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Journals in Orthopedics and biomechanics

This portfolio explores musculoskeletal disorders, surgical techniques, and movement analysis. Supporting orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists, and researchers, it features innovations in implants, prosthetics, and biomechanics research.

  • Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology

    • ISSN: 1521-6942
    Evidence-based updates of best clinical practice across the spectrum of musculoskeletal conditions.Best Practice & Research: Clinical Rheumatology keeps the clinician or trainee informed of the latest developments and current recommended practice in the rapidly advancing fields of musculoskeletal conditions and science.The series provides a continuous update of current clinical practice. It is a topical serial publication that covers the spectrum of musculoskeletal conditions in a 4-year cycle. Each topic-based issue contains around 200 pages of practical, evidence-based review articles, which integrate the results from the latest original research with current clinical practice and thinking to provide a continuous update.Each issue follows a problem-orientated approach that focuses on the key questions to be addressed, clearly defining what is known and not known. The review articles seek to address the clinical issues of diagnosis, treatment and patient management. Management is described in practical terms so that it can be applied to the individual patient. The serial is aimed at the physician in both practice and training.The Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology series provides up-to-date and expert information and opinion by drawing on Guest Editors and authors renowned for their expertise. This ongoing review of topics makes the serial ideally suited to supporting everyday clinical practice, for training needs as well as for maintaining knowledge and competency.Volume 22 (Volume 2008):1. Connective tissue diseases M. Matucci-Cerinic & D. Furst2. Musculoskeletal science T. Pap & U. Muller-Ladner3. How to manage chronic musculoskeletal conditions - the principles P. Brooks & P. Conaghan4. Miscellanous inflammatory musculoskeletal conditions J. Sibilia & H. Zeidler5. Musculoskeletal conditions in the developing world G. Mody & R. Handa6. Imaging in musculoskeletal conditions M. Cimmino and W. GrassiVolume 23 (2009):1. Early rheumatoid arthritis2. Vasculitis3. How to do - practical procedures4. Back pain5. Systemic lupus erythematosus6. OsteoporosisVolume 24 (2010):1. Osteoarthritis2. Paediatric rheumatology3. How to manage chronic musculoskeletal conditions - a systematic approach to specific problems4. Pharmacotherapy5. Spondylo-arthropathi... Prevention / epidemiologyThis free sample chapter is being provided to demonstrate the Journal's approach to topics across the spectrum of musculoskeletal conditions.
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  • Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics

    • ISSN: 1048-6666
    Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics is an innovative, richly illustrated resource that keeps practitioners informed of significant advances in all areas of surgical management. Each issue of this atlas-style journal explores a single topic, often offering alternate approaches to the same procedure. Its current, definitive information keeps readers in the forefront of their specialty.
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  • Journal of Arthroplasty

    • ISSN: 0883-5403
    The Journal of Arthroplasty, official Journal of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons brings together the clinical and scientific foundations for joint arthroplasty. This peer-reviewed journal publishes original research and manuscripts of the highest quality from all areas relating to joint replacement or the treatment of its complications, including those dealing with clinical series and experience, prosthetic design, biomechanics, biomaterials, metallurgy, biologic response to arthroplasty materials in vivo and in vitro.Authors are also welcome to submit to the journal's open access companion title, Arthroplasty  Today.
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  • The Journal of Hand Surgery

    • ISSN: 0363-5023
    The Journal of Hand Surgery, Official Journal of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH), publishes articles related to the diagnosis, treatment, and pathophysiology of diseases and conditions of the hand, wrist, and upper extremity. Features include Full-Length scientific articles, Current Concept reviews, the Hand Surgery Landscape, and Surgical Technique articles that provide an overview of hand surgery, technical aspects of surgery, and controversial topics. The journal provides additional insights into the published papers through editor videos, podcasts of interviews with authors, visual abstracts, and a monthly online journal club. ASSH offers monthly CME credit through exams connected to specific articles. Authors have the option to publish their work as open access articles.
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  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise

    • ISSN: 1469-0292
    An Official Journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC)Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. To be considered for publication, manuscripts must make a substantive theoretical or methodological contribution. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication include results from high quality empirical research, reviews, meta-analyses, reports of professional practice (which need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description), registered reports, and commentaries concerning already published PSE papers. Authors should adhere to recognised reporting guidelines for research (e.g., PRISMA guidelines for reviews and meta-analyses; TIDieR guidelines for interventions; CONSORT statement for randomised trials). Registered reports undergo a two-phase review process in which study rationale and methodology are considered prior to the research being undertaken. Authors are welcome to pre-register their study with an external organization (e.g. OSF), but it is not required. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. Quantitative studies should be theoretically informed and empirical research justified with a-priori power estimates provided (drawing on effects sizes from previous meta-analyses and/or specific papers with designs close to the one authors use). Qualitative studies should address the ontological/epistemo... position and methodological rigour of the study. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.Additional information If you wish to contact one of the Editors-in-Chief for any reason, (e.g. becoming a reviewer, interest in joining editorial board, issue about journal policy) please email the Editors-in-Chief. All manuscripts should be presented as concisely as possible. Authors should consider making available some of their material as supplementary electronic material to keep the overall page limit around 30 pages (8000 words) including references, tables, and figures. If manuscripts are mixed-methods, multiple experiments, complex designs, or include large tables and data sets (qualitative and/or quantitative), authors are requested to provide more information about their rationale for a longer page length (more than 8000 words) for their paper during the review process (e.g., in the cover letter to the Editors). The editorial team will then decide on the appropriateness of a longer page length when considering the submission. All submissions are screened by one of the editors before they are sent out for review to assess their suitability for the journal. Hence, there is no need to contact the editors prior to submission. The editors will also consider short communications for publication and such submissions should be a maximum of 15 pages including abstract (150 words max), main text, references, tables, and figures. Commentaries on published PSE papers should be a maximum of 5 pages, including abstract, references, tables, and figures.
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  • The Knee

