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Aims and scope

Signa Vitae is a completely open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to delivering the leading edge research in anesthesia, intensive care, emergency and pain medicine to the public. The journal’s intention is to be practice-oriented, so we focus on the clinical practice and fundamental understanding of adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, as well as anesthesia, emergency and pain medicine.


Although Signa Vitae is primarily a clinical journal, we welcome the submissions of basic science papers if the authors can demonstrate their clinical relevance. Signa Vitae journal encourages scientists and academicians around the world to share their original writings in the form of original research, review, mini-review, systematic review, short communication, case report, letter to the editor, commentary, rapid report, news and views, editorial, as well as meeting report. Full texts of all published articles, can be downloaded free of charge from our website.


The journal of Signa Vitae has been assigned an Impact Factor of 0.907 (Science Citation Index Expanded). This fact is a clear proof that we are on the right path in achieving our vision, and hereby we would like to thank those who have contributed to the project so far and made this possible at a very early stage.


The vision of Signa Vitae is to be the leading journal in intensive care and emergency medicine by the year 2025.

Signa Vitae® journal is abstracted / indexed in following indexing services:

  1. Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)

    Created as SCI in 1964, Science Citation Index Expanded now indexes over 9,200 of the world’s most impactful journals across 178 scientific disciplines. More than 53 million records and 1.18 billion cited references date back from 1900 to present.

  2. Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition

    Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition aims to evaluate a journal’s value from multiple perspectives including the journal impact factor, descriptive data about a journal’s open access content as well as contributing authors, and provide readers a transparent and publisher-neutral data & statistics information about the journal.

  3. Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index

    The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource that can quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.

  4. Index Copernicus

    The Index Copernicus International (ICI) is an international indexation database of scientific journals. It covered international scientific journals which divided into general information, contents of individual issues, detailed bibliography (references) sections for every publication, as well as full texts of publications in the form of attached files (optional). For now, there are more than 58,000 scientific journals registered at ICI.

  5. Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research

    The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) is a non-profit organization established in 2002 and it works in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The overall objectives of the Foundation are to promote and develop health education and research programs.

  6. Scopus

    Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 Inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.

  7. Embase

    Embase (often styled EMBASE for Excerpta Medica dataBASE), produced by Elsevier, is a biomedical and pharmacological database of published literature designed to support information managers and pharmacovigilance in complying with the regulatory requirements of a licensed drug.

APC

The manuscript submitted to SV is required to pay $1200 for Article Processing Charge (APC) after it has been accepted for publication. There are no submission charges.

APCs mainly go forward defraying the costs of:

For making the article Open Access

SV website construction

Online submission & peer review system

Article layout

Third party (Crossref etc.) payment

Discounts and Waivers for authors:

An about 30% discount is available for all types articles whenever the manuscript is invited by the Editor-in-Chief, an editorial board member or the Guest editor.

All papers from the members of the partner society/association of the journal will enjoy 20%-40% discount on APC.

For authors from Low and Lower-Middle-Income countries, waivers or discounts may be granted on a case-by-case basis.

Payment: via Bank transfer and Credit Card.

Submission Turnaround Time

Editorial review: 1 - 2 days

Peer review: 1 - 2 months

Publish Ahead of Print: within 2 months after being accepted

Notes: Your information is kept confidential throughout the review process.


Abstracted / indexed in

Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) Created as SCI in 1964, Science Citation Index Expanded now indexes over 9,200 of the world’s most impactful journals across 178 scientific disciplines. More than 53 million records and 1.18 billion cited references date back from 1900 to present.

Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition aims to evaluate a journal’s value from multiple perspectives including the journal impact factor, descriptive data about a journal’s open access content as well as contributing authors, and provide readers a transparent and publisher-neutral data & statistics information about the journal.

Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource that can quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.

IndexCopernicus The Index Copernicus International (ICI) Journals database’s is an international indexation database of scientific journals. It covered international scientific journals which divided into general information, contents of individual issues, detailed bibliography (references) sections for every publication, as well as full texts of publications in the form of attached files (optional). For now, there are more than 58,000 scientific journals registered at ICI.

Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) is a non-profit organization established in 2002 and it works in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The overall objectives of the Foundation are to promote and develop health education and research programs.

Scopus: CiteScore 0.5(2021) Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 Inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.

Embase Embase (often styled EMBASE for Excerpta Medica dataBASE), produced by Elsevier, is a biomedical and pharmacological database of published literature designed to support information managers and pharmacovigilance in complying with the regulatory requirements of a licensed drug.

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