Travma

About Travma

Travma — Journal Profile

Travma, presented in English on its own site as TRAUMA and in Ukrainian as Травма, is the Ukrainian peer-reviewed scientific and practical journal for traumatology and orthopedics. It carries the two ISSNs recorded on this JournalsWorld profile — print ISSN 1608-1706 and electronic ISSN 2307-1397 — and its own site describes it, in its own words, as the professional scientific and practical specialised peer-reviewed publication for orthopedists-traumatologists, emergency physicians and other physicians, covering scientific and practical developments in the field of traumatology and orthopedics. It was founded in 2000, its founder is Donetsk State Medical University, and its publisher is Zaslavsky O.Yu., the Publishing House Zaslavsky named as host organisation in its OpenAlex record. It publishes in Ukrainian and English, four times a year since 2023 after a run of six issues a year from 2013 to 2022, and its current issue at the time of checking was volume 26, number 4 (2025). Its articles carry DOIs under the prefix 10.22141, built on its print ISSN.

This profile must begin with a disambiguation, because this journal's name is a trap for the unwary. There is a well-known English-language journal called Trauma, published by SAGE in the United Kingdom, with completely different ISSNs (1460-4086 and 1477-0350). There is also an American psychological journal called Traumatology, again different. Neither of those has anything to do with this record. The journal profiled here is the Ukrainian Travma of trauma-journal.com, ISSNs 1608-1706 and 2307-1397, and every figure in this profile is tied to those numbers. Readers, librarians and authors should check the ISSN before they attribute any metric, ranking or article to a journal called anything like Trauma.

What follows gathers the verified public record: identity and founding, founder and publisher, language and frequency, registration in Ukraine, scope across traumatology and orthopedics including the war-injury medicine that now fills many of its pages, its place in Ukraine's system for recognising dissertation publications, the bibliometric picture from OpenAlex at the time of checking, and practical guidance for authors and readers. Where a fact could not be verified from a source actually consulted, it is marked as not published or as a point that could not be verified.

Quick Facts

Identity and History

Travma was founded in 2000, according to its own site, with Donetsk State Medical University as its founder — an origin that places it in the strong Donbas school of traumatology and orthopedics, in a mining and industrial region where occupational and injury medicine had long been a pressing clinical need. A quarter of a century later it is still publishing under the same name and the same ISSN pair, through a period in which its home city, its founder university and its whole country have been displaced and reshaped by war. Its volume numbering tells the continuity story on its own: volume 26 in 2025 is the arithmetic of a journal that began in 2000 and did not stop.

The journal's own site gives its modern registration plainly: media identifier R30-05649, under a decision of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting numbered 3279 and dated 5 December 2024. It also records the journal's place in Ukrainian academic life: it is included in the list of scientific publications of the Higher Attestation Commission system in which results of dissertations for the degrees of doctor and candidate of sciences may be published, under an order of the Ministry of Education and Science dated 26 November 2020, number 1471. For a Ukrainian clinician-scientist, that listing is not a formality. It means a Travma article counts in the formal economy of Ukrainian academic advancement, and it explains much of the journal's author base: orthopedists and traumatologists in Ukrainian universities and research institutes publishing the clinical studies, case experience and reviews on which their degrees and appointments depend.

Twin checks run for this profile searched JournalsWorld by both ISSNs, hyphenated and unhyphenated, and by the title in its Latin form. Each ISSN returned this record alone. The other trauma and orthopedics journals that title searching surfaced — the Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Traumatology and Orthopedics of Russia, the N.N. Priorov Journal of Traumatology and Orthopedics, the Bulgarian orthopaedics and trauma association's journal and others — are distinct titles with their own ISSNs and their own depth profiles, not duplicates of this one. One further candidate appeared in an early search run under a long Russian-language slug for a journal called Travma; on re-check its record could not be fetched at all (the request returned a 404), so no live twin is established by it, and it is reported in the working files as a verify-first item rather than treated as a duplicate.

Founder, Publisher and Platform

The founder named on the journal's own site is Donetsk State Medical University, and the publisher named there is Zaslavsky O.Yu. OpenAlex, resolving the journal by its print ISSN, records the host organisation as Publishing House Zaslavsky, which is the same publishing house in its organisational form, and gives the journal's homepage as its address on trauma-journal.com. That platform runs on a journal-management system — its article addresses follow the familiar index.php/journal pattern — and OpenAlex classifies the source accordingly as an OJS journal. Publishing House Zaslavsky is a Ukrainian medical publisher known for a stable of Ukrainian clinical journals, many of them built in the same way as this one: a university or institute founder, the Zaslavsky house as publisher, bilingual Ukrainian and English presentation, and DOI registration under the 10.22141 prefix that appears across its list.

