Piero joined BMC in late 2021. His background is in molecular and cell biology. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa for three years and completed his bachelor degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Pisa. He moved to France for his master degree in Life Sciences at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he attended courses on developmental biology, epigenetics, system biology. He pursued a PhD in cancer biology at the Cancer Research Center of Lyon, focusing on ribosome biogenesis and proposing it as a new target for anti-cancer treatment.
After his PhD, he went on with a short post-doc, investigating cell responses to ribosome biogenesis inhibitors in breast cancer. Finally, he gained some experience as a freelance scientific editor before joining BMC. He is now based in the Berlin office and upholds the values of open access.
Editorial Board
Piero Lo Monaco, Associate Editor
Senior Editorial Board Members
Fang Liu
Fang Liu is a Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. Liu obtained her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Her research interests include data privacy, differential privacy, statistical machine learning, model regularization, Bayesian statistics, analysis of missing data, and application of statistical methods to biological and medical sciences, engineering and social sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and is currently a Senior Editorial Board member for BMC Medical Research Methodology.
Demosthenes Panagiotakos
Demosthenes Panagiotakos is a Professor in Biostatistics, Medical Research Methodology and Epidemiology at the Harokopio University in Athens, Greece, and a Member of the Scientific Committee on Health and Emerging Risks of the European Commission. Panagiotakos obtained his PhD in Biostatistics & Epidemiology from the University of Athens Medical School, Greece, and performed post-doctoral training at VAMC/Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. His research interests include chronic disease epidemiology, public health, statistical modelling, forecasting, statistical machine learning, and application of multivariate statistical methods to medical sciences. He is currently a Senior Editorial Board member for BMC Medical Research Methodology.
Dawid Pieper
Dawid Pieper is professor for health services and health systems research at Brandenburg Medical School and the Faculty of Health Sciences, joint Faculty of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg, the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the University of Potsdam, Germany. He is responsible for the master course Health Services Research. He is also the co-leader of the Centre for Health Services Research Brandenburg. Dawid holds master degrees in public health and epidemiology. In his PhD thesis he focused on the methodological improvement on overviews (reviews of reviews). Besides evidence syntheses Dawid’s main research interests are knowledge translation, regional health services research, patient and public involvement, implementation science and meta-research. Before becoming a senior editorial board member Dawid already acted as an associate editor with BMC Medical Research Methodology. In addition, he is a protocol editor with BMC Systematic Reviews and an associate editor with BMC Health Services Research.
Livia Puljak
Livia Puljak is a full professor at the Catholic University of Croatia, where she is also the Head of the Center for evidence-based medicine and healthcare. She was trained in the United States, Italy and Canada. Her research interests include research methodology, evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology. She has published more than 200 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and mentored more than 60 defended diploma, Master and PhD theses. She was the inaugural director of Cochrane Croatia. In 2017, she was awarded the Chris Silagy Prize from Cochrane for her contribution to developing evidence-based medicine and in 2019, the Bill Silverman Prize for a research article containing the best criticism of Cochrane. She was listed among 2% of researchers with the highest citation impact in the world in the years 2020 and 2021.
Leonardo Roever
Dr. Roever is a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in Medicine and Health at the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, Federal University of Bahia. CEO of Brazilian Network of Research in Meta-analysis (BRAMETIS).
The total of publications comprises more than 290 articles in journals specialized as an author and/or co-authored, including high-impact journals such as The Lancet, Nature, Nature Medicine, The Lancet Neurology, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The Lancet Global Health, European Heart Journal, JACC, Circulation and British Medical Journal (BMJ). Ad Hoc for the Medical Research Council (MRC) is part of UK Research and Innovation, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI-USA) and Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) - Hong Kong.
Senior Board Member - BMC Medical Research Methodology, Editorial Board (Neurology, International Journal of Cardiology, BMC Medical Research Methodology, BMC Emergency Medicine and Lipids in Health and Disease), Associated Editor [BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (Epidemiology) and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine] , Academic Editor [Medicine (USA - Baltimore, Maryland)/ BioMed Research International (Critical Care)] and others.
