The first student-run open science journal for life and health sciences in the German-speaking area.
What is JNOS?
The journal of the Student Network for Open Science (formerly Berlin Exchange Medicine (BEM)) offers you the opportunity to publish your work in our peer-reviewed journal without incurring any costs and to gain valuable experience in publishing.
We offer talented and committed young scientists the platform to publish science based on term papers, doctoral theses, bachelor's/master's theses and any other type of research work. At the same time, we train students to become student reviewers in our self-designed peer review crash course and realize our quality assurance in a transparent and contemporary way in a post-publication review, purely student-based. After all, research-based learning lays the best foundation for entering academia!
All disciplines from the life and health sciences that work academically on medical topics find their place in our journal. This is why we particularly promote interdisciplinary concepts and work - because the future belongs to them on the ward and at the bench.
As a student-curated journal, we strive to provide other students with an uncomplicated and supervised introduction to the world of publishing. We attach great importance to transparency and a scientific orientation based on the principles of Open Science. It is therefore important to us that you retain all rights to your work even after publication.
Our goals
Our central goal is to make student research visible and to make it easier for students to get started in academic publishing. The following points are particularly important to us:
- Well-supervised and critical publication and review experiences for students
- Training students in the critical reading and evaluation of scientific publications
- Promoting critical reflection on our scientific system
- Interdisciplinary solutions for complex challenges
Sections
The Journal of the Student Network for Open Science (JNOS) offers 4 different, thematically organized sections in which a paper can be published. Below is a list of the areas roughly represented by the respective sections
I. Medical Humanities
Discourses in psychosocial and philosophical questions on medicine, psychology, life sciences and humanities
III. Clinical Science
Case reports and clinical studies with a focus on interdisciplinarity and interprofessionalism
II. Basic and Translational Science
Research into fundamental mechanisms in the biosciences and new therapeutic and diagnostic approaches
IV. Data and Statistics
Application of quantitative methods and theoretical considerations on statistics and computational neuroscience
Submission process
From the submission of your manuscript to the final publication, your manuscript undergoes a peer review process by our trained peer reviewers (see figure). Publications can be published with us in German or English.
You can submit your work to us under the "Submit" tab. Before submitting your manuscript, you should read the Submission Guidelines carefully. You can download them further down on this page.
Article types
Every article submitted to NOS goes through the editorial process, but not every article is peer-reviewed. The following formats can be published with us:
Peer-Reviewed
- Basic scientific and translational work
- Clinical-statistical work
- Clinical case reports/procedure reports
- Interprofessional case reports in particular
- Systematic reviews
- Reviews
- Meta-analyses
- Qualitative Arbeiten
- Software development (package presentation, quantitative method development, etc.)
- Essay
Non-Peer-Reviewed
- Opinion article
- Report
- Letters to the editor: „Discussing a recently published article“
- Testimonials
- Personal experience essays: “Thematization of personal experiences in medicine.”
- Experience: “Students can submit their medical experiences in the areas of study, social work, student exchange, research and other areas.”
- Patient perspectives: “Addressing patient strategies for coping with illness, in particular artistic expression or hobbies”
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Gain publication experience and publish your work based on research, doctoral theses, bachelor's theses, master's theses, term papers and much more. Under "Register" you can register planned research work with us for later publication.
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