Submission

Founded in 1986, Journal of China Medical Devices is a state-level periodical and monthly published in China and abroad under the supervision of the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China. It is a source journal for Chinese scientific and technical papers and citations. It is a key scientific and technological journal with great influence in the field of medical engineering in China. According to the needs of the development of modern medicine, the journal continues to strengthen column construction and strengthen its own characteristics, in order to improve the quality of papers, gather the frontier situation and research hotspot of medical engineering and information technology, promote medical engineering technology to play a greater role in the development of modern medicine. In order to further enhance the academic, innovative and technical nature of the papers in this journal, the columns of this journal are set as follows, and the majority of medical engineering professionals are welcome to contribute.

A. Main columns, their scope of publication and employment criteria

1. Features

For this column, famous scholars in China and abroad who have made outstanding contributions in the field of this subject are appointed as the chief editor of the column, and a series of papers related to a certain topic are organized (3 ~ 8 papers, 5 would be ideal), which need to be supported by provincial and ministerial research funds. The paper should be a discussion of the new progress, new theory, new technology and innovative achievements in the field of the discipline, consisting of 1 review paper + several research-based papers. The review should explain the current research progress and existing problems of the subject, and the research-based papers are closely related to each other, and elaborate from different aspects around a certain topic. The thematic content elaborated in this paper is comprehensive, readable, advanced and authoritative.

2. Research Work

The papers in this column are the research results summarized by experimental research or scientific practice, and the experimental data of the papers are required to be detailed and accurate, with analysis and conclusions, and are innovative, scientific and practical. Such as biomedical engineering, medical equipment development and functional development, hospital digital management technology, in-use medical equipment application quality assurance technology, hospital scientific management of new technology and medical new technology research and innovation results. It is required that the viewpoint of the paper is clear, the technical method is correct, and the data is reliable. Research work papers are divided into the following modules according to the type of paper.

(1) Medical Engineering Technology

Medical engineering technology is a new science that uses engineering theories and methods to solve practical problems in medicine with wide scientific scope, so this column includes a wide range of content, i.e. the theory, technology, methods of clinical medical engineering and medical equipment quality control, measurement and other related innovative papers. Such as the composition principle of modern advanced medical equipment, performance characteristics, application function development, safe use of medical equipment and computer system technology, medical equipment modification, in-use medical equipment maintenance technology, medical new technology innovation and gizmos; experience in quality control and measurement of medical equipment and consumables, as well as problems and suggestions in quality control and measurement management, content and methods of testing; the statistics, investigation and analysis of adverse medical events caused by the quality or function failure of medical devices. The papers shall be innovative and practical, and shall comply with relevant state regulations. This column requires clear discussion, highlighting technical characteristics, academic, innovative and practical.

(2) Digitalized Hospital Management

This column publishes the creation, development, application, upgrade and maintenance technology of computer software and hardware in hospital digital management, as well as the innovative experience of scientific management technology and operation method of medical equipment and medical consumables, including the functional development technology of hospital HIS, RIS, PACS, LIS and modern digital medical equipment; and medical equipment purchase selection, installation testing, in-use equipment management, use efficiency research, application effect analysis and economic benefit analysis, scrap system and scrap treatment and other aspects of management innovation papers. The paper in this column should be the author’s own practical work and technical experience, which is required to be innovative, novel, practical and scientific, rather than a general theoretical introduction, work narrative or work summary.

(3) Scientific Management

This column intends to publish the scientific management methods of medical equipment in hospitals, including the application of some of the latest management methods, the procurement of medical equipment (consumables), the use of medical equipment (consumables), the storage, benefit analysis, adverse event reporting, preventive maintenance, and the retirement of medical device. Topics related to medical device management can be included in this column.

(4) Clinical Imaging Technology

The papers included in this column mainly focus on the innovation of imaging technology, the improvement of image quality, the design of imaging parameters, etc., with emphasis on technical innovation and improvement (papers that only focus on clinical diagnosis are not accepted). This column requires the paper to be innovative, advanced, novel, practical and repeatable experimental technology. Emphasis should be placed on the application of medical imaging equipment and related imaging technology.

(5) Translational medicine

This column requires to highlight the application of new technologies and new methods in basic medicine, pharmacy, computer information technology and other fields in clinical medicine, preventive medicine and military medicine, including but not limited to: the development of current basic medicine and clinical technology, the theory of translational medicine construction under new conditions, the development trends, new technologies and new methods of translational medicine at home and abroad; integration of basic and clinical and preventive transformation; clinical integration with rehabilitation and prevention transformation; integration of pharmacy and clinical and preventive transformation; the mutual transformation and integration of TCM and Western medicine. Emphasis is placed on the transformation and application of new theories, technologies and methods of medical equipment in the field of clinical medicine.

3. Review

In this column, the author should consult a considerable number of domestic and foreign references of the subject (mainly literatures in the past 3 to 5 years), select relevant development information after analysis and research, summarize and sort out, and write a comprehensive paper. The paper should reflect the new progress of the subject, and summarize and look forward to the progress of the field. The types of papers mainly include: a certain field of medical engineering, a certain type of medical equipment, medical new technology, medical computer technology and so on. The paper in this column is required to be advanced, forward-looking and leading, with clear views, reliable data and technical methods, and all sources are noted. It is required to cite more than 30 domestic and foreign references, of which more than 1/3 are references in the past 3 years.

