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Call for papers - Systematic reviews on infectious diseases

Guest Editor(s):
Chester Kalinda: University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
Elvis Temfack: Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ethiopia

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 20 November 2023


BMC Infectious Diseases is calling for submissions to our collection on "Systematic Reviews on infectious diseases". Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses can be powerful tools able to offer a comprehensive overview of the available clinical evidence, point out research gaps in our current understanding, and be a base for decision-making in health policies. This collection aims to gather excellent evidence-based Systematic Reviews following sound methodological and reporting standards.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Chester Kalinda: University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda

Dr Chester Kalinda is an Assistant Professor at University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Broadly, Chester’s research interests are in ecology and public health, with a special focus on understanding how the interactions between vectors and the environment influence infectious disease risk among humans especially those from resource constrained communities. His research interests also include neglected tropical diseases and health metrics
 

Elvis Temfack: Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ethiopia

Dr. Elvis Temfack is a Senior Research Officer at the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Ethiopia. During his training, HIV became a major public health issue in Sub-Saharan Africa, which stirred his passion in Central nervous system associated infections in HIV, an area in which he has published several peer-reviewed publications focused on HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis. Currently, as a Senior Research Officer at the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Ethiopia, Elvis works to build adequate research capacity to generate evidence to target priority public health problems in Africa.  

About the Collection

BMC Infectious Diseases is calling for submissions to our collection on “Systematic Reviews on infectious diseases”. 

During the last decades, our society has been experiencing a constant increase in research output, resulting in the need to compile, evaluate and reassess our clinical knowledge. Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses can be powerful tools able to offer a comprehensive overview of the available clinical evidence, point out research gaps in our current understanding, and be the base for decision-making in health policies. 

We welcome Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis submissions covering all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis, and management of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases in humans, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. The collection will not consider reviews of in vitro studies.

As with any other research article, it is crucial that Systematic Reviews follow a robust study design and scientifically sound methodology. Therefore, all submissions to this collection must comply with the following minimal requirements:

PRISMA GUIDELINES: The authors must submit a populated checklist and figure from the relevant reporting guidelines, including the PRISMA checklist and Flowchart Diagram or the most appropriate PRISMA extension for variations to the standard Systematic Reviews methodology. The flow diagram should be included and referenced in the main body of the text, and the checklist should be provided as an additional file. A Word file of the checklist and flow diagram can be downloaded here.     

Registration of the Systematic Review: Be registered, ideally prospectively, in an online database such as PROSPERO, INPLASY, Research Registry, OSF Registries, or another registry dedicated to Systematic Reviews.

BMC Infectious Diseases also strongly encourages that all datasets on which the conclusions of the paper rely should be available to readers. We encourage authors to ensure that their datasets are either deposited in publicly available repositories (where available and appropriate) or presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files whenever possible. Please see Springer Nature’s information on recommended repositories.


There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select ["Systematic Reviews on Infectious Diseases"] from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.