New Avenues for Academic Publishing: Lessons learnt from Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports

Journal of Orthopaedic Case reports was started in 2011 and is in its fourth year of publication. The journal was started due to certain issues that we were facing at that time with regards to publication of case reports. Most Journals had stopped accepting case reports (as they affect the impact factor negatively) and other accepted it in very limited numbers [1]. There was no other avenue at the time to publish case reports and we at Orthopaedic Research Group realised that a lot of good clinical material was not getting published due to these reasons. We decided to start a platform for publication of these case reports in form of Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports. At that time we had no experience in academic publishing and had no contacts within the publishing world. It was a strange world to venture into specially for surgeons .