Journal of Biomedical Informatics: X

Journal of Biomedical Informatics: X is published by Elsevier. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies and Human auditory perception and evaluation, together about 65.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Endorsed by the American Medical Informatics AssociationThe Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) is the premier methodology journal in the field of biomedical informatics. JBI publishes research on new methodologies and techniques that have general applicability and form the basis for the evolving science of biomedical informatics. Papers should focus on a real-world biomedical or clinical problem, develop a novel approach to address the problem, and evaluate its appropriateness in comparison to the current state-of-the-art (SoA) methods. Involvement of healthcare professionals in motivating the work and evaluation of results is expected.Focus Areas and Topics of InterestJBI seeks to publish papers that make a conceptual contribution to the field, typically by describing an innovation in methodology or technique or by discussing substantive generalizable lessons that have been learned in the context of an informatics project. When a methodological contribution has a theoretical basis, that theory is an appropriate emphasis for papers as well. Research papers may also present a novel "method of methods" explaining how to apply the existing methods to a space of biomedical problems that share unique characteristics influencing the choice of methods.JBI publishes papers on a wide range of informatics topics. However, across these topics, papers must build on deep understanding and utilization of medical domain knowledge and should consider pragmatic translation for clinical care or applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) clinical decision support, patient safety, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, knowledge representation for healthcare, translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, and clinical informatics. Additional considerations for papers in the areas of translational bioinformatics, machine learning, security and privacy are provided below. Irrespective of the topic, papers must focus on novel informatics methods and its comparison to the current approaches.Manuscripts can be submitted in the following categories: original research, methodological review (by-invitation only), commentaries (usually by-invitation), special communication, letters to the editor, and editorials (by-invitation only); (see additional details on each of these categories below). Given the international readership of JBI, country-specific health systems or approaches will be considered only if th

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science-Computer Science Applications

Editor-in-chief Mor PelegPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 6 in mainland China (about 7%); most named United States 56, Mainland China 6, Italy 6, Spain 4, Taiwan, China 3 (91 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

5.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

6.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

10.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.72LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Figures by source

Submission to first decision

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

49 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to acceptance

142 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

2590-177X

Official links

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