BJBMS has changed its title to Biomolecules and Biomedicine. How does this reflects on authors and the articles we publish?
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We proudly announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for March 2023 goes to Ognjen Barcot, MD.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” to improve scientific publications, each month, BiomolBiomed Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month.
Dr. Ognjen Barcot is a surgeon at the University Hospital of Split, Croatia.
Read more about Reviewer of the month March 2023: Dr. Ognjen BarcotBiomolecules and Biomedicine (formerly BJBMS) would not make such progress without the help of the top experts. We appreciate their time and efforts and willingness to provide a thorough and constructive reviews of the manuscripts. Their expertise and insights were highly valuable to our editors and authors.
Read more about More than 1000 experts reviewed BJBMS manuscripts in 2022
We proudly announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for February 2023 goes to Chris Labaki, MD.
Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness, and timeliness of the review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BiomolBiomed in the current month.
Dr. Chris Labaki is a post-doctoral research fellow at Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, working under the mentorship of Drs. Toni K. Choueiri, Eliezer M. Van Allen and David A. Braun.
Read more about Reviewer of the month February 2023: Dr. Chris LabakiWe proudly announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for January 2023 goes to Jonathan Hinton, MD.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” to improve scientific publications, each month, BiomolBiomed Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness, and timeliness of the review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BiomolBiomed in the current month.
Read more about The Reviewer of the Month for January 2023From February 2023 (Volume 23, Issue 1), the title of the Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences will be changed to Biomolecules and Biomedicine. The new title reflects the increasing number of published research done on the subcellular/molecular level as well as translational and clinical research contained in the term Biomedicine. Biomolecules and Biomedicine will continue to be published by the Association of Basic Medical Sciences of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Read more about Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences becomes Biomolecules and BiomedicineWe proudly announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for November 2022 goes to David Pestaña, MD, PhD.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” to improve scientific publications, each month, BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month.
Read more about The Reviewer of the Month for November 2022We proudly announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for October 2022 goes to Noemí Kaoru Yokobori, PhD.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” to improve scientific publications, BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best in the current month. Selection is based on the review's quality, thoroughness, and timeliness. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more about The Reviewer of the Month for October 2022We announce that the 15th Bryan Warren School of Pathology will go Online on 5th November 2022. The course aims to cover the main topics in head and neck pathology and address practical issues, particularly those relevant to junior pathology residents and clinicians.
The main topic of the school will be Head and Neck Pathology. The lecturers are two renowned histopathologists: Dr. Ann Sandison (Consultant in Head and Neck Pathology at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation, Hon. Senior Lecturer in Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, King’s College London) and Dr. Selvam Thavaraj (Honorary Consultant in Head and Neck Pathology at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation, Senior Lecturer in Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, King’s College London).
For more info, please visit our www.bosnianpathology.org.
Read more about 15th Bryan Warren School of Pathology: Head and Neck PathologyWe are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for August 2022 goes to Andreas Schwingshackl, MD PhD.
To encourage hard work and dedication "behind the scenes" to improve scientific publications, BJBMS editors select one reviewer each month who has performed best among all reviewers in the current month. The selection is based on the quality, thoroughness, and timeliness of the reviews. This is a difficult task for our editors as they try not to underestimate the time and effort of each reviewer who has reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more about Reviewer of the month August 2022We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for July 2022 goes to Stephan Weibelzahl, MD PhD.
To encourage hard work and dedication "behind the scenes" to improve scientific publications, BJBMS editors select one reviewer each month who has performed best among all reviewers in the current month. The selection is based on the quality, thoroughness, and timeliness of the reviews. This is a difficult task for our editors as they try not to underestimate the time and effort of each reviewer who has reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more about Reviewer of the month July 2022We are pleased to announce that the June 2022 Reviewer of the Month Award goes to Dr. Teodora Stankova.
To encourage hard work and dedication "behind the scenes" to improve scientific publications, BJBMS editors select one reviewer each month who has performed best among all reviewers in the current month. The selection is based on the quality, thoroughness, and timeliness of the reviews. This is a difficult task for our editors as they try not to underestimate the time and effort of each reviewer who has reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more about Reviewer of the month June 2022We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for May 2022 goes to Damian Kołat, MSc.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and timeliness of the review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more at the Journal's blog.
Read more about Reviewer of the month May 2022We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for April 2022 goes to Dr. Marek Hampl.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and timeliness of the review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more at the Journal's blog.
