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Cardiovascular disease mechanisms

Guest Editors
Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä, PhD, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Clint L. Miller, PhD, University of Virginia, USA

Submission Status: Open until 16 February 2026

AI applications in cancer discovery and care

Guest Editors:
Jakob Nikolas Kather, MD, MSc, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Mihaela Aldea, MD PhD, Gustave Roussy, France


Submission Status: Open until 22 December 2025

Clinical trials resource

Guest Editor:
Christophe Le Tourneau, MD, PhD, Institut Curie, France

Submission Status: Open until 22 December 2025

Clinical interpretation of genome variation: volume II

Guest Editors
Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Broad Institute of MIT, and Harvard University, USA
Steven Harrison, PhD, Genomic Science Director, Ambry Genetics, USA


Submission Status: Open until 18 December 2025

Genome editing in human health, disease, and therapeutics

Guest Editors
Benjamin Haley, PhD, University of Montreal, Canada
Francisco J. Sánchez-Rivera, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, USA

Submission Status: Open until 14 November 2025

Vaccines

Guest Editors:
Paul Klenerman, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Nicholas M. Provine, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Ramon Arens, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands


Submission Status: Open until 2 October 2025

Neurogenomics: from the bench to the clinic

Guest Editors:
Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD, UCLA Brain Research Institute, USA
Jessica Rexach, MD, PhD, UCLA Brain Research Institute, USA


Submission Status: Open until 2 September 2025

Respiratory viruses: surveillance, diagnostics, and emergence

Guest Editors:
Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, MBBS, MD, PdipID, The University of Hong Kong, China
Vivian Huiping Shuai, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, China


Submission Status: Open until 4 July 2025

Genomic research and clinical interventions for rare diseases

Guest Editors:
Anna Lindstrand, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Claudia M. B. Carvalho Fonseca, PhD, Pacific Northwest Research Institute, USA


Submission Status: Open until 11 June 2025

Published

Advances in healthy aging and age-related diseases

Guest Editors:
Joris Deelen, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
Henne Holstege, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands

Tumor immune contexture in cancer progression and treatment

Guest Editor:
Noel De Miranda, PhD, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Genome instability in cancer: from mechanisms to the clinic

Guest Editors:
Christopher Lord, PhD, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Timothy Yap, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, US

Cardiovascular disease: omics approaches and clinical applications

Guest Editors:
James Ware, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Connie Bezzina, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, NL

2023

Special issue
New technology applications in health and disease
Guest editors: Fei Chen and Francisco De La Vega

Special issue
Advancing human genetics in underrepresented populations
Guest editors: Segun Fatumo and Krishna Aragam

2022

Special issue
Dissecting the role of immune responses in complex brain disorders: translational and clinical insights
Guest editors: Philip de Jager and Carlos Cruchaga

Resource
Coronavirus Resource - Submit your latest research and discoveries
Guest editor: Junhua Li

2021

Special issue
Targeting cancer evolution in the clinic
Guest editors: Razelle Kurzrock and Alberto Bardelli

Special issue
Dissecting the role of immune responses in complex brain disorders
Guest editors: Philip de Jager and Carlos Cruchaga.

2020

Special issue
The impact of genomics on precision public health
Guest editors: Muin Khoury and Kathryn Holt

Special issue
Translating the microbiome in health and disease
Guest editor: Ramnik Xavier

2019

Special issue
Clinical interpretation of genome variation
Guest editors: Heidi Rehm and Douglas Fowler

Collection
A decade of Genome Medicine

Special issue
Tumor immune microenvironment and immunotherapy
Guest editors: Zlatko Trajanoski and Noel de Miranda

2018

Special issue
From genome integrity to cancer
Guest editor: Serena Nik-Zainal

Special issue
Genomics of infection and immunity
Guest editors: Bali Pulendran and Mark Davis

2017

Special issue
Disease Neurogenomics
Guest editors: Joseph Buxbaum and Catalina Betancur

Collection
Highlights from infectious disease genomics

Special issue
Genomic technologies: development and clinical application 
Guest editor: Stephen Kingsmore 

2016

Special issue
Precision cancer medicine
Guest editors: Michael Berger and Eliezer Van Allen

Special issue
Translating the microbiome: health and disease
Guest editor: Curtis Huttenhower

2015

Special issue
Immunogenomics in health and disease
Guest editor: Robert Holt

Special issue
Diagnostic genomics
Guest editors: James Lupski and Joris Veltman

2014

Cross-journal collection
Genomics of infectious diseases
Guest editors: George Weinstock and Sharon Peacock

Special issue
From genomics to disease mechanisms
Guest editor: Jay Shendure

Article collection
Cancer epigenomics
Guest editor: Stephan Beck

2013

Article collection
Participatory Medicine
Guest editors: Charles Auffray and Leroy Hood

Special issue
Single-cell analysis: toward the clinic
Guest editor: Michael Speicher

Article collection
Microbes in human health and disease
Guest editor: Martin Hibberd

Article collection
Musings on Genome Medicine

Article collection
Proteomic applications in medicine
Guest editors: Paul Guest and Sabine Bahn

Cross journal collection
Using and abusing evidence in science and health policy
Guest editor: Timothy Caulfield

2012

Article collection
Pharmacogenomics
Guest editor: Matthias Schwab

Cross journal collection
Cancer bioinformatics: bioinformatic methods, network biomarkers and precision medicine
Guest editor: Xiangdong Wang

Article collection
Metabolomics of disease
Guest editor: Timothy Veenstra

2011

Cross journal collection
International data sharing in medicine
Guest editors: Jane Kaye and Paula Boddington

Cross journal collection
Focus on stem cells
Guest editor: Stuart Orkin

2010

Cross journal collection
Cloud computing tools and analyses

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 10.4
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 12.6
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 2.375
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 4.975

    Speed 2024
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 8
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 224

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 2,724,546
    Altmetric mentions: 2,349

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