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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

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

• n methodology or its generalizability

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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

Thank You

Ted Shortliffe: ted@shortliffe.net JBI on ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464