Bone & Joint Open

Bone & Joint Open is a gold open access journal that The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery owns and publishes. It was launched in January 2020 and carries clinically relevant papers across every orthopaedic and trauma specialty through a continuous publication model. Its 2026 impact factor is 3.3.《骨与关节开放》是英国骨与关节外科编辑学会拥有并出版的一份金色开放获取期刊。该刊 2020 年 1 月创刊，以连续出版的方式刊发覆盖各骨科与创伤专业的临床相关论文。其 2026 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• The journal publishes high-quality clinically relevant papers across all orthopaedic and trauma specialties.该刊刊发覆盖全部骨科与创伤专业的高质量临床相关论文。

• It aims at rapid publication of research across a range of disciplines through a continuous publication model, and it is fully compliant with the plan for open access to research publications.该刊以连续出版的方式追求研究在多个学科方向的快速发表，并完全符合科研出版物开放获取计划的要求。

• The readership it names takes in clinicians, researchers and care teams within the orthopaedic and trauma specialty.该刊给出的读者对象包括骨科与创伤专业内的临床医师，研究者与照护团队。

• Papers that offer clinically relevant orthopaedic information are considered, while case reports, concurrent submission to several journals and redundant material are not accepted.提供临床相关骨科信息的论文会被受理，而病例报告，同时投给多家期刊的稿件与冗余材料不被接受。

• There is a limit of eight authors, and each author must have contributed significantly to design, to data acquisition or to the analysis and interpretation of data.作者人数上限为八位，每位作者都必须在研究设计，数据获取或数据分析和解释中作出实质贡献。

• Individuals who contributed to only one section of a manuscript or supplied only cases are credited in the acknowledgements rather than as authors.仅参与稿件某一部分或仅提供病例的个人，在致谢中列出，而不会列为作者。

• Authors are asked to declare their roles on the title page in line with the contributor roles taxonomy, and to add an identifier from the open researcher and contributor registry where they have one.该刊要求作者按贡献者角色分类法在标题页申报各自分工，并在已有时提供开放研究者与贡献者身份登记库的标识符。

• All papers deemed suitable go through a double-blind peer review process.所有被认为适合评审的稿件都要经过双盲同行评审。

• Accepted papers are produced to high standards by the same in-house team that handles The Bone & Joint Journal and Bone & Joint Research, and an accelerated editorial process allows rapid online publication.被接收的稿件由同一支内部团队按高标准制作，处理《The Bone & Joint Journal》与《Bone & Joint Research》的也是这支团队，加速的编辑流程使论文能迅速在线发表。

• The journal is indexed in the public medical archive, the directory of open access journals, the science citation index, Scopus, Scite, Ovid, Crossref, CrossMark, Publons, Portico and Sherpa Romeo.该刊被公共医学档案，开放获取期刊目录，科学引文索引，Scopus，Scite，Ovid，Crossref，CrossMark，Publons，Portico 与 Sherpa Romeo 收录。

• Its keyword range covers orthopaedics, trauma and musculoskeletal disorders.其关键词范围覆盖骨科，创伤与肌肉骨骼疾患。

• Open access articles appear under a Creative Commons attribution licence or one of two more restrictive share-alike variants, and authors keep the copyright.开放获取文章以知识共享署名许可或其两种限制更多的同类变体之一发表，著作权仍归作者。

• Monthly tables of contents are sent by email, and the journal runs an account on the social platform X.该刊按月通过电子邮件发送目录，并在社交平台 X 上运营账号。

• A submission is expected to be original, not under consideration elsewhere, and written and revised by every listed author, each of whom must approve the final version.来稿须为原创，不得同时投给其他刊物，且由每一位署名作者参与撰写与修改，并各自认可最终版本。

• A research group may be listed as the author of an article under the journal's research group authorship policy.按照该刊的研究小组署名政策，一个研究小组可以作为文章的作者署名。

• Articles carry digital object identifiers, and the journal uses CrossMark to record any update to a published paper.文章带有数字对象标识符，该刊使用 CrossMark 记录已发表论文的更新。

History

• The journal was launched in January 2020, and its first issue is dated volume 1 number 1 of that month.该刊于 2020 年 1 月创刊，创刊号标注为该月的第 1 卷第 1 期。

• It is owned and published by The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery, a registered charity.该刊由英国骨与关节外科编辑学会拥有并出版，该学会是一家注册慈善机构。

• The society was established with the object of advancing and improving education in orthopaedic surgery and allied branches and of spreading knowledge of new methods of teaching and practising the specialty.该学会的宗旨是推进并改进骨科手术及相关分支的教育，并传播本专业教学与实践新方法的知识。

