期刊名称：ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND INFECTION CONTROL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
This page includes information about the aims and scope of ARIC, 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.
Aims & scope
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is a global forum for reports encompassing all aspects of resistance development and prevention of health-care associated infections in all health-care settings.
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Editor-in-Chief
Andreas Voss - Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital and Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands
Deputy Editors
Didier Pittet - University of Geneva Hospitals Switzerland
Anucha Apisarnthanarak (APSIC) - Thammasart University Hospital, Thailand
Jan A Kluytmans - Amphia Hospital, Breda & Free University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Angela Dramowski (ICAN) - Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control aims to be a global forum for all those working on the prevention, diagnostic and treatment of health-care associated infections and antimicrobial resistance development in all health-care settings. The journal covers a broad spectrum of 'preeminent practices' and 'best available data' to the 'best interventional and translational research' and innovative (technical) developments in the field of infection control.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control believes that a better understanding of the factors contributing to the development and spread of multi-drug resistance pathogens, possibilities to prevent transmission and infections and insight into the difference between developed countries and countries with limited resources are key-factors to find future solutions. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control needs to combine best practices, experience and latest research results from around the globe to overcome the challenge posed by healthcare-associated infections. ARIC welcomes all manuscripts related to the filed of HAI prevention and infection control. Some examples are listed below:
- Prevention of health-care associated infection in hospitals.
- Infection control and antimicrobial-resistance in high-risk settings (e.g. ICUs).
- HAI prevention and antimicrobial-resistance in special settings e.g. long-term care facilities.
- Infection control and antimicrobial-resistance in community settings.
- Special problems with Infection control and antimicrobial-resistance in resource-limited countries.
Society Affiliations
ARIC is proud to be affiliated with several societies that support and promote the work done in our field.
ICPIC
The International Conference for Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) is a unique platform to foster knowledge sharing and exchange experiences for the prevention of healthcare-associated infection and the control of antimicrobial resistance among countries around the world. To achieve this aim and to ensure a global dialogue, ICPIC encourages and facilitates the attendance of many fellows from nations with limited resources, notably from the African region.
APSIC
The Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC) was established in 1998 and is a multi-national, voluntary organization dedicated to the advancement of infection control practice to reduce hospital associated infections, monitor and control emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and improved patient outcomes. APSIC aims to bring together multidisciplinary infection control professionals in the region to share their knowledge, experience, skills, and quality improvement and research findings by facilitating the exchange of information through training courses, seminars, congresses and conferences in the Asia Pacific region.
ICAN
The Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN) is an organization that promotes collaboration between individuals and institutions working in the field of infection control in Africa. The network currently has over 300 members from 24 African countries, and is led by an enthusiastic board of multi-national leaders in infection control. The vision of ICAN is an African continent where safe patient care is ensured for all through the implementation of strong infection control programs. ICAN has several active working groups dedicated to reducing healthcare associated infection and promoting antimicrobial stewardship on the continent, including education, communication, surveillance and community participation committees.
Open access
All articles published by ARIC 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 ARIC 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. ARIC therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1370/$2145/€1745 for each article accepted for publication. If the corresponding 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 ARIC are included in:
- DOAJ
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
The full text of all research articles is deposited in digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands).
The full text of all research articles published by BioMed Central is also available on SpringerLink.
BioMed Central is working closely with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in ARIC will be available.
Publication and peer review process
Content overview
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Controls considers the following types of articles:
- Research reporting data from original research.
- Reviews of any topic within the scope of the journal. They may be either invited by the editor or unsolicited. Plenary lectures from Conferences and specialized meetings are welcomed. These may include the slides and videos that were used in the original presentation. Authors and conference organizers are encouraged to discuss proposals with the Editor at an early stage. All reviews will be peer-reviewed.
- Letter to the Editor can take several forms. For example, a substantial critique or re-analysis of a previously published article, a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers. Please consult the Editor prior to submission if in doubt.
- Case reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. Reports may suggest the need for a change in practice or thinking in terms of diagnosis or prognosis, but not in terms of preventative or therapeutic intervention, which require stronger evidence.
- Short reports are brief reports of data from original research, usually about 1500 words.
- Commentaries are short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles focus on specific issues and are about 800 words.
