Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: H APPY New Year!It has now been one year since I took upon the office of the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (TBME).As we celebrate the beginning of the new year, I wish to express my deep appreciation to all those who have contributed to TBME: the authors whose works reflect the scientific contributions to the field; the reviewers who contributed their expertise and time to ensure the quality and impact of works we publish; the editors whose expertise and dedication make TBME what it is; and the advisory board members for their support.Collectively, we have made many important improvements in this past year.2013 was a productive and exciting year.We had set three specific objectives for the year: 1) a new TBME website; 2) an improved submission to decision timeline; and 3) a Monthly Highlights newsletter to better serve our audience, and showcase cutting edge research being published in TBME.I am happy to report that we have accomplished all of these goals.To better address TBME user needs, a new website was designed and launched in early 2013 (http://tbme.embs.org).It introduces the latest research and features high impact papers monthly.It also communicates the TBME editorial policy, provides instructions to authors and reviewers, and serves as a gateway to TBME's most popular articles, archives, and links to other IEEE websites.In 2013, there were over 30 000 unique visitors, more than 55 000 visits, and more than 161 000 page views.About 50% of these visitors viewed the site multiple times.TBME submissions to decision metrics have also been improved substantially in the past year.For regular papers, TBME's submission to first decision time was reduced to 29 days and average submission to e-Publication is about 21 weeks.Despite the large number of submissions (2335 submissions over the past 12 months), the achievement of this goal reflects the hard work of all our editors and numerous reviewers.To promote articles published in TBME and to introduce TBME featured articles, a monthly TBME Highlights newsletter has been delivered to the international biomedical engineering community.Many articles, which were highlighted in the newsletter, immediately received a great amount of attention.TBME aims to become the premier platform for publishing significant works related to biomedical engineering.The invited position paper from the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering-"Medical and Biological Engineering in the Next 10 Years: The Promise and the Challenges"-received widespread attention and downloads.Similarly, a review paper summarizing NSF BRAIN
Author: Bin He
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4247222701