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Guangde Tu, Senior editor, BMC Series

New Content ItemGuangde has been the Editor of BMC Emergency Medicine since 2016 and is based in the Shanghai office. Before joining BMC, Guangde received his BSc in theoretical physics from Nanjing University, China and his PhD in quantum chemistry from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. After graduation, he returned to China as an assistant researcher investigating the growth of composite membranes for water processing, before moving on to study the growth of solid tumors using computer simulation. His interest then turned to medical science and he worked as medical editor for a number of years before joining BMC as an editor of the BMC series.


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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.5 - 2-year Impact Factor
    2.8 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.266 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.795 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    28 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    164 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    1,251,999 downloads
    586 Altmetric mentions 

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    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

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