electronic Journal of Health Informatics
Online Submission
Please submit your submission online here.Author Guidelines and Template
It is our aim to keep this journal free of charge for both authors and readers. To reduce production costs, authors are therefore kindly asked to carefully follow all author guidelines and use the template provided to prepare their papers. Please download and use our template for the preparation of your paper and follow the Author's Guidelines. For your convenience, Endnote styles have been created that authors are encouraged to use to ensure consistent referencing: Papers that do not adhere to the author guidelines or are not based on the template supplied will be returned to the author for correction before the reviewing process can start.Quality of Submitted Papers
Researchers new to the field may be guided in writing a 'good' scientific health informatics paper by the "Quality criteria for medical informatics research papers" available here (external link). Further, the journal editor will immediately return papers without peer-review if they do not pass the following essential 'gate criteria':- Relevance to the journal's audience
- Originality of the content of the submission (i.e. that the paper adds something detectable to the state of knowledge)
- Clarity: The paper makes it clear just what its contribution to the state of knowledge is and places its contribution in an appropriate context and framework.
- Organisation: The presence of at least the key sections (e.g. no discussion at all about what this approach adds and how it relates to other approaches; none or insufficient references, ...)
- Language: Written in reasonably good English
- Scientific conduct: Exemplary scientific conduct regarding submission of manuscripts to biomedical informatics journals, such as no concurrent duplicate submissions to several jpournals, no serial unchanged or minimally changed submissions, no plagiarism and self-plagiarism, disclosure of any conflicts of interest. For details, please see Miller RA, Groth T, Hasman A, Safran C, Shortliffe EH, Haux R, McCray AT: On exemplary scientific conduct regarding submission of manuscripts to biomedical informatics journals (e.g.) Methods of Information in Medicine. 2006;45(1):1-3.
Quality of Evaluation Papers
We are convinced that an increasing audience is interested in learning about high-quality IT evaluation results. However, as research has shown, IT evaluation papers often suffer from low publication quality, making it hard for the reader to assess quality and generalisability of IT evaluation results. Therefore, a group of international experts, coordinated by the Working Group "Assessment of Health Information Systems" (http://iig.umit.at/efmi/) of EFMI, the European Federation of Medical Informatics, developed guidelines for authors of IT evaluation papers, called STARE-HI, the Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics. The STARE-HI guidelines provide a detailed description of the elements that needs to be considered for inclusion in a high-quality health IT evaluation papers. STARE-HI so far has been adopted by- The General Assembly of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association
- The Board of EFMI, the European Medical Informatics Association
- The Working Group " Evaluation" of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association
eJHI - electronic Journal of Health Informatics. ISSN: 1446-4381