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We are pleased to announce the "Mini-invasive Surgery 2022 Best Paper Awards" to recognize and encourage the quality contributions of researchers in Mini-invasive Surgery from 2020 to 2021. Three papers won the Best Paper Awards.

The year 2022 is significant for Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS). With the great support of the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Giulio Belli, all Editorial Board members, authors, reviewers and readers, MIS has made great breakthroughs and progress and has attracted wide attention from scholars in the field.

Rigorous peer review plays a vital role in academic publishing, which guarantees the high quality of journal publication.

On Aug 12, 2022, the Editorial Office of Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) was honored to interview journal Editorial Board Member Prof. Mario Morino from the Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.

We are delighted to announce that Journal of Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS, online ISSN 2574-1225, publisher: OAE Publishing Inc.) was accepted for inclusion in Scopus on August 15, 2022, after being rigorously evaluated by the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB).

On July 25, 2022, the Editorial Office of Mini-invasive Surgery was very honored to interview journal Editorial Board Member Prof. Shanu Kothari from USC School of Medicine, Greenville, United States.

The 2^nd Editorial Board meeting of Mini-invasive Surgery was successfully held on June 30th, 2022.

On June 9th, the Editorial Office of Mini-invasive Surgery was honored to interview journal Associate Editor Prof. Fernando A. M. Herbella from Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Minimally invasive liver surgery (MILS) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has attracted considerable attention as an alternative to traditional open liver surgery (OLS).

We are pleased to announce the "Mini-invasive Surgery 2022 Best Paper Award". The papers will be selected from the research and review articles published in Mini-invasive Surgery from January 1 2020 to December 31 2021.

In the past year, Mini-invasive Surgery has made considerable progress and breakthroughs.

As the year 2021 comes to an end, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the reviewers for devoting time and effort to improving the quality of papers published in Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) over the past year.

The appointment meeting of Associate Editors of Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) was successfully held on July 12, 2021.

The First Editorial Board Meeting of the journal Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) was successfully held on June 15, 2021. The meeting was co-hosted by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Giulio Belli and Honorary Editor-in-Chief Prof. Michel Gagner. Thirty-Three Editorial Board members participated in the meeting.

Dr. Michel Gagner is currently a professor at Hopital du Sacre Coeur in Montreal and Westmount Square Surgical Center in Westmount, Canada.

An international seminar related to Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery was successfully held online on January 23, 2021 by the Editorial Office of Mini-invasive Surgery.

Dr. Patti is the professor of Department of Medicine and Surgery at University of North Carolina, and Director of Department of Surgery Simulation Laboratory. As an admirable professor, he won the prize of "Best Doctors in America" three times, and was awarded as Honorary Fellow Dominican Association of Surgeons and Honorary Fellow Colombian Association of Surgeons in 2015.

2020 is a very difficult year. The spread of COVID-19 has deeply affected our lives. Due to the pandemic, all scientific meetings have been canceled or replaced by virtual congresses although useful, webinars and e-conferences, have dramatically reduced the possibility to discuss informally and exchange ideas and comments with colleagues on relevant scientific issues.

Dr. Steven Wexner is the Director of the Digestive Disease Center and Chairman of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida.

This year, the editorial department of Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) plans to launch a series of special issues and invite some well-known experts all over the world acting as the Guest Editor for these special issues.

Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) is an international open-access journal. In order to motivate young scientists in this field, MIS journal plans to set up a Youth Editorial Board.

On behalf of our Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Giulio Belli, we warmly welcome Prof. Yuman C. Fong from Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, CA, USA to join our Editorial Board as Associate Editor. Hereby, the editorial staff of OAE extend a warm welcome to Prof. Fong.

We editorial office of Mini-Invasive Surgery wish you a happy new year and good health. May everything go well and dreams come true.

In May, 2019, Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS) enters a new phase with the change of its Editor-in-Chief (EIC). Prof. Giulio Belli from General and HepatoPancreatoBiliary Surgery, Loreto Nuovo Hospital, Naples, Italy, became the new EIC of MIS.

2018 Annual Work Report of Mini-invasive Surgery(MIS) was successfully held in Xi’an, at the Branch Office of OAE Publishing Inc., on January 15, 2018. Anne Niu, Managing Editor of MIS, gave a review on overall development of MIS journal in 2018, summarizing problems encountered by the editorial staff, and proposed some measures for improvement in the coming year.

On January 25, 2018, the editorial staff of the journal, Mini-invasive Surgery (MIS), participated in the meeting of Journal Annual Report, held by China Office of the OAE Publishing Inc. in Xi'an. At the meeting, Anne Niu, Managing Editor of MIS, gave an review on overall development of MIS journal in 2017, summarizing problems encountered by the editorial staff, and proposed some measures for improvement. Also, Ms. Niu made plans for the development of the journal in the coming year.