• As part of its charitable remit the society supports several orthopaedic fellowships with financial donations, among them the ABC fellowship and a travelling fellowship run with the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.作为慈善职责的一部分，学会以捐赠支持若干骨科研究金，其中有 ABC 研究金，以及与国家骨科与创伤学会联合会合作设立的访问研究金。

• The journal carries the single online number 2633-1462 in the serials records, so it appears only in electronic form.在连续出版物记录中，该刊只有电子刊号 2633-1462，因此仅以电子形式出版。

• It comes out every month, and October 2026 is volume 7 number 10, so that each year makes up one volume.该刊每月出版，2026 年 10 月为第 7 卷第 10 期，因此每年构成一卷。

• The 2026 impact factor stands at 3.3, and the five-year figure is 3.2.该刊 2026 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子为 3.2。

• The serials record dates the run from 2020 and places the journal in the United Kingdom.连续出版物记录把该刊的出版起始定在 2020 年，并把它列在英国名下。

• Articles are published open access on payment of an article processing charge, and the journal's archive browser covers the 2020s.文章在支付文章处理费后以开放获取方式发表，该刊的存档浏览器覆盖 2020 年代。

• The editorial office sits at 22 Buckingham Street in London.编辑部位于伦敦的白金汉街 22 号。

• The journal belongs to a family that also contains The Bone & Joint Journal and Bone & Joint Research, which share its publishing staff.该刊属于一个还包含《The Bone & Joint Journal》与《Bone & Joint Research》的系列，这些刊物共用同一套出版人员。

• The directory of open access journals records the journal with an open access start in 2020 and preservation through the public medical archive and Portico.开放获取期刊目录收录该刊，记录其开放获取始于 2020 年，并通过公共医学档案与 Portico 做长期保存。

• The society's London office also runs an advertising service, a librarian information page and reprints and permissions services for its titles.该学会的伦敦办公室还为旗下刊物提供广告服务，图书馆员信息页面以及转载与授权服务。

Editors

• (Fares S. Haddad) of University College London Hospitals in the United Kingdom is editor-in-chief.（Fares S. Haddad）任职于伦敦大学学院医院，是该刊主编。

• (Nick Clement) and (Andrew Duckworth) of the University of Edinburgh serve as specialty editors.（Nick Clement）与（Andrew Duckworth）任职于爱丁堡大学，担任专科编辑。

• (Matt Costa) of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at Oxford is associate editor for research methods.（Matt Costa）任职于牛津的纳菲尔德骨科，风湿病与肌肉骨骼科学系，担任研究方法方向的副编辑。

• (David L. Limb) of the University of Leeds is associate editor for education.（David L. Limb）任职于利兹大学，担任教育方向的副编辑。

• (Alistair Ross) of the Royal United Hospital in Bath is associate editor for post-publication debate.（Alistair Ross）任职于巴斯的皇家联合医院，担任发表后讨论方向的副编辑。

• (Zsolt Balogh) of the University of Newcastle in Australia sits on the board.（Zsolt Balogh）任职于澳大利亚的纽卡斯尔大学，是编委会成员。

• (Michael Dunbar) of Dalhousie University in Halifax represents Canada on the board.（Michael Dunbar）任职于哈利法克斯的达尔豪斯大学，在编委会中代表加拿大。

• (Sébastien Lustig) of the Lyon North University Hospital represents France.（Sébastien Lustig）任职于里昂北方大学医院，代表法国。

• (Carsten Perka) of the Charité medical school in Berlin represents Germany.（Carsten Perka）任职于柏林的夏里特医学院，代表德国。

• (Ajay Puri) of the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai represents India.（Ajay Puri）任职于孟买的塔塔纪念医院，代表印度。

• The board draws its members from the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, Indonesia, France, Germany, India, New Zealand and South Africa.编委会成员来自英国，澳大利亚，美国，加拿大，印度尼西亚，法国，德国，印度，新西兰与南非。

• The management team comprises (Richard Hollingsworth) as managing director, (Emma Vodden) as director of publishing and (Emma Nankervis) as head of marketing and sales, with all of them based in the central London office.管理团队由担任总经理的（Richard Hollingsworth），担任出版总监的（Emma Vodden）与担任市场与销售主管的（Emma Nankervis）组成，三人都常驻伦敦市中心办公室。

• The board also covers trauma, paediatric orthopaedics and the hip and knee subspecialties through members based in several countries.编委会还通过分布多国的成员覆盖创伤，儿童骨科以及髋膝关节等亚专科。

• A member of the board serves as editor-in-chief of the companion title Bone & Joint 360.编委会中有一位成员担任姊妹刊《Bone & Joint 360》的主编。

• The specialty and associate editors cover research methods, education and post-publication debate, so that the journal speaks to methodology as well as to clinical content.专科编辑与副编辑分别负责研究方法，教育与发表后讨论，使该刊既面向临床内容，也面向方法学。