Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is the Official Journal of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, also known as "the Blue Journal", has a 5 year average impact factor of 2.4 (Google H-5 impact factor is 40) and its articles are downloaded more than 500,000 times a year.
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Aesthetic Plastic Surgery provides a forum for original articles advancing the art of aesthetic plastic surgery.
Many describe surgical craftsmanship ; others deal with complications in surgical procedures and methods by which to treat or avoid them.
Coverage includes “second thoughts” on established techniques, which might be abandoned, modified, or improved. Also included are case histories ; improvements in surgical instruments, pharmaceuticals, and operating room equipment ; and discussions of problems such as the role of psychosocial factors in the doctor-patient and the patient-public interrelationships.
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is abstracted and covered in Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, SciSearch, Research Alert, Index Medicus-MEDLINE, and Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Science Citation Index Expanded.
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Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is ranked #8 in the Google Scholar H-5 Index of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, with a 2019 H-5 Index of 26.
Prof. Lee Pu – recently retired from his role as professor at the University of California Davis, in Sacramento, California – is the Editor-in-Chief of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Prof Pu has published over 220 peer-reviewed journal articles and 110 book chapters.He has served as a visiting professor for over 80 university training programs and given 340 invited lectures both nationally and internationally.
Please submit your manuscripts to Prof. Pu.
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