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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has NOT been previously published, nor is sent to any other journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The manuscript is a Microsoft Word document file.
  • The manuscript was prepared using the Appl Med Inform journal template file.
  • Please fill in, sign, and upload the Covering letter.
  • All the information about the authors should be complete and correctly introduced during the submission step (please check the spelling, affiliation, correct use of Capital Letters, the last name should be in uppercase, valid e-mail addresses for all the authors). Only the authors introduced in the metadata of the journal will appear in the electronic systems and indexing databases (journal site, DOAJ, Index Copernicus, etc.).

Author Guidelines

Aim and Scope

Applied Medical Informatics (Appl Med Inform) publishes mainly high-quality original articles and reviews in the field of medical informatics and applications of information technology in medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; medical, dentistry, and pharmacology statistics; clinical and preclinical research that use statistics and informatics approaches; and research methodology. The interdisciplinary areas of the journals are: Probabilities and statistics, Modelling and Calculus Theory, Software Systems, Organization of calculus systems, Computer Science and Information Technology, Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy.

Publishing in Applied Medical Informatics is free of charge. If your work is of good quality and fits the journal scope, we welcome it for peer-reviewing. If you decide to submit your paper, please ease our work by carefully adhering to our journal requirements.

Description of Manuscripts Types

Applied Medical Informatics welcomes manuscripts in the following categories:

  • Research article will provide a detailed description of scientific findings within the journal's scope. The manuscript should not exceed 8 printed pages (4400 words, including tables and references). This type of article should contain a structured abstract (200-250 words), divided into Aim-Materials and Methods-Results-Conclusions. The manuscript should follow the IMRaD structure: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References. The manuscript must be formatted according to the guidance below.
  • Review will focus on important topics related to the journals’ aim. Reviews should contain an unstructured abstract (100 – 150 words), up to five keywords, and should incorporate a judicious use of tables, figures, schemes, and references.
  • Perspective will follow the general scope of reviews but will have a focus on future predictions rather than past results.
  • Research Letter will be a short version of a Research Article. The discussion could be integrated into the same section with the results as 'Results and Discussion' section; 'Conclusions and Future Directions' are optional.
  • Editorial and Commentary will be invited by the Editor to provide focused viewpoints of specific topics of interest. It must be written as continuous text without subheadings.
  • Technology Platform will be invited by the Editor to provide a focused description of state-of-the-art R&D tools, methods and knowledge systems significant to specific topics of interest in medical informatics, medical statistics or research methodology. Could be written as continuous text without subheadings.

Covering letter: Please submit the filled and signed covering letter with the manuscript.

Manuscript Preparation

The manuscript should be written in English (US / UK spelling) in a clear, concise, and precise style. If you have any questions (regarding manuscript preparation or submission) or encounter difficulties while using the website, please don't hesitate to ask for help and email us at  infoadmin@umfcluj.ro.

Please use the template file when preparing the manuscript.

Publishing in Applied Medical Informatics is free, so only manuscripts that closely follow the journal style (template) will be considered for publication.

Reporting guidelines have been developed for different study designs. Please check and closely follow the reporting guidelines available at EQUATOR Network or the NLM's Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives. Some specific guidelines useful in reporting medical informatics solutions are STARE-HI, iCHECK-DH, Mini Stare-HI, CONSORT-AI extension, DECIDE-AI, MINIMAR, SPIRIT-AI extension, STARD-AI, CLAIM, etc.

Publication Ethics

Applied Medical Informatics adheres to ethical standards of publishing medical research. Our journal follows the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals:

I. Human and animal research

The research involving humans or animals must have been approved by the authors’ institutional committee(s) board.

Human research: Informed consent must be obtained (or the reason for lack of consent explained, e.g., the data were analyzed anonymously). All clinical investigations must have been conducted according to the principles expressed in the "Declaration of Helsinki" whenever the research involved human participants. The use of informed consent must be stated in the Materials and Methods section (written or oral). If informed consent was oral, the following information must be provided in the Materials and Methods section: ▪ the reason for the impossibility of obtaining the written consent; ▪ the committee board approved the use of oral consent; ▪ the method used to document the consent. Authors should be able to submit, upon request, a statement from the research ethics committee indicating the approval of the research. We also encourage authors to submit a sample of the patient consent form as supplementary material.

Animal research: The research involving animals must be conducted according to national and international rules, regulations, and guidelines. Authors must include in the Materials and Methods section details of animal welfare and steps taken to ameliorate suffering whenever animals are studied. The institution that approved the study must be named, and it must be stated in the paper that the study was conducted adhering to the institution's guidelines for animal research.

II. Patient Privacy and Informed Consent for Publication

According to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: 

  • „Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information … should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that the patient be shown the manuscript to be published.”
  • “Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent for publication should be obtained if there is any doubt.” If data is changed to protect anonymity, authors should provide assurance that alterations to the data do not distort scientific meaning.
  • „When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the published article."

Having problems?

