝部与运动医学，也管关节镜与关节置换。

• (Jeppe Vejlgaard Rasmussen) covers shoulder and elbow in Copenhagen, (Cecilia Rogmark) covers trauma in Malmö, (Bart Pijls) covers hip, knee and foot and ankle in Leiden, and (Marianne Westberg) covers infection and arthroplasty in Oslo.（Jeppe Vejlgaard Rasmussen）负责哥本哈根的肩肘方向，（Cecilia Rogmark）负责马尔默的创伤，（Bart Pijls）负责莱顿的髋、膝与足踝，（Marianne Westberg）负责奥斯陆的感染与关节置换。

• Two statistical editors, (Robin Christensen) of the section for biostatistics and evidence based research in Copenhagen and (Philippe Wagner) of the centre for clinical research in Västmanland, complete the team.统计编辑两位，分别是哥本哈根生物统计与循证研究部门的（Robin Christensen）与韦斯特曼兰临床研究中心的（Philippe Wagner）。

• Production is handled by (Kaj Knutson) in Lund, and the board of the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation is linked from the editorial team page.出版事务由隆德的（Kaj Knutson）负责，编辑团队页面直接链接到北欧骨科联合会的理事会。

• The journal receives about 600 manuscripts a year and accepts around a fifth of them, and most submissions are turned away at the desk within a day or two.该刊每年收到约 600 份稿件，接受比例约五分之一，多数投稿在一两天内由编辑部直接退回。

• Of the manuscripts that do go out for review, about a tenth is rejected after review, and the mean time from submission to acceptance is about five months.进入外审的稿件约有一成在评审后被拒，从投稿到录用的平均时长约五个月。

• Once a paper is accepted the publishing manager and the editor in chief or the deputy editor take it through copy editing, and the article goes online and into PubMed within two to three weeks.稿件录用后由出版经理与主编或副主编做文字编辑，两三周内文章即上线并进入 PubMed。

• The review model is open, with both sides disclosed, which is why the publisher describes it as a single blind policy while the journal itself stresses the transparency of the process.评审采取开放方式、双方身份互相公开，出版方因此将其表述为单盲政策，刊物本身则强调评审过程的透明度。

• Article types are fixed in the instructions, and authors are told which reporting standards to follow for randomised trials, cohort studies, registry studies, systematic reviews and meta analyses.投稿指南固定了文章类型，并要求作者按相应规范报告随机对照试验与队列研究，也覆盖注册研究，系统综述与荟萃分析。

• The journal insists on confidence intervals rather than bare significance tests, and it warns that a statistically significant result need not be clinically important.刊物主张报告置信区间而非孤立的显著性检验，并提醒统计显著并不等于临床重要。

• Authors at institutions in Sweden, Finland and Norway can publish without charge under the consortia agreements the publisher has signed with national library services.瑞典、芬兰与挪威的机构作者可依据出版方与各国图书馆服务签署的联盟协议免费刊发。

• The publisher also follows the HINARI waiver policy for developing countries, and members of the Nordic federation may apply for a waiver of the charge on acceptance.出版方对发展中国家沿用 HINARI 减免政策，北欧联合会成员也可在录用后申请减免费用。