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MITAT Editorial Board Meeting Vienna 2008

MITAT Editorial Board Meeting Vienna 2008. Report from the Editorial Office. Gerhard F. Buess University of Tuebingen. General remarks. Work at the editorial office is going well Gerhard Bueß and Eiji Kanehira share editorial responsibilities

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MITAT Editorial Board Meeting Vienna 2008

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  1. MITAT Editorial Board Meeting Vienna 2008 Report from the Editorial Office Gerhard F. Buess University of Tuebingen

  2. General remarks • Work at the editorial office is going well • Gerhard Bueß and Eiji Kanehira share editorial responsibilities • Emma Linderoth and Therese Franzén from Informa Healthcare are on maternity leave • changes in replacements make day-to-day work a bit more difficult at the moment

  3. Year199920002001200220032004200520062007 Impact factor0,3630,2910,3930,4860,1790,2170,3460,4250,978 Impact factor development

  4. Paper flow • Paper flow has remained more or less constant for the past few years • Board members should consider the journal for publication of their material • Members of workgroups should be encouraged to send papers to MITAT

  5. Survey results • Board members were contacted in June (n = 37) • Should both topic issues and free paper issues continue to be published? • YES (5 out of 5 answers) • Should material for review be sent electronically? • YES (5 out of 5 answers) • Considering the small number of returned questionnaires these results cannot be considered to be representative!

  6. Review process • Board members are strongly encouraged to • review manuscripts as quickly as possible • state whether papers should be sent as printouts or by e-mail • indicate their areas of expertise • recruit additional reviewers, if possible • Contact: elisabeth.hermann-decker@uni-tuebingen.de

  7. Recruitment of additional reviewers • New reviewers would be especially needed in the following fields • Neurosurgery • Otolaryngology • Molecular biology, biochemistry, tissue engineering

  8. Topic issues 2006 • Thermal ablation (E. Fosse) • MRI safety of medical devices and procedures (A. Melzer) • The TUBERO project (Eiji Kanehira, Y. Kurokawa) • Minimal access spine surgery (D. Birkett) • Flexible endoscopy (M.M. Lirici)

  9. Topic issues 2007 • Hemostatic dissection and tissue ablation (J. Rassweiler) • Microsystems in medicine (M.O. Schurr) • Robotics and navigation for MRI/CT guided interventions (A. Melzer)

  10. Topic issues 2008 • Stem cell applicaiton in minimally invasive therapy (J. Hescheler, A. Melzer) • Tissue approximation and Welding (M.M. Lirici) • Technologies and techniques for NOTES (G. Buess, 17.6, papers were due in Tuebingen July 25, 08)

  11. Planned topic issues 2009 • Scientific assessment of skills and competences (E. Kanehira, 18.2) • Image-guided treatment of structural heart diseases (A. Melzer, E. Fosse??)

  12. Topic issues - backlog of proposals • Impact of tissue engineering on surgical practice (R. Satava; could not yet be realized due to time constraints) • Nanotechnology update (M.O. Schurr) • Image-guided cardiac valve implantation (E. Fosse) • New developments in uterine artery embolization (B. McLucas)

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