Journal Guide

The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, a peer-reviewed publication of Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, was established in 1985 to promote clinical and scientific research in medical sciences in Taiwan, and to disseminate this research to the international community of medical and healthcare professionals. It is published monthly by Elsevier.

Few other areas of orthopedic surgery and traumatology have undergone such a dramatic evolution in the last 10 years as knee surgery, arthroscopy and sports traumatology. Ranked among the top 33% of journals in both Orthopedics and Sports Sciences, the goal of this European journal is to publish papers about innovative knee surgery, sports trauma surgery and arthroscopy. Each issue features a series of peer-reviewed articles that deal with diagnosis and management and with basic research. Each issue also contains at least one review article about an important clinical problem. Case presentations or short notes about technical innovations are also accepted for publication.The articles cover all aspects of knee surgery and all types of sports trauma; in addition, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention, and all types of arthroscopy (not only the knee but also the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, ankle, etc.) are addressed. Articles on new diagnostic techniques such as MRI and ultrasound and high-quality a

KYKLOS takes economics to be a social science. It therefore emphasizes contributions dealing with relevant issues in the real world, as well as economic policy applications. While a sound analytical base is required, the journal is wide open for unorthodox approaches promising to yield fresh insights. Pure formalisms staying within received models are rejected in favour of readable, challenging and interesting articles.

Lakes & Reservoirs: Research and Management is the official publication of the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC). The Journal aims to promote environmentally sound management of natural and artificial lakes, consistent with sustainable development policies. The Journal publishes international research on the management and conservation of lakes and reservoirs to facilitate the international exchange of results.

Land Degradation & Development is an international journal which seeks to promote rational study of the recognition, monitoring, control and rehabilitation of degradation in terrestrial environments. The journal focuses on:

Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology (LIO) is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal focused on the rapid dissemination of the science and practice of otolaryngology head and neck surgery, and is a companion journal to The Laryngoscope. 

Laser & Photonics Reviews is an international journal which covers the current range of laser physics and photonics, both theoretical and experimental, from recent research to specific developments and novel applications. Every issue contains invited review articles and topical reports.

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine publishes the highest quality research and clinical manuscripts in areas relating to the use of lasers in medicine and biology. The journal publishes basic and clinical studies on the therapeutic and diagnostic use of lasers in all the surgical and medical specialties. Contributions regarding clinical trials, new therapeutic techniques or instrumentation, laser biophysics and bioengineering, photobiology and photochemistry, outcomes research, cost-effectiveness, and other aspects of biomedicine are welcome. Using a process of rigorous yet rapid review of submitted manuscripts, findings of high scientific and medical interest are published with a minimum delay.

International and interdisciplinary in scope, Law & Policy embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide.

Learned Publishing is the journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, published in collaboration with the Society for Scholarly Publishing. The journal is published quarterly in January/April/July/October.

Learning Health Systems (LHS) is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal published in collaboration with the University of Michigan. With a goal of advancing the interdisciplinary area of learning health systems, the journal promotes research, scholarship, and dialogue focused on theory, complex issues, conceptual syntheses, education models and more. LHS seeks to achieve continuous rapid improvement in health and healthcare and to transform organizational practice. The journal includes research reports, experience reports, technical reports, policy analyses, briefs and commentaries.