Five-year-development of Chinese Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma / 中华创伤骨科杂志

ABSTRACT

Chinese Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma(CJOT) was started in S eptember, 1999 as a quarterly of 80 pages. It was published domestically and abr oad in 2002. CJOT has been included in the the Statistics-Source Periodical of Chinese Scientific Papers as one of Chinese Scientific Core Periodicals since 20 03. In the past five years, CJOT was edited for five volumes, 17 issues, in whi ch 568 papers were published. CJOT has promptly reported the important advances in clinical practice and scientific research on Orthopaedics and Traumatology i n China and the newest devlopment in the world. CJOT has been exchanged with 18 international journals. The six programs or symporia on new techniques of Orthop aedics and Traumatology were sponsored or co-sponsored by CJOT. The general edi torial office of CJOT is located at Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou. The Beijing edi torial office of CJOT and Shanghai editorial office of CJOT, have been respectiv ely set up at Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing and at sixth Peoples Hospital of Sha nghai in 2003. CJOT has set up a good co-operation with AO and AO Alumni Associ ation Chinese Chapter. CJOT will be expanded from 2004 into a monthly publicatio n of 120 pages per issue so as to better facilitate the academic exchange and co -operation among surgeons and researchers of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in C hina, even in the world.