Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics

Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics is a hybrid-access journal published by Springer in Vienna since 2012, devoted to work that brings graph theory, statistics, linear algebra and machine learning to bear on problems in health informatics and bioinformatics, and carrying a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《健康信息学与生物信息学中的网络建模与分析》是 Springer 在维也纳出版的混合型期刊，2012 年创刊，专门刊登把图论、统计学与线性代数同机器学习结合起来解决健康信息学及生物信息学问题的研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The editors ask for original research articles and reviews that show how graph theory, statistics, linear algebra and machine learning can be used effectively for modelling and analysis in health informatics and bioinformatics.编辑部征集原创研究论文与综述，看重图论、统计学与线性代数这类工具同机器学习结合以后，在健康信息学及生物信息学建模分析中的实效。

• The stated purpose is synergy between the two fields, and the journal presents itself as a forum where results can be shared with institutions, governments, researchers, students and industry.办刊宗旨是让两个领域形成协同，刊物自述为一方论坛，研究成果得以在机构与政府部门之间共享，也流向研究者、学生与产业界。

• Weight goes to fundamental contributions on new methodologies, discoveries and techniques of general applicability, the kind that underpin network-based modelling, knowledge discovery, knowledge sharing and decision support.分量落在具有普遍适用性的新方法、新发现与新技术上，这类成果支撑基于网络的建模，也支撑知识发现与知识共享以及决策支持。

• Such work is expected to benefit patients, healthcare professionals and society at large, in traditional settings as well as in emerging ones built around eHealth and mHealth.这类工作要求让患者、医护人员与社会整体受益，既覆盖传统场景，也覆盖围绕电子健康与移动健康生长起来的新场景。

• Clinical and hospital human resource management and performance analysis are named topics, together with the controlled and optimised use of resources.临床与医院的人力资源管理及绩效分析被明确列为选题，受控而优化的资源利用同样在内。

• Metabolic pathway and regulatory network work is covered end to end, from modelling, evolution and simulation through analysis and control to engineering.代谢通路与调控网络的工作被完整覆盖，从建模、演化与模拟，经分析与控制，一直做到工程化。

• Decision support systems for healthcare and wellbeing form a standing area, and the journal links them to models, methods, simulation and evaluation of healthcare services.面向医疗与福祉的决策支持系统是常设方向，刊物把它同医疗服务中的建模与方法学、模拟与评价连接起来。

• eHealth and mHealth services and interventions appear as their own heading, reflecting the journal's interest in care delivered outside the hospital ward.电子健康与移动健康的服务及干预单列一类，反映出刊物对医院病房之外照护方式的关注。

• Patient tracking, prediction and monitoring are treated as a technical problem, with diagnostics and the early detection of deterioration as the leading applications.患者追踪与预测监测被当作技术问题处理，诊断以及病情恶化的早期发现是其中的主要应用。

• The spread and control of epidemics belongs to the same brief, which is why network models of contact and transmission sit comfortably beside clinical data analysis.传染病的传播与控制同属这份章程，接触网络与传播网络的模型因此同临床数据分析并列而不显突兀。

• Drug design, disease diagnosis and control give the journal a pharmacology-facing edge that many bioinformatics titles lack.药物设计、疾病诊断与防控为刊物添了一条面向药理学的边，这一点在许多生物信息学期刊上并不多见。

• Signal pathways and cell control bring molecular cell biology into the network frame, where signalling cascades are read as directed graphs.信号通路与细胞调控把分子细胞生物学带入网络框架，信号级联在这里被读作有向图。

• Modular biology and systems biology supply the theoretical vocabulary, and papers in this vein often work at the level of modules rather than single genes.模块生物学与系统生物学提供理论语汇，这类论文常在模块层面展开，而不落在单个基因上。

• Computational biomedicine and the omics family, from genomics, proteomics and transcriptomics to metabolomics and sociogenomics, are all explicitly in scope.计算生物医学与组学一族都在明确范围之内，从基因组学、蛋白质组学与转录组学，到代谢组学与社会基因组学。

• Social network modelling in health informatics is named separately, an acknowledgement that patient communities and professional networks are data sources in their own right.健康信息学中的社会网络建模被单列一条，承认患者社群与专业网络本身就是数据来源。

