Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- Details for competing interests.
- Details for financial disclosure.
- Authorisation for use of figures included in the manuscript, not produced by the authors and subject to copyright.
- Authorship, affiliations and email addresses are correct.
- Cover letter addressed to the Editor
- Manuscript, figure and tables comply with the author guidelines, including the correct format, SI units and standard nomenclature.
- Manuscript body does not contain the names or affiliations of the authors, or other directly identifying information, and contain the title and the abstract
- Separated files for Title page (*.doc+*.pdf) and Manuscript body (*.doc+*.pdf) - 4 in total.
Letters to Editor
Letters to the Editor should share views on published articles, any findings insufficient for a research article or present ideas on any subject within the scope of the journal.
Letters to the Editor are recommended to have up to 1500 words (excluding title page, abstract, acknowledgements, references, figure legends and tables) and can include figures or tables, as deemed appropriate.
Review
Review articles on current topics related to applied statistical methods to promote health decision and also theoretical, statistical, and modelling techniques which take contribution for health are welcome. Both invited and unsolicited submissions are accepted.
Review articles are recommended to have up to 5000 words (excluding title page, abstract, acknowledgements, references, figure legends and tables.). Inclusion of newly designed figures and tables to summarise key points is encouraged. The used of previously published material is subject to the licence agreement of the original publisher and should generally be avoided. If previously published materials are, nonetheless, included in the illustrations, the authors should procure appropriate authorisation for use from the original publisher prior to submission.
Systematic Reviews with meta-analysis are published as Meta-analysis. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis should follow with EQUATOR Reporting Guidelines.
Original Articles
The Journal of Statistics in Health Decision welcomes original research on applied statistical methods to promote health decision and also theoretical, statistical, and modelling techniques which take contribution for health decision.
Reports of randomized clinical trials should follow the CONSORT Guidelines, reports of observational studies should follow with STROBE Guidelines and reports of systematic reviews and meta-analysis should follow with EQUATOR Reporting Guidelines.
Original Research articles are recommended to have up to 4000 words (excluding title page, abstract, acknowledgements, references, figure legends and tables) and up to 8 illustrations (figures or tables). Submission of supplementary material is encouraged. This may include additional illustrations of research results (both figures and/or tables), video files presenting research results or procedures, study protocol, study database and statistical analysis plan.
Meta-analysis
Systematic, critical assessments of literature and data sources pertaining to clinical topics, under the auspices of research on theoretical, statistical, and modelling techniques which take contribution for health are welcome.
Meta-analysis articles are recommended to have up to 3500 words (excluding title page, abstract, acknowledgements, references, figure legends and tables.) and up to 8 illustrations (figures or tables). Submission of supplementary material is encouraged. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis should follow with EQUATOR Reporting Guidelines.
Hypothesis papers
Article that allow the author to advance new ideas, hypotheses, models or theories typically based primarily on previously published data, findings, or observations with a strong line of rational. A way to test the hypothesis or theory being proposed should be part of the submission. Hypothesis papers are recommended to have 1500–3000 words (excluding title page, abstract, acknowledgements, references, figure legends and tables) and can include figures or tables, as deemed appropriate.
Short paper
Concise research articles on current topics related to applied statistical methods to promote health decision and also theoretical, statistical, and modelling techniques which take contribution for health are welcome. These should have a maximum length of 2000 words (excluding title page, abstract, acknowledgements, references, figure legends and tables.) and up to 4 illustrations (figures or tables). Authors are encouraged to either use supplementary data. The journal editors will fast-track the peer review of this type of paper.
Extended Abstract
Once a year Authors are invited by the Organizing Committee of the "Statistics on health decision making" meeting to submit extended abstract on the meeting topic, announced on a yearly base These should have a length between 4000 and 6000 characters, including spaces (excluding title, acknowledgements, references, figure legends and tables) and up to a maximum of 4 illustrations (figures or tables). The peer-review process is under the responsibility of the meeting Scientific Committee.
Copyright Notice
When submitting an article to the Journal of Statistics on Health Decision (JSHD), authors certify the following clauses:
- Originality and single submission – The contents presented in the article have not been published previously in whole or in part, and were not submitted or are not under active consideration elsewhere prior JSHD decision. The article is authentic and does not contain plagiarism.
- Authorship – All authors reviewed the article, agreed with its content, and agreed to its submission to the JSHD. All the authorship criteria stated by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Guidelines were met.
- Conflicts of interest – Any conflict of interests were declared. If authors have no declaration, it should be written (in the acknowledgements section): “The authors declare no conflict of interests”.
- Ethics committee and informed consent (if applicable) – The current research was approved by an independent ethics committee and subjects gave their informed consent before they were enrolled in the study.
- And authors agree to the Open Access license agreement of the Journal of Statistics on Health Decision, stated bellow.
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