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Aims and scope

Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art (VCIBA) aims to serve as a publication and communication platform for researchers in computer image, graphics and visualization.

The scope of the journal mainly consists in three fields. VCIBA publishes articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Industrial fields:
Computer vision, computer graphics, computer geometry, image processing and analysis, visualization, virtual reality, human-machine graphic interaction, CAD/CAM/CAE
Biomedical fields:
Molecular imaging, metabolic imaging, functional imaging, structural imaging, multimodality imaging, biomedical/medical image processing, biomedical/medical image analysis, radiomics 
Art and design fields:
Visual arts, artistic design, computational design, animation, architectural design, generative art, aesthetic visual computing

 

Open access

All articles published by the Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

As authors of articles published in the Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the SpringerOpen copyright and license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, SpringerOpen can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Article Processing charges

The publication costs forVisual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art are covered by the China Graphics Society so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.

Indexing Services

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by SpringerOpen on SpringerLink. We are working closely with relevant indexing services including PubMed Central and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) to ensure that articles published in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art will be available in their databases when appropriate.

Peer-review Policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.


Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. Publication of research articles by Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field. Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. Reviewers will also be asked to indicate how interesting and significant the research is. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.

Citing articles in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art

Articles in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. Vis. Comput. Ind. Biomed. Art [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Vis. Comput. Ind. Biomed. Art 2009, 1:115.

1:115 refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art should adhere to SpringerOpen's editorial policies.

Once your article is accepted, it will be processed by production and published shortly afterwards. In some cases, articles may be held for a short period of time prior to publication. If you have any concerns or particular requirements please contact the Journal.

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Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies.

Benefits of publishing with SpringerOpen

High visibility

Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. 

Speed of publication

Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art and SpringerOpen.

Flexibility

Online publication in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art are included in article alerts and regular email updates. 
In addition, articles published in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art

Copyright

Authors of articles published in Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the copyright and license agreement).

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Affiliated with

  • China Graphics Society (CGS) is a national, academic, and non-profit organization. It’s founded in 1980 and is affiliated to China Association for Science and Technology. CGS gathers a large number of renowned experts, scholars and science and technology in realm of graphics, with a membership of over 100,000 people. CGS is one of the initiators of International Society for Geometry and Graphics (ISGG), and is its group member. CGS has actively assigned delegations to attend the international Conference on Geometry and Graphics (ICGG) held by ISGG and successfully hosted ICGG in China for many times.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.8 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.1 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.626 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.700 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    8 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    116 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    294,735 downloads
    28 Altmetric mentions 

The journal is indexed by

  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • EI Compendex
  • SCOPUS
  • PubMedCentral
  • DBLP
  • Dimensions
  • DOAJ
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • Google Scholar
  • Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
  • Naver
  • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
  • ACM Digital Library
  • WTI Frankfurt eG
  • CNKI
  • TD Net Discovery Service