Frontiers in Health Informatics (formerly known as Iranian Journal of Medical Informatics) is an on-line English peer-reviewed journal for practitioners, researchers and students who are interested in the field of medical informatics and information technology in healthcare sectors. The Journal aims to publish novel and high quality relevant information written by peers to researchers and readers involved in all fields of health informatics and related interdisciplinaries, strives to keep pace with the rapid growth of publications, and move on to the edge of knowledge in this field.
The Editor welcomes original articles on current practice, research projects or the development of new resources or services. Review articles are also welcome. The scope of the journal encompasses (but is not restricted to):
- Information systems, including registraty systems, hospital information systems, departmental and/or physician's office systems, document handling systems, electronic medical record systems, standardization, systems integration etc.;
- Library and information sciences;
- Image Processing, including new algorithm development to detect lesions or diagnose diseases, implement or modify methods or algorithms etc;
- Computer-aided medical decision support systems using heuristic, algorithmic and/or statistical methods as exemplified in decision theory, protocol development, artificial intelligence, etc.;
- Health Information Management and Health Information Technology;
- Educational computer based programs;
- Health technology assessment;
- Other related fields;
From time to time the Editor may decide that a particular issue should be devoted to a single theme or topic and guest editors will be asked to review a range of papers relating to that theme or topic. Please read the instructions carefully for details on the submission of manuscripts, the journal's requirements and standards as well as information concerning the procedure after a manuscript has been accepted for publication.
Research articles should be included Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion and conclusion sections, and should not exceed 3000-5000 words (exclude references, abstract, tables, illustrations). The abstract is limited to 250-300 words.
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The journal will accept literature reviews and systematic reviews. These are subject to 10000 word limit (including all references, abstract, tables, illustrations). The abstract should not exceed 250-300 words.
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Generally 1500 words (exclude references) is ideal, with one diagram or figure.
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Inovation in Health Informatics follow the same structure as research papers. However, instead of methods and results, there should be Development and Application sections (Introduction, Development, Application, Discussion, Conclusion). They should not exceed 2,000 words and six diagrams or illustrations. The abstract is limited to at most 300 words.
The development section should describe the generic type of technology, i.e. how it was developed and the barriers/technical challenges that had to be overcome to develop it. The application of the technology section should describe the context in which the pilot application or other technology should be used and give any early feedback about its use. Even limited real world data is useful in this section. Wherever possible, a link to a demonstration website should be provided.
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Peer review helps editors select reasonable original copies, in any case, the editor settles on an official choice with respect to all the substance. Choices might be made by issues irrelevant to the nature of an original copy, for example, appropriateness for the journal. The editor can dismiss any article whenever before distribution, including after acknowledgment whether concerns emerge about the uprightness of the work.
Manuscripts chose for companion audit will be refereed by at any rate two commentators amid about a month as indicated by explicit research detailing rules for various investigation structures; Authors better send their updated original copies inside about fourteen days and if the reexamined adaptation isn't transferred inside 2 months, the accommodation will be documented.
- Reviewers' and creators' personalities are kept secret.
- The presence of a submitted composition isn't uncovered to anybody other than the commentators and publication staff.
- Reviewers are required to keep original copies and their data private.
- They should not utilize information of the original copy before its production for their own advantages.
- The analysts' remarks ought to be productive, legit, and obliging.
- Reviewers ought to pronounce their irreconcilable situations and decrease audit if a contention exists. Knowing the author(s) must not influence their remarks and choice.
Manuscripts can be published as soon as they are ready, by adding them to the "current" volume's Table of Contents.
This journal gives prompt open access to its substance on the rule that creation look into unreservedly accessible to the open backings a more prominent worldwide trade of information. All articles published by Front Health Inform are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:
1- Members of the Iranian Medical Informatics Association who have published at least one article in the journal in 2022 and 2023 (100% discount) and for other members (50% discount)
2- Iranian medical informatics PhD students for the first paper (50% discount)
3- Iranian medical informatics master's students for the first paper (70% discount)
4- The discount request of non-Iranian authors can be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and based on the request of the responsible author.
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
The journal is indexed in the followings: MagIran, Google Scholar, IndexCopernicus, Barkat Knowledge Network System, EBSCO, Research Bible, DRJI, DOAJ, CIVILICA, World Cat, Islamic World Science Citation (ISC), IMEMR, and SCOPUS.
Peer-reviewed articles published in FHI support and embody the scientific methods. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewers, the publisher and the society sponsoring the journal.The FHI is committed to following best practices on publication ethics. The following policies is based mainly on the Core Practices from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Publication and Authorship
Authors' Responsibilities
Authors must guarantee that their manuscript is their original work.
