Aims & Scope
The aim of Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering is to promote the welfare of humans and to help them keep healthy. This international journal is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research papers, review articles and brief notes on materials and engineering for biological and medical systems. Articles in this peer-reviewed journal cover a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to: Engineering as applied to improving diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of disease and injury, and better substitutes for damaged or disabled human organs; Studies of biomaterial interactions with the human body, bio-compatibility, interfacial and interaction problems; Biomechanical behavior under biological and/or medical conditions; Mechanical and biological properties of membrane biomaterials; Cellular and tissue engineering, physiological, biophysical, biochemical bioengineering aspects; Implant failure fields and degradation of implants. Biomimetics engineering and materials including system analysis as supporter for aged people and as rehabilitation; Bioengineering and materials technology as applied to the decontamination against environmental problems; Biosensors, bioreactors, bioprocess instrumentation and control system; Application to food engineering; Standardization problems on biomaterials and related products; Assessment of reliability and safety of biomedical materials and man-machine systems; and Product liability of biomaterials and related products.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
A. Toshimitsu Yokobori, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Tohoku University
Specially Appointed Professor of Teikyo University
Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization (ACRO)
Teikyo University
2-22-1 Kaga Itabashi-ku
Tokyo, Japan
Email: toshi.yokobori@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp
Founding Editor
Takeo Yokobori
Honorary Editors
Takeo Yokobori
William Bonfield
Edmund Y.S. Chao
Joon B. Park
Yukihiko Nosé
Editorial Advisory Board
Hideki Aoki
International Apatite Institute
Tokyo, Japan
Kenzo Asaoka
University of Tokushima
Tokushima, Japan
Dan L. Bader
Queen Mary and Westfield College
London, United Kingdom
Joseph C. Barbenel
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Paul Calvert
University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, MA, USA
Jiang Chang
Chinese Academy of Science
Shanghai, China
Ulrich M. Gross
Free University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Parvez I. Haris
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Yoshito Ikada
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
Soichiro Itoh
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Tokyo, Japan
Helen Kambic
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH, USA
Dai Kawahara
Institute of Clinical Materials
Osaka, Japan
Masanori Kikuchi
National Institute for Materials Science
Tsukuba, Japan
Jack E. Lemons
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Kimiko Makino
Tokyo University of Science
Chiba, Japan
Yoshinori Mitamura
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan
Yoshinori Miyasaka
Senen General Hospital
Rifu, Japan
Egon Nordström
Abo Akademi University
Abo, Finland
Tetsuya Ogawa
Tokyo Women’s Medical University
Tokyo, Japan
Toshiro Ohashi
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan
Toshihito Ohmi
Shonan Institute of Technology
Fijisawa, Japan
Makoto Otsuka
Musashino University
Nishi-Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Ozawa
Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Sendai, Japan
Kazuhide Ozeki
Tokyo Denki University
Saitama, Japan
Joseph M. Price
Faegre & Benson
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Makoto Sakamoto
Niigata University
Niigata, Japan
Hirotaka Sano
Sendai City Hospital
Sendai, Japan
Shigeru Sasaki
Teikyo University
Tokyo, Japan
Amulya K. Saxena
Imperial College
London, United Kingdom
Tamotsu Tamaki
Nippon Institute of Technology
Saitama, Japan
Yuji Tanabe
Niigata University
Niigata, Japan
Tetsuya Tateishi
MITI
Ibaraki, Japan
Mitsugu Todo
Kyushu University
Fukuoka, Japan
Silvia Todros
University of Padova
Padova, Italy
Takashi Ushida
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Jaroslav Valenta
Czech Technical University
Prague, Czech Republic
Julian F.V. Vincent
The University of Reading
Reading, United Kingdom
Hiroki Watanabe
Kyoto Prefectural University
Kyoto, Japan
Kimihiro Yamashita
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Tokyo, Japan
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Examples of the Vancouver style:
[1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002; 935(12): 406.
[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.
[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93113.
[5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on the Internet]. Toronto: The Society; 2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006 Oct 17]. Available from: www.cancer.ca/.
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Peer Review Policy
Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering is a peer-reviewed journal. Articles submitted to the journal undergo a single-blind peer review process. This means that the identity of the authors is known to the reviewers but the identity of the reviewers is not communicated to the authors. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.
After automatic plagiarism screening through iThenticate, all submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Reasons to reject a paper in the pre-screening process could for example be that the work does not fall within the aims and scope, the writing is of poor quality, the instructions to authors were not followed or the presented work is not novel.
Papers deemed suitable to be reviewed will be assigned to a handling editor. The handling editor will then invite reviewers to comment on the work and might consider inviting the reviewers suggested by the author(s). Editors and reviewers are asked to excuse themselves from reviewing a submission if a conflict of interest makes them unable to make an impartial scientific judgment or evaluation. Conflicts of interest include but are not limited to: collaboration with the authors in the past three years; any professional or financial affiliations that may be perceived as a conflict of interest; a history of personal differences with the author(s).
As a standard policy, decisions are based on two reviews, in some specific circumstances one review may be deemed sufficient to make a decision on a paper. The Editor-in-Chief strives to ensure a typical turnaround time of 3 months.
Reviewers are asked to judge a paper on at least:
- Logical, concise ordering of ideas
- Use of sound research methods
- Adequacy of documentation
- Material has good applied use in the field
- Readability and interest level
Based on the received reviews the handling editor will propose to the Editor-in-Chief a recommendation:
- Accept article as submitted
- Accept article revision by the author according to suggestions made in review
- Revise and resubmit
- Reject
- Consider for another issue/publication
They mean the following:
- The manuscript is suitable for publication and only requires minor polishing; thus, no further reviews are requested.
- The authors are required to make moderate changes to their manuscript. The manuscript becomes acceptable for publication if the changes proposed by the reviewers and editors are successfully addressed. The revised manuscript will be examined by the Editors-in-Chief and possibly sent back to all (or a selection of) reviewers for a second round of reviews. Authors are requested to provide a letter to the reviewers detailing the improvements made for the resubmission.
- In its current form, the manuscript is not suitable for publication. A resubmission would require substantial revisions and is only encouraged in special cases. The resubmitted manuscript will be considered as a new submission.
- The manuscript is rejected as it is deemed to be out of scope, not relevant, or not meeting the journal’s quality standards in terms of significance, novelty, and/or presentation.
- The manuscript is rejected as it is deemed to be better suited for a different journal or publication.
Authors are notified by the Editorial Assistant (in name of the Editor-in-Chief), whose decision is final.
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