About this journal

Medical Devices: Evidence and Research  is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on evidence, technology, research, and expert opinion supporting use and application of medical devices. This informs advances in diagnosis, monitoring, treatment and management of clinical conditions and physiological processes.

Focus areas of the journal

This journal ultimately provides an evidence-based resource for the development and use of medical devices, covering specific areas such as:

• Surgery and anesthesia
• Instrumentation (diagnostics and analytics)
• Active and non-active implantable technology
• Dental and ophthalmic applications
• Drug delivery

Key features of the journal are the identification of novel devices and optimal use of existing devices, which lead to improved clinical outcomes and more effective patient management and safety.

Acceptable study types

All meta-analyses require a pre-submission check prior to submitting to Medical Devices: Evidence and Research. Please complete the pre-submission check form here.
 

Acceptable article types

The journal is characterized by the rapid reporting of reviews, original research and clinical studies across all disease areas and clinical situations. Particularly welcome are papers outlining ideas and techniques related to medical devices.

Editors-in-Chief:

Professor Steve Campbell, Clinical Redesign, Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia

Dr Scott Fraser, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, United Kingdom

Editorial Board:

Dr Seza Apiliogullari, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States 

Professor Irving Bigio, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, United States

Dr Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Department Of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome Latina, Italy

Professor Lawton R. Burns, Health Care Management, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Dr Laura Cercenelli, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

Dr Fabrizio Cutolo, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy

Professor Adel Denewer, Mansoura Oncology Center and head of surgical departments , Mansoura Universty, Egypt

Professor Robert Denniss, School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Professor Dominique Durand, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States

Professor William Federspiel, Department of Bioengineering, Critical Care Medicine and Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Professor Amit Gefen, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Dr Boris Gramatikov, Laboratory of Ophthalmic Optics, Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

Professor Paul Hansma, Neuroscience Research Institute, Faculty in California NanoSystems Institute, Emeritus Professor in Dept. of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Co-founder of Active Life Scientific, Inc

Dr Alexander Kalashnikov, Engineering and Maths, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Mutlu Özcan, Dental Materials Unit, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Ms Falguni Parikh, Clinical Scientist in Merck, United States

Prof. Dr. Gürel Pekkan, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Prosthodontics, University of Turin, Turkey

Professor Guy Salama, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, United States

Dr Mark Schweitzer, Dr, Vice President of Health Affairs, Wayne State University, MI, United States

Professor K. Kirk Shung, Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California, Retired, United States

Dr Tom van der Touw, School of Science & Technology, Discipline of Biomedical Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Dr David Vilkomerson, DVX, Inc., Princeton, NJ, United States

Professor Stefan Weber, Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Switzerland

Professor Thomas J Webster, Professor, Division of Pre-college and Undergraduate Studies, Brown University (United States); School of Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology (China); and School of Engineering, Saveetha University (India).