Article Types
BIO Integration (BIOI) publishes the following article types:
Original Articles
Full-length reports of current research in either basic or clinical science. Meta-analysis will be categorized into “original articles”.
Review Articles
Review articles should contain authors’ analytical appraisal of published papers and personal viewpoints, instead of a mere aggregation of published abstracts.
Mini Reviews (Research Highlights)
Mini Reviews are shorter reviews of topics that may be controversial or unresolved.
Letters to the Editor
Letters usually offer perspective to content published in this journal. In this case, a Letter must refer to the original source, and a Response to a Letter must reference the Letter in the first few paragraphs. Letters can use an arbitrary title, but a Response must cite the title of the Letter: e.g. Response to [title of Letter]. This ensures that readers can track the line of discussion. Presentation of interesting clinical cases can also be published in this format. Letters of any matter of interest to readers of the journal are also published.
Editorials
Editorials will be written by the recognized leader(s) or experts in their field.
Editorial Commentaries
Subject experts will be invited to discuss recent papers, reports or events to provide a commentary on their importance. Editorial commentaries will set the problems addressed by the paper/ report/event in the wider context of the topic.
Perspectives/ Opinions
Perspectives can be more personal, forward-looking or speculative, compared with reviews of a scientific topic. A paper presenting controversial positions or papers of the same topic advocate opposite sides will be published as a perspective. While perspectives will be solicited by the editors; we also welcome timely, unsolicited perspectives.
Case Reports
New observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in medicine. Only cases of exceptional interest and novelty are considered.
Technical Notes
Technical notes articles should present a new experimental or improved method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well-tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
Brief Reports
Manuscripts containing pertinent and
interesting observations concerning relevant research in the field of
biomedicine and reports on new observations or studies that do not warrant
publication as a full research article will be considered for the Brief
Reports. These submissions will undergo full peer review.
News and views
Publishes the latest news and views regarding “hot topics”, issues which have global impacts, special and rare issues or summaries of recent events involving BIO Integration.
Commentary
Publishes expert opinions regarding a recent impactful publications, with special emphasis on integrative science publications.
BIO Integration is indexed in Scopus, CAS, DOAJ, Research4Life, Ulrich’s web, OCLC, WorldCat, Primo Central (Ex Libris), Sherpa Romeo and Summon Databases.