4. Device Maintenance

The papers included in this column are for medical engineers and technicians to select typical faults of typical equipment for in-depth analysis according to their actual maintenance experience, so as to provide readers with reference maintenance ideas and maintenance methods. The case should be a typical fault example and should not be too simple.

This column requires the author to write the paper to involve the specific equipment principle level reference theory; The fault part is divided into fault phenomenon, fault analysis, fault solution and other steps. The summary part should summarize the maintenance methods provided by this paper for reference and other aspects can provide reference content.

The whole writing process should be accompanied by pictures or tables to explain. The number of references is about 20.

B.paper requirements

1. papers accepted by this journal must be the work of the author's own research, experiment or practice, and must have clear viewpoints, scientific rational explanation and proof. The paper should be innovative, novel and practical. The paper should broaden its academic horizon and make as much reference as possible to domestic and foreign references in relevant disciplines, such as journals in biomedical engineering, instruments and equipment, computer application, electronic technology and other disciplines.

2. For papers in all columns, if they are national or provincial (ministry) level papers related to the research project, please indicate the source of the research topic and project number, and provide relevant proof, the journal will be preferentially employed and published.

3. The paper should have clear paragraphs, smooth text, concise narration, prominent focus, do not violate relevant national policies and regulations, and try to avoid misspelling and wrong symbols. At least 5000 words are required. The duplicated content rate of all quoted papers in the paper shall not exceed 20%, and duplicated content rate of a single quoted paper shall not exceed 5%.The figures and tables in the paper should comply with the writing requirements of the journal.

4. All authors are required to submit their papers online (www.china-cmd.org). Please fill in the submission letter and state the author’s name, phone number, affiliation, department and correspondence address. For papers by multiple authors, please arrange the authors in order.

Pay special attention to:

(1) The corresponding author should provide his/her name, title, research interest and email address, and the corresponding author must have a senior title (or doctor’s degree). This journal does not have a joint corresponding author,, co-first author.

(2) In particular, national, provincial (ministry) level research projects in the field of the subject are welcome to submit papers, as well as postgraduate dissertations in the discipline or related disciplines.

(3) The first author and corresponding author cannot be changed after submission.

C. Manuscript Acceptance and Publication

Acceptance and Fees: China Medical Devices does not charge any review fees. After the manuscript is reviewed and peer-reviewed by the editorial department and reviewers, the final decision will be made by the chief editor based on comprehensive assessment. After acceptance, the author will be charged some APC (4000-7000 CNY per manuscript). Decision and fee notification for the manuscript will be sent from the email of the editorial department (submission@cmdmedia.cn) to the first author and corresponding author. After the manuscript is published, two sample journals will be sent to the first author or corresponding author.

D.Others

1.Data Sharing and Reproducibility

China Medical Devices requires authors to include in any articles that report results derived from research data to include a Data Availability Statement. The provision of a Data Availability Statement will be verified as a condition of publication. Data Availability Statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analyzed or generated during the study. Where research data are not publicly available, this must be stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for accessing the data. Data Availability Statements must take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple types of research data):

The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS]

The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due [REASON WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC] but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. 

The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files].

The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party name] but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [third party name].

2.Post-publication Discussions and Corrections

When the author discovers any material inaccuracies or errors in his work, he should inform the editorial board of China Medical Devices to correct the error. In cases when the error is discovered after publication on paper, then the publisher in the next issue publishes a note as follows:

Corrigendum, is a statement issued by the publisher informing the reader that an article has been corrected after publication. These corrections may relate to the title, authors or anything else that has confused the full meaning of the article. Errors can be primarily technical through the fault of the author or publisher.

Retraction, is a notice that the article should not be regarded as part of the scientific literature.

A paper will only be completely removed from China Medical Devices’s website and relevant indexing databases in very exceptional circumstances, such as:

(1) The removal has been requested by an order from a court or government authority;

(2) The content poses a threat to personal privacy or the legal rights of other parties, which cannot be adequately addressed through editorial notices or updates;

(3) The research was conducted or published unlawfully, and its ongoing presence may lead to potential legal issues or privacy concerns;

(4) Although marked as retracted, the content poses risks to the general public.

Under these situations, the retraction notice explains why the entire paper has been removed, and only the metadata (title and authors) is kept.

3.Comments and Complaints

Readers who have concerns or complaints about published papers should first contact the corresponding author to attempt a resolution directly, before contacting the Editorial Office. The Editorial Office may be contacted in cases where it is not appropriate to contact the authors, if the authors were not responsive, or if the concerns were not resolved. The Editorial Office will coordinate with the complainant, author/s and Editors-in-Chief or Editorial Board members for the investigation, remedy or resolution of any concerns or complaints. All complaints, comments or update requests relating to published papers are investigated by the Editorial Office with the support of the Editorial Board and final approval by the Editor-in-Chief.

Complainants may request that the Editorial Office handle their complaint confidentially and the Editorial Office and other Editorial Board members will attempt to do so insofar as is appropriate and in accordance with our internal procedures. Decisions about Corrections, Comments and Replies, Expressions of Concerns, or Retractions resulting from an investigation are made by Editors-in-Chief, and communicated to authors. Complainants might not be updated about the status of an investigation until a final decision has been reached, however complainants will be notified if an update is published. The Editorial Office and Editorial Board members are under no obligation to present further detail. Communication will be ended where it is not considered cordial or respectful. Readers with complaints or concerns should be aware that investigations take time to conduct.

How to Complain

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