    • ISSN: 0968-0160
    Official Publication of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) and the South African Knee Society (SAKS)The Knee is an international journal publishing studies on the clinical treatment and fundamental biomechanical characteristics of this joint. The aim of the journal is to provide a vehicle relevant to surgeons, biomedical engineers, imaging specialists, materials scientists, rehabilitation personnel and all those with an interest in the knee.The topics covered include, but are not limited to: Anatomy, physiology, morphology and biochemistry; Biomechanical studies; Advances in the development of prosthetic, orthotic and augmentation devices; Imaging and diagnostic techniques; Pathology; Trauma; Surgery; Rehabilitation.The journal publishes original research articles, review papers, and case reports. In addition, the regular content includes letters to the Editor, book reviews and a conference calendar.
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  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

    • ISSN: 0933-3657
    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine publishes original articles from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives concerning the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, medically-oriented human biology, and health care.Artificial intelligence in medicine may be characterized as the scientific discipline pertaining to research studies, projects, and applications that aim at supporting decision-based medical tasks through knowledge- and/or data-intensive computer-based solutions that ultimately support and improve the performance of a human care provider.Artificial Intelligence in Medicine considers for publication manuscripts that have both:• Potential high impact in some medical or healthcare domain; • Strong novelty of method and theory related to AI and computer science techniques.Artificia... Intelligence in Medicine papers must refer to real-world medical domains, considered and discussed at the proper depth, from both the technical and the medical points of view. The inclusion of a clinical assessment of the usefulness and potential impact of the submitted work is strongly recommended.Artifici... Intelligence in Medicine is looking for novelty in the methodological and/or theoretical content of submitted papers. Such kind of novelty has to be mainly acknowledged in the area of AI and Computer Science. Methodological papers deal with the proposal of some strategy and related methods to solve some scientific issues in specific domains. They must show, usually through an experimental evaluation, how the proposed methodology can be applied to medicine, medically-oriented human biology, and health care, respectively. They have also to provide a comparison with other proposals, and explicitly discuss elements of novelty. Theoretical papers focus on more fundamental, general and formal topics of AI and must show the novel expected effects of the proposed solution in some medical or healthcare field.Following the information explosion brought by the diffusion of Internet, social networks, cloud computing, and big-data platforms, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine has broadened its perspective. Particular attention is given to novel research work pertaining to:AI-based clinical decision making;Medical knowledge engineering;Knowledg... and agent-based systems;Computationa... intelligence in bio- and clinical medicine;Intelligent and process-aware information systems in healthcare and medicine;Natural language processing in medicine;Data analytics and mining for biomedical decision support;New computational platforms and models for biomedicine;Intellig... exploitation of heterogeneous data sources aimed at supporting decision-based and data-intensive clinical tasks;Intelligent devices and instruments;Automate... reasoning and meta-reasoning in medicine;Machine learning in medicine, medically-oriented human biology, and healthcare;AI and data science in medicine, medically-oriented human biology, and healthcare;AI-based modeling and management of healthcare pathways and clinical guidelines;Models and systems for AI-based population health;AI in medical and healthcare education;Methodolog... philosophical, ethical, and social issues of AI in healthcare, medically-oriented human biology, and medicine.If you are considering submitting to Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, make sure that your paper meets the quality requirements mentioned above. English exposition must also be clear and revised with due care. Authors are kindly requested to revise their manuscripts with the help of co-authors that are fluent in English or language editing services before submitting their contribution. Papers written in poor English are likely to be rejected.The mere application of well-known or already published algorithms and techniques to medical data is not regarded as original research work of interest for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, but it may be suitable for other venues.Artificial Intelligence in Medicine features the following kinds of papers:Original research contributions: Theoretical and/or methodological papers about novel approaches;Methodolo... reviews/surveys: Papers that collect, classify, describe, and critically analyze research designs, methods and procedures;Position papers: Papers that gather, describe, and analyze the scientific challenges of a specific field, founding them on the related literature;Editorial... Editors will occasionally publish editorials;Guest editorials: Editors can invite guest editors of special issues to publish editorials. Unsolicited editorials will not be considered;Letters to the editor: Letters from readers shortly discussing and commenting on a topic of interest, for example based on recently published articles in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine;Book reviews: A critical review of recently published books;Erratum: Some specific corrections to results previously published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine;Historical perspectives: Papers that describe and critically review some specific aspects in the history of scientific contributions and applications;In memoriam: Papers describing the life and the main scientific contributions of scientists passed away, having had an important role in the area of artificial intelligence in medicine;PhD projects: Early publications about more recent research trends, having the goal of allowing PhD candidates to explain their PhD research project and to share it with other scientists interested in the topic. Such type of papers should focus on the overall goals and approaches of PhD research projects, without considering in detail the specific scientific results obtained, which would be the focus of other research articles.Special Issues are regularly published and included among regular issues. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine special issues deal with current theoretical/methodol... research or convincing applications related to AI in medicine. Special Issues are managed by one or more guest editors who are outstanding experts on the selected topic.Special Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine are directly proposed to potential guest editors by the Editor in Chief, also according to suggestions from the editorial board members."External" proposals of Special Issues will no longer be considered.Artificia... Intelligence in Medicine does not publish conference volumes or conference papers. However, selected and high-quality research results presented earlier at conferences may be published in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, in the form of a thoroughly revised (rephrased) and extended (including new research results) original research paper.Information for authors and further details about the editorial process can be found in the Guide for Authors section of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine web page.
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  • Computers in Biology and Medicine

