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This official publication of the Musculoskeletal Society (MSS) aims at publishing original articles, review articles, pictorial essays, case series and case reports of interesting and rare diseases/ occurrences/ signs pertaining to musculoskeletal imaging. It encompasses a multimodality approach to imaging of musculoskeletal disorders as also various image-guided interventions and pain relief procedures en-vogue in the management of these cases. In this regard, the publication also invites letters to the editor and commentary on newer innovations in imaging techniques and guided interventions in the field.
Our audience largely includes radiologists with subspecialty interest but also the orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists and sports medicine experts.
The Indian Journal of Musculoskeletal Radiology (IJMSR) has a highly rigorous double-blinded peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts of interest, affiliations and financial disclosures such that the published content is not biased.
In-house submissions that contain the work of any editorial board member, are not allowed to be reviewed by that editorial board member and all decisions regarding this manuscript are made by an independent editor. In addition, these manuscripts are reviewed by two external reviewers. This is also disclosed in the published manuscript under the section of Conflict of Interest.
The editorial board comprises a panel of experts in Musculoskeletal Radiology from various countries to provide their expertise and guidance to the Editor-In-Chief in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the journal’s purpose.
The Indian Journal of Musculoskeletal Radiology (IJMSR) is a peer-reviewed international journal with a double-blind review process. Its frequency of publication is Semiannual.
A manuscript published in the Indian Journal of Musculoskeletal Radiology (IJMSR) can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees. The author retains the copyright of the manuscript and the figures. This allows authors to extend their exposure in the world of medical research and get worldwide recognition for their work.
The journal is indexed with or included in the following:
EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica (Accepted)
The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, CrossRef, ReadCube, Portico
The Indian Journal of Musculoskeletal Radiology (IJMSR) is committed to meeting and upholding ethical guidelines at all stages of the publication process. We follow the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines Section.
We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our manuscripts are assigned a DOI number from CROSSREF, and we are members of Crossref ( https://crossref.org).
Indian Journal of Musculoskeletal Radiology is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Indian Journal of Musculoskeletal Radiology (IJMSR) has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.
While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place (https://scientificscholar.com/adv-policies/) to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content are not biased or influenced by the advertisement.
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All advertisements are approved in consultation with Editor-In-Chief/the Editorial Board.
Advertisers submit their advertisements without prior information of the journal content to be published.
The Indian Journal of Musculoskeletal Radiology (IJMSR) is a Semiannual publication and published manuscripts in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees.
The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand. Journal also offers a Print-on-Demand subscription – https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions/.
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ISSN (Online): 2582-3396
