Journal of Biomedical Informatics Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD Editor-in-Chief 2001-present Professor and Senior Advisor Department of Biomedical Informatics College of Health Solutions Arizona State University Phoenix, Arizona
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Other Senior Leadership Associate Editors: • Riccardo Bellazzi (Pavia, Italy) • Wendy Chapman (Salt Lake City, Utah) • James Cimino (Birmingham, Alabama) • Robert Greenes (Scottsdale, Arizona) • Vimla Patel (New York, New York) • Mor Peleg (Haifa, Israel) • Peter Tarczy-Hornoch (Seattle, Washington) • Jessica Tenenbaum (Durham, North Carolina) • William Yasnoff (Arlington, Virginia)
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Original Research Articles • Focus is on the presentation of innovative and generalizable methodologies that are motivated by a specific problem or set of problems in biomedicine • Bioinformatics articles must be motivated by applications to human health and disease (translational bioinformatics) • Papers should discuss generalizability of methods and their potential range of application • JBI does not publish application papers, system evaluations, or surveys, although applications are often described to motivate the need for the new methodology • Length of paper is a review criterion; no arbitrary limits
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Other Types of Papers Published All must be oriented towards informatics research community: • Methodological reviews (must review an informatics methodology, not a set of applications) • Special communications (not original research, but lessons or observations relevant to informatics researchers) • Commentaries (usually opinion papers) • Book reviews (invited by editor) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics
Special Characteristics • Online only (print on demand) effective January 2016 • Uses “article-based publishing”: papers fully indexed and available online as soon as they are accepted • Special theme issues are “virtual” and available on ScienceDirect • JBI publishes both prospective and retrospective virtual special issues (examples on ScienceDirect web site) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics
Logistical Matters • Large increase in number of submissions • Have maintained acceptance rate of ~30%, although this may have to drop (each issue now over 350 pages; six per year) • Aim to provide first decision for authors within 4-6 weeks • All papers require at least one revision before publication • Methodological reviews are especially highly cited and downloaded http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics
Principal Reasons for Rejection without Review -1 • Inappropriate emphasis • Methodology discussed is not related to informatics (information and knowledge management); e.g., image processing, monitoring devices
• Too applied • Paper discusses a specific application, survey, or system evaluation without focusing on methodology or its generalizability http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics
Principal Reasons for Rejection without Review-2 • Bioinformatics, not translational • Generic bioinformatics research without direct and discussed relevance to human health and disease
• English • Serious problems with exposition that will prevent reviewers from understanding or critically commenting on the underlying science http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics
Thank You Ted Shortliffe:
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