Overview

Smart Medicine is an international, open-access journal dedicated to translating fundamental discoveries and technological innovations into clinical applications. This journal aims to promote communications from bench to bed and from bed to bench, by providing a platform for sharing the latest research results from all medicine-relevant disciplines. 

Scope 

Smart Medicine is a journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed articles with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary research related to medicine, biomedical engineering, and biotechnologies. The journal focuses on innovative and cutting-edge research that can revolutionize medical practice or improve human health. The types of articles accepted for submission include Research articles, Reviews, Mini Reviews and Perspectives.

The journal publishes articles based on basic, translational, clinical, or applied medical research that demonstrate the potential or effectiveness of new materials, therapies, devices, technologies or methods in disease prevention, diagnosis, and therapy. Topics include but are not limited to:


Medical and life science fields:

  • Oncology
  • Immunology
  • Surgery
  • Pharmacy
  • Internal medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Cell and molecular biology
  • Genetics
  • Other fields related to basic or clinical medicine.
Biomedical engineering and biotechnology fields:
  • Biomaterials
  • Tissue engineering
  • Organs-on-chips and organoids
  • Clinical diagnostics
  • Drug delivery
  • Nanotechnology
  • Bioelectronics
  • Bioimaging
  • Bioinformatics
  • Medical artificial intelligence and robotics
  • Other fields that involve the use of engineering principles or tools to solve biomedical problems or needs.

In addition to the above topics, the journal also welcomes innovative ideas and interdisciplinary communication between medicine and healthcare policy, humanities, education, etc., such as:

  • addressing the challenges and opportunities of global health governance and cooperation,
  • using literature, art, or media to enhance medical education or communication,
  • utilizing digital technologies or platforms to facilitate medical learning or assessment.
Innovative ideas related to medicine and healthcare policy are also warmly welcomed.


Readership

Smart Medicine is dedicated to being one of the most important journals for material scientists, life scientists, biological and chemical engineers, medical researchers and clinicians, pharmacologists, as well as health science specialists from academia and industry. 

 

Indexing information

  • Biological Abstracts (Clarivate Analytics)
  • BIOSIS Previews (Clarivate Analytics)
  • CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)

Smart Medicine deposits all articles in PMC (PubMed Central).