Aims and Scope

Key Benefits:

• Concise rapid reporting

• Very fast peer review and decisions upon manuscripts

• All areas of eye disease covered

• Use of electronic and print media allowing publication in a range of formats

Subject areas:

• All subspecialties within ophthalmology

• Optometry

• Visual science

• Pharmacology and drug therapy in eye diseases

• Basic Sciences . such as cell biology and genetics

• Primary and Secondary eye care

• Patient Safety and Quality of Care Improvements

These areas will be addressed through:

• Original clinical research
  
  

• Reviews of important areas and perspectives

• Protocols for RCT’s

• Expert opinion and commentary

• ‘E-letters’ feature allowing comments on articles published electronically or in print

• Quality improvement reports

• Surgical tips and devices

• Patient Safety Reports i.e. ideas to make ophthalmology safer

• Patient compliance/adherence satisfaction/acceptability, patient education and literacy

• Photo essays

• Case reports

• Book reviews

• ‘Personal views’ – i.e. opinion and thoughts from practitioners or patients

Likely audience:

• This is a general ophthalmology journal and is international
  
  

• The clinical focus will make the journal of interest to all eye care practitioners

• The presence of patient safety and quality improvement reports means the journal is of interest to policy makers and administrators

• Basic and visual scientists are invited to submit clinically relevant articles and the output will be of some interest to them

• Physicians working outside of eye care will also be encouraged to submit relevant work