Read more about Reviewer of the month April 2022We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for March 2022 goes to Dr. Diogo Corrêa.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and timeliness of review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more at the Journal's blog.
Read more about Reviewer of the month March 2022We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for February 2022 goes to Dr. Wayne J.G. Hellstrom.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and timeliness of review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more at the Journal's blog.
Read more about Reviewer of the month February 2022We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for January 2022 goes to Dr. Edin Medjedovic.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and timeliness of review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more at the Journal's blog.
Read more about Reviewer of the month January 202214th Bryan Warren School of Pathology will go virtual (Zoom Platform) on 6th November 2021.
The School is organized jointly by the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology (BDIAP), and the Association of Basic Medical Sciences FBIH.
The lecturers will be two renowned, world-class soft tissue pathologists Prof. Cyril Fisher, Consultant Histopathologist and Emeritus Professor of Tumour Pathology (University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London) and Dr. Khin Thway (Consultant Histopathologist and Reader (Assoc Professor) in Translational Pathology, the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London).
More information can be found at www.bosnianpathology.org
Read more about 14th Bryan Warren School of Pathology: Soft Tissue PathologyBJBMS’s Editorial team announces that the Journal Impact Factor for BJBMS has risen by more than 60% over the last year. The latest BJBMS’s Impact Factor (2020) is 3.363.
Read more in a Blog story here.
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May 29, 2021. Online Event (Zoom platform)
Registration is free. More information here.
We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for January 2021 goes to Dr. Maria Casagrande.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and timeliness of review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more at the Journal's blog.
Read more about Reviewer of the month January 2021We thank the following experts who have significantly contributed to the quality of the contents that we published in 2020, by dedicating their time to review the articles.
Over the past year, we significantly improved the peer-review time. The average time from submission to first decision was 30 days in 2019, while it was 19 days in 2020. The average time from acceptance to advanced online publication was 5 days in 2019, while it was 3 days in 2020.
We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for December 2020 goes to Dr. Jaques Waisberg.
Dr. Jaques Waisberg is a researcher and a full professor at the Department of Surgery at the ABC Medical School, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil. His current research interests are related to the carcinogenesis and neoplasms of the digestive system, with a primary focus on colorectal neoplasms. Besides, his research is based on tumor markers and cancer stem cells.
Read more at the Journal's blog.
Read more about Reviewer of the month December 2020We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for November 2020 goes to Dr. Edyta Maria Urbanska.
Dr. Edyta Maria Urbanska is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Centre for Cancer and Organ Diseases, Department of Oncology, Lung Team. Her current research interests are focused on genomic defined NSCLC, especially ALK-positive NSCLC, new targets for NSCLC (ROS1, RET, BRAF, exon 20 EGFR, NTRK, NGR1, MET, KRAS, etc.), mutations resistance mechanism, re-biopsies, liquid biopsy, mesothelioma, SCLC, NEC.
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Read more about Reviewer of the month November 2020We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for October 2020 goes to Dr. Giovane Galdino de Souza.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and the timeliness of review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more about Reviewer of the month October 2020We are proud to announce that the Reviewer of the Month Award for September 2020 goes to Dr. Mateusz Swierz.
As a means to promote the hard work and dedication invested “behind the scenes” in order to improve scientific publications, each month BJBMS Editors select a reviewer who performed the best amongst all the reviewers in the current month. Selection is based on the quality, thoroughness and the timeliness of review. It is a difficult task for our Editors, as they try not to underestimate the time and efforts of each of the reviewers who reviewed for the BJBMS in the current month.
Read more about Reviewer of the month September 2020We are proud to announce that the Journal Impact Factor® for BJBMS has increased over the last year. The new BJBMS’s Impact Factor (2019) is 2.05.
The increase in impact factor reflects the exacting standards met by the research the journal publishes. The impact factor is determined using the number of citations received in that year by articles published in the journal during the two preceding years, and is calculated by Clarivate Analytics (formerly known as Thomson Reuters), a recognized authority for evaluating the usefulness of a journal.
The Association of Basic Medical Sciences would like to thank the Editorial Board, authors and all the reviewers for their tremendous hard work and dedication in ensuring that BJBMS continue with influential publications, enabling its community to advance medical research and education for the public benefit. In the upcoming years, we will work even harder to increase our rate of progress.
Read more about New Journal Impact Factor (2019) for BJBMSThe 14th Bryan Warren School of Pathology (BWSP) on soft tissue pathology scheduled for early November 2020 in Sarajevo has regrettably had to be postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have made the decision to postpone the event in Sarajevo until spring 2021.
