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Infodemics
Guest Editors
Zahid Ahmad Butt, MBBS, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada
Becky White, PhD, Curtin University, Australia
Submission Status: Open until 5 January 2026
High-dimensional statistics and omics data analysis
Guest Editors:
Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA
Niansheng Tang, PhD, Yunnan University, China
Chao Xu, PhD, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA
Submission Status: Open until 12 December 2025
Evidence synthesis: from current practice to future advances
Guest Editors
Chang Xu, PhD, Proof of Concept Center, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Third Affiliated Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Naval Medical University, China
Submission Status: Open until 13 August 2025
Publication dynamics
Guest Editors:
Mueen Ahmed KK, PhD, Phcog.net, India
Igor Burstyn, PhD, Drexel University, USA
Gokhan Tazegul, PhD, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Türkiye
Demeng Xia, MSc, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, China
Submission Status: Open until 30 June 2025
Master protocols
Guest Editors
Franz König, MA, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Gilmar Reis, MD, MA, PhD, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil & McMaster University, Canada
Submission Status: Open until 30 May 2025
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Patient-centric approaches
Guest Editors:
Violeta Moizé Arcone, RD, PhD, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain
Yitka Graham, PhD, BSc (Hons), FCMI, FRSA, CMgr, University of Sunderland, UK
Tito R. Mendoza, PhD, US National Cancer Institute, USA
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Open science: bias, challenges, and barriers
Guest Editors:
Tim Mathes, PhD, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany
Rahul Mhaskar, MPH, PhD, University of South Florida, USA
Livia Puljak, MD, PhD, Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia
Matt Vassar, PhD, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, USA
Inclusive methodological awareness for equity and diversity
Guest Editors:
Rosemary M. Caron, PhD, MPH, MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Healthcare Leadership, USA
Elochukwu Ezenwankwo, MSc (Med), MPH, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, USA
Data science methodologies
Guest Editor:
Imran Ashraf: PhD, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea
Prediction methods for rare diseases or outcomes
Guest Editors:
Cindy Feng: Dalhousie University, Canada
Longhai Li: University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Chang Xu: Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, China
Medical reversals in healthcare and public health: factors, assessment, quantification
Guest Editors: Wynne E. Norton and Fares Alahdab
Causal inference and observational data
Guest Editors:
Ivan Olier: Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Victor Volovici: Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Yiqiang Zhan: Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2021
Article collection
Methods and Applications for Real World Data: Opportunities and Challenges for an evidence based approach
Guest editors: Prof. Panagiotakos and Prof. Liu
Collection opened: August 2021
2020
Article collection
Methodologies for COVID-19 research and data analysis
Guest editors: Prof. Puljak and Prof. Wolkewitz
Collection opened: March 2020
Collection closed: March 2021
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 3.9
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 6.5
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.701
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.632
Speed 2024
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 5
Submission to acceptance (median days): 229
Usage 2024
Downloads: 5,060,523
Altmetric mentions: 5,644
Peer-review Terminology
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The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:
Identity transparency: Single anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
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