Journal Eligible Papers

AMIA Annual Symposium Journal Eligible Papers

Authors of papers/student papers will have the opportunity to request that their manuscripts be considered for potential publication in leading biomedical and health informatics journals.  When such accepted papers are referred to journals for possible publication there, a 400-word abstract will appear in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.  This new program is intended to encourage authors to submit their best work to the AMIA Annual Symposium, without worrying that an AMIA acceptance will prevent them from later publishing the work in a scientific journal. Before requesting such consideration for your paper, bear in mind that many papers suitable for presentation at the AMIA Annual Symposium and for publication in the Proceedings may be less appropriate for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.  Only the most innovative and scientifically rigorous papers will be referred to the journals.

If you decide that you would like your paper considered in this new program, you should still follow the paper/student paper formatting and length specifications described in the AMIA Annual Symposium Call for Participation when submitting your original manuscript.  If your paper/student paper is then accepted by the Scientific Program Committee and also selected as "journal-eligible," you will be expected to do the following:

1.  Edit and submit your current AMIA paper/student paper submission to create a revised and expanded manuscript in accordance with the format and length specifications of the appropriate participating journal. In particular the 5-page limit for AMIA conference submissions will no longer apply if the manuscript is deemed “journal-eligible.”  Resubmission timelines will vary from journal to journal but manuscripts will need to be expedited in a timely manner and will be submitted on the journal’s web sites with a cover letter that indicates that the paper was one of those selected by AMIA for submission under this special program.  AMIA will also notify the journal editors of the papers that they have referred to that journal for possible publication.

2.  Submit a 400-word summary abstract of your AMIA Annual Symposium paper/student paper manuscript to AMIA; the abstract will then appear in the Proceedings and will not be considered a "prior publication" of the work by participating journals. This abstract will not be indexed in MEDLINE since the journal article will be indexed.

3.  Recognize that selection as a “journal eligible” paper does not guarantee publication in one of the participating journals.  We expect that most referred papers will ultimately be accepted for journal publication, although revisions in response to the journal’s reviewers’ comments may delay the papers publication until later than the publication of the 400-word abstract in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.  However, if your manuscript is quickly rejected by the journal to which it was submitted and the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings has not yet gone to press, you will have the opportunity to publish the original submission in the Proceedings.  Regardless of the journal status of the paper at the time of the Annual Symposium, you will be expected to present the work as an oral presentation at AMIA.

For the purpose of organizing this process, you will be asked to indicate your top three preferred journals in rank order.  Note that your paper can be selected for submission only to one of the three journals that you select. In making your selections, bear in mind the main audience for each journal (e.g., clinical-, bio-, public health informatics) and the categories of articles supported by them (e.g., methodological advances, case reports, applications).  Participating journals follow:

–        AIM (AI Medicine)

–        CBM (Computers in Biology and Medicine)

–        IJMI (International Journal of Medical Informatics)

–        JAMIA (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association)

–        JBI (Journal of Biomedical Informatics)

–        JMLA (Journal of the Medical Library Association)

–        MIM (Methods of Information in Medicine)