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  • IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine is an open access product that bridges the engineering and clinical worlds, focusing on detailed descriptions of advanced technical solutions to a clinical need along with clinical results and healthcare relevance. The journal provides a platform for state-of-the-art technology directions in the interdisciplinary field of biomedical engineering, embracing engineering, life sciences and medicine. A unique aspect of the journal is its ability to foster a collaboration between physicians and engineers for presenting broad and compelling real world technological and engineering solutions that can be implemented in the interest of improving quality of patient care and treatment outcomes, thereby reducing costs and improving efficiency. The journal provides an active forum for clinical research and relevant state-of the-art technology for members of all the IEEE societies that have an interest in biomedical engineering as well as reaching out directly to physicians and the medical community through the American Medical Association (AMA) and other clinical societies. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited, to topics on: Medical devices, healthcare delivery systems, global healthcare initiatives, and ICT based services; Technological relevance to healthcare cost reduction; Technology affecting healthcare management, decision-making, and policy; Advanced technical work that is applied to solving specific clinical needs.

  •  Authors may have their submitted articles on TechArxiv or Arxiv while they are under review.  They must replace the preprint article with the accepted version once it has been accepted by IEEE.  This site has much more information about author posting:

    https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/become-an-ieee-journal-author/publishing-ethics/guidelines-and-policies/post-publication-policies/

  • We welcome papers with research findings and clinical translation studies from clinicians, engineering faculty and students, industry, policy makers, and the investment community. We also welcome your input and comments on challenges in quality global healthcare, clinical needs, and issues in technology translation to clinical applications on our community forum.

    JTEHM publishes articles on subjects including, but not limited to, the following representative topics:

    • Medical Devices and Systems
    • Nano-biosensors and Biosystems
    • Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology
    • Cardiovascular Devices and Systems
    • Neurovascular Devices and Systems
    • Rehabilitation Devices and Systems
    • Surgical and Interventional Devices
    • Bio and Surgical Robotics
    • Wearable Sensors and Health Monitoring Systems
    • Point-of-Care Technologies
    • Wireless and Communication Technologies for Bio-Information Systems
    • Electronic Medical Records and Medical Information Systems
    • Clinical Ideation
    • Clinical Trials
    • Clinical Commercialization
    • Clinical Engineering
    • Global Health
    • Harsh Environments
    • Hematology and Hemostasis
    • Metabolics
    • Oncology
    • Risk and Uncertainty
    • Social Determinants of Health
    • Law, Ethics, and Policy
    • Medicine
  • We are committed to accepting the highest quality papers possible and to a quick response time for our authors. If you have any questions about the suitability of your work for JTEHM, send us a copy of your abstract through our Contact Us page. We will be happy to provide you with a quick response.

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  • JTEHM publishes articles “continuously”; that is, articles are published online as soon as they are available (peer-reviewed and copyedited).

  • As a Gold open-access journal, JTEHM is entirely free to our readers; subscription is not necessary, and authors do not cede copyright to IEEE.

  • Submitted manuscripts are subject to a rigorous but speedy peer review process. We aim for a standard review time of less than 2 months. The review process is designed to help authors to improve their manuscripts by giving them constructive comments on how to improve their paper, and to publish only those articles which comply with general quality criteria of a scholarly paper, especially originality, clarity, references to related work and validity of results and conclusions. In addition, we require a translational element to the work or a clear path to clinical application.

    When we receive a manuscript, the Managing Editor will first decide whether the manuscript meets the formal criteria specified in the JTEHM template and, in consultation with the Editor in Chief, whether it fits within the scope of the journal. When in doubt, the editor will consult other members of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts are then assigned to an Associate Editor, who sends each paper to 2 external experts for peer review. Authors are required to suggest at least 1 peer-reviewer (who does not have a conflict of interest) during the submission process.

    Speed of Peer-Review

    Bioengineering is a fast-moving field and we acknowledge the need of our authors to communicate their findings rapidly. We therefore aim to be extremely fast (but still thorough and rigorous) in our peer-review process. However, actual times needed to review and edit papers vary, and primarily depend on the quality of the paper upon first submission. Normally we cannot give any guarantees on the speed of peer-review or publication, but we aim for an average decision time of 2 months after submission for papers sent out for peer-review. There will, however, always be outliers.

    Manuscript Requirements

    Manuscripts should meet the following requirements: the study conducted is ethical; the material is original; the writing is clear; the study methods are appropriate; the data are valid; the conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data; the information is important; there is a clear translational focus or path to clinical application; and the topic is interesting for our readership.

