About the Journal
The Cirugía del Uruguay is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Uruguayan Surgery Society, published continuously with a single annual issue starting in 2022 and exclusively in electronic format.
The journal publishes articles that must be unpublished and original on topics of general surgery and its subspecialties, including plastic and reconstructive surgery, vascular surgery , thoracic surgery , bariatric surgery as well as basic and clinical research
Article types include: review articles, original articles, clinical cases, letters to editor, innovations in surgical technique, image of the month, scientific videos and history articles of Surgery.
The journal is intented for all health care professionals interested in the topics discussed.
Upon receipt, before submission to reviewers, each manuscript is evaluated for similarity and/or plagiarism using the Crossref Similarity Check tool.
Reception of originals open all year round
Frequency: continuous publication
Short title: Cir. Urug.
We appreciate sumissions through our website or by email to: revista@scu.org.uy
ISSN 0009-7381 (printed)
ISSN 1688-1281 (on line)
This journal provides open access to all its content. Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
No APC
Our journal does not have any type of charges for the authors, that is, there are no costs for sending articles to evaluate, nor for processing articles, nor for subscription, nor any other type of cost.
Funding
This journal is funded by the Society of Surgery of Uruguay, located at Canelones 2280, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Important
The full archive of Revista de Cirugía del Uruguay is available online.
This provides open access to the intellectual and scientific legacy of over 80 years of publications in the field of general and digestive surgery, as well as related specialties.
ORIGINS
Revista de Cirugía del Uruguay has a long history, dating back to 1930—ten years after the founding of the Surgical Society of Montevideo in 1920.
The journal began with these words from Dr. Carlos Stajano:
“In its first ten years, our SURGICAL SOCIETY contributed to various national and international publications. However, for various reasons, the Society lacked its own official publication to reflect the work of Uruguayan surgeons.
After ten years of activity and tenacious struggle, we can confirm that in Uruguay, in the intervening time, a true scientific medium has emerged, one that did not exist ten years ago. New elements have been disciplined in step with the sessions, which are inevitably held every two weeks, and today the SOCIETY OF SURGERY, having a life of its own, fills a need in the environment, as does its newsletter.
The basic rule imposed by the editors is conciseness. Full-length articles will not be published; only summaries, conclusions, and key excerpts from presentations will be shared, giving readers the essence of the Society’s work in just a few lines.
All Society members will be active contributors, providing written comments after each session for inclusion in the journal.”
Dr. Carlos Stajano, Secretary General (1930)
Journal Title History
- 1930–1947: Boletín de la Sociedad de Cirugía de Montevideo
- 1948–1963: Boletín de la Sociedad de Cirugía del Uruguay
- 1965–1969: Revista de Cirugía del Uruguay
- 1970–2006: Cirugía del Uruguay
- 2006–2016: Publication suspended
Since 2017: Relaunched as Cirugía del Uruguay, now in fully electronic format
