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1.
Original articles reporting HIV/AIDS Surveillance & Epidemiologic
Research and methods (including related public health conditions):
In
pursuit of the jHASE objective of providing quality assurance,
training and education through peer review, jHASE
encourages the submission of suitable articles that report research work on all aspects of applied Public Health surveillance
and Epidemiologic research on HIV/AIDS and related public health
conditions.
jHASE editorial processes ensure that research is reported in the most
appropriate way to assure fulfillment of journal’s commitment to
quality assurance and education through peer review.
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1.1.
Research: The journal's focus is on
quality assurance, training and education through peer review of
submissions of full (standard) and brief (short)
research articles on all aspects of applied Public Health surveillance
and Epidemiologic research on HIV/AIDS disease burden/risk factor
assessment; prevention, treatment and care interventions; services
access, utilization, and gaps; and other HIV-related public health
conditions.
1.1.1. Examples
of article core/focus areas may include the following:
- Disease Burden/Risk Assessment
studies:
- Public Health surveillance of
HIV/AIDS and related Epidemiologic research studies on HIV/AIDS
(and related conditions);
- Development and evaluation
of HIV/AIDS surveillance systems;
- Intervention Epidemiology Research
and Development Studies:
- Studies in support of
development, implementation and outcome evaluations of large-scale public
health interventions;
- Assessments of HIV/AIDS prevention
and care guideline implementation, and service utilization, needs
and gaps;
- Additional core/focus areas of applied
HIV Epidemiology are outlined in this
document;
- Other related public health studies are
welcome and will be considered if relevant to the field of applied
HIV/AIDS Epidemiology;
1.1.2. The
journal uses the two key research article
types indicated below for peer-reviewed research work, including methodology
articles or case reports. Examples of article types for reporting
peer-reviewed work such as original research findings, case reports and
methodology articles are as follows:
- Standard
reports:
Fully
fledged reports of data from original research (usually about 3500
words in main text, 5 tables/figures, and a structured abstract of
350 words);
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Short
reports: Brief
reports of data from original research (usually about 1500 words,
4 tables/figures, and a structured abstract of 350 words). This
article type may also be used for rapid communications of important
findings in the field.
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1.2.
Case reports of public health importance/implications for HIV
Surveillance & Epidemiology:
Reports of clinical cases of public health importance that can be educational, describe a diagnostic
or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important
adverse reaction. All case report articles submitted to jHASE must be of
demonstrated public health importance and implications for HIV
Surveillance & Epidemiology. All case report articles should be accompanied by
written and signed consent to publish the information from the patients
or their guardians.
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1.3.
Study methodology articles:
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1.3.1.
Methodology/procedures articles: Present
new surveillance/study/experimental methods, tests or procedures.
The methods described may either be completely new, or may offer a
better version of an existing method. The article must describe a
demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method
needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily,
used in a way that proves its value.
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1.3.2.
Methods protocols of study design and procedures:
Describe proposed, ongoing or published article's research methods, providing a detailed account
of the hypothesis, rationale, design and procedures of the study.
Submitted protocols must include all elements that would be
ordinarily required by PHS/NIH
guidelines or for IRBs review
as ethics issues will also be peer-reviewed for all protocols
submitted. Protocol topics may be in the
following areas:
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1.3.3.
Protocols of statistical analyses and data management methods and
software:
Review and describe proposed, ongoing or published articles'
statistical analyses, specifically providing a detailed account
of the hypotheses, statistical analyses methods and the rationale
thereof, corresponding statistical software program procedures or
menu-driven analyses steps, and/or data management procedures/tools.
Generic protocols/reviews may describe statistical software programs, applications, tools or
statistical
algorithm implementations typically used in HIV/AIDS surveillance and
Epidemiology studies or data management. Submitted protocols must
include relevant statistical methodology elements, if any, that
would be ordinarily required by PHS/NIH
guidelines or for IRBs review
as ethics issues will also be peer-reviewed for all protocols
submitted. Typically, descriptions/reviews of the statistical analyses software
programs will include statistical software programs and/or step-by-step tutorial-format archive of
screenshots with the submitted
manuscript in supplementary files. Statistical analyses protocol topics may be in the
following areas:
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HIV/AIDS surveillance & Epidemiology
statistical analyses protocols;
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Public Health intervention/practice
statistical analyses protocols; and
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Data
Management procedures/algorithms;
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1.3.4. The
journal uses the two key methods protocol article
types indicated below for peer-reviewed work. The two article types for
both methods procedures and statistical analyses protocols are as
follows:
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2.
Reviews, commentaries, chronicles and editorials: author-initiated or
jHASE-commissioned.
jHASE
encourages
leaders in the applied HIV/AIDS Epidemiology field and experts in particular
relevant areas to submit discursive articles to the journal. jHASE hereby
declares that it has an interest in a wide range of particular subject areas
within the field and encourages authors to suggest commissioned works,
including a series of related articles which may make up a monograph. The
distinct categories of articles below indicate that such articles are
judged by standards distinct from those used for the mainstream research
articles.
Examples of article types within this category are as follows:
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2.1.
Editorials:
These are short articles written by members of the Editorial Board
describing policy issues relevant to the journal. For example, jHASE has
written an editorial for the launch of the journal explaining why it was
started. Editorials are usually 1000-1500 words. These can also be used
to highlight new article types launched in the journal and any policy
changes.
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2.2.
Reviews: Comprehensive,
authoritative, reviews of the state-of-the art or literature on any subject within the journal’s scope.
In addition to reviews initiated by authors, opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board
may write these articles. They have an educational aim and are 2000-3000
words. These can be broken down into topical types such as basic science
and clinical reviews, ethics, legislative and regulatory affairs,
pro/con debates, equipment, textbook and software reviews and thematic
series to highlight/summarize specific topics in the field of applied HIV/AIDS
Epidemiology.
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Commentaries: Short,
focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal’s
scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such
as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders
invited by the Editorial Board. They focus on specific issues and are
about 1500 words. The commentaries section may be broken down into
several types including ethics, technology, research-related,
review-related, general interest, debates, and reviews of recently
published papers from this and other journals in the field.
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2.4.
Hypotheses:
Short articles presenting an untested original hypothesis backed solely
by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They
should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be
testable, and be about 1500 words.
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2.5.
Debate articles: Present
an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. Debate
articles can report on all aspects of the subject including Public Health law, regulations,
sociological and
ethical aspects related to HIV/AIDS Surveillance, applied HIV Epidemiology research
and Public Health practice.
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