Neurosurgical Subspecialties (NSSS) is the official scientific journal of the Department of Neurosurgery at Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. NSSS aims to provide a forum for clinicians and scientists in the field, dedicated to publishing high-quality and peer-reviewed original research, reviews, opinions, commentaries, case reports, and letters across all neurosurgical subspecialties. These include but are not limited to traumatic brain injury, spinal and spinal cord neurosurgery, cerebrovascular disease, stereotactic radiosurgery, neuro-oncology, neurocritical care, neurosurgical nursing, neuroendoscopy, pediatric neurosurgery, peripheral neuropathy, and functional neurosurgery.

Neurosurgical Subspecialties (NSSS) adopts open access publishing model, and all articles are distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Under this license, anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse these articles for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited. Manuscripts submitted for publication in an open access journal are subject to the same rigorous peer-review and quality control as in scholarly subscription journals.

NSSS recognizes the distinct advantages of using an open access publication model to timely disseminate innovative and important research findings. Unrestricted free access to our publications is anticipated to foster intellectual discourse across geographic and disciplinary boundaries. To support the success of our open access approach, we ensure the integrity and high quality of research published in our journal by practicing a rigorous peer review process and by following strict guidelines for ethics in publication and in conduct of the scientific process.

All manuscripts submitted to NSSS must meet the following criteria for publication:

• Topics with timely relevance to the general field or specialties in basic and clinical medicine;
• Results and findings that have not been previously published elsewhere;
• Research performed with adherence to accepted global standards for ethics in the scientific process;
• Ethical reporting of data to protect the rights and privacy of study participants;
• Appropriate statistical analyses, with sufficient descriptions of all statistical methods used;
• Conclusions supported by the data presented;
• All funding sources and their roles cited;
• For clinical trials, the registration number cited;
• Manuscript written in standard American (US) English and formatted according to the journal-specific guidelines;
• No instances of textual plagiarism, including ‘text recycling/self-plagiarism”.