The ''Journal of Biomedical Informatics'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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that covers research in
health informatics
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or in
translational bioinformatics
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. It is considered a premier methodology journal in the field of biomedical informatics. Articles are freely available 12 months after publication. Authors can pay extra for immediate
open access
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at the time of publication. The journal was established by
Homer R. Warner
Homer Richards Warner (April 18, 1922 – November 30, 2012) was an American cardiologist who was an early proponent of medical informatics in 1967 under the name ''Computers and Biomedical Research'' and was renamed beginning with Volume 34 in 2001, when it was redesigned under the leadership of
Edward H. Shortliffe as its
editor-in-chief
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. The current
editor-in-chief
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is
Mor Peleg.
Abstracting and indexing
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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of 6.317.
In addition, the journal is indexed in
Biological Abstracts
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,
BIOSIS Previews
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BIOSIS Previews i ...
,
CSA Life Sciences Abstracts,
Current Contents
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History
''Cur ...
/Clinical Medicine,
EMBASE,
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The name "Compendex" stands for COMPuterized ENgineering inDEX.
It covers scientific literature pertaining to engineering materials.
It started in 1884 under the name ...
,
Inspec,
MEDLINE
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,
PASCAL
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,
PubMed
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,
Science Citation Index
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, and
Scopus
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.
References
External links
*{{Official, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics/
Publications established in 1967
English-language journals
Bimonthly journals
Elsevier academic journals
Biomedical informatics journals