4/3/08: US NIH Public Access Policy
Biometrics authors whose work is supported by funds from the US National Institutes of Health are subject to the NIH Public Access Policy as of April 7, 2008. Please visit the "Information for Authors" link and click on "Information for Authors Subject to the US NIH Public Access Policy" for details.
10/29/07: Descriptions of Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors sections Updated
The descriptions for the Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors section have been updated. Visit the "Information for Authors" link and click on "Types of Submissions Accepted" for details.
8/28/07: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Professor David M. Zucker has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2008. Professor Zucker will replace Laurence Freedman whose term concludes December 31st. David Zucker is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He served as Associate Editor for Controlled Clinical Trials during the period 1998-1999, and has been serving as Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2003. He is currently president of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the IBS. Professor Zucker has done both methodological and applied work. On the methodological side, his main interests are survival analysis, repeated measures analysis (continuous and discrete), clinical trial design, and nonlinear regression models with covariate error. On the applications side, his main interests are clinical trials and epidemiology. We are pleased to welcome Professor Zucker as Co-Editor.
8/28/07: New Sections in Biometrics
In response to feedback from members of the International Biometric Society and readers of and authors in Biometrics, the sections of the journal have been reformulated, effective with the March 2008 issue! The following sections of Biometrics were approved by the IBS Council: The Regular Communications section will be renamed Biometric Methodology. The Consultant's Forum section will be reformulated as Biometric Practice, with somewhat different criteria and scope. The Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors sections will remain the same. Updated descriptions of these sections are available under the Information for Authors link under TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED.
4/19/07: New LaTeX Document Class
We are pleased to announce that a new LaTeX document class for Biometrics is now ready for use by authors. The entire distribution has been posted under the "Information for Authors" link, and includes a User Guide, sample LaTeX source documents, and a source document that may be used as a template by authors. A bibliography style file for use with BibTeX will be added shortly.
10/27/2006: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Geert Molenberghs has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2007, replacing Mike Kenward who steps down at the end of 2006. Professor Molenberghs is Professor in the Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, and Director of Censtat. He has had a long history of service to the IBS, serving in several elective offices, including as IBS President in 2004-2005. He was also a Biometrics Associate Editor from 1997-2001, and was Joint Editor of Applied Statistics (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C) 2001-2004. He is an expert on longitudinal, clustered, and incomplete data and has published several best-selling books on these topics. We are very pleased to have Professor Molenberghs on the editorial board.
3/31/2006: Biometrics Now Accepting Submission of Supplementary Materials!
In light of increasing pressure on journal space, Biometrics is now using the Journal's website at http://www.biometrics.tibs.org to post supplementary material for published papers. Examples of supplementary materials are appendices containing detailed mathematical derivations too extensive for inclusion in the main paper, results of extensive simulation studies, and additional tables and figures. These materials should be included at the time of submission of the main paper and will be subject to peer review.
Supplementary materials may also result from a request by the Co-Editor during the review process to reformulate portions of the main paper as supplementary material.
For full details on the Biometrics policy on supplementary materials and for instructions for submission, visit the "Information for Authors" link (click on "Instructions for Submitting a Paper") at http://www.biometrics.tibs.org.
1/19/2006: Paid Advertisements in Biometrics
Many scientific journals sponsored by professional societies accept paid advertisements as a way of bringing information of interest to the attention of members and enhancing society revenues. In early 2005, the IBS Council approved a formal policy regarding paid advertisements in Biometrics. The policy allows no more than 5% of the total pages of any single issue to contain paid advertisements that are "consistent with the scientific standards and mission of the journal, the mission statement of the Society, and the interests of members of the Society."
As a result, beginning with the June 2006 issue, paid advertisements will appear in the back matter of Biometrics. As per the policy, advertisements submitted for publication will be subject to approval by the Executive Editor based on the standards noted above. Accepted advertisements will appear in the earliest upcoming issue in which space is available.
Parties interested in submitting advertisements should contact Ben Harkinson, Advertising Sales Coordinator, Blackwell Publishing, at +1 781-388-8532 or journaladsUSA@bos.blackwellpublishing.com.
11/11/2005: Executive Editor
We are delighted to report that Professor Marie Davidian of the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, will begin the new post of Executive Editor of Biometrics on January 1, 2006. Professor Davidian has been selected by the search committee to act as the first Executive Editor of Biometrics. The responsibilities of the Executive Editor are administrative and will include assigning new manuscripts to the three co-editors based on the co-editors' research backgrounds (but not to handle manuscripts thereafter), coordinating activities among the editors, coordinating editorial board activities, preparing reports, and communicating with the co-editors, central office, publisher and IBS Office. Professor Davidian is uniquely qualified for this job, as she has been a co-editor of Biometrics in the recent past, and has since stayed actively involved with the journal’s operations through chairing the IBS Editorial Advisory Committee. We are looking forward to her joining the editorial team and expect that we will all benefit from her involvement.
11/11/2005: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Naisyin Wang will serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2006, replacing Xihong Lin who steps down at the end of 2005. Professor Wang is a professor in the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University. She has served on the editorial board for Biometrics for many years, and we are very pleased to have Professor Wang on the editorial board.
2/14/2005: Change of Email and Website
The Biometrics email address has changed. The new e-mail address is biometrics@tibs.org. We encourage authors to now use the new email address. If you send a message to the old address, the message will be forwarded to the new e-mail address.
The Biometrics website has also changed. The new location is http//www.biometrics.tibs.org. The old website location will now automatically reroute users to the new location.
1/4/2005: Online Early
We are pleased to announce that in January 2005, Biometrics will launch a new online early process for accepted papers, which allows an accepted paper to be published shortly after its acceptance at the Biometrics website of Blackwell Synergy http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/, much earlier than the following printed version in the Journal. This online initiative will help increase citation and impact of accepted Biometrics papers. This process will begin with papers scheduled for publication in the June 2005 issue. To coordinate the online early process, authors are required to return pageproofs to Blackwell within 48 hours after receiving them. Please make appropriate arrangements. French abstract translations will not be placed at the end of each article but will placed together at the end of each issue, indexed in the table of contents. We will provide detailed information on how to cite electronically published papers on the Biometrics website soon.
11/16/2004: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Larry Freedman will serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2005, replacing Brian Cullis who steps down at the end of 2004. Professor Freedman is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel, and Director, Biostatistics Unit, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer, Israel. He has served on the editorial board for Biometrics and was a co-editor of Statistics in Medicine between 1981 and 1993. You can find more information about Professor Freedman at http://www.math.biu.ac.il/~freedml. We are very pleased to have Professor Freedman on the editorial board.
11/16/2004: Voluntary Page Charge
To help defray the rising costs of publication and to support online initiatives of the journal, such as online early of accepted manuscripts, we would like to ask authors to pay a voluntary page charge for the publication of manuscripts of $55 per printed journal page. The page charge is fully voluntary, and reflects only a portion of the actual cost involved in publishing a paper and these online initiatives. This support will enhance a further success of the journal. The form will be provided when authors receive their pageproofs. If an author elects to pay the voluntary charge, 100 free offprints will be provided.
9/14/04: The past five year issues (1999-2004) of Biometrics are now online at Blackwell Synergy.