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期刊名称：BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ISSN： 1471-2288 出版频率： Continuous publication 出版社： BMC, CAMPUS, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, ENGLAND, N1 9XW   出版社网址： http://www.biomedcentral.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedresmethodol/ 影响因子： 4.615 主题范畴： HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal About BMC Medical Research Methodology Aims and scope | Editorial team | Open access | Article-processing charges | Indexing services | Publication and peer review process | Editorial policies | Citing articles in BMC Medical Research Methodology | Why publish your article in BMC Medical Research Methodology? This page includes information about the aims and scope of BMC Medical Research Methodology, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors. Scope BMC Medical Research Methodology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on methodological approaches to healthcare research. Articles on the methodology of epidemiological research, clinical trials and meta-analysis/systematic review are particularly encouraged, as are empirical studies of the associations between choice of methodology and study outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology does not aim to publish articles describing scientific methods or techniques: these should be directed to the BMC journal covering the relevant biomedical subject area. It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field. Editorial team Executive Editor Giulia Mangiameli Editorial Board Manager Paul Lambert Journal Development Manager Genevieve Horne Senior Managing Editor Diana Marshall Publisher Jo Appleford-Cook Open access All articles published by BMC Medical Research Methodology are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here. Authors of articles published in BMC Medical Research Methodology are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement. For authors who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BioMed Central can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed. Article-processing charges Open access publishing is not without costs. BMC Medical Research Methodology therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1325/$2215/€1600 for each article accepted for publication. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. Generally, if the submitting author's institution is a Member the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page. Indexing services All articles published in BMC Medical Research Methodology are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in BMC Medical Research Methodology include: CAS Citebase Current contents DOAJ Embase Google Scholar Index Copernicus MEDLINE OAIster PubMed PubMed Central Science Citation Index Expanded SCImago Scirus Scopus SOCOLAR Zetoc The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands). The full text of all research articles published by BioMed Central is also available on SpringerLink. BMC Medical Research Methodology is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 2.21. Publication and peer review process Publication of research articles by BMC Medical Research Methodology is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field. BMC Medical Research Methodology operates an 'open peer review' policy meaning reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. The pre-publication history including all submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses will be linked to from the published article. Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My BMC Medical Research Methodology, a personalized section of the site. Reprints High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints. Supplements BMC Medical Research Methodology will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. All full length articles (proceedings, reviews or research articles) are indexed by PubMed. PubMed displays the title of the supplement only in the case of meeting abstract collections. For further information, please contact us. Editorial policies All manuscripts submitted to BMC Medical Research Methodology should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies. Appeals and complaints Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should, in the first instance, contact the Executive Editor who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure. Citing articles in BMC Medical Research Methodology Articles in BMC Medical Research Methodology should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number. Article citations follow this format: Authors: Title. BMC Med Res Methodol [year], [volume number]:[article number]. e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. BMC Med Res Methodol 2009, 1:115. refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal. Why publish your article in BMC Medical Research Methodology? High visibility BMC Medical Research Methodology's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results. Speed of publication BMC Medical Research Methodology offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through BMC Medical Research Methodology, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed. Flexibility Online publication in BMC Medical Research Methodology gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles). Promotion and press coverage Articles published in BMC Medical Research Methodology are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on BMC Medical Research Methodology's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage. In addition, articles published in BMC Medical Research Methodology may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in BMC Medical Research Methodology. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here. Copyright Authors of articles published in BMC Medical Research Methodology retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement). For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BioMed Central, please click here.   