Call for Papers
Call for Papers
The Journal of Medical Informatics and Decision Making welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams working across medical informatics and healthcare decision science. Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year.
ISSN 2641-5526Open accessCC BY 4.0Submissions accepted year-round
01 · What the journal is seeking
The journal welcomes the full range of medical and health informatics and healthcare decision science in its Aims and Scope. The areas below are examples, not a closed list.
Clinical informatics
Electronic health record implementation and optimization, clinical workflow analysis and redesign, health information exchange, clinical data quality and governance, and medication informatics.
Decision support and analytics
Clinical decision support systems, predictive analytics and risk models, alert optimization and fatigue reduction, diagnostic decision support, and treatment recommendation systems.
Data standards and interoperability
HL7 FHIR implementation and adoption, semantic interoperability, clinical terminology systems such as SNOMED and LOINC, data exchange architectures, and common data models for research.
Clinical NLP and imaging informatics
Clinical natural language processing, information extraction from clinical notes, radiology and pathology AI, medical imaging informatics, and computer-aided diagnosis.
Healthcare decision science
Decision analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, patient preferences, shared decision making, risk communication and decision quality, including non-digital approaches.
Wider health informatics
Consumer and public-health informatics, clinical research informatics, knowledge representation, health-data governance, human factors and implementation methods.
The complete statement, including the additional focus areas and what falls outside the journal's boundary, is on the Aims and Scope page.
02 · What makes a manuscript competitive here
A submission should make a central, substantive contribution to medical or health informatics, or to healthcare decision science. It need not address both disciplines or introduce a new digital system.
State the information or decision problem, the contribution and the claims being evaluated. For empirical research, describe the evidence; for formal or conceptual work, make assumptions and reasoning explicit. Deployment and patient outcomes are required only when the claims depend on them.
- The information or decision problem is stated, not implied.
- Data provenance and quality are described for data-based studies; formal work states assumptions and sources of parameters.
- The method is reported so that another team could repeat it.
- Comparators, validation, sensitivity analysis or a reasoned scholarly argument support the type of contribution.
- Claims match the evidence: performance is reported as performance, and clinical benefit only where the design supports it.
- Limitations are specific to the work.
The full reporting requirements for each study type are in the Instructions for Authors.
03 · Accepted article types
| Category | Length | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Original Research | 3,000–6,000 words | Original empirical, methodological or formal research with evaluation or reasoning appropriate to its claims. |
| Review Article | 4,000–8,000 words | A synthesis that establishes what is known and where the evidence runs out. |
| Technical Report | 2,000–4,000 words | A method, tool, dataset or implementation described in enough detail to be reused. |
| Perspectives | 1,500–3,000 words | An argued position on a question in the field, grounded in evidence. |
Abstract, figure, table and reference limits for each type are in the Instructions for Authors.
04 · How to submit
Primary route — ManuscriptZone
Alternative route — simple manuscript submission form
Assisted route — editorial office
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
What happens after a manuscript arrives is described on the Submit Manuscript page.
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JMID · Editorial office
Ask before you write
A short description of the study, the data it uses and the decision or information problem it addresses is enough for the editorial office to say whether it sits within scope. Write to [email protected].
Journal of Medical Informatics and Decision Making · ISSN 2641-5526 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 · published open access by Open Access Pub under CC BY 4.0. Editorial decisions are independent of any fee, service, membership or role.