Methods of Information in Medicine

Methods of Information in Medicine is a bimonthly German journal of health informatics research, founded in 1962 by F. K. Schattauer Verlag and issued since 2018 under the Thieme imprint in Stuttgart. It publishes methodological work on how health data, information and knowledge are organized, represented and analysed, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4.《医学信息学方法》是德国出版的双月刊，专注健康信息学研究，1962 年由 F. K. Schattauer Verlag 创办，2018 年起以 Thieme 名义在斯图加特发行。所刊论文侧重健康数据，信息与知识的组织，表示与分析方法，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The stated remit covers the methodology and scientific fundamentals of organizing, representing and analysing data, information and knowledge in biomedicine and health care, the phrasing the journal has used since its founding.刊物声明的范围涵盖生物医学与卫生保健中数据，信息与知识的组织，表示与分析的方法学及科学基础，这一表述自创刊沿用至今。

• Biomedical and health informatics supplies the bulk of submissions, including clinical systems, their architecture and the workflow they enter.生物医学与健康信息学构成来稿主体，涉及临床系统及其架构，以及系统所进入的工作流程。

• Medical biometry and epidemiology sit beside it, so study design, measurement error and causal inference fall within the journal's business.医学生物统计与流行病学与之并列，研究设计，测量误差与因果推断都落在刊物的处理范围内。

• Public and consumer health informatics is named in the current scope statement, together with systems that reach patients outside the consulting room.现行征稿说明列出公众与消费者健康信息学，也列出在诊室之外直接服务患者的系统。

• System design, implementation and evaluation form one continuous line, running from requirements analysis to the measured effect of a deployed application in routine service.系统设计，实施与评价构成一条连续线索，从需求分析一直延伸到已部署应用在日常服务中的可测量效果。

• Documentation of care receives steady attention, chiefly the electronic health record, its internal structure and the reuse of what it stores.医疗记录持续受到关注，主要是电子健康记录，其内部结构，以及其中所存内容的再利用。

• Knowledge representation, terminologies, ontologies and semantic interoperability are handled as methodological problems, not as exercises in nomenclature.知识表示，术语学，本体与语义互操作按方法学问题处理，而不按命名问题处理。

• Clinical decision support and decision-analytic modelling appear often, with attention to how a recommendation is derived and how it is validated.临床决策支持与决策分析建模经常出现，重点在于建议如何推导出来，又如何得到验证。

• Signal and image processing methods are published too, ranging from biosignal analysis to the quantitative reading of medical images and the algorithms behind both.信号与图像处理方法同样在发表之列，从生物信号分析到医学图像的定量判读，再到支撑两者的算法。

• Statistical learning and other data-driven approaches are accepted where the model is itself the contribution and its behaviour is inspected.模型本身即为贡献，且其行为受到检验时，统计学习与其他数据驱动方法亦可被接收。

• Privacy, confidentiality and the secondary use of routine data are treated as design constraints from the outset.隐私，保密与常规数据的二次利用从一开始就被当作设计约束。

• Studies that evaluate information technology in practice are welcomed, including reports on unintended consequences for staff and patients.评价信息技术实际使用效果的研究受到欢迎，也包括记录对医护人员与患者造成的非预期后果。

• Education and professional training in health informatics has belonged to the remit since the discipline began to teach itself.健康信息学的教育与职业培训自学科成形之初便在范围之内。

• Accepted formats run from original research and reviews through reports, opinion papers, editorials and letters, and student work is admitted under a 7500 word ceiling.可接受的体裁从原创研究与综述，延伸到报告，观点文章，社论与读者来信，学生论文在 7500 词上限内亦可投递。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in 1962, printed in Stuttgart by F. K. Schattauer Verlag.第 1 卷于 1962 年面世，由斯图加特的 F. K. Schattauer Verlag 印行。

• That house had been founded in 1949 by Friedrich Karl Schattauer, and the new title gave German medical documentation a journal of its own.该出版社由（Friedrich Karl Schattauer）于 1949 年创办，新刊让德国的医学文献工作有了自己的阵地。

• Gustav Wagner is recorded by the journal as its founding editor, and his name still heads the historical roster.刊物把（Gustav Wagner）记为首任主编，其姓名至今列在历史名单的首位。

• The name has been carried without interruption since the first volume, so no former title needs to be recorded in a catalogue.刊名自首卷起从未中断，因此编目时无需登记旧名。

• Indexing followed quickly, with MEDLINE beginning at volume 4, number 2, dated June 1965.收录随后跟进，MEDLINE 自 1965 年 6 月第 4 卷第 2 期起收录。

• Index Medicus took the journal in the same period, and OLDMEDLINE now covers the earliest volumes retrospectively.Index Medicus 也在同一时期收入该刊，OLDMEDLINE 如今回溯覆盖最早的几卷。

