Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Journal of the American College of Surgeons is a surgery journal and the official publication of the American College of Surgeons, published by Wolters Kluwer.《Journal of the American College of Surgeons》是一份外科学期刊，也是美国外科医师学会的官方刊物，由威科出版。

Its line began in 1905, and the present name dates from 1994, when a title on surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics was given the name of the college.该刊血脉始于 1905 年，现名始于 1994 年，当时一份关于外科、妇科与产科的刊物被冠以该学会之名。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.2, and it stands in the first quartile of surgery.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.2，在外科学类目列第一区。

Scope

• The journal takes surgery as its subject, and it carries work on the whole range of the field.该刊以外科学为题材，刊载覆盖该领域全范围的工作。

• Original scientific articles are the main offering, and the journal publishes accounts of a study that bears on care.原创科学论文是主要内容，该刊发表关系到照护的研究记述。

• Collective reviews are named, and the journal carries a survey that weighs a body of evidence.综合综述被点名，该刊刊载权衡一批证据的述评。

• Experimental investigation is treated, and the journal admits work from the laboratory where it bears on an operation.实验研究得到处理，该刊收载关系到手术的实验室工作。

• Clinical trials are named, and the journal takes work on how an operation or a device is tested against a comparison.临床试验被点名，该刊收载手术或器械如何对照参比受检验的工作。

• Surgical technique is treated, and the journal carries work on how a procedure is done and how it is taught.手术技术得到处理，该刊刊载术式如何施行、如何教授的工作。

• Quality and safety are named, and the journal admits work on how a standard of care is measured and raised.质量与安全被点名，该刊收载照护标准如何被衡量与提升的工作。

• Outcomes research is part of the remit, and the journal takes work on what a treatment does for a patient over time.结局研究属于收稿范围，该刊收载治疗随时间对患者做了何事的工作。

• Trauma and acute care are named, and the journal carries work on how an injured patient is handled.创伤与急症照护被点名，该刊刊载受伤患者如何被处置的工作。

• Surgical oncology is treated, and the journal admits work on how a tumour is removed and what follows.肿瘤外科得到处理，该刊收载肿瘤如何被切除、其后又如何的工作。

• Transplantation is named, and the journal carries work on how an organ is placed and how it is kept.移植被点名，该刊刊载器官如何被植入、如何被维持的工作。

• Minimally invasive surgery is treated, and the journal takes work on what a smaller incision buys and costs.微创外科得到处理，该刊收载更小切口换得何物、又付出何物的工作。

• Education and training are part of the remit, and the journal carries work on how a surgeon is made.教育与培训属于收稿范围，该刊刊载外科医生如何被培养的工作。

• Health services research is named, and the journal admits work on how a system of surgical care is organised.卫生服务研究被点名，该刊收载外科照护系统如何被组织的工作。

• The journal is meant to serve the practising surgeon, and it takes work that speaks to someone at the operating table.该刊意在服务执业外科医生，收载面向手术台边之人的工作。

History

• The line began in 1905, when a surgeon in Chicago put out a journal of surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics.该血脉始于 1905 年，当时芝加哥的一位外科医生推出了一份外科、妇科与产科刊物。

• That journal was bound up with the founding of a college of surgeons, and it helped draw the first clinical congresses of the field.那份刊物与一家外科医师学会的创办紧密相连，并助力召集了该领域最初几次临床大会。

• In 1994 the journal was given the name of the college, and the volume number ran on across the change.1994 年该刊被冠以该学会之名，卷号在更名前后一路接续。

• A volume is published for each year, and the series had reached volume 243 by 2026.该刊每年出版一卷，到 2026 年已出至第 243 卷。

• The journal was issued from Chicago and then from New York, and it is now published from Philadelphia.该刊先自芝加哥、再自纽约发行，如今自费城出版。

• Twelve issues are gathered into a year in the present arrangement, and the journal keeps a monthly rhythm.按现行安排该刊每年汇集十二期，保持月刊节奏。

• Articles are published online ahead of an issue, so that a paper may appear before the issue it is assigned to.论文先于某一期在线发表，因而一篇论文可以在其所归的某一期之前出现。

• A continuing education section runs alongside the articles, and a reader may claim credit for it.该刊与论文并列设有一个继续教育栏目，读者可就此申请学分。

