The Role of Pneumonectomy in Thoracic Surgery in The Third Millennium

This series of the Shanghai Chest journal aimed to describe the risks and indications of pneumonectomies in the third millennium in the light of innovative technologies and new therapies. Also, standard, intrapericardial and extrapleural pneumonectomies have been described by outleading authors along with indications for the procedures. In this perspective, the different items are not an all-encompassing reviews, but they contain the highlights along with the essential references for additional readings.

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A New Era in Lung Cancer Care: from Early Diagnosis to Personalized Treatment

This focused issue aims to include the innovations in the field, so as to provide comprehensive and deep thinking about lung cancer care to specialists all around the world, which we hope will also be conducive to patients as well as the growth of young surgeons.

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AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

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SHC Annual Report (2019)

Greetings from Dr. Changqing Pan, Dr. G. Alexander Patterson, Dr. Gaetano Rocco and Editorial Office of Shanghai Chest (SHC)!

In 2019, with joint effort and support from all contributors, SHC made steady progress with publication of 70 articles, among which there’re 31 Review and Original Articles. Authors were mainly from Italy, China and USA. According to the Google Analytics, SHC enjoyed an increasing number of pageviews (all together 60,617 and visitors about 24,098 worldwide, mainly from USA). Moreover, the latest annual report of thoracic surgery service at Shanghai Chest Hospital was also been published in the special column. For more details, please check at the following report.

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Implementation of transparent peer review at Shanghai Chest (SHC)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to SHC from March 19, 2020.

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Application of the CARE Guideline as reporting standard in Shanghai Chest

Shanghai Chest welcomes case reports which are supposed to report new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in the fields of medicine.

For completeness and transparency for published case reports, Shanghai Chest will apply the CARE guidelines (1) as reporting standards for case reports starting from October 14, 2019.

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Complications of Thoracic Surgery: Aetiology, Management and Prevention (Ongoing)

This focused issue on “Complications of Thoracic Surgery – Aetiology, Management and Prevention” is edited by Dr. David Waller from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.

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2018 annual report of thoracic surgery service at Shanghai Chest Hospital

In 2018, 58 surgeons, including 23 attending surgeons and 35 clinical fellows and residents performed 14,054 cases of thoracic surgeries, including 11,958 pulmonary procedures, 866 esophageal procedures, 957 mediastinal procedures, 45 trachea procedures, and 7 lung transplantations, increased by 13.9% compared with the previous year.

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