The Innovation and Development Conference of Tsinghua Medical Journals was held in Beijing
On January 27, 2024, the Innovation and Development Conference of Tsinghua Medical Journals was held in Beijing with both online and offline attendance.
This conference was hosted by the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, the Department of Clinical Medicine, and the Institute of Hospital Administration of Tsinghua University (TU), the Tsinghua University Changgeng Hospital, and the Tsinghua University Press. Medical journals Brain Science Advances, Cancer Innovation, Health Care Science, iLABMED, iLIVER, Infectious Medicine, iRADIOLOGY, Journal of Neurorestoratology, Medicine Advances, Stress and Brain were co-sponsors.
HU Jianping, Deputy Director of the National Health Commission's Statistical Information Center, HUANG Tianyin, Vice Dean of the Tsinghua University and chair professor of the School of Medicine of TU, honorary Editor-in-Chief of Health Care Science, DONG Jiahong, Academician and Dean of the Tsinghua University Changgeng Hospital and the Department of Clinical Medicine of TU, Vice Chairman of the China Medical Association, LI Jun, Vice President of the China Journalists Association, ZHANG Zongjiu, Executive Vice Dean of the Institute of Hospital Administration of TU and Editor-in-Chief of Health Care Science, ZHANG Tieming, Director of Society of China University Journals, LV Benfu, professor at the School of Management of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice Chairman of the National Innovation and Development Strategy Research Association, LIU Xiaomin, research librarian at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Document Information Center, XIA Cencan, Secretary of the China Association for the Promotion of Human Body Health, QIU Xianqing, President of the Tsinghua University Press, SHI Lei, Deputy General Editor of TUP, and SUN Yu, also Deputy General Editor of TUP, as well as more than one hundred hospital administrators, disciplinary leaders, scientific research institutions, universities, and scholars attended the conference.
The conference discussed topics covering the innovative development of medical journals, quality control on academic papers, and how to increase international appeal. The participants were of strong professional background and have contributed rich expertise and insights that serve to promote the innovative development of medical journals, discipline innovation and industrial application of scientific research results and talent cultivation.
In the keynote speech session, six experts expounded on innovative ideas from different perspectives including digital health strategy in the era of artificial intelligence, technology evaluation, and publishing trends. The conference also set up a roundtable dialogue session to discuss hot topics related to journal publishing and medical researches. At the Life Sciences and Medicine Journal Cluster Summary and Evaluation Conference, experts conducted detailed and objective evaluations on the status quo, existing problems, and future development plans of the ten medical journals, and put forward practical suggestions.
