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About Tobacco Induced Diseases
This page includes information about the aims and scope of Tobacco Induced Diseases, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors.
Aims & scope
Tobacco Induced Diseases, the official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases, is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of tobacco induced diseases and their prevention. The aim of the journal is to further the development of the scientific basis for the biological effects of tobacco smoke and its active components and to describe the distribution of tobacco diseases throughout the world.
The journal encourages the submission of articles from all medical, biological and psychosocial disciplines to match the multidisciplinary audience of the journal and the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases, ranging from medical and dental clinicians, through nurses and health professionals to basic biomedical scientists.
All articles published by Tobacco Induced Diseases are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.
Authors of articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement.
For authors who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BioMed Central can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.
Open access publishing is not without costs. Tobacco Induced Diseases therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1240/$1940/€1580 for each article accepted for publication. If the submitting author's institution is a Member, the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.
All articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases include:
- Google Scholar
- Index Copernicus
- PubMed Central
- Science Citation Index Expanded
The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands).
The full text of all research articles published by BioMed Central is also available on SpringerLink.
Tobacco Induced Diseases is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 1.50.
Publication and peer review process
Criteria for publication
Tobacco Induced Diseasesconsiders the following types of articles:
- Research - reports of data from original research.
- Reviews - comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope.
- Book reviews - short summaries of the strengths and weaknesses of a book, evaluating its overall usefulness to the intended audience.
- Case studies - descriptions of a major healthcare intervention, usually from a public health perspective. Case study articles should include a rigorous assessment of the processes and impact of the intervention as well as recommendations for future interventions.
- Letters to the Editor - can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers.
- Short reports - brief reports of data from original research.
Tobacco Induced Diseases operates a closed peer review process on all manuscripts and reviews approved via initial screening by the Editor-in-Chief. Manuscripts written on behalf of the tobacco industry or based on a grant by the tobacco industry will be rejected without being reviewed.
Edited by J. Elliott Scott, Tobacco Induced Diseases is supported by an expert Editorial Board.
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My Tobacco Induced Diseases, a personalized section of the site.
High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints.
Tobacco Induced Diseases will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. All full length articles (proceedings, reviews or research articles) are indexed by PubMed. PubMed displays the title of the supplement only in the case of meeting abstract collections. For further information, please contact us.
All manuscripts submitted to Tobacco Induced Diseases should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.
Citing articles in Tobacco Induced Diseases
Articles in Tobacco Induced Diseases should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.
Article citations follow this format:
Authors: Title. Tob Induced Dis [year], [volume number]:[article number].
e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Tob Induced Dis 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Why publish your article in Tobacco Induced Diseases?
Tobacco Induced Diseases's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results.
Speed of publication
Tobacco Induced Diseases offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Tobacco Induced Diseases, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed.
Online publication in Tobacco Induced Diseases gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).
Promotion and press coverage
Articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on Tobacco Induced Diseases's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Authors of articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright policy and license agreement).
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