Responsibility for the Reviewers in Peer Review
Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
Editorial Responsibilities
Editors and Editor in Chief have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
Publishing Ethics Issues
All editorial members and authors must publish any kind of correction honestly and completely.
Policy and Action for Plagiarism
FHI shall take serious action against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism and shall completely remove them from FHI website and other third party websites where the paper is listed and indexed. The moment, any article published in FHI database is reported to be plagiarized, FHI will constitute a Fact Finding Committee (FFC) to investigate the same. Upon having established that the manuscript is plagiarized from some previously published work, FHI shall support the original author and manuscript irrespective of the publisher and may take any or all of the following immediate actions or follow the additional course of actions as recommended by the committee:
1- FHI editorial office shall immediately contact the Director / Dean / Head of the concerned College, Institution or Organization or the Vice Chancellor of the University to which the author(s) is (are) affiliated to take strict action against the concerned author.
2- FHI shall remove the PDF copy of the published manuscript from the website and disable all links to full text article. The term Plagiarized Manuscript shall be appended to the published manuscript title.
3- FHI shall disable the author account with the journal and reject all future submissions from the author for a period of at least 3 to 5 years.
4- FHI may also display the list of such authors along with their full contact details on FHI website.
5- Any other course of action, as recommended by the Committee or as deemed fit for the instant case or as decided by the Editorial Board, from time to time.
APC would be effective from October 1st. 2023.
All articles published in our journals are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made possible by an article-processing charge (APC) that covers the range of publishing services we provide. This includes provision of online tools for editors and authors, article production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, and customer services. The APC, payable when your manuscript is editorially accepted and before publication, is charged to either you, or your funder, institution or employer.
1) Who is responsible for making or arranging the payment?
As the corresponding author of the manuscript, you are responsible for making or arranging the payment (for instance, via your institution) upon editorial acceptance of the manuscript.
2) At which stage is the amount I will need to pay fixed?
The APC payable for an article will be determined from the date on which the article is accepted for publication.
3) When and how do I pay?
Upon editorial acceptance of an article, the corresponding author (you) will be notified that payment is due. You need to arrange payment unless a waiver has been granted, or your institution or employer is covering the cost.
We advise prompt payment as we are unable to publish accepted articles until payment has been received.
Payment can be made by any of the following methods:
No taxes are included in this charge. Then, If you are resident in any European Union country you have to add Value-Added Tax (VAT) at the rate applicable in the respective country. If you are resident in Japan you have to add Japanese Consumption Tax (JCT) at the rate set by the Japanese government.
4) Can charges be waived if I lack funds?
Frontiers in Health Informatics will consider requests from authors in financial need on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please see our open access policies for journals.
5) What is your APC refund policy?
Frontiers in Health Informatics will refund an article processing charge (APC) if an error on our part has resulted in a failure to publish an article under the open access terms. This may include the failure to make an article openly available on the journal platform, or publication of an article under a different Creative Commons licence from that selected by the author(s). A refund will only be offered if these errors have not been corrected within 30 days of publication.
APCs will not be refunded when articles are retracted as a result of author error or misconduct.
6) Article Processing Fee:
An article-processing fee applies for each article accepted for publication in Frontiers in Health Informatics
| Article Processing Fee | |
Iranian | Other countries | |
Original Research | 7000000 IR Rials | 100 Euro |
Review | 7000000 IR Rials | 100 Euro |
Letter to editor | 4000000 IR Rials | 50 Euro |
Innovation in Health Informatics Short Communication | 5000000 IR Rials | 70 Euro |
VAT or any tax would be added to the amounts.
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Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper. Patients have a right to privacy that should not be violated without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that an identifiable patient be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should disclose to these patients whether any potential identifiable material might be available via the Internet as well as in print after publication. Patient consent should be written and archived with the journal, the authors, or both, as dictated by local regulations or laws. We decide that patient confidentiality is better guarded by having the author archive the consent and instead providing the journal with a written statement that attests that they have received and archived written patient consent. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the published article.
Nonessential identifying details should be omitted. Informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt that anonymity can be maintained. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are de-identified, authors should provide assurance, and editors should so note, that such changes do not distort scientific meaning.
Patient identifiers will not be published in FHI, unless written informed consent is given and the content is essential for the scientific purpose and merit of the manuscript. Photographs of subjects showing any recognizable features must be accompanied by t heir signed release authorizing publication, as must case reports that provide enough unique identification of a person (other than name) to make recognition possible. Failure to obtain informed consent of patient prior to submission would result in manuscript rejection.
