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International Society of Molecular Biology (ISMB) Bio-Ontologies Community of Special Interest

Edited by:

Tiffany Callahan
IBM Research, USA

Maxat Kulmanov
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

The International Society of Molecular Biology (ISMB) Bio-Ontologies Community of Special Interest (COSI) is a leading international forum for presenting new results on the FAIR development and application of ontologies and other Linked Open Data resources to the latest and most innovative research in biomedicine and the life sciences.
 
In partnership with the Journal of Biomedical Semantics, this collection welcomes contributions of novel (not previously published nor concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of ontology design, development, evaluation, and the application of ontologies to biomedical problems across the full range of life sciences such as to facilitate access to knowledge, data consistency checking, FAIR integrative analyses and explainable and transparent AI.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.6
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.2
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.210
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.513

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 22
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 265

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 372,419
    Altmetric mentions: 206