If you have any questions (regarding Journal scope, manuscript preparation, submission, or others) or maybe you encounter difficulties during the use of the website, please don't hesitate to ask for help: infoadmin@umfcluj.ro

Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern

Corrections & Retractions

Applied Medical Informatics journal will issue corrections, retraction statements, and other post-publication updates, including Editor’s notes and Expressions of concern on published content.

The following are the possible corrections and post-publication updates to peer-reviewed research and review-type articles: 

  • Author or Publisher correction: After publication, an author or the publisher may ask to correct a critical error(s) made that affects the scientific integrity of the published article, the publication record, or the reputation of the authors or the journal.
  • Author name change: An author may ask for name correction when changing their name (for reasons such as gender transition or religious conversion, etc.). The correction can happen silently (no note will flag the change on *.pdf or *.html) or not (formal public author correction).
  • Addendum: An addendum is published whenever additional information critical to the reader’s understanding of the reported data comes to light after the publication of the article.
  • Editor's note: An Editor's note is published whenever Applied Medical Informatics initiates an inquiry in response to concerns about a published article. The Editor's note is available only to the *.html version of the published article, and it is not indexed.
  • Editorial expression of concern: An Editorial expression of concern aims to alert the readers about serious concerns affecting the integrity of a specific paper published by Applied Medical Informatics. It is published online, is linked to the published paper, and is indexed in the scholarly databases.
  • Retraction: Violation of research or publication ethics may result in the retraction of a published manuscript. The *.pdf file of the retracted article remains available to readers but will be appropriately labeled as retracted. The retraction statement will be linked to the original published paper. The assent or dissent from the authors will be asked, and if they agree will be included in the retraction statement.

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) recommends the publication of Editor’s note and Editorial expression of concern to keep readers updated while a potential research integrity investigation is underway. Once the investigation is complete, the Editor’s note and Editorial expression of concern are replaced by publishing another amendment, such as a correction or retraction. 

Published content removal

Applied Medical Informatics, in case of exceptional circumstances (e.g., defamatory content; unlawful - intellectual property right, right to privacy, etc.; a court or government order requirement; etc.), reserves the right to remove (temporary or permanently) an article from the journal website. In such cases, a statement explaining why the content has been removed will be linked with the bibliometric metadata of the article.

Advertising policy

  • Editorial decisions are independent of the sponsors and advertisers and will not be led by marketing decisions. The involvement of sponsors and advertisers in the editorial workflow is banned.
  • Applied Medical Informatics reserves the right to decline any advertising for products or services known to be harmful to health (e.g., tobacco, alcohol products, etc.)
  • Applied Medical Informatics does not accept any advertisements in the body of the manuscripts.
  • Details about the advertiser and the information about the product or service being offered will accompany any advertisement. The reliability of the information will be carefully verified before publication. Applied Medical Informatics will not accept indecent or offensive advertisements (in text or artwork), or those with a personal, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, or religious nature.
  • Applied Medical Informatics reserves the right to decline any advertising with inappropriate content.
  • Editor(s) or Publisher could request to remove from the journal website an advertisement published online.
  • The association of a sponsor or advertiser with a specific article or editorial is not allowed and the link to an article using keywords is not permitted. 
  • Editorial content and advertisements must be distinguishable. Special issues that publish abstracts will not undergo peer review. A peer review process distinct from the journal policy applied in case of special issues should be explicitly stated.

Advertising complaints policy - Please send any complaints about advertising to: ami@umfcluj.ro

Copyright Notice

 Creative Commons License

All papers published in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) International License.

Privacy Statement

Privacy Policy

In accordance with the article 13 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679, the Data Controller, Applied Medical Informatics (ami.info.umfcluj.ro) journal (in the person of the legal representative pro-tempore, with headquarters presented in the contact page - hereafter named Applied Medical Informatics) guarantees the observance of the rules on personal data protection.

This privacy policy sets out how this journal uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website.

This journal may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 25 may 2018.

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication. The personal data gathered and will not be given to third parties.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research  reported here.

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.

The present privacy sets the legal basis upon which the personal data collected will be used:

Their principal use is solely related to the services offered by the journal, i.e., submission of scientific manuscripts to be evaluated for publication; request to evaluate scientific contributions (referee); correspondence with the corresponding Author during the editing workflow of the article; newsletter informing about the publication of the most recent issue, or informing about changes in the policies of the website.

The user’s consent is requested before entering personal data.

By no means the collected data will be sold or disclosed to third parties.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

When a user creates an account on the website: first name, last name, username, email address, and password (encrypted) - that are required.

When a manuscript is submitted to a PKP application, contributor information is included. Contributors can be authors, translators, volume editors, and so on.
This information is stored as submission metadata and is provided as part of any published manuscript record. Only the first name, last name, email address and country fields are required.

Other information that is not mandatory, only if it is provided by the user (Salutation, Middle name, Suffix, Sex, ORCiD ID, Website, Mailing Address, Country, Phone, Fax, Affiliation, Biography, Registration date, Last login date, Locales, Reviewing interests, Role registrations (author, reader, and/or reviewer)), while creating an account, or while submitting a manuscript.