The FHI requires all authors and reviewers to declare any conflicts of interest that may be inherent in their submissions. Conflict of interest for a given manuscript exists when a participant in the peer review and publication process as author, reviewer, or editor has ties to activities that could inappropriately influence his or her judgment, whether or not judgment is in fact affected. Financial relationships with industry, for example, through employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, expert testimony, either directly or through immediate family, are usually considered to be the most important conflicts of interest.
However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion. Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how well conflict of interest is handled during writing, peer review, and editorial decision making. Bias can often be identified and eliminated by careful attention to the scientific methods and conclusions of the work. Financial relationships and their effects are less easily detected than other conflicts of interest. Participants in peer review and publication should disclose their conflicting interests, and the information should be made available so that others can judge their effects for themselves.
Authors: When they submit a manuscript, whether an article or a letter, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work.
Reviewers: External peer reviewers should disclose to editors any conflicts of interest that could bias their opinions of the manuscript, and they should disqualify themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if they believe it appropriate. The editors must be made aware of reviewers’ conflicts of interest to interpret the reviews and judge for themselves whether the reviewer should be disqualified. Reviewers should not use knowledge of the work, before its publication, to further their own interests.
Online corrections.
The version of an article which is published online is considered the final and complete version. Even though it is possible to correct this version, our policy (in common with other publishers) is not to do so, except in very limited circumstances.
We are only able to correct typographical errors in the following: author names, affiliations, articles titles, and abstracts and keywords. In such cases, an erratum or corrigendum would be necessary as well (see below), so that there is a record to explain the difference between the online and print versions.
We can publish a correction to your article if there is a serious error, for example with regard to scientific accuracy, or if your reputation or that of the journal would be affected. We do not publish corrections that do not affect the contribution in a material way or significantly impair the reader's understanding of the contribution (such as a spelling mistake or a grammatical error).
Errata
An erratum will be used if an important error has been introduced during the production of the journal article (one that affects the publication record, the scientific integrity of the paper, the reputation of the authors or of the journal), including errors of omission such as failure to make factual proof corrections requested by authors within the deadline provided by the journal and within journal policy.
We do not publish errata for typing errors except where an apparently simple error is significant (for example, an incorrect unit). A significant error in a figure or table is corrected by publication of a new corrected figure or table as an erratum. The figure or table is republished only if the editor considers it necessary.
Corrigenda
A corrigendum is a notification of an important error made by the authors of the article. All authors must sign corrigenda submitted for publication.
In cases where co-authors disagree, the editors will take advice from independent peer-reviewers and impose the appropriate amendment, noting the dissenting author(s) in the text of the published version.
Addenda
An addendum is a notification of a peer-reviewed addition of information to a paper, for example in response to a reader's request for clarification. Addenda do not contradict the original publication, but if the author inadvertently omitted significant information available at the time, this material can be published as an addendum after peer review.
Addenda are published only rarely and only when the editors decide that the addendum is crucial to the reader's understanding of a significant part of the published contribution.
All research must have been carried out within an appropriate ethical framework. If there is suspicion that work has not taken place within an appropriate ethical framework, Editors will follow may reject the manuscript, and/or contact the author(s)’ ethics committee. On rare occasions, if the Editor has serious concerns about the ethics of a study, the manuscript may be rejected on ethical grounds, even if approval from an ethics committee has been obtained.
Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee.
The submitted study has to be supported by the ethics/bioethics committee approval. Authors reporting the use of a new procedure or tool in a clinical setting, for example as a technical advance or case report, must give a clear justification in the manuscript for why the new procedure or tool was deemed more appropriate than usual clinical practice to meet the patient’s clinical need. Such justification is not required if the new procedure is already approved for clinical use at the authors’ institution. Authors will be expected to have obtained ethics committee approval and informed patient consent for any experimental use of a novel procedure or tool where a clear clinical advantage based on clinical need was not apparent before treatment.
We do not allow any type of advertisement in our journal website.
Journal Name: Frontiers in Health Informatics (from 2018)
formerly known as Iranian Journal of Medical Informatics (2012-2018)
Online ISSN: 2676-7104
Publisher: Iaranian Association of Medical Informatics (IrAMI)
Frequency: Continious Volume
First decision duration: At least 8 weeks
Final decision duration: At least 12 weeks
Article Processing Charges (APC): from October 1st, 2023.
Indexing: The journal is indexed in the followings: MagIran, Google Scholar, IndexCopernicus, Barkat Knowledge Network System, EBSCO, Research Bible, DRJI, DOAJ, CIVILICA, World Cat, Islamic World Science Citation (ISC), and SCOPUS.
Peer review process: Double Blind
Publishing model: Open access under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License(CC BY 4.0)