The Indian Journal of Surgery is the official publication of the Association of Surgeons of India. More than 30,000 members of the Association have access to full articles and there are large number of subscribers worldwide for this Journal.

The Journal is a hybrid journal published by Springer Nature. It offers a wide spectrum of high-quality, double-blind peer reviewed articles both online and in-print and has a large readership with network of subscribers. It has global presence with active participation by over 45 countries. It publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, surgical technique and innovation, case reports & images, consensus documents, views and opinions, biographies of influential teachers and surgeons and letters to editor.

The Journal spans general surgery, gastro-intestinal surgery, minimal access surgery, surgical oncology, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, trauma & emergency surgery, rural surgery, low-cost innovations, experimental surgery, surgical education and academic surgery. To some extent we also publish articles on plastic surgery, urology, pediatric surgery, radiology, anesthesiology, orthopedics, ENT, maxillofacial surgery etc. surgical practice and research. This makes it an overall rounded reading for wide range of practicing surgeons especially general surgeons. This has allowed the Indian Journal of Surgery becoming popular day-by-day.

The Journal provides a forum for surgeons from India and abroad to exchange ideas, to propagate the advancement of science and the art of surgery and to promote friendship among surgeons in India and abroad. This has been a trusted platform for surgeons in communicating up-to-date scientific information to the community.
Peer Review
Indian Journal of Surgery – IJOS is stringent on quality of peer review (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-022-03315-5). The improved double- blind peer review process and a detail peer review mostly given within 40 days of arrival of manuscript has resulted in 3 times increase in the number of manuscripts now being submitted for publication. A large number of authors and contributors repeatedly thank the reviewers and editors for helping them in revising the manuscripts. All articles including editorials are submitted online by the authors. Technical scrutiny is done at the Springer Journal Editorial Office (JEO). Then the manuscript is forwarded to Editor-in-Chief. IJoS processes 20-25 new submissions each week which makes it to approximately 2500 manuscripts a year. We have a policy of manuscript triage, approximately a 3rd of manuscript can be rejected prima-facie, another 1/3rd of manuscripts are rejected after due diligence of a peer review process. Our effort remains to give enough justification before we reject a manuscript. Majority manuscripts get 2 or more revisions, less than 1% manuscript are prima-facie accepted and copy edited. We provide up to level II copy editing. From time to time we educate our reviewers and request them to provide a structured review. If the research question is relevant and the methodology used to answer the research question is correct we handhold the researcher to improve the manuscript even if takes 4 or 5 revisions. There is now a well-oiled process of peer review in place. There is a reviewer fatigue and we constantly induct new reviewers in our list which now has over 1500 content and methodology experts. The turn-around time has come down much to the satisfaction of authors.

