[Iefac.list] Updates from IISE Transactions for Healthcare Systems Engineering

[Oguzhan Alagoz]

Dear colleagues,
I am writing to update you about our journal, IISE Transactions for Healthcare Systems Engineering (IISE-HSE). As you may already know, I have been appointed as the editor-in-chief (EIC) of the journal as of January 2020.  I am honored to serve as the EIC of IISE-HSE.

IISE-HSE recently completed and published its 9th volume and is now in its 10th year. Thanks to the efforts and support by the editorial board and our community (including John Fowler, the founding EIC and Teresa Wu, the EIC before me), IISE-HSE is in a very strong position. We now have a healthy pipeline of submissions and high-quality articles published in the journal. We also have a very strong editorial board; you probably know many of our members. It is now the time to take the journal to the next level. We need to increase the impact, reputation, visibility and readership of the journal.  However, as you may imagine, this is not something that one person or just the editorial board can achieve. We will need your help to take the journal to the next level.

As I had accepted this position, I relied on the support of the very strong community of industrial and systems engineers. IISE-HSE has a crucial mission, it will help IISE and the industrial engineering (IE) community to demonstrate the potential contributions of IE tools to improve healthcare. We have a lot to offer to improve healthcare. Therefore, I am requesting the help of all of the IE community, in particular, folks who are active in health care engineering research and practice to support our journal.

How can you help IISE-HSE to increase its impact?

-        Submit your high-quality work & encourage your colleagues/students to submit to IISE-HSE

-        Propose new special issues: We are actively looking for special issues focusing on the state-of-the-art topics/application areas. Feel free to reach out to myself or the department editors if you have any interest in organizing a special issue for the journal.

-        Sign up for New Content Alerts at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhse21/current#<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhse21/current> so that you will stay on top of the latest research published in IISE-HSE

-        Incorporate IISE-HSE into your classroom: You can use IISE-HSE articles in the classroom, even at the undergraduate level. If you do so, please include a link to the full-text journal articles rather than posting or sending around a PDF, which will help increase article usage and download counts.

-        Help promote IISE-HSE articles: Mention IISE-HSE or highlight articles from IISE-HSE in your lectures or presentations, share IISE-HSE articles with colleagues (including via social media) especially with your collaborators in the healthcare field. Because IISE-HSE currently does not appear in PubMed, it is possible that many healthcare researchers are unaware of the excellent papers published in our journal.

-        Enhance your CV and personal websites by adding links to your articles in IISE-HSE: By linking your articles published in IISE-HSE on your website or in your CV, you will help increase the journal's search engine results and article downloads.

-        Check your reference lists to make sure your citations include IISE-HSE when appropriate.

-        Contact me or other editorial board members if you have any other specific suggestions to improve our journal.
We also made some plans to start some new initiatives including indexing at PubMed, indexing in Web of Science, improving the review times, etc.  I am also planning to send regular updates to you about the journal (hopefully my future emails will be shorter:) ) In any case, please let me know if you have any ideas that may help to improve our journal.

I look forward to the working with our community to take IISE-HSE to the next level.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions/suggestions.

Thank you all
Oguz

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Oguzhan Alagoz
Editor-in-Chief, IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Department of Population Health Sciences
Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research - Simulation Center
Associate Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3242 Mechanical Engineering Building
1513 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Voice:(608)890-0399 Fax:(608)262-8454
alagoz at engr.wisc.edu<mailto:alagoz at engr.wisc.edu>
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/alagoz_oguzhan.html
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