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BMC Series Focus Issues
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May: Understanding Mental Health
With Mental Health Awareness Month in May, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on ‘Understanding Mental Health’. We have brought together content to highlight research into understanding and improving mental health.
April: Our Changing Environment
In preparation for Earth Day on 22nd April, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on Our Changing Environment, highlighting research from across the journals on climate change, conservation, pollution, and the impact of environmental changes on human health and disease.
Announcing the launch of In Review
BMC Immunology, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:
- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received
Featured article: Simulation Modeling for Immunologists
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In this article, authors present a freely available software package for the R programming language called Dynamical Systems Approach to Immune Response Modeling (DSAIRM). This is aimed at researchers with little or no coding experience to aid in their understanding of literature involving simulation modeling and to employ in their own research.
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TREM2 promotes natural killer cell development in CD3−CD122+NK1.1+ pNK cells
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Circular RNA circFADS2 is overexpressed in sepsis and suppresses LPS-induced lung cell apoptosis by inhibiting the maturation of miR-15a-5p
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Type 2 and type 3 innate lymphoid cells at the maternal-fetal interface: implications in preterm birth
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Predicting the allergenicity of legume proteins using a PBMC gene expression assay
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Revisiting the white blood cell count: immature granulocytes count as a diagnostic marker to discriminate between SIRS and sepsis - a prospective, observational study
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Characterization of murine macrophages from bone marrow, spleen and peritoneum
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Transcriptional profiling of the LPS induced NF-κB response in macrophages
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Prerequisites for cytokine measurements in clinical trials with multiplex immunoassays
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Significantly reduced CCR5-tropic HIV-1 replication in vitro in cells from subjects previously immunized with Vaccinia Virus
Aims and scope
BMC Immunology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in molecular, cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional, and developmental aspects of the immune system as well as clinical studies and animal models of human diseases.
The journal welcomes submissions in these broad areas of research:
Cellular immunology and immune regulation
Clinical immunology: transplants, autoimmunity, immunodeficiency and vaccines
Immunity to infection and tumours
Immunogenetics, immunogenomics and systems immunology
Allergy and hypersensitivity
Innate Immunity and inflammation
Immunometabolism
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92 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
64 days to first decision for all manuscripts
182 days from submission to acceptance
17 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
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2.598 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.683 - SNIP (Source-Normalized Impact per Paper)
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