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    Ethical Issues

    Informed consent, protection of privacy and other human rights are further criteria against which manuscripts involving human subjects will be judged. Papers describing investigations on human or animal subjects must include a statement that the study was approved by the institutional review board.

    Our ethical requirements for submitted manuscripts are in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, drawn up by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (JAMA 1997;277:927-934). JTEHM also supports and acts in line with the Editorial Policy Statements of the Council of Science Editors.

  • To read more about the types of manuscripts accepted by JTEHM see our Instructions for Authors page.

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  • It is the policy of the IEEE to own the copyright to the technical contributions it publishes on behalf of the interests of the IEEE, its authors, and their employers, and to facilitate the appropriate reuse of this material by others. To comply with the United States Copyright Law, authors are required to sign a digital version of the IEEE Copyright Form upon acceptance of the manuscript. Authors will automatically be redirected to the eCF (electronic Copyright Form) after they have submitted the final files. The eCF makes signing a publishing agreement easy. The form will determine which agreement meets your needs and enable you to complete it on-screen.

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  • JTEHM is indexed in PubMedCentral, DOAJ, SCOPUS, EMBASE, and other major bibliographic indexes and abstracting services. Our current impact factor is 3.316.

  • Purpose: The Editorial Board is a group of outstanding individuals committed to helping JTEHM produce an excellent multidisciplinary scientific publication of the highest quality. Editorial Board members are appointed by the editor-in-chief and serve for at the discretion of the editor-in-chief. On average members serve for a 3-year term that is potentially renewable. Nominations for Editorial Board appointments come from a variety of sources, including self-nominations, the current Editorial Board, journal authors, and readers. The Editorial Board aims to constitute an appropriate interdisciplinary mix from a wide range of disciplines, including health care researchers, researchers from the engineering sciences, social sciences, industry, and practicing clinicians. Our board members are productive and highly respected members of the scientific and industry communities.

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  • As we aim to publish widely indexed, carefully copyedited, high-quality manuscripts that are also deposited in repositories such as PubMed Central, publication of an accepted paper requires expensive production steps such as copyediting, reference checking and XML tagging. In the editing and production stage, IEEE employs professional full-time staff and freelancers, and we have to pay for these services. To defray these costs (and because we do not sell subscriptions like toll-access journals) we require authors to pay certain fees.

    Authors publishing in JTEHM pay an article processing/open access fee of $1995 for articles submitted in 2024/$2075 for articles submitted in 2025 only in case of acceptance. There is a 5% discount for IEEE Members and 20% discount for EMB Society members.

    These fees are usually funded from research grants, and new researchers in the area are urged to budget for open access publications in their grant proposals, much as they budget for conference presentations.

    Corresponding authors from low income countries (as defined by the world bank) may be eligible for discounts and fee waivers.

    Information about IEEE’s Low and Lower-middle Income Country Program is available

    Some institutions offer assistance for open access funding. Check our institutional partners list to see if yours is one.

    Eligible authors of accepted papers should contact the editor-in-chief for more information.

    When comparing the cost of publishing in JTEHM against the cost of publishing in other OA journals, please consider that 1) IEEE journals’ reputation for quality, and 2) JTEHM employs professional copyediting after acceptance, which is a service many OA journals with lower costs do not provide. Given these considerations, JTEHM is currently one of the most cost-effective OA journals on the market.

    Article processing fees for Open Access journals have become an increasingly accepted method to defray the costs for publication, and fortunately most institutions have developed mechanisms and funding sources to cover publication costs in high-quality open access journals.

  • Submit articles for publication in JTEHM through IEEE Author Portal. All submissions must follow the IEEE JTEHM templates. Upon acceptance, authors are encouraged to include either a video abstract or a high-resolution image for both Xplore and JTEHM.

    A length of 8 pages of text, including references, is recommended.  Appendices and supplementary material do not count toward the page length.

    JTEHM uses a structured abstract, which means that the abstract includes subheads to guide the reader (background, methods, results, conclusions). The subheads do not count toward the abstract word count.

    As an Open Access journal, JTEHM charges article processing fees.

  • JTEHM welcomes comments and guest blogs from the translational engineering community. Comments are moderated, so there will be a short lag before comments are posted. All papers are encouraged to include video, tutorials, interactive content, and high-resolution images as well.

  • A description of sources of funding, financial disclosure, and the role of sponsors must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript.

    Authors must also disclose any personal financial interests related to the subject of the manuscript. It is not unusual for JTEHM authors to be owners or employees of companies that are developing the technologies described in their manuscript. There is nothing wrong with this, but editors, reviewers, and readers should be made aware of such conflicts of interests; thus, these facts must be disclosed.