The 10^th anniversary of patient safety in surgery

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This year marks the 10^th anniversary of our open-access peer-reviewed journal “Patient Safety in Surgery” (PSS). In our launch editorial on November 7, 2007, we made a statement which appears to be still applicable a decade after the journal’s inception: “Despite the wide range of more than 200 official journals in the field of surgery, there is currently no single medical journal available which specializes on the issue of patient safety in surgery.” [1]. This notion reflects an apparent void in covering the pertinent topic of surgical patient safety in the scientific literature, and PSS seems to continuously represent a “niche” forefront pilot journal based on its exclusive focus dedicated to surgical patient safety. The journal’s international visibility has continuously grown in the past decade. Current statistics show a global readership of PSS in 185 countries with an average of 230,000 article accesses to the journal’s website each month (Fig. 1). This is an impressive increase compared to historical metrics of just 2000 monthly accesses at the time of the journal’s founding in 2007, and an average of 16,000 accesses per month at the 5-year anniversary mark in 2012 [2].

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