Basic information 🔖

Objectives: to encourage the submission of scientific papers that bring new concepts in the field of clinical and experimental surgery, as well as in educational and historical aspects, which contribute to teaching and development.
 
Background: The publication and dissemination of the scientific activities of its members is one of the objectives of Medical Societies. The Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões (College of Brazilian Surgeons – CBC) was founded in 1929, and its first statute provided for the existence of the "Boletim do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões" (Bulletin of the Brazilian College of Surgeons) as an official body, whose first issue was published in January 1930.

In 1967, the CBC National Directory changed the name of the publication to "Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões" (Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons – Rev. Col. Bras. Cir. or RCBC), which, however, began to be published without due regularity. As of 1974, the Journal began to be edited on a regular, bimonthly basis, until December 2019. Since January 2020, the journal has been edited in a single and continuous annual volume.

In these more than 50 years of uninterrupted publication, RCBC has gained importance and scope. Norms and criteria for the selection and publication of scientific articles in the different surgical and related areas follow international standards.

Article review process 🔖

Peer review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area evaluate submitted manuscripts for originality, validity, and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal.

RCBC adopts the anonymous, double peer review process, which means that authors' identities are withheld from reviewers and vice versa.

Open access policy 🔖

RCBC's mission is to support open science, which consists of transparent and accessible knowledge (free and immediate access to content) that is shared and developed through networks of collaborative work. RCBC aims to disseminate high quality research regarding innovation in all surgical specialties, as well as its impact on clinical and educational practices that allow the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge.

It accepts manuscripts in English (for submission by international researchers) and Portuguese (for submission by Brazilian ones). After review and acceptance of the manuscript, all articles will also be published in English.

Intellectual property 🔖

Published content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0 – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt). CC-BY 4.0 allows anyone to use the publication freely, given proper attribution to the author(s) and citing work published on RCBC. CC-BY 4.0 does not apply to third-party materials that display a copyright notice to prohibit copying. Unless third-party content is also subject to a CC-BY 4.0 license, or an equally permissive license, the author(s) must comply with any third-party copyright notices.

Authors retain unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights.

Important notes 🔖

RCBC follows and supports the guidelines and recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Editors (ICMJE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

All authors of any articles accepted for publication must have the updated ORCID registry https://orcid.org/register.

In view of the high costs of publishing, RCBC charges a fee of R$ 2,000.00 (two thousand reais) or U$ 400.00 (four hundred dollars) for authors when they are not CBC members. Articles whose first or last author is a CBC non-defaulting member will receive a 50% discount.

Indexing 🔖

Sponsors 🔖

The Journal of the College of Surgeons is sponsored by the CBC through:

• Membership fees;
• Advertisers' budget; and
• Articles publication fees, as described above.

Contacts 🔖

• Ramiro Colleoni: coeditor@cbc.org.br
• Julia Castro Neves: revista@cbc.org.br