International Journal of Population Data Science
Journal Description
Area of Research
Computer Science, Health, Health Informatics, Public Health and Health Policy
Journal's Aims & Scope Researchers that work within the field of Population Data Science come from a broad range of disciplines including computer and information science, statistics, epidemiology, medicine, social welfare, ethics, information governance, sociology, knowledge translation, public health and law. They work within academia, industry, government, third sector and public services.
About Editorial Board Associate Professor Kerina Jones Associate Professor Kim McGrail (for manuscripts submitted from the members of IPDLN, IJPDS’ strategic partner) Professor William Ghali Professor Michael Schull Professor Jackie Cassell Professor Peter Christen Associate Professor Claudia CoeliFounding Editor-in-Chief
Swansea University,UKDeputy Editor
University of British Columbia, CanadaIPDLN Section Editors
University of Calgary, Canada
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, CanadaEditors
Brighton and Sussex Medical School,UK
Australian National University, Australia
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Professor Mark Elliot
University of Manchester,UK
Dr Liz Ford
Brighton and Sussex Medical School,UK
Professor Alan Katz
University of Manitoba, Canada
Professor Milton Kotelchuck
Harvard Medical School, USA
Professor Graeme Laurie
University of Edinburgh,UK
Dr Nathan Lea
University College London,UK
Dr Christine O’Keefe
CSIRO, Australia
Professor David Preen
University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Rainer Schnell
University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Professor Henrik Toft Sørensen
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Role
The role of the IJPDS Editorial Board is to:
- Advise on journal scope and direction
- Advise on journal policy to ensure the fair, ethical and timely processing of submissions
- Promote high quality in journal outputs
- Identify topics for commissioned manuscripts
- Write editorials and other contributions
- Identify suitable peer reviewers
- Carry out peer review of submitted manuscripts
- Screen submissions to ensure suitability
- Advise on dealing with author complaints if they arise
- Act as ambassadors for the journal
- Promote the journal to their own institutions and contacts
Membership
The Board consists of at least 10 members including the Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor. Membership will be indicative of the breadth of disciplines in scope for contributions to the IJPDS. At least one member will be drawn from the leadership of the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN), which inspired the creation of this journal. This will include the Director(s) who will also sub-edit a regular section for topics of particular interest to the network.
Members will serve for an initial term of three years, which can thereafter be renewed. Membership is on a voluntary basis. Nominations for membership can be made by the existing Board, by members of the IPDLN, and by contributors to the IJPDS. Nominations will be received and considered by the Editorial Board and will be confirmed by consensus.
Members are responsible for: declaring any potential conflicts of interest before reviewing submitted manuscripts; complying with relevant privacy legislation with respect to personal details made available to them as a member of the Editorial Board; and, abiding by any stated or implied confidentiality connected with submissions or that attaches to the work of the Editorial Board during and after term of membership.
Meetings
The Editorial Board meets electronically and as required to fulfil the terms of reference.
Terms of reference review
The terms of reference will be reviewed annually with the next review due in March 2018.
Link to Editorial Board : https://ijpds.org/editorial-boardAuthor Guidelines Open-access and licencing Submission types: Before submission Authorship Clinical trials (http://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/trainTrainer/WHO-ICMJE-ClinTrialsgov-Cross-Ref.pdforwww.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html) at the time of trial registration and before enrolment of the first participant. Secondary analyses of trials should not be registered as a separate trial; instead submissions of this type should include the trial registration number of the original trial. The online submission system Manuscripts should be uploaded in an editable format: an OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF document. If you are unable to use one of these formats please contact the journal for advice. If accepted, the manuscript will be published in a non-editable format and allocated a DOI number. Text must be single-spaced in 12-point font. Italics should be used for emphasis, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses). Please note that IJPDS uses plagiarism checking software to verify the originality of submitted manuscripts. All manuscripts must be written in English. There are no rigid word limits but a typical research article should be between 3000 and 6000 words. The IMRAD format should be followed: Abstract If the IMRAD format is used inappropriate for the submission, please contact the journal for advice. All papers must contain an abstract of up to 300 words. Research articles abstracts should be structured using the headings: introduction, objectives, methods, results (including relevant statistics), and conclusions. Other types of papers may submit an unstructured abstract. Please use subheadings beneath main headings in the body of the manuscript. For example, if a number of different methods have been used, give each of these a separate heading. The results from each method should also come under its own heading. Longer manuscripts should also include highlights in the form of 3 to 5 bullet points conveying the focus or findings of the article. These should be placed after the abstract. Studies using observational routinely-collected data should follow the RECORD statement:http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/record/. Randomized controlled trials should be reported following the CONSORT statement and include a diagram illustrating the flow of participants through the trial (please see online for CONSORT checklist here:http://www.consort-statement.org/checklists/view/32-consort/66-title). Meta-analyses and systematic reviews should be reported in accordance with the PRISMA statement (PRISMA checklist can be found online here:http://prisma-statement.org/documents/PRISMA%202009%20checklist.pdf). Covering letter References Figures, Tables and Illustrations You will also have the option of uploading supplementary files as part of your online submission. This could be research instruments (e.g. questionnaires), research materials, research results in full, transcripts, full data analysis, source texts, or other material such as Powerpoint files including screenshots or presentations, graphical/photographic representation of your work, or jpeg versions of conference posters. These must be limited to 1Mb in file size. Supplementary appendices intended for publication must be numbered and referred to in the manuscript (e.g. Supplementary Appendix 1). When these are used, an additional section titled ‘Supplementary Appendices’ should appear in the manuscript before the References section, where appendices should be listed numerically along with a brief description of their content. Metadata Ethics Funding Conflicts of interest Please check that you have complied with the following: After submission Fee structure Corrections, Retractions, Republications and Version Control To submit an article you will first need to register for an account.
The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) is an open?access journal. All published items are available to view on the journal website free of charge and without any requirement to register an account. IJPDS uses a Creative Commons licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives 4.0 International Public Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) available at:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
The IJPDS accepts a variety of submissions:
The lead author must ensure that:
The IJPDS adheres to the ICMJE’s 4 criteria of authorship:http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html. To gain credit as an author, each of these criteria needs to be met. Each author is accountable for their own contribution, and any person meeting these four criteria should be listed as an author. The responsibility of identifying who meets the criteria falls on authors (and not the journal). The lead and co-authors shall hold harmless Swansea University and the IJPDS as to warranties and representations of the author's ownership, originality, or similar breaches. Such indemnification shall last beyond publication of the article, as well as extend to all related claims. Other contributions that do not meet the criteria should be acknowledged, with permission of the contributor. Email confirmation of submission will be sent to each author, and any changes to authorship once the manuscript has been submitted must be notified to the journal with an explanation.
In accordance with ICMJE recommendations, the IJPDS will only consider publication of clinical trials if the trial was registered with a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment (i.e. the time of first patient consent). An acceptable registry must include the minimum 20-item trial registration dataset:
The submitting author needs to be registered with the online submission system. This is done by creating a user name and password and entering some personal details. Please refer to the privacy policy for further information. The online submission system will guide you stepwise through the process, and you will be able to check the status of your manuscript at any time.
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Statement on conflicts of Interest
References
Abbreviations
A covering letter should be included with your submission regardless of manuscript type. This can be uploaded as a separate file or inserted in the ‘Comments for the Editor’ box. Please indicate your intended manuscript type.
References should be cited in Vancouver style (see ‘Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 2nd edition’:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7282/for guidance). When available, please provide URLs for references.
Figures, tables and illustrations with legends must be placed within the text at the appropriate points, not at the end of the manuscript. These must be in portrait format and in 12-point for tables. When providing tables, please make sure that you create a new table row for each row, rather than have multiple rows in one cell.
Please enter the title of the article (and subtitle if relevant) and include keywords in the relevant section. Terms from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used (see online:https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2017/mesh_browser/index.html). Enter the names of authors and any translators if applicable. One author must be named as the corresponding author. Author details should be entered including: title, full name, email address, ORCID number (if available), URL (if applicable) and organisational affiliation.
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) addresses issues surrounding breaches of research and publication ethics, and its guidelines define best practice in the ethics of scientific publishing (http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct. This journal strives to adhere to these guidelines and we encourage authors to refer to them. All submitted research articles must include a statement that the study has obtained ethical approval, including the name of the ethics committee, the ID number of the approval and a statement confirming that participants (if applicable) gave informed consent before participating in the study. If the study did not require ethical approval, this should be stated along with the reason why this was the case.
Sources of funding must be declared at the end of the submitted manuscript. If the funder plays any additional role in the study, for example, in study design or data collection, this should also be noted.
Conflicts of interest can be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. Any actual or potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed by all authors. If there are no existing conflicts of interest, this will be noted on the published manuscript as ‘None declared’.
Once you have completed your submission, you will receive confirmation via email. The corresponding author will take responsibility for the submission as it is being processed, for example, for responding to requests for further information or editorial queries. However, the editors will send copies of correspondence to all listed authors. Following submission, the manuscript will be assigned to an Editor who will determine whether it is suitable for this journal. If so, the manuscript will then be sent to be peer reviewed, as appropriate for the type of submission. The Editorial Board reserves the right to choose the reviewers, and reviewer identity will be blinded to authors. Following peer-review, the Editor will provide feedback to the author, based on the reviewers’ comments and recommendations. These might be to: accept, request minor revisions to, request major revisions to, or reject the manuscript. At this point, the manuscript will be returned to the corresponding author for response. The Editor will make a final decision based on the authors’ response.
Publishing with IJPDS is currently free of charge, and this will be the case until 31stDecember 2017 after which time it will be reviewed. In future fees will vary with type of submission. Please contact the journal for further details if required.
If a correction is necessary after publication, this must to be notified to the journal promptly. We will then endeavour to publish a correction notice as soon as possible. If the corrections are significant enough to warrant a retraction of the article, republication may be possible at the discretion of the Editorial Board. In such cases a new version of the corrected article may be published, detailing the changes made, and any prior versions of the article archived.
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/
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