Open Access
This journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University.The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University retains copyright of the overall compiled journal and the compiled issues. The article is universally and freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity, in an easily readable format immediately after publication.
To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The open access publication fee for this journal is USD 900, plus taxes. All APCs for articles submitted to the journal before the 31 December 2024 will be fully waived.
Peer review under the responsibility of Editorial Board of Intelligent Surgery.
Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.
User Rights
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following Creative Commons user licenses.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.
Publishing Schedule
Prior to 2023, this journal publishes 5 times a year. From 2023, this journal publishes continuously throughout the year.
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Editorial Office intsurg@126.com