About the Journal
Table of contents
Description
History
Focus and scope
PeerReview Process
Peer Review Policies
Review Procedures
Publication Frequency
Indexing
Description
"Bioinstrumentation is an interdisciplinary field requiring the combined talents of physician, biologist, mathematician, and engineer. Dynamic testing, rather than static, of several physiological parameters simultaneously demands greatly improved instruments to record more reliable data while at the same time permitting the subject greater freedom of movement. Mathematical models can be used to provide physicians better understanding of physiological function such as respiratory or cardiovascular mechanisms. Greater use of computers for the presentation and analysis of biomedical data not only can benefit the field of predictive medicine but can aid in the evaluation of the over-all health picture. Computers can be utilized for a systems analysis of medical management problems as well as for medical records, thus freeing both physicians and nurses from time consuming paperwork.”
[A. H. Schwichtenberg MD Brig Gen USAF (Ret) , "Impact of biomedical sciences, instrumentation and engineering on the practice of medicine". Biomed Sci Instrum vol.4 (1967), pp xi-xv].
History
As one of the world’s oldest journals in the biomedical engineering field, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation originated from the National Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Symposium and the Biomedical Sciences Division of the Instrument Society of America (ISA, renamed in 2000 The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society and in 2008 International Society of Automation).
First published in 1963 by ISA with Plenum Press as its distributor, the journal was immediately indexed by the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) which in 1971 became the more commonly known MEDLINE (MEDLARS onLINE) which in turn became PubMed in 1997.
In 1969, ISA started distributing the journal directly. In 1970, Volume 7 was the first edited by the Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium (RMBS) and in particular by one of its founders, Dr. Richard J. Gowen together with Clyde E. Tucker and Jerry K. Aikawa. Since Volume 9 in 1972, RMBS has had sole responsibility for the editing of the publication.
In 2018, with Volume 54 International Academic Express was chosen as the publisher, and the publication frequency went from annual to quarterly.
Focus and scope
As stated in the initial jackets (first published in 1963):
“Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation is a continuing series dealing with the latest advances in the new field of biomedical sciences instrumentation. The aim of this series is to provide a link between medicine and the measurement sciences, and to expand the use of instrumentation in the medical sciences. The objectives are to determine the measurement requirements of research for clinical laboratories, practitioners, and hospitals. This publication will be of use to the medical profession in general, biologists, physiologists, behavioral scientists, and related professions.”
Instrumentation, its design, selection, use, and output data analysis is a broad topic that encompasses all aspects of biomedical sciences. Therefore, since its inception, the journal has welcomed submissions related to any topic of biomedical sciences. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation is dedicated to the publication of outstanding articles of interest in biomedical sciences, welcoming submissions ranging from basic physiology and physiological monitoring to medical, engineering and biomedical education; from aviation, space and aerospace medicine to predictive medicine, machine learning & AI; from pollution monitoring to wildlife management. Below is an extended, but by no means exclusive, list of possible topics:
- Animal research
- Animal tracking and monitoring
- Aviation, space and aerospace medicine
- Biochemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Bioinstrumentation
- Biology and neurobiology
- Biomaterials
- Biomechanics
- Biomedical ethics
- Biomedical, medical and engineering pedagogy
- Biophysics
- Biosensors and transducers
- Cardiovascular mechanics
- Cellular and tissue engineering
- Cellular physiology
- Clinical and hospital systems engineering
- Computer graphics
- Computers in medicine
- Dental composites
- Drug delivery systems
- Economics and marketing
- Electrophysiology
- Ergonomics
- Forensic engineering
- Gait analysis
- Image, signal and data processing and analysis
- Imagery
- Kinesiology
- Machine learning & AI
- Medical devices design and regulations
- Modeling and simulation
- Neural modeling
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroscience
- Othopedics
- Patient monitoring
- Patient safety
- Physiological monitoring
- Physiology
- Pollution monitoring
- Predictive medicine
- Prosthetics
- Radiology and nuclear medicine
- Rehabilitation engineering
- Screening and diagnostics
- Sport and athletic training and performance
- Telemetry
- Trauma and impact
- Ultrasound
- Usability and Human Factors
- Vehicular safety
- Wildlife management
- Wound healing
- Biomedical potpourri
If the topic does not appear in this list or there are any questions, authors interested in publishing their work in Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief before submitting their manuscript.
Peer Review Process
Peer Review Policies
All work published in Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation is peer-reviewed. The editors oversee the peer review process and up to three independent individuals with expertise in the specific field covered by the work in question conduct the reviews in accordance with the highest standards of scholarship and analytic and critical assessment. The specific format of the peer-review process depends on the type of work presented. Refer to the specific instructions for more information.
Review procedures
All work submitted to Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation undergoes these general review steps:
- Administrative review for identification of the type of publication and conformance to specific formatting guidelines and submission requirements (within one week of submission): if these guidelines are not met, the corresponding author is notified of the nonconformity and required either to perform corrective actions before the review process is resumed or to withdraw the submission
- Peer review (within two months of submission): reviewers in the topic area are recruited and they are required to carefully evaluate the work and provide unbiased feedback to both the authors and the editors. Depending on the type of work up to three reviewers might be involved.
- Decision notification: based on the recommendation of the reviewers, the work is:
- Accepted for publication
- Accepted with minor revisions
- Accepted with major revisions
- Declined
Editorial decisions to accept or reject a manuscript are final. If the work is accepted with revisions and if the authors decide to implement the changes/corrections suggested by the reviewers, the work will undergo a second round of peer review prir to being accepted for publication or declined is authors do not appropriately address the reviewers' suggestions.
Publication Frequency
Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation is a quarterly journal, published in January, April, July and October.
All articles receive a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number so articles are searchable.