    • ISSN: 0010-4825
    Computers in Biology and Medicine, is a medium of international communication of the revolutionary advances being made in the application of the computer to the fields of bioscience and medicine.The Journal will focus on such areas as:Analysis of Biomedical Systems: Solutions of EquationsSynthesis of Biomedical Systems: SimulationsSpecial Medical Data Processing MethodsSpecial Purpose ComputersClinical Data Processing for Real TimeClinical and Experimental UseMedical Diagnosis and Medical Record ProcessingBiomedical EngineeringMedical InformaticsBioinform... Applications of the Internet and World Wide WebHuman GenomicsProteomicsFu... Brain StudiesArticles which examine the following topics of special interest are being featured in Computers in Biology and Medicine: computer aids to the analysis of biochemical systems, computer aids to biocontrol-systems engineering, neuronal simulation by digital-computer gating components, automatic computer analysis of pictures of biological and medical importance, use of computers by commercial pharmaceutical and chemical organizations, radiation-dosage computers, and accumulating and recalling individual medical records, real-time languages, interfaces to patient monitors, clinical chemistry equipment, data handling and display in nuclear medicine and therapy.CBM does not consider submissions:-describ... research using fundamental in silico tools, like basic molecular docking not supported by detailed molecular dynamic simulations, post modelling/dynamics analysis, estimation and mathematical modelling and advanced algorithmic treatment with the data sets, or by detailed experimental validations.-with unclear dataset division into training/validation/... sets and/or imprecise downstream task analysis, specifically for image segmentation papers.-with minor architecture/model modifications and only slight increase in performance validation parameters (accuracy, Dice, etc) and/or lack of comparison with real state-of-the-art methods.
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  • Journal of Hand Therapy

    • ISSN: 0894-1130
    The Journal of Hand Therapy is designed to support and advance evidence-based hand therapy, which is a speciality of rehabilitation that focuses on the upper limb. Hand therapists can come from either parent discipline physical therapy or occupational therapy and become hand therapists after advanced training and in some countries this speciality requires certification. As a hand therapy journal, we publish scientific papers, clinical papers, brief reports, and editorials that inform hand therapy. We require that the implications to hand therapy practice are clearly stated, and prefer the interventions be provided by hand therapists. Whether hand therapists, physical therapists or occupational therapists provided “hand therapy” interventions should be stated in methods, and the nature of the intervention should be clearly described (to support reader implementation). However, the discussion should focus on hand therapy, not just the parent discipline or the medical implications, to fit within the scope of the journal. Early work that is more basic or innovation development will be considered, if the implications for future hand therapy practice are clear. Papers that do not inform hand therapy should be submitted to another more relevant journal.
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  • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

    • ISSN: 1440-2440
    The manuscripts must be in one of the following sub-disciplines relating generally to the broad sports medicine and sports science fields: •Sport and exercise medicine•Sport injury (including injury epidemiology, injury prevention and rehabilitation, sport physiotherapy)•Exerc... therapy •Physical activity and public health (as relevant to sport and exercise)•Sports science (including biomechanics, exercise physiology, motor control and learning, sport and exercise psychology and sports nutrition) The Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport focuses on practically/clinical... meaningful studies. Animal studies will not be considered. Manuscripts with an interdisciplinary perspective with specific applications to sport and exercise and its interaction with health will also be considered as well as studies based on a qualitative methodology for data collection and analysis. Authors who are unsure about the fit of their manuscript to these criteria may consult the editorial office prior to submission.
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