Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration (DISCO) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of scientific information management and studies of scientific practice.

Currently, many scattered disciplines study aspects of scientific practice, including informatics, computer science, sociology, cognitive psychology, scientometrics, rhetoric, public policy, technology innovation, and history and philosophy of science.

The journal will connect these disparate perspectives with each other, and with contemporary scientific practice.

The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration was published by Biomed Central from 2006-2008.

DISCO considers the following types of articles: Research articles - include scholarly studies of scientific practice, information needs, tool development, scientific rhetoric, bibliometrics, data representation methods, and so forth.

Studies of text mining, information management, Bio-NLP and literature-based discovery are especially encouraged.

Researchers are also encouraged to submit 'discovery notes', which describe literature-based discovery or data mining findings that follow systematic methodology and that make clear, testable, nontrivial experimental predictions that deserve the attention of a wide community of scientists.

Case studies - describe and critically evaluate individual laboratories, research groups or training programs - for example, how they attempt to foster discovery and collaboration, how they monitor productivity, lessons learned that can be generalized to other programs, and an analysis of factors that determine the rate of progress.

Focus articles - short, opinionated, narrowly focused articles on issues of contemporary interest.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Computer Science and Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.