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期刊名称：JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Biomedical Semantics addresses issues of semantic enrichment and semantic processing in the biomedical domain. The scope of the journal covers two main areas:
Infrastructure for biomedical semantics: focusing on semantic resources and repositories, meta-data management and resource description, knowledge representation and semantic frameworks, the Biomedical Semantic Web, and semantic interoperability.
Semantic mining, annotation, and analysis: focusing on approaches and applications of semantic resources; and tools for investigation, reasoning, prediction, and discoveries in biomedicine.
Open access
All articles published by Journal of Biomedical Semantics 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.
As authors of articles published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the BioMed Central license agreement.
For those of you 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. Journal of Biomedical Semantics therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1370/$2145/€1745 for each article accepted for publication. 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. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.
Indexing services
All articles published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics are included in:
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS Previews
- Citebase
- DBLP
- DOAJ
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- OAIster
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
- SOCOLAR
- Zetoc
The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.
Journal of Biomedical Semantics has an Impact Factor of 2.262.
Peer-review policy
Edited by Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann and Goran Nenadic, Journal of Biomedical Semantics is supported by an expert Editorial Board.
Journal of Biomedical Semantics operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. Manuscripts submitted to the journal are reviewed by at least two experts selected by the Editors, with the aim of reaching a decision as soon as possible. Reviewers are required to declare any competing interests.
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript at any point of the peer review process by logging into the submission system.
Editorial policies
All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Biomedical Semantics should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.
Citing articles in Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Articles in Journal of Biomedical Semantics 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. J Biomed Sem [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. J Biomed Sem 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Appeals and complaints
If you wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint you should, in the first instance, contact the Editor who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure. For complaints that cannot be resolved with the Editor, the authors should contact the Publisher.
Why publish your article in Journal of Biomedical Semantics
High visibility
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.
Speed of publication
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 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.
Flexibility
Online publication in Journal of Biomedical Semantics gives you 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 Journal of Biomedical Semantics are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on Journal of Biomedical Semantics ’s pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics 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 Journal of Biomedical Semantics . A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Copyright
As an author of an article published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work (for further details, see the BioMed Central license agreement).
For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BioMed Central, please click here.
Instructions to Authors
Submission Guidelines
Before you submit your manuscript, please ensure that you have satisfied all formatting requirements and have all the required supporting information as listed below. If you have any questions about the submission process or preparation of your manuscript, please contact info@biomedcentral.com.
Manuscripts cannot be submitted to more than one journal at a time and cannot be submitted by anyone other than one of the authors. The submitting author takes responsibility for the submission on behalf of all authors. All authors must consent to the submission.
1. Correctly format your manuscript
Journal of Biomedical Semantics publishes the following article types. Please click on the relevant article type below for instructions on how to format your manuscript.
Figures
Figures must be uploaded as separate files and not embedded in your manuscript.
See Preparing figures for more information.
Tables
Smaller tables that are considered integral to the manuscript can be pasted at the end of the manuscript file in A4 portrait or landscape format. Larger tables can be uploaded separately as additional files.
See Preparing tables for more information.
Additional files
You may provide datasets, tables, movies, or other information as additional files. These will be published along with the article. Do not include files such as patient consent forms, certificates of language editing, or revised versions of the main manuscript document with tracked changes.
The maximum file size for additional files is 20MB each, and files will be virus-scanned on submission.
See Preparing additional files for more information.
2. Prepare supporting information
Please make sure you have the following information available before you attempt to submit your manuscript:
Author information
Full names and email addresses of all co-authors on your manuscript.
Cover letter
A cover letter that includes the following information, as well as any additional information requested in the instructions for your specific article type (see main manuscript section above):
- An explanation of why your manuscript should be published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics
- An explanation of any issues relating to journal policies
- A declaration of any potential competing interests
- Confirmation that all authors have approved the manuscript for submission
- Confirmation that the content of the manuscript has not been published, or submitted for publication elsewhere (see our duplicate publication policy)
- If you are submitting a manuscript to a particular special issue, please refer to its specific name in your covering letter
You may suggest potential peer reviewers for your manuscript. If you wish to do so, please provide institutional email addresses where possible, or information which will help the Editor to verify the identity of the reviewer (for example an ORCID or Scopus ID). Intentionally falsifying information, for example, suggesting reviewers with a false name or email address, will result in rejection of your manuscript and may lead to further investigation in line with our misconduct policy. See our editorial policies for guidance on suggesting peer reviewers.
Excluding peer reviewers
During submission you may enter details of anyone who you would prefer not to review your manuscript.
The following information must be included under the Declarations section of your manuscript. You will be asked about this information during submission of your manuscript.
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must include a statement on ethics approval and consent. Studies involving animals must include a statement on ethics approval.
See our editorial policies for more information.
Consent to publish
All manuscripts containing any individual person’s data in any form require consent to publish from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian.
See our editorial policies for more information.
Availability of data and materials
For all journals, you must include an 'Availability of data and materials' section within the ‘Declarations’ of your manuscript detailing where the data supporting your findings can be found. For some journals, deposition of your data is mandatory (see information on individual article types above). For journals where data deposition is not mandatory, BioMed Central strongly encourages all datasets on which the conclusions of the manuscript rely be either deposited in publicly available repositories or presented in the main paper or additional supporting files. If you do not wish to share your data, please state that data will not be shared, and state the reason.
See our editorial policies and preparing your manuscript for more information.
Competing interests
All financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in this section. You will be asked about this during submission of your manuscript.
See our editorial policies for more information on competing interests.
Funding
All sources of funding for the research reported should be declared.
3. Agree to conditions of submission, BioMed Central’s copyright and license agreement and article-processing charge (APC)
Copyright and license agreement
During submission, you will need to accept and confirm the following conditions of submission:
- All authors of the manuscript have read and agreed to its content and are accountable for all aspects of the accuracy and integrity of the manuscript in accordance with ICMJE criteria
- That the manuscript is original, has not already been published in a journal, and is not currently under consideration by another journal
- That you agree to the terms of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement and Open data policy, which we strongly recommend you read. For authors who are prevented from being copyright holders (for instance where Crown Copyright applies or researchers are US government employees) BioMed Central can accommodate nonstandard copyright lines. If this applies to you, please contact us and provide details of your situation
- For more information see our Copyright and license policy
Article-processing charge
An article-processing charge (APC) applies for each article accepted for publication in Journal of Biomedical Semantics . For details of the journal's APC see About Journal of Biomedical Semantics and for answers to some frequently-asked questions please see our article-processing charge page.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK
Editorial Board
Susanna Assunta-Sansone, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
Philip E Bourne, University of California, USA
Anita Burgun-Parenthoine, Université de Rennes, France
Carol Friedman, University of Columbia, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Udo Hahn, University of Jena, Germany
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, USA
Jung-Jae Kim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Patrick Lambrix, University of Linköping, Sweden
Hilmar Lapp, The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, USA
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University, Germany
Suzanne Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Mark Musen, University of Stanford, USA
Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics Group, USA
Jong Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, USA
Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland
Michael Schroeder, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Amnon Shabo, IBM Research Laboratory, Israel
Barry Smith, University at Buffalo, USA
Larisa Soldatova, Brunel University, UK
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK
Toshihisa Takagi University of Tokyo, Japan
Professor Alfonso Valencia, National Center for Biotechnology, Spain
Mark Wilkinson, University of British Columbia, Canada
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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