About BioMedical Engineering OnLine

What is BioMedical Engineering OnLine?

BioMedical Engineering OnLine is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that is dedicated to publishing research in all areas of biomedical engineering.

BioMedical Engineering OnLine is aimed at readers and authors throughout the world with an interest in using tools of the physical sciences to advance and understand problems in the biological and medical sciences. There are biomedical engineers in countries throughout the world, and the results of their work are scattered and often difficult to access. This publication promotes the rapid and free accessibility of articles for biomedical engineering researchers everywhere. The result is a worldwide community of biomedical engineers who are linked together by their various research interests and their values in promoting benefits to all of humanity.

Content overview

BioMedical Engineering OnLine considers the following types of articles:

• Research: presenting new work based on the highest standards of basic or applied academic research.
• Book reviews: presenting short summaries of the strengths and weaknesses of a book. They should evaluate its overall usefulness to the intended audience. Please contact Francisco Azuaje (fj.azuaje@ulster.ac.uk) with your Book review proposal.
• Letters to the Editor: can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or 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.
• Reviews: presenting a comprehensive and authoritative description and evaluation of a current scientific or research area within the journal scope, these articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.

Peer review policies

All articles are reviewed by at least three experts from the relevant field. The reviewers consider the technical aspects of the material presented, in terms of scientific validity and usefulness. Authors are given every opportunity to alter their submission and/or to respond to the comments.

Edited by Kenneth R. Foster, BioMedical Engineering OnLine is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in BioMedical Engineering OnLine

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, MEDLINE, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Embase.

Articles in BioMedical Engineering OnLine should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

BioMed Eng OnLine 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, BioMedical Engineering OnLine does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to BioMedical Engineering OnLine using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

BioMedical Engineering OnLine is published  by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. BioMedical Engineering OnLine however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

BioMedical Engineering OnLine's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine will be available.

BioMedical Engineering OnLine is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.