• Future developments in technologies and applications close the list, leaving room for work that does not yet have a settled methodological home.技术与应用的未来走向收在清单末尾，为尚无稳定方法归属的工作留出位置。

History

• The first volume appeared in 2012 under the Springer imprint in Vienna, with Reda Alhajj as founding editor.第 1 卷于 2012 年在维也纳的 Springer 出版品牌下面世，创办主编为（Reda Alhajj）。

• Volume numbering has advanced one volume per calendar year without a break, so volume 1 belongs to 2012 and volume 15 to 2026.卷号按日历年每年推进一卷且从未中断，第 1 卷对应 2012 年，第 15 卷对应 2026 年。

• The launch year ran to four issues, opened by a combined double issue 1-2 and followed by issues 3 and 4.创刊年出满四期，开卷为第 1 期与第 2 期合刊，其后是第 3 期与第 4 期。

• Volume 2 in 2013 kept the quarterly pattern with four separate issues, the last point at which the archive shows a full set of numbered parts.2013 年的第 2 卷仍按季刊节奏出满四期，此后过刊里再未出现过一组完整的编号分册。

• From the middle of the decade the journal moved to continuous publication, so each volume now carries a single issue number and articles are identified by running article numbers.到这个十年的中段，刊物改为连续出版，每卷只保留一个期号，文章以流水编号识别。

• That shift shows plainly in the current volume, where the newest papers sit in the 220s of the article sequence and go online as soon as they are accepted.这一转变在现行卷次上一目了然，最新论文的编号已进入 220 号段，录用后即行上线。

• Print and electronic editions were registered as 2192-6662 and 2192-6670, and every article carries a DOI deposited with Crossref.纸本与电子版的国际标准刊号分别为 2192-6662 与 2192-6670，每篇文章都带一个经 Crossref 登记的 DOI 标识。

• Access is hybrid. Subscriptions still carry most reading, while the citation reports put gold open access at roughly nine percent of recent output.访问模式为混合型，订阅仍承担大部分阅读量，金色开放获取在近年的产出里约占百分之九。

• The title is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than the core science editions, a standing it has kept since Web of Science coverage began.该刊收录于新兴来源引证索引（Emerging Sources Citation Index），并未进入核心的科学版索引。

• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 with a five-year value of 2.0, and the two preceding years were both recorded at 2.0.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.0，此前两年均记为 2.0。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it sits at 34 of 67 in Mathematical and Computational Biology, a Q3 placing on the fiftieth percentile.在 2025 年的期刊引证报告中，该刊列数学与计算生物学类第 34 位，共 67 种刊，处于 Q3 区，百分位为 50。

• Output has grown to about 177 papers a year, the back catalogue has drawn some 781 citations, and the cited half-life stands at 3.7 years.年发文量已增至约 177 篇，累计被引约 781 次，被引半衰期为 3.7 年。

• The National Library of Medicine catalogues the title under the variant wording Network Modeling and Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics and indexes it in PubMed for selected citations only.美国国家医学图书馆（National Library of Medicine）以 Network Modeling and Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics 这一变体题名编目，只在 PubMed 中做选择性收录。

Editors

• Reda Alhajj of the University of Calgary in Canada holds the joint title of Editor-in-Chief and Founder, and the masthead gives his degrees as PhD, MSc and BSc.主编兼创办人为加拿大卡尔加里大学（University of Calgary）的（Reda Alhajj），编委会页把他的学位记为 PhD、MSc 与 BSc。

• There is no deputy editor-in-chief. The handling layer is a single tier of associate editors, forty-eight of them at the last count.刊物不设副主编，稿件处理只有副编辑一层，最近一次清点为四十八人。

• That tier is unusually international for a title of this size, spanning the United States, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, Türkiye, Greece, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Qatar, the Philippines and Puerto Rico.对一份体量如此的期刊而言，这一层的国际化程度相当高，成员分布在美国、加拿大与中国，也分布在香港、台湾与意大利，另有土耳其、希腊、印度、孟加拉国、尼日利亚、澳大利亚、巴西、葡萄牙、西班牙、丹麦、卡塔尔、菲律宾与波多黎各。