For authors, that structure has practical consequences. The journal is not a lone website but part of a maintained publishing operation with stable article pages, an archive organised by volume and issue reaching back through its run, and consistent DOI practice, so a citation to a Travma article resolves to a publisher page rather than to a fragile personal site. Correspondence, submission and any payment should nevertheless be handled only through the official site, trauma-journal.com, whose masthead information is the authoritative version of the journal's arrangements at any given moment.

Scope and Subjects

The journal's scope, in its own description, is scientific and practical developments in traumatology and orthopedics, addressed to orthopedists-traumatologists, emergency physicians and other physicians. Its current issue, volume 26 number 4 (2025), shows what that means in practice. Its original researches include a comparative analysis of Syme's operation and transtibial amputation in patients with gunshot injuries of the lower limb; modelling of shoulder muscle work during upper-limb flexion; a study of traditional bracing against modern techniques in healing time for paediatric forearm fractures; a literature review and meta-analysis of treatment tactics for Gartland II supracondylar humeral fractures in children and adolescents; a meta-analysis of the effectiveness and risks of external fixation in tibial fractures comparing Ilizarov and Taylor methods; an assessment of tourniquet use in the Armed Forces of Ukraine during hostilities; a study asking whether cement is really needed in elderly patients, on hydroxyapatite cementless femoral stems in primary hip arthroplasty; a surgical technique description for preventing peroneal nerve neuroma in transtibial amputation; and experimental work on transcutaneous carbon dioxide potentiating anti-inflammatory treatment in a rat model of osteoarthritis.

Read that contents list carefully and the journal's present character is clear. The enduring core — fractures, fixation, arthroplasty, paediatric orthopedics, the shoulder, the hip, osteoarthritis — is now interwoven, article by article, with the medicine of a country at war: gunshot injuries, amputations, tourniquets, blast and combat trauma, and the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and civilians. Travma has become, among other things, a primary clinical record of Ukrainian orthopedic trauma care under wartime conditions, written by the surgeons doing the work. OpenAlex's topic classification of its archive tells the same story in aggregate: its largest recorded areas are bone fractures and treatments, orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty, orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation, hip disorders and treatments, foot and ankle surgery, and trauma and emergency care studies. A researcher anywhere in the world working on combat limb injury, damage-control orthopedics or amputation outcomes will find material here that exists in few other journals, because few other journals publish from inside a sustained high-intensity war.

Editorial Practice and Languages

The journal describes itself as peer-reviewed — professional, scientific and practical, and specialised are its own adjectives — and it presents its content in Ukrainian and English, the two languages of the edition named on its site. In practice its articles appear with titles, abstracts and full apparatus that make them usable by both its home audience and international readers, and its DOI landing pages sit on the bilingual platform. This profile does not name a current editor-in-chief or board members: a current masthead list that could be verified for republication was not obtained in the sources consulted for this work, and printing names from secondary web material would risk presenting an out-of-date board as current. The journal's own site carries its current editorial information, and that is where an author should confirm who edits the journal and what its present author instructions require, including article structure, reference style, ethics declarations and any review timeline the journal currently states.

On fees, the position is the same, and it is stated plainly so that no reader mistakes silence for a claim: no article processing charge for Travma could be verified from the sources consulted for this profile, and OpenAlex records no APC price list for the source. That does not establish that no charge exists at any point in its process; it establishes only that this profile will not quote a figure it did not see on an authoritative page. An author should obtain the current position from the journal's own site or by direct enquiry through its official contact route before submitting, and should pay nothing to any intermediary claiming to place articles in the journal.

Metrics and How to Read Them

OpenAlex resolves print ISSN 1608-1706 — and equally its electronic ISSN 2307-1397, which returns the same source — to S4210222558, display name TRAUMA, host Publishing House Zaslavsky, country Ukraine. At the time of checking, in a foreground fetch made for this profile, it recorded 1,807 works for the journal, all 1,807 classified as open access in its data, with 874 citations in total, a summary h-index of 10, an i10-index of 10 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.288. It records the source as open access and as an OJS journal, gives a first publication year of 2011 in its harvested archive and a last publication year of 2025, and lists the journal's homepage as trauma-journal.com. Those archive dates describe OpenAlex's harvest, not the journal's founding: the journal's own site dates its founding to 2000, and its older volumes precede the window OpenAlex has harvested, a common pattern for journals whose early archive was print-first.

Two cautions belong with those numbers. First, the thin template record that this profile replaces carried an h-index of 4 for this journal with no source named. OpenAlex, a named source fetched for this work, gives 10. This profile quotes the sourced figure and discards the unsourced one, and it recommends the same discipline to anyone citing the journal: a metric without a database and a date is an opinion, not a fact. Second, no SCImago figure is quoted for this journal in this profile, because the SCImago-style summaries that general web searching returns for the word Trauma overwhelmingly describe the SAGE journal of that name in the United Kingdom, with its different ISSNs, and importing its SJR or quartile into this record would be a straightforward misattribution. If a SCImago or Scopus figure for ISSN 1608-1706 is needed, it must be obtained from SCImago or Scopus by that exact ISSN, and this profile makes no claim about the result. For the same reason, nothing is claimed here about any open-access directory listing: that directory's search service could not be consulted successfully during this work.