Victor Volovici
Dr Victor Volovici obtained his PhD in neurosurgery and epidemiology (medical decision science) at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (The Netherlands). His research focuses on stroke, particularly hemorrhagic stroke (cerebral aneurysms, brain AVMs), and on applying new methodological techniques for causal inference to answer critical research questions arising during clinical practice. While being a firm supporter of the power of randomized controlled trials, in some cases (diseases with low prevalence, or heterogeneity of treatment definitions- e.g. surgical treatment) observational techniques should be employed to inform best practice. He aims to bring advanced statistical techniques closer to clinicians and make them more understandable and feasible to use. He further enjoys a partnership and a collaboration with the "Iuliu Hatieganu" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he served as a visiting professor of experimental microsurgery, participating and leading microsurgical skill acquisition and skill maintenance research.
Senior Editorial Board Members
Fang Liu, University of Notre Dame, USA
Demosthenes Panagiotaakos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Dawid Pieper, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane, Germany
Livia Puljak, Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb, Croatia
Leonardo Roever, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Victor Volovici, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
Editorial Board Members
Fares Alahdab, Houston Methodist Academic Institute & Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Zakariya Algamal, University of Mosul, Iraq
Vance Berger, National Cancer Institute, USA
Sonu Menachem Maimonides Bhaskar, Liverpool Hospital, NSW Brain Clot Bank and Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research
Cauane Blumenberg, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas
Christian Brettschneider, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Igor Burstyn, Drexel University, USA
Adam C Carle, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Ferrán Catalá-López, National School of Public Health, ISCIII
Steve Coad, Queen Mary, University of London
Bruno da Costa, University of Toronto, Canada
Frank de Vocht, University of Bristol, UK
Rishi Desai, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
Svjetlana Dosenovic, Croatia,
Anne Eaton, University of Minnesota, USA
Cindy Feng, Dalhousie University, Canada
Blanca Gallego Luxan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Gaetano Gallo, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Gowri Gopalakrishna, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Yitka Graham, University of Sunderland, UK
Michael Grayling, Newcastle University, UK
Alden L Gross, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Hui Guo, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Candyce Hamel, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Catherine Hayes, University of Sunderland, UK
Martijn W Heymans, VU University Medical Center (VUmc) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chengcheng Hu, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, USA
Leila Jahangiry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Zhehan Jiang, Peking University, China
Antonia Jelicic Kadic, University Hospital Split, Croatia
Paul H. Lee, University of Leicester, UK
Yisheng Li, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Xiaoyu Liang, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Ren Liu, University of California Merced, USA
Sheng Luo, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Xianghua Luo, The University of Minnesota, USA
Chaochao Ma, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China
Mahdi Mahdizadeh, Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran
Tim Mathes, Institute for Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
Tito R Mendoza, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Rahul Mhaskar, University of South Florida, USA
Seyyed Meysam Mousavi, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Zachary Munn, University of Adelaide, Australia
Gustavo Nascimento, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Pentti Nieminen, University of Oulu, Finland
Anthony Nunes, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Jung Hun Oh, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Ivan Olier, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Carel Peeters, VU University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Tina Poklepović Peričić, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia
Fabian Prasser, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Jing Qian, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Enrico Ripamonti, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
José Antonio Roldán-Nofuentes, University of Granada, Spain
Agus Salim, La Trobe University, Australia
Rafael Sarkis-Onofre, Meridional Faculty (IMED), Brazil
Pei-Fang Su, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Nicholas Syn, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Niansheng Tang, Yunnan University, China
Gian Luca Di Tanna, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland
Guglielmo Torre, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy
Matt Vassar, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, USA
Swaroop Vedula, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, USA
Ming Wang, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Xiaofeng Wang, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Jason Wasiak, Austin Clinical School, The Austin Hospital
Penny Whiting, University of Bristol, UK
Martin Wolkewitz, IMBI, University Medical Center Freiburg
Chao Xu, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA
Chang Xu, Anhui Medical University, China
Hsin-Chou Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hadi Zamanian, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Yiqiang Zhan, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Xuekui Zhang, University of Victoria, Canada
Yize Zhao, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Ahsan Zil-E-Ali, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Editorial Advisors
Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Pan American Health Organization, USA
Chiu-Hsieh (Paul) Hsu, University of Arizona, USA
Bradley Johnston, Dalhousie University, Canada
Diane L. Lorenzetti, University of Calgary, Canada
Tom Trikalinos, Brown University, US
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact
4.614 - 2-year Impact Factor (2021)
6.723 - 5-year Impact Factor (2021)
2.742 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
1.933 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)Speed
58 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
71 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)Usage
4,429,699 Downloads (2022)
2,060 Altmetric mentions (2021)
Peer-review Terminology
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The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:
Identity transparency: Single anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication