IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering


IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

The IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering is one of the leading research journals in the field of biomedical engineering and is widely disseminated throughout the world. Original research papers covering the broad spectrum of theoretical and applied biophysics are published following the successful completion of a comprehensive peer review process. This journal was first published in 1953; one of the first devoted to engineering in medicine and biology, and has published over forty annual volumes. It is published monthly with more than 2,500 editorial pages per year.

Scope of the Manuscripts
The IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering is a peer reviewed journal that publishes recent research results in the broad field of biomedical engineering. Acceptable manuscripts range in content from practical/clinical applications through experimental science and technological development to formalized mathematical theory. All the medical areas are concerned as well as molecular electronics, dentistry and aerospace applications. Typical topics include, but certainly are not limited, to the following :
  • Physiological modeling, non-linear dynamics, bioelectricity, biomagnetism.
  • Signal processing, pattern recognition, monitoring and control.
  • Instrumentation, real-time systems, sensors, actuators, micro techniques, minimally invasive interventions.
  • Medical imaging, reconstruction, analysis, visualization, virtual reality, computer-assisted interventions.
  • Medical informatics, decisions and knowledge based systems, neural networks, man-machine communication.
  • Laser and opto-electronics applications
  • Electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine.
  • Biomaterials.
Most manuscripts are published as full papers and present the results of recent research. Full papers present comprehensive coverage of a topic and are complete in terms of the theory analysis, experimental design, methods, subject studied, data presented, discussion of results and conclusions. Validation is increasingly seen as essential to the successful paper.

When important new areas of biomedical engineering emerge, special issues or sections of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering are published. A guest editor is appointed who announces the special issue and solicits contributed manuscripts as well as invites leading researchers in the field to submit manuscripts. All manuscripts in special issues receive the same stringent peer review as manuscripts that appear in regular issues.

TBME has recently (July 2008) discontinued publication of Communication articles due to greatly increase demand by authors submitting regular papers.  These are shorter manuscripts that present work in progress or describe a new method or instrument.

Allthough TBME occasionally publishes review papers, the EMBS directs most authors to either the newly introduced IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering or the longer running EMB  Magazine.

Still, TBME will consider important review papers for publication following peer review when the topic is of current interest to the profession or the subject represents an emerging area in biomedical engineering.  Criteria for publishing review papers are quite stringent.