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Journal of Autoimmune Diseases is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers scientific reports in the field of autoimmunity. Journal of Autoimmune Diseases aims to publish reports on clinical and experimental research in autoimmunity. The emphasis will be on studies relevant to treatment and prevention of autoimmune diseases, but basic research that helps our understanding of immune mechanisms that lead to a mistake in self-recognition will also be considered. The journal welcomes manuscripts in areas such as immunogenetics, immune cell signaling, molecular markers of autoimmune diseases, immune interventions, new animal models, transplantation, stem cell therapy, and gene therapy. In addition to high quality research with mostly positive data, the journal will also consider methodology articles, reviews, hypotheses and commentaries.

By launching Journal of Autoimmune Diseases with BioMed Central, we hope to circumvent some problems of traditional publishing. The first is a conflict between a rapidly growing body of research articles in autoimmunity and a slow and an expensive way of their handling by traditional journals. Online submission to Journal of Autoimmune Diseases will speed up peer review and, being online, manuscripts can be published as soon as they are accepted. “Open Access” to the content of the journal means that all the articles are freely accessible online, authors retain copyright, and all material is immediately available in PubMed and in PubMed Central. The second problem, the bias of peer reviewers due to personal or another attitude, will be reduced by our “double-blind” peer-review policy, when both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other.

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