About the Journal

Autopsy and Case Reports (Autops Case Rep) is an Open Access online medical journal published on continuous flow by the Hospital Universitário of the Universidade de São Paulo (HU USP), under the online ISSN 2236-1960. Since 2018, Autopsy and Case Reports publishes using a continuous publication workflow, allowing the immediate posting of articles in their final form on the journal website as soon as they are ready for publication.

Mission and scope

Autopsy and Case Reports aims to significantly contribute to the development of clinical thinking skills, diagnostic methods, management, classification, and treatment of diseases by publishing manuscripts on academic autopsies with evidence of strong clinical-pathological-radiologic correlation and excellent image documentation and supporting literature revision. Contributions are accepted in the form of autopsy and clinical case reports, reviews and systematic reviews, short communications, and original articles.

The journal is directed at health professionals regardless of their specialty or acting field in the health sciences. Particular focus is given to the medical community as a way to state Autopsy and Case Reports Editorial Board's belief that case reports, which have become progressively discredited by the majority of medical journals, do represent an invaluable opportunity as a resource for knowledge expansion and teaching purposes to both, novice and senior health professionals.

Archiving and preservation

All articles published are indexed and deposited in full text version for preservation in PubMed Central® (PMC) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/2811), SciELO Brasil (https://www.scielo.br/autopsy) and at Revistas USP repository of Universidade de São Paulo (http://www.revistas.usp.br/wp/?p=76).

Plagiarism

Autopsy and Case Reports uses ithenticate in order to actively triage submitted manuscripts for similarities with other previously published material.

Article processing charges

Autopsy and Case Reports does not charge submissions or article processing fees of any kind.

Open Access

Autopsy and Case Reports is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of open access. Accepted articles will be published as Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

As of June, 2020, Autopsy and Case Reports publishes all articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). Articles published previously were licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC-BY-NC).