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Journal of Biomedical Semantics Template

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Journal of Biomedical Semantics is a peer-reviewed journal published by BMC (BioMed Central), covering Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks. Over its lifetime it has published 583 papers, which have received 15,789 citations.

PublisherBMC (BioMed Central)
Reference styleNumbered (Vancouver)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 2023;12(3):45–58.

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Publishes research inBiomedical Text Mining and Ontologies Semantic Web and Ontologies Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks Topic Modeling Scientific Computing and Data Management
ISSN2041-1480
Citation impact (2-yr)3.49
h-index59
i10-index372
Article processing charge$1,459
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereEuropean Bioinformatics Institute
Journal websitewww.jbiomedsem.com
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Papers published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics per year

58
2014
41
2015
67
2016
58
2017
25
2018
24
2019
15
2020
22
2021
26
2022
21
2023
20
2024
22
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Biomedical Semantics by publication year

2.3K
2014
878
2015
1.9K
2016
1.6K
2017
1.1K
2018
435
2019
306
2020
331
2021
355
2022
194
2023
138
2024
49
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Biomedical Semantics

The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison, Barry Smith et al. · 1 Jan 2013

As biological and biomedical research increasingly reference the environmental context of the biological entities under study, the need for formalisation and standardisation of environment descriptors is growing. The Environment Ontology (ENVO; http://www.environmentontology.org) is a community-led, open project which seeks to provide an ontology for specifying a wide range of environments relevant to multiple life science…

The Cell Ontology 2016: enhanced content, modularization, and ontology interoperability

Alexander D. Diehl, Terrence F. Meehan, Yvonne M. Bradford et al. · 4 Jul 2016

BACKGROUND: The Cell Ontology (CL) is an OBO Foundry candidate ontology covering the domain of canonical, natural biological cell types. Since its inception in 2005, the CL has undergone multiple rounds of revision and expansion, most notably in its representation of hematopoietic cells. For in vivo cells, the CL focuses on vertebrates but provides general…

Clinical Natural Language Processing in languages other than English: opportunities and challenges

Aurélie Névéol, Hercules Dalianis, Sumithra Velupillai et al. · 30 Mar 2018

BACKGROUND: Natural language processing applied to clinical text or aimed at a clinical outcome has been thriving in recent years. This paper offers the first broad overview of clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages other than English. Recent studies are summarized to offer insights and outline opportunities in this area. MAIN BODY: We envision…

Modeling biomedical experimental processes with OBI

Ryan R. Brinkman, Mélanie Courtot, Dirk Derom et al. · 1 Jun 2010

BACKGROUND: Experimental descriptions are typically stored as free text without using standardized terminology, creating challenges in comparison, reproduction and analysis. These difficulties impose limitations on data exchange and information retrieval. RESULTS: The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), developed as a global, cross-community effort, provides a resource that represents biomedical investigations in an explicit and integrative…

The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) for biomedical research and knowledge discovery

Michel Dumontier, Christopher J. O. Baker, Joachim Baran et al. · 6 Mar 2014

The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) is an ontology to facilitate biomedical knowledge discovery. SIO features a simple upper level comprised of essential types and relations for the rich description of arbitrary (real, hypothesized, virtual, fictional) objects, processes and their attributes. SIO specifies simple design patterns to describe and associate qualities, capabilities, functions, quantities, and informational…

Journal of Biomedical Semantics template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of Biomedical Semantics use?
Journal of Biomedical Semantics uses Numbered (Vancouver) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 2023;12(3):45–58.
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