Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Advances in Disease Surveillance is the official Journal of the International Society for Disease Surveillance.

The journal is devoted to publishing public health, epidemiologic, biostatistical, and bioinformatics work relevant to detecting onsetting illness in the public.

 

Section Policies

Original Research

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Editorials

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Abstracts from the 2005 Syndromic Surveillance Conference

Editors
  • Paul Guimond, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Abstracts from the 2006 Syndromic Surveillance Conference

Editors
  • Paul Guimond, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Abstracts from the 2007 Syndromic Surveillance Conference

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Abstracts from the 2008 Syndromic Surveillance Conference

Editors
  • Paul Guimond, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Donald Olson
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Original Research - Practice

Editors
  • Farzad Mostashari
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Original Research - Informatics

Editors
  • Bill Lober, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Original Research - Statistics

Editors
  • Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Three Co-Editors-in-Chief share the responsibility for review. After initial receipt, the Editor with the most relevant interests guides each manuscript through review. That editor chooses an Associate Editor, who reviews the manuscript and solicits two or more further reviews, then sends the three reviews and an opinion to the responsible Editor. The three Editors-in-Chief then make a final decision on disposition.

 

Publication Frequency

Individual articles will be published as soon as they are ready and will be added to the current volume's table of contents at that time.

 

Open Access Policy

The journal's contents are freely accessible to all. This encourages the exchange of ideas and thus scientific progress.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Charges

There is no charge for submitting articles. All labor is donated by the editorial board and the site is supported by the International Society for Disease Surveillance.

There is, however, a publishing charge of $300 per article; this supports professional copy-editing and typesetting and may reduce the cost to the Society. Waivers of this charge will be given with no questions asked. Otherwise payment will be expected upon publication.

 

Comments

Registered users of the journal are permitted to make comments which will be accessible to other readers. The editors reserve the right to publish comments in the form of a letter to the editor or to remove unsuitable comments entirely.

To add comments, click under 'reading tools' in the right-hand column while reading the article.