The ''Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science'' is an

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published by Annual Reviews. In publication since 2018, this journal covers significant developments in the field of

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and

biomedical data science Biomedical data science is a multidisciplinary field which leverages large volumes of data to promote biomedical innovation and discovery. Biomedical data science draws from various fields including Biostatistics, Biomedical informatics, and machin ...

with an annual volume of

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s. It is edited by

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. As of 2023, it is being published as

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model. As of 2024, ''

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'' lists the journal's

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as 7.0, ranking it second out of 65 journals.

History

The ''Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science'' was first published in 2018 by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews. The journal focuses on

, the development of scientific methods to acquire, annotate, organize, analyze, and interpret biomedical data and extract knowledge about life, health, and disease. The founding co-

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were Russ B. Altman and Michael Levitt. As of 2021, Altman was the lead editor.

Scope and indexing

The ''Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science'' is

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and

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, among others.

Editorial processes

The ''Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science'' is helmed by the editor or the co-editors. The editor is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors. Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted.

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of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.

Current editorial board

As of 2023, the editorial committee consists of the editor and the following members: * M. Madan Babu * Søren Brunak * Jianfeng Feng * Artemis Hatzigeorgiou * Maricel Kann * Marylyn D. Ritchie * Cathal Seoighe * Nicholas Tatonetti * Olga Troyanskaya

References

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Biomedical Data Science Biomedical data science is a multidisciplinary field which leverages large volumes of data to promote biomedical innovation and discovery. Biomedical data science draws from various fields including Biostatistics, Biomedical informatics, and machin ...