SHC Annual Report 2022

In 2022, with joint effort and support from all contributors, SHC made steady progress with publication of 39 articles with diverse article types. Authors were mainly from Italy, China, UK, USA and Japan. According to the Google Analytics, SHC enjoyed an increasing number of pageviews (all together 138,967 and visitors about 78,375 worldwide, mainly from USA). For more details, please check at the following report.

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Reviewer of the Month (2021)

Over the year, many SHC reviewers have made outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

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Shanghai Chest (SHC) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Shanghai Chest (SHC) is among the list of COPE membership.

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Thoracic Surgery in High Risk Patients

Overall, we feel that these articles provide a comprehensive overview of the major topics and important considerations when managing high-risk patients being considered for thoracic surgery.

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Lung Cancer Screening

This special series in Shanghai Chest on lung cancer screening provides insights form renowned experts in their field to important aspects of lung cancer screening going beyond just scanning persons at risk.

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Simulation-Based Education in Cardiac And Thoracic Surgery (Ongoing)

The series on “Simulation-Based Education In Cardiac And Thoracic Surgery” is edited by Prof. Leizl Joy Nayahangan from Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation(Denmark), Prof. Lars Konge from Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation(Denmark) and Prof. René Horsleben Petersen from Copenhagen University Hospital (Denmark).

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Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (Ongoing)

The series on “Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma” is edited by Prof. Wickii T. Vigneswaran from Loyola University Health System (USA).

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Complications of Thoracic Surgery – Aetiology, Management and Prevention

This series is designed to discuss several complications of thoracic surgery including aetiology, management and prevention. In this issue, we review recent literature, provides expert insight into current practice, and also identifies future directions.

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Minimally Invasive Esophageal Surgery

Endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery has revolutionized the interventions for all surgical esophageal disorders. Most surgical trainees in United States graduate with minimal open esophageal surgery experience, especially for elective benign conditions.

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SHC Annual Report 2021

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

In 2021, with joint effort and support from all contributors, SHC made steady progress with publication of 45 articles with diverse article types. Authors were mainly from USA, UK , Italy, Germany, and Belgium. According to the Google Analytics, SHC enjoyed an increasing number of pageviews (all together 100,061 and visitors about 54,708 worldwide, mainly from USA). For more details, please check at the following report.

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Interventional Pulmonology and Advanced Bronchoscopy

We are pleased to present the readers of Shanghai Chest with this focused series covering updates and advances in the field of interventional pulmonology (IP) and advanced bronchoscopy.

This focused series was designed to provide readers with state-of-the-art reviews on several classic topics with recent advances, as well as cutting-edge areas that are still maturing.

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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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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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