The Journal of Biomedical Informatics reflects a commitment to high-quality original research papers, reviews, and commentaries in the area of biomedical informatics methodology. Although we publish articles motivated by applications in the biomedical sciences (for example, clinical medicine, health care, population health, and translational bioinformatics), the journal emphasizes reports of new methodologies and techniques that have general applicability and that form the basis for the evolving science of biomedical informatics. Articles on medical devices; evaluations of implemented systems (including clinical trials of information technologies); or papers that provide insight into a biological process, a specific disease, or treatment options would generally be more suitable for publication in other venues. Papers on applications of signal processing and image analysis are often more suitable for biomedical engineering journals or other informatics journals, although we do publish papers that emphasize the information management and knowledge representation/modeling issues that arise in the storage and use of biological signals and images. System descriptions are welcome if they illustrate and substantiate the underlying methodology that is the principal focus of the report and an effort is made to address the generalizability and/or range of application of that methodology.
The methods that are the focus of JBI papers may be drawn from any of a number of component sciences in the field of biomedical informatics. Although the methods are often related to the field of computer science, many JBI papers will emphasize innovative techniques from other fields, such as decision science, statistics, cognitive science, psychology, information science, organizational theory, or management science.
If you are considering your bioinformatics article for submission to JBI, please be aware of this methodological focus. Biologic discoveries based on the use of routine informatics techniques may be important biologic contributions but are not suitable for JBI. In addition, please note that JBI publishes bioinformatics papers only if they deal with issues in translational (human) science. See the Translational Bioinformatics editorial that deals with this topic before submitting your paper.
Papers on biomedical privacy or security must also offer new and practical methodologies that are clearly motivated by the challenges of health care and biomedicine. An established method from another field does not warrant republication in JBI simply because it has been applied to a biomedical problem. We also look for papers that describe substantial methodological novelty rather than small incremental improvements on previously published techniques. See our Privacy and Security editorial for more detail about our policies for acceptable papers in this area.

Regular research papers
Methodological review papers
Commentaries
Special communications
Letters to the Editor
Book reviews
Editorials

Editor-in-Chief
Edward Shortliffe, MD, PhD
Edward Shortliffe, MD, PhD
Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics, New York, United States
Clinical decision support; Artificial intelligence; Internet in health care
Deputy Editor
Mor Peleg, PhD
Mor Peleg, PhD
University of Haifa Department of Information Systems, Haifa, Israel
Clinical decision-support; Knowledge representation; Ontologies; Computer-interpretable guidelines
Former Editors
Allan Pryor
1994-2000
Homer Warner
1968-1993
Associate Editors
Riccardo Bellazzi, PhD
University of Pavia, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Pavia, Italy
Data Mining; Artificial Intelligence; Clinical research informatics; Translational Bioinformatics
Wendy Chapman, PhD
University of Melbourne Centre for Clinical and Public Health Informatics Digital Health and Informatics, Melbourne, Australia
Biomedical informatics; Natural language processing
James Cimino, MD
University of Alabama School of Medicine Informatics Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Internal Medicine; Clinical Informatics
Robert Greenes, MD, PhD
Arizona State University-Skysong, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Biomedical Informatics
Vimla Patel, PhD
New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, United States
Cognitive Informatics
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Methods: Data integration; Data modeling; Data science; Decision support; People and organizational issues. Applications: Translational bioinformatics; Genomic medicine; Precision medicine; Clinical research informatics; Secondary use of EHR data for discovery and applications; Clinical informatics; Comparative effectiveness research