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Acta Orthopaedica is the new official publisher of the ISAR congresses (International Society of Arthroplasty Registries) starting in 2025. This collaboration will strengthen register research and academic dissemination of high-quality articles in Acta Orthopaedica.

Acta Orthopaedica is a natural journal for ISAR to publish in, as this journal has a long tradition of publishing register research. We have many reviewers highly qualified in reviewing register trials. Moreover, several reviewers in the editorial team have extensive experience in the field.

ISAR arranges yearly congresses with presentations of original research. Full manuscripts developed from presented abstracts may be submitted to Acta Orthopaedica and published as an ISAR article. The next congress is in February 2025 in New Zealand.

Submission: instructions for authors on the Acta Orthopaedica website.

Acta Orthopaedica, anno 1930, is of January 2025 a company called ACTA ORTHOPAEDICA NOF AB, owned by the NOF (Nordic Orthopaedic Federation).

Dr. Li Felländer-Tsai, the new managing director and deputy editor, and the current president of NOF, Søren Kold, signed the agreement. This agreement strengthens Acta’s genuine historical connection with the NOF, which began in 1930 when the NOF founded Acta.

The construction will not change Acta Orthopaedic’s scientific direction, which continues as before with a strong editorial team, and the same publisher MJS (Medical Journals Sweden).

Visit the Acta Orthopaedica website

The 62nd NOF Congress will take place from november 11 to november 13 2026 in Copenhagen.

• Read more about this event on the NOF website
• Visit the congress website

In the General Assembly at the 2024 NOF Congress in Rotterdam, Søren Kold was appointed as the new NOF President. He succeeded Heikki Kröger, who was thanked for his good work during his presidency.

The European Orthopaedic Research Society welcomes you to their 32nd Annual Meeting from 18th to 20st of September 2024. Read more about this event .

Please note

• Late-breaking poster abstract submission from 18 June to 15 August
• Earlybird registration fee up to 1 July
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Organising committee preparing for Congress 2024

The 2024 Congress will take place on 12-14 June 2024 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Read more about this event.

Rotterdam

The city of Rotterdam is the second largest city of the Netherlands and offers an intriguing combination of old and new Dutch architecture. Its many museums and the Rotterdam harbour are also worth a visit. Find out more about Rotterdam.

Contact

Send an e-mail to the NOV organising bureau.

ACTA Editors Report 2022 recently published on the website

2022 was the first year without a printed Acta Orthopaedica, as costs for printing became too high compared to the income from subscriptions. Thus, 2022 consists of one issue of 937 digital pages . On January 1st a new (digital) publisher took over: Medical Journals Sweden (MJS). This report is the first made by new editor in chief Søren Overgaard.

143 articles published 

In 2022 143 articles were published out of 469 submissions, from 42 different countries, mainly from China (120), followed by The Netherlands (51), Denmark (46) and Sweden (44). In 2022 more articles were published than in former years  (100-120 yearly) due to a back-log during the transition from the previous publisher.

Categories changed

From January 2023 we have made some changes to the categories to specialty plus some extra (see ACTA website, on the righthand side).

For more interesting facts see the ACTA Editors Report 2022.
Find out more about ACTA on the NOF website.
Contact editor Søren Overgaard.

Our good friend and colleague Anders Rydholm, editor of the Acta Orthopaedica and honorary member of the NOF, passed away on Saturday 8^th October 2022.

Anders has been editor in chief of the Acta Orthopaedica for many years. We commend him for his excellent work in developing the Acta Orthopaedica as a high-level international scientific journal. We believe that the Acta Orthopaedica has a very solid future.

We all mourn his passing and will remember him as a wonderful and very kind person.

Warm welcome

From 7–9 September 2022 the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation was given a warm welcome in Vilnius by congress president prof. Alfredas Smailys (head of the department of orthopaedics and traumatology at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) and chairman of the scientific committee prof. Sarunas Tarasevicius (professor at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and founding director of the Lithuanian arthroplasty register).

The NOF Congress has become a tradition of bringing together the orthopaedic and traumatological specialists from all around the Nordic countries. More and more international leading experts and colleagues have become active participants. The congress scientific committee organised a high-level scientific programme with the main orthopaedic topics of the moment.

We enjoyed the programme, many meaningful discussions and memorable moments of being together, as well as the charming capital Vilnius, known for its rich history and picturesque old town.

Thank you!

We would like to thank everyone who has played a part in the organisation and in making us feel so welcome!

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A short new year report and update

In the last weeks of 2021, the covid epidemic was spinning faster than ever before. The infection rate is high, but the virus seems to have evolved to a weaker status. This epidemic has affected our planning and all our work in the NOF in the past two years.

NOF congress in Lithuania in May 2022

In spring 2020, just a few days before the planned NOF congress in Throndheim, the NOF was forced to cancel the congress. The congress had been meticulously planned by the Norwegian congress committee, but due to the increasing impact of covid cancellation was inevitable. The committee worked hard to minimize the economic loss, and a relatively small part of the total potential loss was covered by NOF funds. The decision was made to arrange the following NOF congress in Lithuania in May 2022. Needless to say, it is especially important that this congress will be a successful one and will attract a high number of attendees.

Acta Orthopaedica

The publishing company Taylor & Francis has been publishing Acta Orthopaedica for many years. In 2021 a new publishing agreement was negotiated but was subsequently cancelled after a few months by T&F. A new successful publishing agreement was negotiated with another publishing company, Medical Journals Sweden. Working with MJS is functioning smoothly and seems promising (read more).

Anders Rydholm has been editor in chief of Acta Orthopaedica for many years. He has now declared that he is leaving this post. Sören Overgaard, Li Felländer Tsai, Cecilia Rogmar and more have joined the editorial board of Acta. The NOF General Assembly in Lithuania will elect the next editor in chief.

Acta Orthopaedica is changing. The production of separate issues will stop, and new articles will be immediately available online. A new monthly Newsletter will replace the traditional Acta issue.

It seems quite clear that with the present editorial board Acta’s future looks bright.

Happy new year

I am certain that the NOF will go on after covid and will continue to prosper scientifically and socially to the benefit of its members.

I wish you all a very happy new year

Ragnar Jónsson,
President NOF