Indexing and Recognition

What can be stated firmly is the recognition the journal itself documents and the discoverability that follows from its arrangements. Domestically, its inclusion in the Ukrainian list of scientific publications in which dissertation results may be published, under the 2020 ministry order its site cites, is the recognition that matters most to its home authors. Bibliographically, its articles carry DOIs, its archive is harvested by OpenAlex (which is how the counts above exist), and its bilingual titles and abstracts make its work findable through general scholarly searching — wartime Ukrainian trauma research from this journal is, in fact, routinely cited in the international literature on combat injury, which is one route by which its citation count has grown. Any fuller indexing list should be verified service by service, by exact ISSN, before it is relied on for a formal requirement.

How to Submit and How to Use the Journal

Prospective authors should work from the journal's own site, trauma-journal.com: read its current author instructions, study several recent issues to match article type and presentation, and prepare a manuscript in Ukrainian or English as the journal's languages allow, with a clear clinical or experimental question, transparent methods, honestly reported outcomes including complications and failures, and references in the journal's current style. Clinical studies from wartime practice carry particular responsibilities — patient consent, institutional approvals and the protection of service personnel's information — and the journal's current instructions and Ukrainian research-ethics requirements govern those points. After publication, authors should check the article's page and PDF on the platform for accuracy of names, affiliations, tables and figures, and confirm that the DOI resolves.

For readers outside Ukraine, the most productive approach is thematic: search the journal's archive by the injury, the operation or the implant rather than browsing issue by issue, use the English titles and abstracts to triage, and read the wartime case series alongside the peacetime fracture and arthroplasty literature to see how the same surgical school adapted its practice under extreme load. For Ukrainian readers the journal needs no such instruction: it is part of the working literature of their specialty, and its dissertation-list standing makes it part of their professional formation as well.

Similar Journals

Neighbouring titles with their own JournalsWorld records and distinct ISSNs include the Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi), the official journal of the Turkish trauma and emergency surgery association; Traumatology and Orthopedics of Russia, from the Vreden centre in Saint Petersburg (print ISSN 2311-2905); the N.N. Priorov Journal of Traumatology and Orthopedics, the Russian association journal; Orthopedics and Traumatology, the journal of the West-Japanese society (print ISSN 0037-1033); and the Journal of the Bulgarian Orthopaedics and Trauma Association. The SAGE journal Trauma and the journal Traumatology are listed here only as names to distinguish, not as similar journals: they are different publications, in different fields and countries, sharing nothing with this record but an overlapping word.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Travma's ISSNs? Print ISSN 1608-1706 and electronic ISSN 2307-1397, both shown on the journal's own site and recorded on this JournalsWorld profile.

Is Travma the same as the SAGE journal Trauma? No. The SAGE journal is a British publication with ISSNs 1460-4086 and 1477-0350. Travma is the Ukrainian journal founded in 2000. Check the ISSN before citing any metric.

Who founded and who publishes Travma? Its own site names Donetsk State Medical University as founder and Zaslavsky O.Yu. as publisher; OpenAlex records the host organisation as Publishing House Zaslavsky.

When was it founded and how often does it appear? Founded in 2000. It appears four times a year since 2023, after six issues a year from 2013 to 2022, per its own site.

In what languages does it publish? Ukrainian and English, per its own site.

What are its citation figures? OpenAlex, fetched for this profile, recorded 1,807 works, 874 citations, an h-index of 10 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.288 for source S4210222558. The unsourced h-index of 4 in the record this profile replaces should not be used.

Does an article in Travma count for a Ukrainian dissertation? The journal's site states that it is included in the list of scientific publications in which dissertation results may be published, under a Ministry of Education and Science order of 26 November 2020, number 1471.

Does it charge authors? No charge could be verified from the sources consulted for this profile, and none is quoted here. Obtain the current position from the journal's own site.

Verification Notes

This profile is anchored to JournalsWorld post 34425, slug travma, stored ISSNs 1608-1706 and 2307-1397. Founding, founder, publisher, languages, frequency, registration, dissertation-list standing, DOI prefix and current-issue contents are from the journal's own site, trauma-journal.com, fetched directly for this work. Bibliometric figures are from a foreground OpenAlex fetch of the source resolved by the exact print ISSN (S4210222558); the electronic ISSN resolves to the same source. No figure from the SAGE journal Trauma has been used. Editorial names and any fee have been left as not published where a current authoritative source was not obtained.