Open Access Policy

Surgery on Children (SOC) and MediHealth Academy adhere to the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which advocates for free access to research literature. Open access is defined as the free availability of academic literature on the internet, allowing users to read, record, copy, print, search, link to the full text, examine it for indexing, and use it for lawful purposes without financial, legal, or technical barriers. Information sharing is considered a public good and is essential for the advancement of science.

As such, all articles published in SOC are made available for non-commercial use by researchers and other readers without the need to request prior permission from the author or the publisher, provided that the author and the original source are properly cited and the material is not modified, adapted, translated, transformed, or distributed in altered form. Articles in SOC are accessible through search engines, websites, blogs, and other digital platforms.

SOC follows the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) for all articles published. Authors who submit their papers for publication agree to have the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license applied to their work. Under this open access license, authors agree that their work may be copied and redistributed for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original author and source are properly credited and the work is not modified, adapted, or distributed in altered form. The corresponding author is required to sign the Creative Commons License Agreement once the article has been accepted.

Open Access Statement:

SOC is an open-access publication, and all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. For non-commercial purposes only, users may read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in SOC without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided that appropriate credit is given and the articles are not modified, adapted, translated, transformed, or distributed in altered form.

This policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access. All open-access articles in SOC are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

Licensing:

Open access articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows users to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, provided that the original source is properly cited and the material is not modified, adapted, or distributed in altered form.

Ethics committee approval must be obtained before the initiation of the research when such approval is required.

The approval must be valid for the study described in the manuscript and must include the name of the ethics committee, approval number, and approval date.

The date of ethics approval should precede the start of participant recruitment, data collection, intervention, or other research procedures requiring ethical oversight, as applicable.

Retrospective or post hoc ethics approval is generally not acceptable unless specifically permitted by applicable institutional or national regulations and supported by appropriate documentation.

If the timing, scope, or validity of an ethics approval raises concerns, SOC may request additional documentation or clarification from the authors and, where necessary, may contact the relevant institution or ethics committee.

The manuscript must clearly report ethics approval information in the Methods section.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Surgery on Children (SOC) does not charge authors any submission, processing, peer review, publication, page, color figure, or article processing fees.

There are no Article Processing Charges (APCs) for manuscripts submitted to or published in SOC.

Authors are not required to make any payment at any stage of the submission, peer-review, acceptance, production, or publication process.

SOC is supported by MediHealth Academy and provides open access to all published content without charge to readers or their institutions.

Publication Fees

SOC does not charge authors any submission, processing, or publication fees. There are no Article Processing Charges (APCs).

All published content is freely accessible to readers without subscription or access charges.