Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

This journal is dedicated to provide open-access, high-quality, peer-reviewed Radiology case reports and educational review articles. We encourage everybody to submit interesting Radiology cases or Radiology teaching related articles. Medical/surgical articles with emphasis on diagnostic imaging are also welcome. Blinded review of cases allows a fair and unbiased publication of Radiology case reports.

The "Journal of Radiology Case Reports" is a new kind of journals for Radiology case reports. The peer review and editorial process conforms to international standards of peer reviewed scientific journals. However there are significant differences: This journal is dedicated solely to Radiology case reports. Case reports are usually "neglected" by large or traditional journals, mainly due to competition with "higher value" articles (review, original research etc.) for valuable space in the hardcopy version of the journal. As a consequence, it becomes increasingly difficult to publish interesting casuistics in a peer-reviewed environment. This was one reason why this online journal was born - to give the opportunity to publish Radiology case reports.

Interactivity is unique and allows to view the cases as seen on workstations - with scroll functions and ability to "window and level" (soon available).
Traditionally, case reports provide only selected images which demonstrate the pathology (or only pertinent findings). This has not only a limited learning value, because the user only receives selected information and cannot "find out" the answer him/herself. But, what is more important is, that this kind of provided information does not resemble the "real life" at the radiologist's workstation. When we open a study, the pathology does not jump immediately in our eyes on the first image. We have to scroll through the stack of images and have to find the pathology ourselves. Furthermore, scolling through the stack of images helps to obtain an overview of the entire environment.

Review process is blinded and exceptional by taking usually no more than 7 days - compared to months (and even years with revisions) in traditional journals, which can be very frustrating for authors.

As in traditional journals, the published articles are fully citable in this journal. Each article receives a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) - these days every modern journal assigns its articles a DOI for easier referencing. Medline/PubMed indexing of the articles is in process. The articles will be available in multiple formats (Abstract, HTML, PDF, Interactive)

What kind of articles are suited for this journal?
Any kind of medical imaging related articles (case report, case series, review, original research, tutorial) are welcomed, which:

  • report and explain unusual or unexpected findings.
  • promote knowledge about known and new disease processes.
  • expand or refresh knowledge about anatomy in imaging.
  • help, better understand technical aspects of medical imaging.
  • new scientific data on a smaller scale (studies on small populations, few patients) which could e.g. help, contributing to larger meta-analysis studies.
  • other uptodate knowledge in medical imaging.

 

Section Policies

General Radiology

Editors
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Neuroradiology

Editors
  • Frederik Giesel, DKFZ Heidelberg
  • Jens Heidenreich, University of Louisville
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Pediatric Radiology

Editors
  • Wolfgang Hirsch
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Musculoskeletal Radiology

Editors
  • Moshe Graif, Tel Aviv University
  • Stephen Hatem, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Genitourinary Radiology

Editors
  • Thomas Vogl, University of Frankfurt/Main
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Gastrointestinal Radiology

Editors
  • Tobias Heye, University of Heidelberg
  • Norio Nakata, Japanese Radiological Society
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Obstetric & Gynecologic Radiology

Editors
  • Bernadette Beranger
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Interventional Radiology

Editors
  • Matthew Tam, The Cleveland Clinic
  • Thomas Vogl, University of Frankfurt/Main
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Thoracic Radiology

Editors
  • Hans-Holger Jend, Klinikum Bremen-Ost
  • Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, University Clinic Heidelberg
  • Tan-Lucien Mohammed, Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Breast Imaging

Editors
  • Michael Knopp, Ohio State University
  • Norio Nakata, Japanese Radiological Society
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Cardiac Imaging

Editors
  • Tobias Heye, University of Heidelberg
  • Li Wu
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Emergency Radiology

Editors
  • Moshe Graif, Tel Aviv University
  • Stephen Hatem, The Cleveland Clinic
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Nuclear Medicine / Molecular Imaging

Editors
  • Bohdan Bybel, Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg
  • Frederik Giesel, DKFZ Heidelberg
  • Donald Neumann
  • Eliot Siegel, University of Maryland
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Protocols & Contrast Media

Editors
  • Frederik Giesel, DKFZ Heidelberg
  • Michael Knopp, Ohio State University
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Technical/IT & Innovative

Editors
  • Frederik Giesel, DKFZ Heidelberg
  • Michael Knopp, Ohio State University
  • Elizabeth Krupinski, University of Arizona
  • Norio Nakata, Japanese Radiological Society
  • Eliot Siegel, University of Maryland
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Miscellaneous

Editors
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Editorial

Editors
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Letter to the Editor / Opinion

Editors
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Interesting Image

Editors
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Signs in Radiology

Editors
  • Roland Talanow, EduRad, The Cleveland Clinic
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Three independent reviewers are asked to judge the submission based on the journal criteria. The review process is blinded and should be finished within 7 days. Selection of reviewers is based on their field of expertise and review interests.

A Word document template provides some rough reviewing guidelines at the following URL:
http://www.radiologycases.com/Template_Reviewer_Case_Report.doc

Reviewers may dowload this document and fill out the appropriate sections.


Awards
As an appreciation of their valuable time and work, we honor our reviewers in the end of the year issue of this journal as well as in the "Hall of Fame" on the journal website.


Reviewer evaluation
To ensure also a high quality review, reviewers are rated on a 5 point scale and reviewers with a total of 4 or more points will be honored as mentioned above.

One point is assigned for each of the following:
  • The reviewer responded to the review invitation within the requested time frame.
  • The reviewer reviewed the manuscript within the requested time frame.
  • The review addressed all aspects which were asked for in the reviewer guidelines (e.g. English, author guidelines, image modalities)
  • Reviewer gave suggestions to improve the revised version
  • The review was written in a friendly and encouraging way

Each reviewer is evaluated based on these factors. The overall score will determine if this person will be eligible for future reviews or deleted from the reviewer database.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research and education freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Journal of Radiology Case Reports - a peer-reviewed radiology case report journal

Interactive, high quality, educational, open-access and peer-reviewed radiology case reports and review articles.