• North American members include Peter Elkin at the University at Buffalo and Carolyn McGregor at Ontario Tech University, while Neil R. Smalheiser of the University of Illinois Chicago and Carson K. Leung of the University of Manitoba also serve.北美一翼由布法罗大学（University at Buffalo）的（Peter Elkin）、安大略理工大学（Ontario Tech University）的（Carolyn McGregor）等人撑起，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（University of Illinois Chicago）的（Neil R. Smalheiser）与曼尼托巴大学（University of Manitoba）的（Carson K. Leung）亦在其列。

• Hong Kong and the mainland hold several seats, among them William Cheung and Jiming Liu at Hong Kong Baptist University, Michael Ng at the University of Hong Kong and Mingliang Gao at Shandong University of Technology.香港与内地学者占据不少席位，香港浸会大学（Hong Kong Baptist University）有（William Cheung）与（Jiming Liu），香港大学（University of Hong Kong）有（Michael Ng），山东理工大学（Shandong University of Technology）有（Mingliang Gao）。

• A Turkish cluster brings Mehmet Kaya of Fırat University, Tansel Ozyer of TOBB University of Economics and Technology and Faruk Polat of Middle East Technical University.土耳其一组包括菲拉特大学（Fırat University）的（Mehmet Kaya）、TOBB 经济与技术大学（TOBB University of Economics and Technology）的（Tansel Ozyer）与中东技术大学（Middle East Technical University）的（Faruk Polat）。

• Italy contributes four members, among them Giovanni Delnevo at Bologna and Luigi Palopoli at Calabria, with Luigi Portinale at Eastern Piedmont and Nadia Pisanti at Pisa completing the group.意大利贡献四位成员，其中有博洛尼亚大学（University of Bologna）的（Giovanni Delnevo）与卡拉布里亚大学（University of Calabria）的（Luigi Palopoli），也有东皮埃蒙特大学（University of Eastern Piedmont）的（Luigi Portinale）与比萨大学（University of Pisa）的（Nadia Pisanti）。

• The Americas are covered as well, by André Fujita at the University of São Paulo, Luis Rueda at Windsor and Abeil Roche-Lima in Puerto Rico, alongside Juan Zhao of the American Heart Association.美洲方面另有圣保罗大学（University of São Paulo）的（André Fujita）、温莎大学（University of Windsor）的（Luis Rueda）与波多黎各大学的（Abeil Roche-Lima），美国心脏协会（American Heart Association）的（Juan Zhao）同样在册。

• Europe and Britain add Vasile Palade at Coventry and Rita Ascenso at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, plus Pedro A. Reche at Complutense and Lefteris Koumakis at FORTH in Heraklion.欧洲与英国方面还有考文垂大学（Coventry University）的（Vasile Palade）、莱里亚理工学院（Polytechnic Institute of Leiria）的（Rita Ascenso）与马德里康普顿斯大学（Complutense University of Madrid）的（Pedro A. Reche），希腊研究与技术基金会（Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas）的（Lefteris Koumakis）也在其中。

• Two associate editors sit at SDU Health Informatics and Technology in Odense, Ali Ebrahimi and Abdolrahman Peimankar, which gives the board a Danish base in clinical informatics.欧登塞的南丹麦大学健康信息学与技术系（SDU Health Informatics and Technology）占两席，（Ali Ebrahimi）与（Abdolrahman Peimankar）都在那里，编委会因此有了丹麦的临床信息学支点。

• Manuscripts go through the Springer Nature Link submission system, and the journal publishes a pre-submission checklist that authors are expected to work through.稿件经 Springer Nature Link 的投稿系统提交，刊物另备投稿前检查清单，供作者在上传之前逐项过一遍。

• Speed is part of the offer. The platform reports a median of 11 days from submission to first decision and 121,600 downloads during 2025.处理速度是卖点之一，平台公布从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 11 天，2025 年下载量约 12.16 万次。

• Ethics, authorship, data availability and competing interests are handled under a standing editorial policies page rather than case by case.伦理、署名、数据可得性与利益冲突由一份常设的编辑政策页统一规范，不逐案临时处置。

• Authors may pay for open access, and the fee schedule sits on a separate funding page that also points to institutional agreements.作者可付费选择开放获取，费用表另设专页，并列有机构协议的去处。