期刊名称：BIG DATA ISSN： 2167-6461 出版频率： Quarterly 出版社： MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC, 140 HUGUENOT STREET, 3RD FL, NEW ROCHELLE, USA, NY, 10801   出版社网址： http://www.liebertpub.com/Default.aspx 期刊网址： http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/big-data/611/ 影响因子： 2.128 主题范畴： COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS;    COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS 变更情况： 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal ISSN: 2167-6461 • Online ISSN: 2167-647X OVERVIEW Big Data, a highly innovative, peer-reviewed journal, provides a unique forum for world-class research exploring the challenges and opportunities in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating vast amounts of data, including data science, big data infrastructure and analytics, and pervasive computing. The Journal addresses questions surrounding this powerful and growing field of data science and facilitates the efforts of researchers, business managers, analysts, developers, data scientists, physicists, statisticians, infrastructure developers, academics, and policymakers to improve operations, profitability, and communications within their businesses and institutions. Spanning a broad array of disciplines focusing on novel big data technologies, policies, and innovations, the Journal brings together the community to address current challenges and enforce effective efforts to organize, store, disseminate, protect, manipulate, and, most importantly, find the most effective strategies to make this incredible amount of information work to benefit society, industry, academia, and government. Big Data coverage includes: Big data industry standards New technologies being developed specifically for big data Data acquisition, cleaning, distribution, and best practices Data protection, privacy, and policy  Business interests from research to product The changing role of business intelligence Visualization and design principles of big data infrastructures Physical interfaces and robotics Social networking advantages for Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, etc. Opportunities around big data and how companies can harness it to their advantage Big Data is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Vasant Dhar, PhD, Stern School of Business, New York University, and other leading investigators. View the entire editorial board. Audience: Data miners, computer scientists, statisticians, researchers, chief data scientists, database engineers, software engineers, web developers, policy makers, CEOs of data startups, professors of computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, and computational biology, among others. Indexed/Abstracted in: MEDLINE; PubMed; PubMed Central; Science Citation Index Expanded; Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition; Scopus   Come See Us! » Feb 19 - Feb 24, 2017 Molecular Med Tri-Con 2017 San Francisco, CA Instructions to Authors Manuscripts must be submitted using the following URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/big Please read all the instructions to authors before submitting. Language must conform to acceptable English usage and syntax. The contents must be clear, accurate, coherent, and logical. The Editors will also consider its originality, teaching value, and validity. Please refer to the Word Limit section of these instructions for guidance on manuscript types and length. Occasional exceptions to these limitations may be made at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief. To facilitate a quick review of manuscripts, authors are encouraged to suggest names of three to five potential reviewers with complete contact information when the manuscript is submitted.   The corresponding author is responsible for communicating with coauthors to make sure they have completed the online copyright form. Authors not permitted to release copyright must still return the form acknowledging the statement of the reason for not releasing the copyright. Manuscript Submission and Review Manuscripts should be submitted with the understanding that they have neither been published, nor are under consideration for publication elsewhere, except in the form of an abstract. Prior abstract publications should be described in the form of a footnote to the title. 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Keywords (Areas of Expertise) To facilitate the peer review process, select 4-6 keywords from the drop-down list of pre-selected terms when submitting your manuscript.   These keywords will assist in the selection of skilled reviewers in the field for the purposes of peer review.   Manuscript keywords (search terms): On the title page of the manuscript, include a minimum of three (3), maximum of six (6), search terms that will aid in the discoverability of the article in indexing services and search engines.  These terms may or may not be different from the terms you selected for the peer review process and areas of expertise.  You will be asked to retype these search terms in the submission form when uploading your manuscript.  These keywords will be included in the published article.  If the search terms entered do not match the manuscript, the manuscript will serve as the default.   Cover Letter All submissions should include a cover letter from the corresponding author at the time of submission. 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Ensure the author listing is complete and all names are spelled correctly.  According to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME), authorship is based on the following criteria: Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND Final approval of the version to be published; AND Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Corresponding Author:  It is the Journal’s policy that a submission carries only ONE corresponding author.  