About

Aims and scope

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care is an open access peer reviewed journal presenting clinical and experimental research on cutting edge topics in anesthesia, pain medicine and analgesia, critical care medicine, perioperative and emergency medicine.

Coverage includes, but is not limited to, original studies, review articles, brief reports, case series and commentaries as well as clinical protocols of international relevance. Articles on the following topics are welcome:

Critical Care Medicine in all settings and age of life
Airways control, maintenance and related complications
Pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of anesthetic drugs
Perioperative Medicine, including pre, intra and postop settings
Management and mechanisms of Pain in all settings, including Palliative Care
Anesthesia and perioperative care for all kinds of surgical treatments, age, and organs, including transplantation
Analgosedation

Special attention is given to emerging trends and highly debated topics in anesthesia, analgesia and critical care through the publication of thematic issues authored by well-known experts.

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care is an official publication of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care. With the aim of advancing knowledge and sharing it with the wider community, the Society will provide funding to cover publication costs for a specific number of high quality articles making a meaningful impact on the literature and demonstrating relevance on clinical practice and advance of future research.

Open access

All articles published by Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

As authors of articles published in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the BMC license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BMC can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Article-processing charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1350.00/$1980.00/€1670.00 for each article accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable.

If the corresponding author's institution participates in our open access membership program, some or all of the publication cost may be covered (more details available on the membership page). We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.

BMC provides a free open access funding support service to help authors discover and apply for article processing charge funding. Visit our OA funding and policy support page to view our list of research funders and institutions that provide funding for APCs, and to learn more about our email support service.

For more information on APCs please see our Journal Pricing FAQs

Publication costs for manuscripts meeting specific criteria will be covered by the Society. Please contact the journal Editor for further information at Giorgio.Conti@unicatt.it

Indexing services

All articles published in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care are included in:

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CNKI
CNPIEC
Dimensions
DOAJ
EBSCO Discovery Service
Google Scholar
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OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
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ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
PubMed Central
TD Net Discovery Service
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The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.

We are working closely with relevant indexing services including Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) to ensure that articles published in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care will be available in their databases when appropriate.

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. Single-blind peer review is the traditional model of peer review that many reviewers are comfortable with, and it facilitates a dispassionate critique of a manuscript.

Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two or more experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care should adhere to BMC's editorial policies.

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies .

Citing articles in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care

Articles in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. J Anesth Analg Crit Care [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. J Anesth Analg Crit Care 2009, 1:115.

1:115 refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Benefits of publishing with BMC

High visibility

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.

Speed of publication

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.

Flexibility

Online publication in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care’s pages and on the BMC homepage.

In addition, articles published in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BMC is available here.

Copyright

As an author of an article published in Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work (for further details, see the BMC license agreement).

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