Announcements - Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

Posted: 2024-07-15

ALES goes visual

Visual abstracts, also called “graphical abstracts” or “infographics”, are images that summarize the essential information of manuscripts, providing an easily and expeditive understood overview of study findings at a glance.

Posted: 2024-06-21

New Impact Factor for Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery: 0.5

We are pleased to announce that Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) has attained its latest impact factor for the 2023 citation year: 0.5.

Posted: 2024-06-14

Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery 2023 CiteScore Released: 1.4

We are pleased to announce that the Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 1.4, ranking 307 out of 551 journals in the Surgery category.

Posted: 2024-01-24

The 21^st Annual Scientific Writing Course from October 3rd to October 4th, 2024 in Zürich, Switzerland

The Association for Research in Surgery (ARS) of the Swiss Surgical Society, in collaboration with the British Journal of Surgery, is organizing a two-day retreat designed to teach the theoretical and practical aspects of writing good scientific manuscripts, from Thursday, October 3^rd to Friday, October 4^th, 2024.

Posted: 2024-01-10

ALES Annual Report (2023)

Greetings from Dr. Abe Fingerhut, Dr. Minhua Zheng and Editorial Office of Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES)!

Posted: 2023-07-24

Note from the Editors-in-Chief

We have been working hard to bring ALES to the limelight in the medical publication world and as an indispensable vector of scientific information to the medical community, and in particular our surgical colleagues.

Posted: 2023-07-20

Testimonials for ALES from Eminent Experts Worldwide in 2023

Eminent Experts Worldwide, including editorial board members, authors, and readers, who know the journal well, provided testimonials for ALES. We are thankful for their support for the journal.

Posted: 2023-07-05

Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery 2022 CiteScore Released: 1

We are pleased to announce that the Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) has received its 2022 CiteScore: 1, ranking 320 out of 495 journals in the Surgery category.

Posted: 2023-06-28

The First Impact Factor for Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery: 0.5

We are pleased to announce that Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) has attained its first impact factor for the 2022 citation year: 0.5 (Figure 1).

Posted: 2023-03-15

Full implementation of transparent peer review at Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES)

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 fully implement the transparent peer review (TPR) process for all new submission from March 15, 2023.

Posted: 2023-01-07

ALES Annual Report (2022)

Greetings from Dr. Abe Fingerhut, Dr. Minhua Zheng and Editorial Office of Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES)!

Posted: 2022-10-13

Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) is now a member of the Surgery Journal Editors Group (SJEG)

Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) is now a member of the Surgery Journal Editors Group (SJEG)

Posted: 2022-09-22

Welcome to the Chinese edition of Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

We are glad to share with you that select ALES content is now available in Chinese

Posted: 2022-07-28

Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery is going to receive its first impact factor in June 2023

According to the latest news of Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics on July 26, 2022, in the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Report™, all Web of Science Core Collection™ journals will receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™.

Posted: 2022-01-13

ALES Annual Report (2021)

Greetings from Dr. Abe Fingerhut, Dr. Minhua Zheng and Editorial Office of Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES)!

Posted: 2021-11-05

Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) 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. Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES) is among the list of COPE membership.

Posted: 2021-01-15

ALES Annual Report (2020)

Greetings from Dr. Abe Fingerhut, Dr. Minhua Zheng and Editorial Office of Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES)!

Posted: 2020-04-28

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.

Posted: 2020-02-13

ALES Annual Report (2019)

Posted: 2019-10-15

Application of the CARE Guideline as reporting standard in the Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

The Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery 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.

Posted: 2019-08-15