BMC Biomedical Engineering, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal is now open for submissions and with it the BMC series enters for the first time a new subject area: engineering. This is the first of two newly launched journals in the BMC series.
2018 has been declared as the 'Year of Engineering' by the UK government, an initiative that has seen wide support by hundreds of national and international organisations. Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing field that creates lasting impact on global health and society. It has existed for many centuries, in a mixture of forms, but it wasn't until the twentieth century when major discoveries in the physical sciences enabled it to evolve exponentially. The invention of the electrocardiograph by William Einthoven (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1924) in the start of the century changed the course of the diagnosis and treatment for the cardiovascular system.
BMC Biomedical Engineering will provide the biomedical engineering community with a global open access venue for robust research with the ultimate goal of improving human health, by combining tools and methods from biology and medicine with mathematics, physical sciences and engineering.
As a member of the BMC series, the ethos of BMC Biomedical Engineering is open and inclusive, and the journal does not make editorial decisions on the basis of the interest of a study or its likely impact. Submissions are rigorously peer reviewed to assess scientific validity and published articles will become freely available to all readers irrespective of their location.
BMC Biomedical Engineering will complement and strengthen the open access portfolio of the BMC series, which currently focuses on biology and medicine, and expand it into engineering. Its multidisciplinary attributes allow it to collaborate with existing sister BMC series titles that represent established medical communities such as BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, BMC Medical Imaging or BMC Cancer, and make research visible to a wide network of relevant clinical audiences (for example, via cross-journal special issues).
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