- Discussion of articles published in the journal is encouraged, and these contributions will be included in Readers' Comments, accessed from the web page on which the article is displayed. These comments are subject to editing and remain in the Archives associated with the specific article to which they refer.
Peer-review policies
Manuscripts will be reviewed by internationally recognized experts in the field, selected in part from the Editorial Board. Reviews will be rapid and the suitability of a manuscript for publication will be assessed solely on criteria of scientific excellence. Final decisions will be made by the Editor-in-Chief and may include accept, reject, accept following minor revision and resubmit after major revision and further review.
Edited by Andreas Voss, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is supported by an expert Editorial Board.
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 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
ARIC 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. For further information, please contact us.
Editorial policies
All manuscripts submitted to Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.
Citing articles in ARIC
Articles in ARIC 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. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control [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. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Why publish your article in ARIC?
High visibility
ARIC'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
ARIC 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 ARIC and BioMed Central.
Flexibility
Online publication in ARIC 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 ARIC are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on ARIC's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in ARIC 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 ARIC. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Copyright
Authors of articles published in ARIC retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright policy and license agreement).
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Instructions to Authors
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is a global forum for reports encompassing all aspects of resistance development and prevention of health-care associated infections in all health-care settings.
Professional copy-editing service available for international authors
Editor-in-Chief
Andreas Voss - Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital and Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands
Deputy Editors
Didier Pittet - University of Geneva Hospitals Switzerland
Anucha Apisarnthanarak (APSIC) - Thammasart University Hospital, Thailand
Jan A Kluytmans - Amphia Hospital, Breda & Free University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Angela Dramowski (ICAN) - Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Each article type published by ARIC 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 ARIC, 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'.
ARIC publishes the following article types:
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.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Professor Andreas Voss Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and CWZ, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Deputy Editors
- Professor Didier Pittet University of Geneva Hospitals, Switzerland
- Dr Anucha Apisarnthanarak (APSIC) Thammasart University Hospital, Thailand
- Professor Jan A Kluytmans Amphia Hospital, Breda & VUMC Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Dr Angela Dramowski (ICAN) Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Associate Editors
- Professor Jean Carlet Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, France
- Professor Philippe Eggimann Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland
- Professor Alexander W Friedrich University Hospital Groningen, Netherlands
- Dr Hitoshi Honda Tokyo Metropolitan Tama General Medical Center, Japan
- Professor Robin Köck University Hospital Münster, Germany
- Dr Moi Lin Ling Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
- Professor Shaheen Mehtar Tygerberg Hospital & Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Professor Leonard Mermel Division of Infectious Diseases, United States of America
- Professor Lindsay E Nicolle University of Manitoba, United States of America
- Dr Rosana Richtmann Santa Joana Hospital, Brazil
- Dr Marin Schweizer University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, United States of America
- Dr Nuntra Suwantarat Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States of America
- Professor Paul Tambyah National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Professor Andreas Widmer University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
- Dr Walter Zingg University of Geneva Hospitals, Switzerland
Senior Editors
- Professor Noyde Barbacar Ministère de la santé et la prévention, Senegal
- Professor John M. Boyce Hospital of Saint Raphael, United States
- Professor Petra P Gastmeier Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Germany
- Professor Herman Goossens Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Belgium
- Professor M. Lindsay Grayson University of Melbourne, Australia
- Professor Alison Holmes Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Professor Vincent Jarlier Groupe Hospitalier, France
- Professor Geeta Mehta Lady Hardinge Medical College, India
- Professor Ziad Memish King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
- Professor Samuel Ponce de Leon Rosales Ministry of Health, Mexico
- Professor Wing-Hong Seto Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China
- Professor Marc Struelens ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden
- Professor Jean-Louis Vincent Erasme University Hospital, Belgium
Editorial Board
- Dr Benedetta Allegranzi World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Professor Bruno Coignard Institut de Veille Sanitaire, France
- Professor Markus Dettenkofer University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
- Dr Abdul Ghafur Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India
- Professor Waleria Hryniewicz National Institute of Public Health, Poland
- Dr Maria Luisa Moro Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale, Italy
- Dr Dilip Nathwani Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, United Kingdom
- Professor Eli N Perencevich University of Iowa, United States
- Professor Thomas Riley Univ of Western Australia & Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Australia
- Professor Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut, Denmark
- Dr Joanne Wai-yee Chung Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
- Professor Thomas Wong Kwok-shing Tung Wah College, China
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