About Journal of the International AIDS Society

What is Journal of the International AIDS Society?

Journal of the International AIDS Society, an official journal of the Society, provides an open access forum for essential and innovative HIV/AIDS research. Submission of research carried out by investigators in low- and middle-income countries is strongly encouraged.

The emerging field of operations research can provide valuable information on various algorithms for monitoring and providing support for comprehensive yet affordable and sustainable treatment, prevention and care programmes for different contexts. Journal of the International AIDS Society will give higher priority to publications in this area of research.

Topical areas include, but are not limited to:

• Basic and biomedical sciences
• Behavioural sciences and epidemiology
• Clinical sciences
• Health economics and health policy
• Operations and implementation research
• Social sciences and humanities (including political sciences and media)
• Editorials, commentaries and discussion highlights from International AIDS conferences and other relevant conferences

Disclaimer

The publication costs of the Journal of the International AIDS Society are secured by the International AIDS Society (IAS). This support does not in any way affect the editorial independency of the Journal of the International AIDS Society. Material published in the journal is entirely independent of the opinion of the sponsors, publisher and journal owner.

Content overview

Journal of the International AIDS Society considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal’s scope. These are usually written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board.
• Case studies: descriptions of a major healthcare intervention, usually from a public health perspective. Case study articles should include a rigorous assessment of the processes and impact of the intervention as well as recommendations for future interventions.
• Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on important social, political and economic issues, and may be commissioned from opinion leaders in the field.
• Debate articles: presentations of an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. Debate articles can report on all aspects of HIV/AIDS research including sociological, philosophical and ethical aspects.
• Meeting reports: short descriptions of conferences that the author has attended, which focus on the key developments presented and discussed at the meeting.
• Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. The article should describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available.

Analysis of differences by race and gender
Submitting authors are strongly encouraged to include data disaggregated by sex (and, whenever possible, by race) and provide a comprehensive analysis of gender and racial differences.

The authors should include the number and percentage of men, women and, if appropriate, transgender who participated in the research study. Anatomical and physiological differences between men and women (height, weight, body fat-to-muscle ratios, cell counts, hormonal cycles, etc.), as well social and cultural variables (socio-economic, education, access to care, etc.), should be taken into consideration in the presentation of data and/or analysis of the results. If statistically significant differences are found - between men and women or between different racial or cultural groups - in the effects of the studied intervention, the implications, if any, for clinical and/or public health should be adequately discussed.

If the research study was specific to one sex/gender, the reasons for this should be clearly stated.

Peer review policy

Journal of the International AIDS Society will operate a 'closed' peer review system. Manuscripts submitted to the journal will be reviewed by at least two experts selected by the Editors-in-Chief, with the aim of reaching a decision as soon as possible. Reviewers will be required to declare any competing interests.

Edited by Susan Kippax, Papa Salif Sow and Mark Wainberg, Journal of the International AIDS Society is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in Journal of the International AIDS Society

All articles are listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and are covered by PubMed Central, MEDLINE and CAS.

Articles in Journal of the International AIDS Society should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

J Int AIDS Soc 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Journal of the International AIDS Society does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Journal of the International AIDS Society using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Journal of the International AIDS Society is published by BioMed Central, part of Springer Science+Business Media. BioMed Central is committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is open access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Journal of the International AIDS Society however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

Journal of the International AIDS Society's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

Journal of the International AIDS Society is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.