Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
journal
Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering is an academic journal published by Annual Reviews (AR). In publication since 1999, this journal covers the significant developments in the broad field of biomedical engineering with an annual volume of review articles. It is edited by Martin L. Yarmush and Mehmet Toner. As of 2021, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering is being published as open access, under the Subscribe to Open model.
As of 2026, Journal Citation Reports gave the journal has an impact factor of 11.5 ranking it eleventh out of 130 journals in the category "Biomedical Engineering".
History
The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering was first published in 1999 by Annual Reviews (AR), a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to synthesize knowledge "for the progress of science and the benefit of society." The inaugural editor was Martin L. Yarmush; Yarmush remained editor until 2021, at which point he was co-editor along with Mehmet Toner. Though it began with a physical edition, it is now only published electronically.
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The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering defines its scope as covering significant developments relevant to biomedical engineering. Included subfields are biomechanics; biomaterials; computational genomics; proteomics; healthcare, biochemical, and tissue engineering; biomonitoring; and medical imaging. As of 2026, Journal Citation Reports lists the journal's impact factor as 11.5, ranking it eleventh of 130 journal titles in the category "Biomedical Engineering".
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