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February 12, 2025
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BJS commission on surgery and perioperative care post-COVID-19

Publicated to:BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 108 (10): 1162-1180 - 2021-01-01 108(10), DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znab307

Authors: Abahuje E; Abbas A; Abd El Aziz Abd El Maksoud M; Abdelhady A; Abdelhamid S; Abdelkarem Ahmed Faraj H; Abdelqader B; Abdelrahman T; Abdou H; Abdullah A; Abedua Harrison M; Abem Owusu E; Aboalazayem A; Aboulhosn R; Abu Oda S; Abubakar A; Abutaka A; Acevedo Fontalvo D; Acuna S; Adefemi A; Adegbola S; Adenuga T; Adeyeye A; Adil Hilmi A; Adisa A; Aditya K; Adjeso T; Aftab R; Afzal A; Aggarwal V; Aggarwal A; Aguilera R; Aguilera-Arévalo ML; Aguirre Salamanca EJ; Aguirre-Allende I; Ahari D; Ahmad H; Ahmad Rauf F; Ahmad Zartasht Khan A; Ahmed S; Ahmed Fieturi N; Ahmed Mohamed S; Ahmed-Bakhsh Z; Ahsan Javed M; Akano L; Akbar A; Akhbari M; Akhmedov P; Aksit G; Akula Y; Alagaratnam AS; Al Majid S; Al Mukhtar O; Al Omran H; AlAsali N; Al-Azzawi M; Al-Habsi R; Al-Iraqi H; Al-Naggar H; Alameer E; Albirnawi H; Alderson D; Aldulaijan F; Alejandro Miranda Ojeda R; AlHasan A; Ali S; Ali A; Ali Khan M; Alimova Y; Aljanadi F; Aljubure R; Allopi N; Almedbal H; Almubarak M; Alqaidoom Z; Alselaim N; Alshaar M; Alshammari R; Altaf K; Altiner S; Altunpak B; Alvarez Lozada LA; Amal Nahal E; Amer A; Amin K; Aminu U; Amisi Numbi N; Amjad T; Amoah R; An Y; Anastasopoulos NA; Andrés Urrutia J; Angarita F; Angarita KL; Ángel Freiría Eiras M; Antypas A; Anwar MA; Anwar H; Apampa TO; Apostolou K

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Abstract

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the WHO on 11 March 2020 and global surgical practice was compromised. This Commission aimed to document and reflect on the changes seen in the surgical environment during the pandemic, by reviewing colleagues experiences and published evidence. Methods: In late 2020, BJS contacted colleagues across the global surgical community and asked them to describe how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had affected their practice. In addition to this, the Commission undertook a literature review on the impact of COVID-19 on surgery and perioperative care. A thematic analysis was performed to identify the issues most frequently encountered by the correspondents, as well as the solutions and ideas suggested to address them. Results: BJS received communications for this Commission from leading clinicians and academics across a variety of surgical specialties in every inhabited continent. The responses from all over the world provided insights into multiple facets of surgical practice from a governmental level to individual clinical practice and training. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered a variety of problems in healthcare systems, including negative impacts on surgical practice. Global surgical multidisciplinary teams are working collaboratively to address research questions about the future of surgery in the post-COVID-19 era. The COVID-19 pandemic is severely damaging surgical training. The establishment of a multidisciplinary ethics committee should be encouraged at all surgical oncology centres. Innovative leadership and collaboration is vital in the post-COVID-19 era.

Keywords

General medicineInterdisciplinarMedicina iMedicina iiiMedicine (all)Saúde coletivaSurgery

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 6/213, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Surgery. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 5.9, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-08, the following number of citations:

  • Scopus: 16

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-08:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 106.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 111 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 51.8.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 79 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.