The Association of Basic Medical Sciences of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology (BDIAP) will announce the updates regarding the exact time of the 14th BWSP.
Read more about The 14th Bryan Warren School of Pathology (BWSP) postponedIn the article “The natural adaptive evolution of cancer: The metastatic ability of cancer cells” our authors analyze the literature regarding the ability of cancer cells to metastasize and propose a novel mechanism by which cancer cells can spread throughout the body. We present to you the very first video summary of the article published in BJBMS.
Read more about Video abstract: The natural adaptive evolution of cancerWe are pleased to announce that, based on calculations, an estimated Journal Impact Factor (2019) for BJBMS is higher than 2.0, making a more than a 20% increase from 2018.
The Journal Impact Factor, as published yearly starting from 1975 in the Journal Citation Reports, measures the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year by the research community through the delivery of a publisher-independent data, metrics, and analysis of the world’s most important journals included in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
Read more about An increase in Impact Factor expectedWe thank the following experts who have significantly contributed to the quality of the contents that we published in 2019, by dedicating their time to review the articles.
Read more about Reviewers in 2019
European Association for Haematopathology and the Society for Hematopathology (SH) invite you to the 20th Meeting of the European Association for Haematopathology (EAHP-SH 2020) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 11–16 September 2020. More information about the conference can be found here: https://www.eahp-sh2020.com/
Read more about 20th Meeting of the European Association for Haematopathology
Drs. Pareek and Hecht Olsen comment on the findings of the recent study published in the Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences in an invited Editorial.
Read the full text of the Editorial here.
Read more about Highlight: Making sense of subclinical cardiac alterations in patients with diabetesBosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences has implemented article level metrics for each of the published articles.
Dimension and PlumX metrics include not only citations to an article, but also usage, captures, mentions, social media, field citation ratio and relative citation ratio for the particular article. These metrics improve transparency and may help the readers get insight into the article's impact in the field. Find the article level metrics below articles' abstracts.
More about the Dimension and PlumX metric can be found at the links below:
https://www.altmetric.com/blog/dimensions-badges-a-new-way-to-see-citations/
https://plumanalytics.com/learn/about-metrics/
The 2019 issue of the Journal Citation Reports® (citations in Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics) brings good news for the Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences. The Journal Impact Factor® was continuously rising in the last few years, and for the year 2018 it has increased to 1.458. Article immediacy index has risen from 0.143 to 0.784. The total number of citations in 2018 has increased by more than 22% compared to last year. 86% of the articles published in 2016-2017 had been cited at least once in 2018.
In the 2019 CiteScore edition (citations in Scopus, ELSEVIER) the Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences ranked #87 out of 556 journals in the General Medicine category. This puts the Journal on the 84th percentile in its category. The CiteScore for 2018 equals 1.43.
We thank all the readers, authors, reviewers and editors for their contribution to the quality of the BJBMS!
Sources:
https://jcr.clarivate.com
https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/91727
We thank the following experts who have significantly contributed to the quality of the contents that we published in 2018, by dedicating their time to review the articles.
Read more about Reviewers in 2018We thank the following experts who have significantly contributed to the quality of the contents that we published in 2017, by dedicating their time to review the articles.
Read more about Reviewers in 2017We are pleased to present you a new tool in our communication toolbox: the BJBMS Blog (http://blog.bjbms.org).
The Blog is intended to enrich the communication between the authors, editors, broad biomedical and non-biomedical community and media.
Authors will have a chance to present their studies to a wide non-expert audience by presenting a non-technical summary of their study.
Readers will have an opportunity to comment and discuss the studies, as well different aspects and issues related to the Journal.
Your opinion matters to us and we welcome all your comments.
We wish you a happy and prosperous year 2017.
The BJBMS team
The Editors would like to thank the following experts who kindly agreed to serve as referees for the Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences in 2015:
Read more about Reviewers in 2015The Editors would like to thank the following experts who kindly agreed to serve as referees for the Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences in 2014:
Read more about Reviewers in 2014We are pleased to announce that Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports has assigned a new, higher Impact Factor for the Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences.
JCR Impact Factor for year 2015 is 0.652.
Read more about New, higher JCR Impact Factor for BJBMSWe are happy to announce that the full text of articles published in BJBMS is available in PubMed Central from now on.
Archives, back to 1998, will also be available soon.
Read more about Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences in PMC
