Call for Papers for Theme Issue: Key Population Size Estimations

Call for Papers for Theme Issue: Key Population Size Estimations (JMIR Public Health and Surveillance)

This CDC-sponsored theme issue of JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (Editor-in-chief: Travis Sanchez, Guest editors: Dimitri Prybylski and Joyce Neal) will focus on population size estimates in resource-limited settings.

Submissions should focus on population size estimates based on empirical methods, either as stand-alone size estimation studies or in the context of surveys or other data collection activities. Size estimation methods should be based on empirical methods, such as:

                    • Capture-recapture
                    • Multiplier methods
                    • Network scale-up method
                    • Bayesian and other modeling
                    • Census and enumeration

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Manuscripts should follow the usual Instructions for Authors and be accompanied by a cover letter mentioning this call for papers.

Further special instructions for papers for this theme issue are available as Word file here.

To submit your manuscript, please visit http://publichealth.jmir.org/author/submit and under “Journal Section” choose “Theme Issue 2018: Key Population Size Estimations”. See also FAQ article "How to submit to a theme issue".

All submissions will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review and editorial processes.

Submissions will be subject to a 20% APF discount.

Extended Submission Deadline: October 31, 2018

Guest editors:

Dimitri Prybylski (hjt1@cdc.gov), Associate Director for Science, US CDC in Namibia

Joyce Neal (Jxn4@cdc.gov), US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Division of Global AIDS/HIV

For questions about this theme issue, please contact the coordinator, Italia Rolle, at itr2@cdc.gov.