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Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik

Joint Journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering and the German Society of Biomaterials
  • Editor-in-Chief: Jens Haueisen
  • Edited by: Peter Augat , Daniel Baumgarten , Thomas M. Deserno , Frédéric Heim , Steffen Leonhardt , Klaus M. Radermacher , Erik Schkommodau , Thomas Stieglitz and Gudrun Wagenknecht
Language: English
First published: January 1, 1956
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year

About this journal

Objective
Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik (BMT) is a high-quality forum for the exchange of knowledge in the fields of biomedical engineering, medical information technology and biotechnology/bioengineering. As an established journal with a tradition of more than 60 years, BMT addresses engineers, natural scientists, and clinicians working in research, industry, or clinical practice. All articles are peer-reviewed. All manuscripts must be submitted in English.

Starting 2025, the journal will be transferred to Diamond Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY. There will be no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of the Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, to make the transformation to Open Access possible.

Topics
  • diagnostic imaging
  • image processing
  • biosignal processing
  • modelling and simulation
  • biomechanics
  • information and communication in medicine
  • telemedicine and e-health
  • surgery
  • minimum invasive interventions
  • endoscopy and image-guided therapy
  • diagnostic and therapeutic instrumentation
  • clinical engineering
  • micro- and nanosystems in medicine
  • active implants
  • biosensors
  • neuro-engineering
  • neural systems
  • rehabilitation and prosthetics
  • biomaterials
  • cellular and tissue engineering
  • artificial organs
  • biomedical engineering for audiology, ophthalmology, emergency and dental medicine
  • general subjects (e.g., education and training, health technology assessment)
  • special topics (e.g., linking proteomics and genomics with biomedical engineering, emergency medicine)

Article formats
Reviews, Research Articles, Short Communications

Your Benefits

Your benefits:Imperative topicApplicative approach to engineering facilities and methodsNew areas of application of cutting-edge technologies in modern medicineState-of-the-art solutions for requirements in current medical practiceAhead-of-print online publicationHistoryThe Journal was founded in 1956 as the official journal of the German Society of Biomedical Engineering Biomedizinische Technik and published firstly in German. In a transition period as of 2004 publication in German and English was possible, but since 2010 the journal appears only in English. Consistently the title was changed to Biomedical Engineering – Biomedizinische Technik.

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Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik publishes special and thematic issues focussed on important and emerging topics in the field of study. The journal has established a rigorous process to ensure that any special issue manuscripts follow the same high-quality standards and peer review processes as regular manuscripts. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy please see the "Instructions for Authors".

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Journal Impact Factor 1.8 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor 1.5 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025)
Journal Citation Indicator 0.29 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025)
CiteScore 3.4 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025)
SCImago Journal Rank 0.319 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper 0.669 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus)

Submission
You can easily submit your manuscript online. Simply go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bmt and you will be guided through the whole peer-reviewing and publishing process.

Your benefits of publishing with us
  • Rapid online publication ahead-of-print with short turnaround times
  • High quality manuscript processing through ScholarOne Manuscripts®
  • Optional open access publication
  • Each article published under an open access license is subject to an Article Processing Charge of €2,000.
  • Accepted papers will be published online first as DOI-citable, forward-linked articles for quickest possible visibility for the scientific community
  • Every article easily discoverable because of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
  • Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
  • Professional sales and marketing activities

Submission process

  • Before submitting a manuscript, please have a look at our Instructions for Authors
  • Submission of your paper via our submission management tool
  • Peer review process (you will be guided through every step)
  • Decision on your paper (6-8 weeks from submission to first decision)
  • When papers are accepted subject to revision, the revised manuscript must be returned within 12 weeks (research articles, reviews) or 6 weeks (short communications, case reports, letters to the editors) after the author has been notified of the decision
  • If accepted: you have the option to publish it open access

Please note

  • Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English
  • Before submitting your article please have a look at our Ethical Guidelines and our Copyright Transfer Agreement
  • Biomedical Engineering follows Tier 2 of our Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to provide a data availability statement. Please refer to the Data Sharing Policy for guidance on how to write a data availability statement. 
  • As a condition of submission, the Template for Ethical and Legal Declarations must be customized by the submitting author on behalf of all others and uploaded as a separate Word file.
  • Our Repository Policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
  • If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for authors or contact us at: bmt.editorial@degruyter.com

We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Hybrid Open Access

In this journal, authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints.
Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found under the "Funding and Support" tab
here.

Editor-in-Chief
Jens Haueisen (Ilmenau, Germany)

Contact person
Jens Haueisen, jens.haueisen@tu-ilmenau.de

Associate Editors
Peter Augat (Institut für Biomechanik, Germany)
Daniel Baumgarten (Institut für Elektrotechnik und Biomedizinische Technik, Austria)
Thomas Deserno (Peter L. Reichertz Instituts für Medizinische Informatik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Frédéric Heim (Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique Textiles
Universite de Haute-Alsace, France)
Steffen Leonhardt (Helmholtz Institute of Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Klaus Radermacher (Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering,
RWTH Aachen University)
Erik Schkommodau (Institute for Medical Technologies, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland)
Thomas Stieglitz (Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) University of Freiburg, Germany)
Gudrun Wagenknecht (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)

Editorial Board
†Ulrich Boenick (Berlin, Germany)
Olaf Dössel (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Pamela Habibovic (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Branislav Jaramaz (Pittsburgh, PA, United States)
Marc Kraft (Berlin, Germany)
Thomas Lenarz (Hannover, Germany)
Harry van Lenthe (Leuven, Belgium)
Benny Lo (London, UK)
Luca Mainardi (Milano, Italy)
Silvestro Micera (Lausanne, Switzerland & Pisa, Italy)
Thomas Penzel (Berlin, Germany)
Andrea Robitzki (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Klaus-Peter Schmitz (Rostock, Germany)
Tobias Schaeffter (Berlin, Germany)
Jess G. Snedeker (Zurich, Switzerland)
Leif Sörnmo (Lund, Sweden)
Nobuhiko Sugano (Osaka, Japan)
Jürgen Werner (Bochum, Germany)
Werner Wolf (Neubiberg, Germany)

BMT Editorial Office
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin
Germany
Tel. +49-30-26005-176
Fax: +49-30-26005-352
E-mail: bmt.editorial@degruyter.com

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Journal information
Additional information
eISSN:
1862-278X
ISSN:
0013-5585
Language:
English
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Additional information
First published:
January 1, 1956
Publication Frequency:
6 issues per year
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