This designation should be determined at the time of submission.  All communications, except for individual copyright forms, will be managed through the corresponding author.     Acknowledgment of Non-Qualifying Contributors Contributors who do not meet all four (4) of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they may be recognized in an Acknowledgment section. 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Preparation of Manuscripts Papers must be submitted via upload in a word processing format, preferably in Microsoft Word. Please do not include any figures and/or tables within the main text document. Tables should be submitted in individual Word files.  Figures should be supplied in separate files, be labeled clearly, and should be in TIFF or EPS formats. Please see the Illustrations section for further details on art submission. All text must be double-spaced, including body, footnotes, references, legends, and tables. The title page should carry the full paper title, followed by the authors’ names, highest-received academic degree, and where the work was performed.  Also include a short title (running head) with a maximum of 45 characters (including spaces). Please indicate the corresponding author on the title page. An abstract should accompany every original submission, as noted herein. Abstracts should appear on their own separate page of the manuscript file. It should consist of factual information and not generalities (the problem investigated, the method used, the results obtained, and the conclusions reached). A brief Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Disclosure, and Reference sections should follow. At the conclusion of the references, the name and complete address of the corresponding author should appear.   For LaTex submissions:   For LaTeX submissions, the main LaTeX file should be uploaded as  "Main Document", and any files that are part of a LaTeX document should be designated as a "LaTeX Supplementary File."  For technical assistance, please contact Author Services. Statistical Analysis   If a statistical analysis is performed, an explanation of how it was performed must be stated at the end of the section preceding results. Unusual or complex methods of analysis should be referenced. References References in text should be numerical using superscripted numbers. Do not include brackets or parentheses. Text references must be supplied in sequence for all tables and figures. Journal articles: The references must be double-spaced and must be cited in the text in numerical order, not alphabetically. References to journal papers should include (1) Authors (first three, then et al), (2) article title, (3) journal name (as abbreviated in Medline), (4) year; (5) volume number: (6) inclusive page range, in that order.  Abbreviate journal names according to PubMed/Medline. Example: Ohno-Machado L.  Big science, big data, and a big role for biomedical informatics.  J Am Med Inform Assoc 2012; 19:e1. Books: References to books should include (1) author(s), (2) chapter title (if any), (3) editor (if any), (4) title of book, (5) city of publication, (6) publisher, (7) year, and (8) page range if chapter is used. Volume and edition numbers, and name of translator should be included when appropriate. The author is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the references. Example: Franks B. Taming the big data tidal wave: Finding opportunities in huge data streams with ddvanced analytics.  New York: Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2012.       Illustrations Please follow these guidelines for submitting figures: Do NOT embed art files into a Word or PDF document. Figures provided in this format cannot be used for production purposes. Line illustrations should be submitted at 900 dpi Halftones and color should be submitted at a minimum of 300 dpi Save as either TIFF or EPS files. JPEG files are for screen representation-quality only and will print very poorly during the printing process.  To ensure proper print quality, please submit only TIFF or EPS files. Color art must be saved as CYMK—not RGB. (NB: If RGB files are submitted, the files will be converted to CYMK and some color variation will occur.) Black and white art must be submitted as grayscale—not RGB. 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Publisher The Journal is published quarterly by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 140 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215, Tel: (914) 740-2100; Fax: (914) 740-2101; E-mail: info@liebertpub.com; Website: www.liebertpub.com/big Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief   Vasant Dhar   Professor, Stern School of Business     and Center for Data Science   New York University   New York, NY   http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar Associate Editors Bart Baesens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Belgium http://www.dataminingapps.com/dma_staff/bart-baesens/   Paul Bradley ZirMed Chicago, IL https://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-bradley/0/84/51a Brian d'Alessandro Dstillery New York, NY, and New York University http://www.linkedin.com/in/briandalessandro   Tomer Geva Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv, Israel http://www.tomergeva.net/   Jim Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY http://www.cs.rpi.edu//~hendler/     Balaji Padmanabhan  University of South Florida  Tampa, Florida  http://www.usf.edu/business/contacts/padmanabhan-balaji.aspx   Clifton Phua NCS Group Singapore https://sites.google.com/site/cliftonphua/     Roger M. 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