The Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports is an official publication of Indian Orthopaedic Research Group (IORG) and an international, peer reviewed, online journal which will be published monthly (12 issues per year).
About IORG
The mission of Indian Orthopaedic Research Group is to promote orthopaedic research in India by helping individual orthopaedic surgeons and clinical departments throughout the country. The focus of the group is to:
- Help publish research studies in various international and national peer-reviewed journals
- Design and conduct research studies
- Establish academic research divisions in institutions which will initiate and sustain research projects
- Conduct high quality basic and clinical research studies through collaboration with various institutions and industries
- Publish peer-reviewed journals to provide a platform for Indian Orthopaedic researchers to publish their work
Abstracting and Indexing Information
The JOCR is registered with the following Indexing and Abstracting partners:
PubMed Central, Directory of Open Access Journal, Ebscohost, Google Scholar.
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
The JOCR is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License. It allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Copyright and Licensing
Under Creative Commons the Authors retain ownership/ copyright of their content. The authors assign exclusive commercial re-use rights of the article to the Publisher.
From March 2025, all open access articles published are distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License as currently displayed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited.
Authors have to mandatorily submit the Open Access License Agreement Form (Copyright form) when submitting the manuscript.
Articles published under this arrangement are made freely available online upon publication without subscription barriers to access. Users of such published articles are entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display these articles for personal, research and educational use provided that:
-The original authorship is properly and fully attributed.
-The journal and publisher are attributed as the original place of publication with correct citation details given.
-If an original work is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work, this is indicated.
-No articles are reproduced for commercial use without the prior consent of the Publisher. All the licensing requests and permissions for commercial use of the article will be managed by the Publisher. For re-use of the content for other purposes that are not covered by the CC BY-NC-SA/ CC BY-NC license, please contact editor.jocr@gmail.com.
-Authors are also entitled to deposit the final electronic version of the article into an institutional or centrally organized subject repository upon publication. They should include a link to the published version of the article on the journal’s website, and the journal and publisher should be attributed as the original place of publication, with correct citations given.
Open Access Policy
A comprehensive outlook on open access policy that we follow:
Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it at no cost and with limited restrictions with regards to reuse. Open access publications are freely and permanently available online to anyone with an internet access. The journal allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium (which is non-commercial), provided the article is properly attributed. All the articles are published, without any technical, financial, gender limitations, in an agreed format on the journal website and deposited in archive and indexing databases as applicable to the journal. All articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), thereby making it fully citable and searchable by title, author name(s) and the full text.
Why open access publishing?
Restricted access to scientific research and advancements through subscription pay wall hinders communication within the scientific community. Moreover, restricted access can also hinder the education and dissemination of scientific knowledge to the aspiring younger generations who are keen to pursue a career in science. Increased productivity and development of science can only be achieved by diffusing knowledge and providing the facilities for creating permanent repositories such as Open Access.
The use of a Creative Commons 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC 4.0) enables user/reader/peer to use the content with clear permission in a way that it can be reused and redistributed as long as the article source is appropriately given credit for non-commercial purpose.
The use of a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License as currently displayed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.