List of Office Bearers & Executive Committee Members 2016-18
Dilip S. Gode, Nagpur
President - 2018
Shiva K Misra, Kanpur
Immediate Past President
Arvind Kumar
President elect, New Delhi
J W Ebenesh Bensam, Nagercoil
Honorary Secretary - 2018
Sanjay Kumar Jain, Bhopal
Honorary Treasurer - 2018
T Narayana Rao, Vishakhapatnam
In Charge Website - 2018
Abhay Narendra Dalvi, Mumbai
In Charge Office Administration – 2018
Executive Committee Members - 2016-18
T Narayana Rao, Vishakhapatnam
Ramana Murthy P V, Vijayawada
Vakamudi Prakash, Nellore
Sarbeswar Bora, Nagaon
Sitaram Prasad Singh, Sitamarhi
Alok Abhijit, Patna
Bindey Kumar, Patna
Siddharth Tamaskar, Raipur
Srivastava K N, New Delhi
Rana Anil Kumar Singh, New Delhi
Bharat K. Panchal, Ahmedabad
Gunvant H. Rathod, Ahmedabad
Pankaj R. Modi, Ahmedabad
Bharadwaj S S, Bhiwani
Fazlul Qadir Parray, Srinagar
Satish Kumar Midha, Ranchi
Aravind Patel, Bellary
Sadashivayya Soppimath, Hubli
Godhi A S, Belagavi
Siddesh G, Mysore
Padmakumar R, Cochin
Fazil Marickar Y M, Trivandrum
Karthikeyan C, Trivandrum
Sanjay Kumar Jain, Bhopal
Achal Gupta, Gwalior
Mukesh Shrivastava, Jabalpur
Abhay Narendra Dalvi, Mumbai
Jaisingh K. Shinde, Pune
Manoj S. Jain, Solapur
Chitta Ranjan Das, Bhubaneswar
Sreejoy Patnaik, Cuttack
Ujagar Singh Dhaliwal, Amritsar
Chanjiv Singh, Amritsar
Raj Govind Sharma, Jaipur
Raj Kamal Jenaw, Jaipur
Shyam Bhutra, Ajmer
Ebenesh Bensam J W, Nagercoil
Sai Krishna Vittal, Chennai
Srinivasan N T, Kovilpatti
Subrammaniyan S R, Chennai
Laxmana Sastry G, Hyderabad
PrasadC R K, Hyderabad
Kanaka Raju G, Kothagudem
Janme Jai Prasad Sharma, Dehradun
Probal Neogi, Allahabad
Nikhil Singh, Lucknow
Ashutosh Sayana, Haldwani
Gargi Bandyopadhyay, Kolkata
Diptendra Kumar Sarkar, Kolkata
Makhan Lal Saha, Kolkata
Sectional Representatives - 2018
S K Jain, New Delhi
President – The Association of Thoracic & Vascular Surgeons of India
Winston Noronha, Chennai
President – Indian Association of Traumatology & Critical Care
Bipin Puri, New Delhi
President – Association of Armed Forces Surgeons
Co-Opted EC Members - 2018
Jayant (Naraina) V Bhandare, Panaji
Chairman - Goa State Chapter of ASI
Kh Palin, Imphal
Chairman - Manipur State Chapter of ASI
Pradip Sarkar, Agartala
Chairman - Tripura State Chapter of ASI
G RVerma, Chandigarh
Northern Chapter of ASI
Somnath Ghosh, Howrah
West Bengal State Chapter of ASI
C K Durga, New Delhi
Delhi State Chapter of ASI
Shyam Singla, Rohtak
Haryana State Chapter of ASI
Pravin Suryawanshi, Aurangabad
Maharashtra State Chapter of ASI
Editorial Board
Sandeep Kumar, MS FRCS (Edinburgh) PhD (Wales) MMSc (Newcastle)
Chairman/Editor-in-chief
Consultant Surgeon, Scientist and Epidemiologist
Professor and Founder Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, India
Chintamani
Imm. Past Chairman Editor
Editors
Mallika Tewari, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India
Editorial Board Members
Clement Shirodkar Rajan, Bangalore
Deborshi Sharma, New Delhi
G Laxmana Sastry, Hyderabad
Arunima Verma, Ranchi
Vikram Kate, Pondichery
International Editorial Co-ordinators
Sankar Narayan (UK)
Saumitra Rawat (India)
Overseas Editorial Advisors
Vijay Mittal, USA
Sankar Narayanan, UK
David Rew, UK
Abe Fingerhut, France
Nadey Hakim, UK
Davide Lomanto, Singapore
Rocco Marutti, Italy
Marc Miserez, Belgium
Adel F. Ramzy, Egypt
Jatin Shah, US
A.P.S. Sogani, USA
Statistical Committee
Chairman: Arun Chaturvedi (Lucknow)
Ethical Committee
Chairman: BN Mohanti
Members: Haribhai L Patel, AK Khanna, Chiranjiv Khandelwal
Sectional Representatives 2016
Dr. Anil M Thakar, Pune (AGUSI)
Dr.G. Suresh ChandraHari, Secunderabad (AMASI)
Dr. Kishore Panjwani, Agra (IAPS)
Sectional Editors
Rasik S. Shah (IAPS)
C. Palanivelu (AMASI)
M.R. Thatte (APSI)
Winston Noronha (IATCC)
Usha R Dalal (ATCVSI)
MNKamaludeen (Endocrine Surgeons) IAES
Surg. Cmde C Sudeep Naidu (IASG)
Haribhai L. Patel (AGUSI)
Surg, Capt N Roy (AFMC)
SP Somshekhar (ABSI)