Elsevier publishes some of the leading journals in the field of Medical Informatics
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- International Journal of Medical Informatics
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
- Journal of Biomedical Informatics
The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association is a bimonthly journal dedicated to the burgeoning field of medical informatics. Medical informatics is broadly defined as the application of computers and information technology to health care as well as to medical education and biomedical research. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association presents peer reviewed, state-of-the-art material to assist physicians, informaticians, scientists, nurses, and other health care professionals to develop and apply medical informatics to patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
2004 ISI Impact Factor 2.61 ranked 1st in Medical Informatics category
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine publishes original articles from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives concerning the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, human biology, and health care. Particular attention is given to:
- AI-based clinical decision-making
- medical knowledge engineering
- knowledge-based and agent-based systems
- computational intelligence in bio- and clinical medicine
- intelligent medical information systems
- AI in medical education
- intelligent devices and instruments
- automated reasoning and metareasoning in medicine
- methodological, philosophical, ethical, and social issues of AI in medicine
2004 ISI Impact Factor 1.124 ranked 10th in Medical Informatics category
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The International Journal of Medical Informatics emphasis is on the description of clinically evaluated systems. Short technical communications concerning (solved) problems in implementing or using existing information systems are welcome. Review articles concerning subjects falling in the scope of the journal are also invited.
The scope of the journal covers:
- information (including national/international registration) systems
- hospital information systems
- departmental and/or physician's office systems
- document handling systems
- electronic medical record systems
- standardization
- systems integration
- organizational, economic, social, ethical and cost-benefit aspects of IT applications in health care
- computer-aided medical decision support systems using heuristic, algorithmic and/or statistical methods as exemplified in decision theory, protocol development, artificial intelligence, etc
- evaluations of educational computer based programs pertaining to medical informatics or medicine in general.
Effective 1 March 2005, the International Journal of Medical Informatics will offer electronic submission. You will be able to register at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijmi to submit a paper.
2004 ISI Impact Factor 1.326 ranked 8th in Medical Informatics category
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Computers in Biology and Medicine encourages the exchange of research, instruction, ideas and information on all aspects of biomedicine resulting from the spectacular developments now being made in computer capabilities. The computer capabilities will have great impact on:
- analysis of Biomedical Systems; Solutions of Equations; development of large-scale research and clinical databases
- synthesis of Biomedical Systems: Simulations
- special Medical Data Processing Methods in bioinformatics and bioengineering
- special Purpose Computers and Clinical Data Processing
- medical Diagnosis and Medical Record Processing and retrieval.
Computers in Biology and Medicine is increasing from 10 to 12 issues in 2006
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Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine covers computing methodology and software systems derived from computing science for implementation in all aspects of biomedical research and medical practice. It is designed to serve: biochemists; biologists; geneticists; immunologists; neuroscientists; pharmacologists; toxicologists; clinicians; epidemiologists; psychiatrists; psychologists; cardiologists; chemists; (radio)physicists; computer scientists; programmers and systems analysts; biomedical, clinical, electrical and other engineers; teachers of medical informatics and users of educational software.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine aims to:
- encourage the development of formal computing methods, and their application in biomedical research and medical practice, by illustration of fundamental principles in biomedical informatics research
- stimulate basic research into application software design
- report the state of research of biomedical information processing projects
- report new computer methodologies applied in biomedical areas
- provide a forum for discussion and improvement of existing software
- optimize contact between national organizations and regional user groups by promoting an international exchange of information on formal methods, standards and software in biomedicine
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine now publishes 12 issues per year
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The Journal of Biomedical Informatics (formerly Computers and Biomedical Research) has been redesigned to reflect a commitment to high-quality original research papers and reviews in the area of biomedical informatics. Although published articles are motivated by applications in the biomedical sciences (for example, clinical medicine, health care, population health, imaging, and bioinformatics), the journal emphasizes reports of new methodologies and techniques that have general applicability and that form the basis for the evolving science of biomedical informatics. Articles on medical devices, and formal evaluations of completed systems, including clinical trials of information technologies, would generally be more suitable for publication in other venues. Papers on applications of signal processing and image analysis are often more suitable for biomedical engineering journals, although we do publish papers that emphasize the information management and knowledge representation/modeling issues that arise in the storage and use of biological signals. System descriptions are welcome if they illustrate and substantiate the underlying methodology that is the principal focus of the report.
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2004 ISI Impact Factor 1.103