Instructions to Authors BMC Medical Research Methodology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on methodological approaches to healthcare research. Articles on the methodology of epidemiological research, clinical trials and meta-analysis/systematic review are particularly encouraged, as are empirical studies of the associations between choice of methodology and study outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology does not aim to publish articles describing scientific methods or techniques: these should be directed to the BMC journal covering the relevant biomedical subject area. It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field. Each article type published by BMC Medical Research Methodology follows a specific format, as detailed in the corresponding instructions for authors; please choose an article type from the list on the left to view the instructions for authors. The instructions for authors includes information about preparing a manuscript for submission to BMC Medical Research Methodology, criteria for publication and the online submission process. Other relevant information about the journal's policies, the refereeing process and so on can be found in 'About this journal'. BMC Medical Research Methodology publishes the following article types: Research articles Case reports Database articles Debates Software articles Study protocols Technical advance articles We use plagiarism detection This journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors and referees are asked to declare any competing interests. Copyright rests with the authors. For more information on copyright of articles, see our publisher's copyright and license policy. checklist contact details manuscript details cover letter author details payment upload done   Submission checklist Thank you for deciding to submit your paper to BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please make sure you have satisfied the points on the following checklist before submitting your manuscript. 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Editorial Board Section Editors Timothy Beebe Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA Phil Edwards London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK Chiu-Hsieh (Paul) Hsu University of Arizona, USA Vivian Welch University of Ottawa, Canada Associate Editors Taghreed Adam World Health Organization, Switzerland Noori Akhtar-Danesh University of McMaster, Canada Melanie Bell University of Arizona, USA Scarlett Bellamy Biostat Penn, USA Vance Berger National Cancer Institute, USA Emily Blood Children's Hospital Boston, USA Isabelle Boutron Hôtel Dieu hospital, France Frank Bretz Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland Michelle Briggs University of Leeds, UK Graham Byrnes IARC, France Haitao Chu University of Minnesota, USA Gary Collins University of Oxford, UK Kris Dierickx Catholic University Leuven, Belgium Mary Dixon-Woods University of Leicester, UK Kelly Edwards University of Washington, USA Tim Friede University of Göttingen, Germany Deborah Glueck University of Colorado, USA Sebastien Haneuse Harvard University, USA Yulei He USA Asbjørn Hróbjartsson The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Denmark Chengcheng Hu University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, USA Dr Scott Kim University of Michigan, USA Mirjam Knol University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands Tracey Perez Koehlmoos ICDDR,B, Bangladesh Joseph Koopmeiners University of Minnesota, USA Oliver Kuss University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Mariska Leeflang Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Liang Li The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA Yisheng Li University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA Qi Long Emory University, USA Kung-Jong Lui San Diego State University, USA Richard F MacLehose University of Minnesota, USA Malcolm Macleod University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, UK Andrea Marshall University of Warwick, UK Edward J. Mascha Cleveland Clinic, USA Emma McIntosh University of Oxford, UK Paul McNamee University of Aberdeen, UK Luigi Naldi Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Italy Lei Nie The US FDA, USA Pentti Nieminen University of Oulu, Finland Pablo Perel London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK Gregory Pond McMaster University, Canada Eleanor Pullenayegum McMaster University, Canada Oliver Rivero-Arias University of Oxford, UK Gerta Rücker University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany Agus Salim La Trobe University, Australia Roberta Scherer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA Iveta Simera University of Oxford, UK Ruth Sladek Flinders University, Australia Adam Smith University of York, UK Fujian Song University of East Anglia, UK George Swingler University of Cape Town, South Africa Monica Taljaard University of Ottawa, Canada Allison Tong University of Sydney, Australia Shaun Treweek University of Dundee, UK Andrea Tricco St Michael's Hospital, Canada Andrea Troxel Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA Catrin Tudur-Smith University of Liverpool, UK Marjon van der Pol University of Aberdeen, UK Jonathan VanGeest Kent State University, USA Albert Vexler University at Buffalo, USA Wolfgang Viechtbauer Maastricht University, Netherlands Penny Whiting University of Bristol, United Kingdom Martin Wolkewitz IMBI, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany Hulin Wu University of Rochester Medical Center, USA Hsin-Chou Yang Academia Sinica, Taiwan Zhi-Jie Zhang Fudan University, China Jeanette Ziegenfuss HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, USA Editorial Advisors Phil Alderson National Institute of Clinical Health and Excellence, UK Doug Altman Institute of Health Sciences, UK Bruce Arroll University of Auckland, New Zealand Jesse Berlin Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, USA Lisa A Bero University of California, San Francisco, USA Paolo Bruzzi National Cancer research Institute, Italy Max Bulsara The University of Western Australia, Australia Marion Campbell University of Aberdeen, UK Luis Gabriel Cuervo Pan American Health Organization, USA Vittorio Demicheli Servizio Sovrazonale di Epidemiologia, Italy Rodolfo Dennis Hospital Universitario de San Ignacio, Colombia Lelia Duley Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, UK Paul Garner Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK Steven Goodman Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA Richard Hobbs University of Birmingham, UK Charles Hoff University of Utah, USA Eileen Hutton University of British Columbia, Canada John Ioannidis University of Ioannina, Greece Desmond Julian University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Karla Kerlikowske University of California, USA Harald Kittler Medical University of Vienna, Austria Enoch Kwizera University of Transkei, South Africa Joseph Lau Tufts-New England Medical Center, USA Henry McQuay University of Oxford, UK Ruairidh Milne University of Southampton, UK David Moher Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Canada Madhu Kailash Natarajan McMaster University, Canada Andy Oxman Nordic Cochrane Centre, Norway Neil Pearce Faculty of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygi, New Zealand Peter Sandercock Western General Hospital, UK Ken Stein Exeter University, UK Richard Thomson Newcastle Medical School, UK Tom Trikalinos University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece Andrew Vickers Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA Elmer Villanueva Monash University, Australia Jimmy Volmink University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Tom Walley University of Liverpool, UK Andrew R Willan McMaster University, Canada