The website tracks workflow information, mostly as submission-specific editorial history. The system tracks:All actions taken on a submission, and by whom; All notifications sent regarding a submission (including who sent and received the notification); All reviewer recommendations; All editorial decisions; All files uploaded as part of the submission process, including files that may have personally identifying information in the form of file metadata or in the files themselves.

General visitor information: Cookie information, to manage session history. Optionally, detailed usage log data, including: IP address; pages visited; date visited; and browser information, in application log files. Optionally, country, region and city information, in the metrics database. Other data may be tracked, either on the server or via third parties: Script loads from CDN servers; IP address information (including date, browser, etc.) in web server logs (separate from application log files as part of the Usage Statistics plugin).

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: Internal record keeping.

We may use the information to improve our products and services.

Information from the user registration. This information is available to the user via their User Profile (and, with the exception of the username and dates, can be edited). System administrators, journal managers, and editors can also access and edit this data (except the username and dates) via the application back end. The data is not otherwise publicly available.

Information about submissions of manuscripts. This information is available to almost any submission participant, with some restrictions to preserve the blind peer-review process. In short: contributing authors, editors and editorial assistants can all see this data; in most cases, only editorial staff can edit this data after submission. Most importantly: once a submission has been published, this data is made publicly available online in a variety of ways. It is available on the submission home page to readers, is available to indexing services in underlying metadata tags, is available via an OAI-PMH endpoint for harvesting, and may be made available in any number of ways via other system plugins.

Information about workflow. Submission participants have access to different amounts of workflow data depending on their role. Journal managers and editors can access all submission data; section editors and editorial assistants can access all submission data only for those submissions to which they have been assigned;
authors have limited access to their own submissions and are only able to see 10the data they have supplied, or that editorial staff have explicitly made available to them.

We may from time to time send emails regarding new issues being published, information about the submission or editorial process, or other information regarding website activity, as well as promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided, in accordance with the current regulations, being understood that the person concerned has the right to object to this use at any time.

Additional information (such as domain names, IP addresses and browser types), detected through our website, is used to track traffic statistics.

The data will be processed only by those with the authority to do so, nominated by the owner to deal with relationships with clients. In no way shall they be circulated or disclosed to third parties, either national or international.

The data will be stored in a form that allows the identification of the person concerned for a period not exceeding that necessary to fulfil the purposes for which they were collected.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure,we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online

 

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

- whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, please make sure you enter only the information you want to be accessible.

- you can edit at any time what you completed in the filled forms, to erase or to modify what you entered before.

- at any time users can decide to retract or request the cancellation, modification or update of any personal information in our possession, either doing it personally by accessing their personal area, using their credentials (username and password), or by sending an e-mail to contact address.

- you may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the GDRP. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the website contact address.

any author or contributor not registered in the system that wishes to anonymize their data can contact the journal editorial team who will do it for them.

Users' rights:

To receive confirmation of the existence of their personal data in the database of the Controller, and right to access them by means of log in data (username and password), or by contacting the Controller.

To know the objectives and scopes, the legal basis and methods of treatment of the data

To know who the appointed person responsible for the treatment of data is

To modify, integrate, and/or update their data, in accordance with the service requested and offered by the journal;

To cancel their data if treated in violation of the law. There are certain specific cases, however, in which the journal must maintain the collected data, and cannot cancel them. For instance, if the data inserted are of users who have acted as Authors, Reviewers and/or Subscribers to the journal, these data are necessary to the regular and legitimate functioning of the website.

To withdraw their consent to the treatment of data, in accordance with the previous point.

To lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority identified under art. 77 of EU Regulation 2016/679 in the case of alleged violation of the regulations governing the processing of personal data.

 

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To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies

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How we use cookies

A cookie (containing in its name “OJSSID”) is created when first visiting a PKP application and is stored on the visitor’s computer. It is only used to store a session ID, and to facilitate logins. (If the visitor blocks cookies, the website will still work properly, though they will not be able to log in.)

A number of our pages use cookies to remember:

- to allow the login, submission of manuscripts, and the editorial process

- your display preferences, such as font size

- if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site

Also, some youtube.com videos embedded in our pages, that are supplementary files of the published manuscripts, use a cookie to gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website - log in, submission, and editorial process, but this will not impede you accessing published manuscripts.

Different types of cookies exist. We report below some kinds of cookies that can be used in this website, and a brief description of the purpose of their use

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Cookies of this type are necessary for the proper functioning of some areas of the site. Cookies in this category include both persistent cookies and session cookies. Without these, the site or portions of it may not work properly, therefore, they are always used, regardless of user preferences. Cookies in this category are always sent from our domain.

Performance cookies

Cookies of this type are used to collect information on the use of the site. The Data Controller uses this information for statistical analysis to improve the site and simplify its use, as well as to monitor correct operational activity. This type of cookie collects information anonymously about user activity on the site and the way in which users arrived at the site and the pages visited. Cookies in this category are sent from the site itself

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