• A fiftieth-volume review in 2011 reconstructed the origins from editorial correspondence and traced 2456 indexed articles by MeSH term.2011 年发表的一篇五十卷回顾依据编辑部通信重建了刊物起源，并按 MeSH 主题词梳理了 2456 篇索引论文。^[1]

• The same review counted 208 editors and board members across five decades, most of them European or North American, serving 11 years on average.同一篇回顾统计了五个年代中的 208 位编辑与编委，多数来自欧洲或北美，平均任职 11 年。

• Frequency settled at six issues a year in 2006, after decades of quarterly publication, and the National Library of Medicine records the bimonthly run as unbroken since then.刊期在 2006 年定为每年六期，此前长期按季刊发行，美国国立医学图书馆记录的两年刊形态自此未变。

• An electronic ISSN, 2511-705X, now accompanies the print number 0026-1270, which has identified the title from the start.电子刊号 2511-705X 如今与印本刊号 0026-1270 并行，后者自创刊起一直标识该刊。

• In January 2017 Thieme, a Stuttgart house founded in 1886, acquired Schattauer Verlag and its 21 journals, and from 2018 the imprint reads Thieme.2017 年 1 月，1886 年创办于斯图加特的 Thieme 收购了 Schattauer Verlag 及其 21 种期刊，2018 年起版权页标注 Thieme。

• The transfer moved the back archive onto the Thieme platform, where volumes from the Schattauer years are served beside current issues and older scanned pages.这次转手把过刊档案迁到 Thieme 平台，Schattauer 时期的各卷与当期文章，以及更早的扫描页面在同一处提供。

• Metrics have climbed in the present decade, the 2025 Journal Impact Factor reaching 2.4 against 1.3 in 2023.指标在近十年里上行，2025 年影响因子达到 2.4，2023 年为 1.3。

• Gold open access accounts for 69.57 percent of recent papers, and about a dozen articles a year carry a total of roughly 1500 citations.近年论文中有 69.57% 以金色开放获取发表，每年约十余篇论文累积起约 1500 次总被引。

Editors

• Sabine Koch, professor of health informatics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, holds the editorship.主编由斯德哥尔摩卡罗林斯卡学院的健康信息学教授（Sabine Koch）担任。

• Two associate editors work with her, John H. Holmes at the University of Pennsylvania and Lucia Sacchi at the University of Pavia.与她共事的两位副编辑是宾夕法尼亚大学的（John H. Holmes）与帕维亚大学的（Lucia Sacchi）。

• The board page lists 32 members, and counted by country the United States leads with nine and Germany follows with eight, which leaves the two largest blocs on either side of the Atlantic.编委页面列出 32 位成员，按所在国计算，美国以九人居首，德国以八人次之，两处最大的集群分处大西洋两岸。

• Reach extends further, since Austria, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil and Argentina all hold seats.席位分布更广，奥地利，意大利，希腊，荷兰，西班牙，瑞士，英国，日本，巴西与阿根廷均有编委。

• Four editors emeriti are carried on the same page, among them Jan H. van Bemmel and Reinhold Haux.同一页面列有四位荣休主编，其中包含（Jan H. van Bemmel）与（Reinhold Haux）。

• Donald A. B. Lindberg and Alexa T. McCray complete that group, and their tenure ties the title to two generations of American health informatics.（Donald A. B. Lindberg）与（Alexa T. McCray）同属这一组，两人的任期把刊物与美国两代健康信息学连接起来。

• Gustav Wagner still stands at the head of the historical roster as founding editor, more than sixty years after the first issue.首期问世六十余年之后，（Gustav Wagner）仍以创刊主编身份列在历史名单之首。

• Day-to-day communication rests with Jonas Bienzeisler and Rainer Röhrig of RWTH Aachen, and Stefano Bonacina in Sweden serves as editorial assistant.日常联络由（Jonas Bienzeisler）与（Rainer Röhrig）负责，两人任职于亚琛工业大学，（Stefano Bonacina）在瑞典担任编辑助理。

• Manuscripts enter through ScholarOne at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/methods, the portal named in the author guidelines.稿件经 ScholarOne 系统投递，入口为 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/methods，作者指南指明的正是该地址。

• The guidelines state that submissions are evaluated by an anonymous panel, without promising a double-blind arrangement or a fixed number of referees.指南写明稿件由匿名评审组评估，未承诺双盲安排，也未规定评审人数。

• Open access is hybrid, so authors may take CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND at acceptance while subscription publication stays the default route.开放获取为混合模式，作者可在录用时选择 CC BY 或 CC BY-NC-ND，订阅发表仍是默认路径。

• The aims text reserves room for articles on particular topics, which appear as thematic clusters rather than as separate supplements.征稿说明为特定主题的文章留出位置，这类稿件以专题组合的形式出现，不另出附刊。