• The journal is hybrid, and an author may pay a charge to make a paper free to read or leave it behind a subscription.该刊为混合模式，作者可以缴费使论文免费阅读，也可以留其在订阅之后。

• The impact figure surpassed six in the early 2020s, and it has since eased to 3.2 in the 2025 edition.影响因子在 2020 年代初曾超过六，此后回落，2025 年版为 3.2。

• The journal is indexed in the science citation index expanded, and it is carried in MEDLINE and in PubMed.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，并被 MEDLINE 与 PubMed 收录。

• It is also listed in the abridged index medicus, a short list of the journals a library is expected to hold.该刊亦被《简编医学索引》收录，那是一份图书馆应订阅刊物的短名单。

• A collection is assembled around a subject from time to time, and the journal gathers work on a single theme.该刊不时围绕某一题目编成合集，汇集关于单一主题的工作。

Editors

• Thomas K. Varghese Jr of the University of Utah is editor-in-chief, and his own field is general thoracic surgery.犹他大学的（Thomas K. Varghese Jr）担任主编，其本人领域为普通胸外科。

• He works on quality and value in surgical care, and he took the office from a predecessor in the field.他研究外科照护中的质量与价值，从前任手中接任此职。

• A body of associate editors and an editorial board are drawn by subject, and the journal names members from institutions across the country.一组副编辑与一个编委会按学科遴选，该刊列出全国各机构的成员。

• The journal sets out the classes of manuscript it takes, along with the length and structure each of them should follow.该刊列明所收稿件的类别，以及各类别应遵循的篇幅与结构。

• Each paper is sent to independent referees, and the review is anonymous on the side of the reviewer.每篇论文送交独立审稿人，评审在审稿人一侧为匿名。

• Authors must declare any competing interest, and the journal states its ethical requirements in full.作者必须声明任何利益冲突，该刊完整说明其伦理要求。

• Work that involves patients is held to the usual standards, and the journal asks that consent and approval be recorded.涉及患者的研究须达到惯常标准，该刊要求记录知情同意与批准情况。

• Clinical trials are asked to give their registration, and a reporting checklist is required for each class of study.临床试验须给出注册信息，每一类研究都要求提交报告清单。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's system, and the editorial office may be contacted before submission.稿件通过出版方的系统投递，编辑部可在投稿前联系。

• The journal is read by surgeons and by surgical trainees, by anaesthetists and by health services researchers, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有外科医生与外科受训者，也有麻醉医生与卫生服务研究者，它为这几类人写作。

• Work that weighs an operation against its alternatives is given room, and the journal asks what the weighing changes.把某一手术与其余可选方案相权衡的工作有篇幅可用，该刊追问这一权衡改变了什么。

• Studies that report a negative result are taken, since an operation that failed to help patients is worth recording.报告阴性结果的研究也在收载之列，因为无助于患者的手术同样值得记录。

• Work on a postoperative complication appears among the subjects, and the journal carries papers on how it is foreseen and met.术后并发症方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊刊载其如何被预见与应对的论文。

• Work on an enhanced recovery pathway is treated, and the journal admits papers on how a patient is brought back to activity sooner.加速康复路径方面的工作得到处理，该刊收载患者如何更快恢复活动的工作。

• The journal keeps its reviews distinct from its original articles, and a reader can tell from the rubric which is which.该刊把综述与原创论文区分开来，读者可从栏目看出何者为何者。

• Work on a robot assisted operation is named, and the journal asks what the machine adds to the outcome.机器人辅助手术方面的工作被点名，该刊追问机器为结局增添了何物。

• Work on a national registry is treated, and the journal carries papers on what a large set of operations shows.全国登记库方面的工作得到处理，该刊刊载一批规模可观的手术显示了何物的论文。

• Work on the cost of an operation is named, and the journal admits papers on what a procedure buys for the money.手术成本方面的工作被点名，该刊收载某术式以何等花费换得何物的论文。

• Work on a disparity in access to care is treated, and the journal asks who receives an operation and who does not.照护可及性差异方面的工作得到处理，该刊追问谁接受了手术、谁没有。

• The journal follows the publisher's policy on research integrity, and it records corrections and withdrawals where they arise.该刊遵循出版方的研究诚信政策，出现更正与撤稿时予以记录。