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Natural language processing in medical informatics

Guest Edited by Honghan Wu                                               

Sensor informatics and disease prediction

Guest Edited by Fazlullah Khan, Imran Razzak, T Poongodi and Varun G Menon  

Data sources and registries in healthcare

Guest Edited by Andrew D. Boyd and Pierangelo Veltri

Computational techniques for drug repositioning

Guest Edited by Alejandro Rodríguez González, Lucía Prieto Santamaría, Pu-Feng Du

Open source medical software

Guest Edited by Shawn Murphy 


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Characterizing the limitations of using diagnosis codes in the context of machine learning for healthcare

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Prediction of Sjögren’s disease diagnosis using matched electronic dental-health record data


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An evaluation of GPT models for phenotype concept recognition


New Content ItemPatient values in patient-provider communication about participation in early phase clinical cancer trials: a qualitative analysis before and after implementation of an online value clarification tool intervention




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Aims and scope

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of health information technologies and decision-making for human health.

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    3.5 - 2-year Impact Factor
    3.9 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.384 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.940 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    37 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    213 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    2,588,758 downloads
    2,443 Altmetric mentions 

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