“…It is clear that it is not American authors who have resistance or difficulty in declaration of LOE. While the current review is focused on the J Hand Surg Am and J Hand Surg Eur publications, several articles have been published reporting the LOE in other journals (Andersson et al., 2018; Boretto et al., 2019; Boyer et al., 2019; Ehrl et al., 2016; El Amiri et al., 2019; Frueh et al., 2014; Fujihara et al., 2018; Goorens et al., 2018; Hohendorff et al., 2017; 2018; Huttin et al., 2018; Kamphuis et al., 2019; Karakaplan et al., 2019; Ma et al., 2017; Mulders et al., 2017; Rijnja et al., 2017; Robinson et al., 2017; Tang et al., 2017; Thorkildsen and Rokkum, 2019; Uluyardimci et al., 2019; van Zyl et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2017; Yeo et al., 2015). These journals included Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation, Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery and Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery .…”