About Dynamic Medicine

What is Dynamic Medicine?

Dynamic Medicine encompasses all aspects of research relating to Dynamic Medicine, including: methodologies for evaluation of human function at work, exercise medicine, exercise physiology, and sports medicine in health and disease. Dynamic Medicine will encompass scientific studies that evaluate human function in both health and disease. This includes mechanistic clinical studies, studies of human physiology, and methodological studies that improve our ability to evaluate human function

We aim to complete the peer review process for manuscripts within one month of receipt, and to publish the final version within one month of acceptance. With electronic submission, this means that your research article can reach the scientific community two months after you submit. We believe that this rapid-publishing policy saves time and facilitates research processes such as grant proposals. Members of the Dynamic Medicine Editorial Board will play a decisive role in selecting authors for extensive, up-to-date reviews and selecting appropriate referees for each manuscript.

Content overview

Dynamic Medicine considers the following types of articles:

• Research - reports of data from original research.
• Reviews - comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of Dynamic Medicine; these articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.

Peer review policies

To achieve fast but fair peer-review, decisions on which manuscripts to publish in Dynamic Medicine will be in the combined hands of an Editor-in-Chief and a member of the Editorial Board. No manuscripts will be rejected without the advice of either a working scientist in the relevant field, the Editor-in-Chief or one of the scientists of the Editorial Board.

Edited by Takafumi Hamaoka and Kevin K. McCully, Dynamic Medicine is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Dynamic Medicine

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, CAS and Embase.

Articles in Dynamic Medicine should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Dyn Med 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Dynamic Medicine does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Dynamic Medicine using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Dynamic Medicine is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Dynamic Medicine however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Dynamic Medicine's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Dynamic Medicine will be available.

Dynamic Medicine is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.