8 Reasons to Publish with the Journal of Breast Imaging

Journal of Breast Imaging (JBI) is the only medical journal dedicated to the field of breast imaging. It aims to provide high quality, evidence-based content for the global breast imaging medical community. The journal seeks to advance the field, with a particular emphasis on improving patient care and outcomes.

1)    Reputation

• Journal of Breast Imaging has an Impact Factor of 2.0 (2023), a CiteScore of 3.4 (2023) and readers in 100 countries.
• JBI continuously publishes innovative research and has a High Impact Research collection, featuring a sample of outstanding articles published in the journal.

2)    Expert Editorial Board

• JBI has an experienced editorial board, who support the international reach of your work.
• The Editors take great pride in providing an efficient and high-quality review process to journal authors, giving beneficial feedback and ensuring your work is published at its best.
• Editorial Board members are recruited and appointed based on their expertise, ensuring that the journal publishes quality content, operates ethically, and provides a welcoming outlet to authors from all backgrounds and at all stages of their career.

3)    Society-owned and Supported

• JBI is the official journal of the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI). When you publish in the journal, you support the society, its values and its mission: minimizing breast cancer mortality and suffering for patients, their families, and society. SBI aims for its members to be expert and authoritative breast imagers working in supportive practice environments, advancing the highest quality of breast care via early detection, diagnosis and treatment.
• A subscription to JBI is provided as a member benefit to all members of the Society of Breast Imaging. Members are typically radiologists with a strong interest in breast imaging, neatly aligning with journal content output.
• The society hosts an annual Symposium, which gives the journal and its authors an additional spotlight and increased visibility.

4)    Excellent Discoverability

• Journal of Breast Imaging is indexed in various key repositories, including MEDLINE/PUBMED, supporting the rapid and global dissemination of your work.

5)    Wide Range of Content

• The journal publishes a range of article types, so you can choose the format most appropriate for communicating your findings. Article types include, but are not limited to, Science of Screening, Original Research, and Scientific Review. You can view the full list of article types here.
• The journal publishes a variety of content, including screening for breast cancer, diagnosis of disease, image-guided breast procedures, and imaging management of patients with breast cancer. View the aims and scope here.

6)    Published by an Academic Publisher: Oxford University Press

• As a department of the University of Oxford, OUP is a mission-driven, non-profit publisher committed to delivering world-class academic and educational resources and making them available as widely as possible. OUP understands the importance of making research accessible so that not only researchers, but also practitioners and policymakers around the world, are well-equipped with the latest information to better serve their communities.

7)    Optional Open Access

• Journal of Breast Imaging offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding.
• OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating here.
• You may be eligible for a discount to the open access charge based on SBI membership. You may be asked to prove eligibility to access the member discount.
• New to the concept of Open Access? Find out more here.

8)    Straightforward Submissions Process

• All manuscripts are submitted and reviewed via the journal’s web-based manuscript submission system, ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Ready to submit your article to the Journal of Breast Imaging?

Here are the next steps you can take towards publishing with the Journal of Breast Imaging:

• Review the Instructions to Authors for information on journal policies and manuscript preparation
• Log into Journal of Breast Imaging’s submission site
• Sign up to email alerts to stay up to date on the latest articles and journal initiatives

Any questions about submitting to the journal? Email the team at: [email protected]