About BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
This page includes information about the aims and scope of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 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 Informatics and Decision Making is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on relation to the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of health information technologies and decision-making within the healthcare setting.
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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making include:
- CAS
- Citebase
- Current contents
- DBLP
- DOAJ
- Embase
- EmCare
- 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 Informatics and Decision Making is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 1.60.
Publication and peer review process
Publication of research articles by BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making, 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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making
Articles in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 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 Inform Decis Mak [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 Inform Decis Mak 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Why publish your article in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making?
High visibility
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making'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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed.
Flexibility
Online publication in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 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 Informatics and Decision Making. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Copyright
Authors of articles published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 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).
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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.
The instructions for authors includes information about preparing a manuscript for submission to BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 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'.
Copyright rests with the authors. For more information on copyright of articles, see our publisher's copyright and license policy.