OVERVIEW OF PUBLISHING PROCESS

Here is an overview of the publishing process following the submission of your manuscript:

Editor’s assessment

In-house editors review the scope, content, and language of the manuscript to decide whether or not it merits peer review. Articles often get rejected at this stage.

Peer review

The manuscript undergoes peer review to obtain feedback from other subject matter experts on the quality of the submission. There are different types of peer review. Before you submit your manuscript, it is important to understand the difference between various review processes:

• Double blind: Reviewers do not know the name of the author, and the author does not know the name of the reviewers.
• Single blind: Reviewers know the author’s name, but the author does not know the name of the reviewers.
• Open peer review: The identity of both parties is disclosed.

Editor’s decision

Following peer review, editors choose to recommend the article for publication, send it back to the author for revisions, or reject it. Editors reserve the right to reject a submission even after multiple rounds of revisions.

Revisions

Authors are required to implement revisions based on the feedback from editors and peers and have to respond to any comments from reviewers.

Final decision

When an article is ready for publication, the editor makes a final acceptance decision. Once a manuscript is accepted, it is moved to production where it may go through a process of language and technical editing. Additional revisions may be required before the manuscript is moved into production.

Even when there are no complications, these stages take time. Authors can avoid unnecessary delays by making sure there are no missing files, that all raw data files are included in the submission, and that all files are editable.

Topics

• Factors that promote diagnostic quality and safety
• Clinical reasoning
• Diagnostic errors in medicine
• The factors that contribute to diagnostic error: human factors, cognitive issues, and system-related breakdowns
• Improving the value of diagnosis journal – eliminating waste and unnecessary testing
• How culture and removing blame promote awareness of diagnostic errors
• Training and education related to clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills
• Advances in laboratory testing and imaging that improve diagnostic capability
• Local, national, and international initiatives to reduce diagnostic error

Article formats

• Research Reports – Reports of original research
• Short Communications – Reports of early research results and pilot studies
• Reviews – Systematic, narrative, and focused reviews. Review articles are normally published by invitation, but suggestions to the Editors are welcome
• Opinion Papers and Editorials
• Letters to the Editor
• Point/Counterpoint Papers
• Guidelines and Recommendations
• Innovations in diagnostic testing – Advances in laboratory testing or diagnostic imaging are appropriate subjects, or evaluations of recent innovations
• Case Reports – Learning from Tragedy – Case reports of diagnostic error or dilemma discussed from a multi-stakeholder perspective; should include the facts of the case, a discussion focused on a root cause analysis, take-away points or action items resulting from the analysis, and whenever possible input from both the affected patients and their providers
• Case Reports – Lessons in Clinical Reasoning: Pitfalls, Myths, and Pearls – Case reports in which a clinician discusses their diagnostic approach after clinical information is presented, focusing on a case in which a diagnostic error (or near miss = great catch) occurred
• Patient-Focused Articles – Papers in this category should be written in lay language on a topic of interest to the patient stakeholder community
• diagnosis journal in the News – Brief reports of news-worthy advances in diagnosis, or problems involving diagnostic error

SPECIFICATIONS

diagnosis journal has specific guidelines for preparing and formatting your manuscripts.

CREATING AND FORMATTING THE MANUSCRIPT

Every journal has detailed guidelines for composing and formatting manuscripts which have to be taken into consideration.

ILLUSTRATIONS

There are no costs involved when you submit an illustration, whether in black and white or color, to Diagnosis. However, costs may apply to open access journals.

When adding illustrations or graphics to an article, you should only add necessary images. This will avoid exceeding the limits that a specific journal may impose. A unique caption must accompany each graphic.

Your Benefits

• Indexed in PubMed (all articles since 2014) and other abstracting and indexing services
• Peer-reviewed and led by a multi-institutional editorial board
• Focused on how the diagnostic process can be advanced to reduce diagnostic errors
• Cutting-edge and authoritative contributions
• Academic and clinical aspects of quality and safety in healthcare combination
• International readership and global reach

History

Founded in 2014

Abstracting and Indexing

diagnosis journal is covered by the following services:

• Baidu Scholar
• Cabells Journalytics
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) – CAplus
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) – SciFinder
• CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
• CNPIEC – cnpLINKer
• Dimensions
• EBSCO (relevant databases)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• EMBASE
• EMCare
• Google Scholar
• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• J-Gate
• JournalTOCs
• KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
• Medline
• MyScienceWork
• Naver Academic
• Naviga (Softweco)
• Primo Central (ExLibris)
• Publons
• PubMed
• QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
• ReadCube
• Reaxys
• Scilit
• SCImago (SJR)
• SCOPUS
• Semantic Scholar
• Sherpa/RoMEO
• Summon (ProQuest)
• TDNet
• Text Mining
• Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
• WanFang Data
• Web of Science – Emerging Sources Citation Index
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• X-MOL
• Yewno Discover

CONTACT OUR TEAM FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PUBLISHING PROCESS

If you have any questions, please contact editor@diagnosisj.com