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Observational Studies

Observational Studies

Edited by Nandita Mitra

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Journal Information

eISSN: 2767-3324
Frequency: Triannual

Description

Observational Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes manuscripts on all aspects of observational studies, including, but not limited to, study protocols for observational studies, methodologies for observational studies, descriptions of data sets for observational studies, software for observational studies, and analyses of observational studies. For further details, see the journal's aims and scope.

Observational Studies is a diamond Open Access journal that does not charge author fees. To support open-access funding for the journal, please contribute to the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program.

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For editorial queries or to check the status of your submission, please contact obsjournal@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
For production queries or to reach our publisher, please contact obsproduction@pobox.upenn.edu.
General business queries can be sent to journals@pobox.upenn.edu.

Business inquiries should be sent to Penn Press at:

University of Pennsylvania Press
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-4112
Phone: 215-898-6261
Fax: 215-746-3636
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Observational Studies is now accepting submissions. See Author Guidelines for more information or email the editors at obsjournal@pennmedicine.upenn.edu. All manuscripts should be submitted via the Scholastica online submission system. Click here for descriptions of the types of articles we publsh.

To submit an article for consideration in an upcoming issue please click the blue button.

Author Guidelines

Article Types

Author Agreement (standard printed pdf)

Author Agreement (pdf with e-signature capability)

Here are the files to use when creating your article as a LaTex document.

sample.tex, sample.bib, styleguide

Click here for the latex_sample_files.

Open Access Statement

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

The journal does not require article processing charges or any other author fees. To support open-access funding for the journal, institutions can contribute to the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program.

Licensing

To facilitate the Open Access digital publication of the journal, it will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license or a successor license selected by the Publisher.

Editorial Board and Advisory Committee

Editor-in-Chief

Nandita Mitra
University of Pennsylvania

Executive Editorial Board

Elizabeth Ogburn
Johns Hopkins University

Jason Roy
Rutgers University

Susan Shortreed
Kaiser Permanente
Washington Health Research Institute

Dylan Small
University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Stuart
Johns Hopkins University

Advisory Committee

David Banks
Duke University

Marie Davidian
North Carolina State University

Joel Greenhouse
Carnegie Mellon University

M. Elizabeth Halloran
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
University of Washington

Guido Imbens
Stanford University

Sharon-Lise Normand
Harvard University

Editorial Board

Peter Aronow
Yale University

Peter Austin
University of Toronto

Anirban Basu
University of Washington

Jake Bowers
University of Illinois

Alan Brookhart
Duke University

Jing Cheng
University of California, San Francisco

Thomas Cook
Northwestern University

Forrest Crawford
Yale University

Xavier de Luna
Umea University

Ivan Diaz
New York University

Peng Ding
University of California, Berkeley

Ben Hansen
University of Michigan

David Harding
University of California, Berkeley

Joseph Hogan
Brown University

Kosuke Imai
Harvard University

Luke Keele
University of Pennsylvania

Samantha Kleinberg
Stevens Institute of Technology

Genevieve Lefebvre
Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Fan Li
Duke University

Bo Lu
Ohio State University

Fabrizia Mealli
University of Florence

Stephen Morgan
Johns Hopkins University

James O’Malley
Dartmouth College

Mireille Schnitzer
Université de Montréal

Jas Sekhon
University of California, Berkeley

Michael Sobel
Columbia University

Andrew Spieker
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Tipton
Northwestern University

Mark van der Laan
University of California, Berkeley

José Zubizarreta
Harvard University