Journal of Model Based Research · ISSN 2643-2811 · Open Access Pub
About the Journal
A model is a decision about what a question depends on. This journal publishes that decision, together with the reasoning that supports it.
The Journal of Model Based Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal for research in which a model does the explanatory work — mathematical, computational, conceptual or physical. It publishes the formulation of that model, the assumptions behind it, the evidence it is fitted to, the uncertainty around it, and the inferences it supports.
What the journal is for
One method, many subjects
A hydrologist fitting a rainfall network, an engineer specifying a turbine, an epidemiologist comparing intervention scenarios and a management scholar formalizing an organizational process are working on different subjects. They share a method: each decides which parts of a system to represent, states what that representation assumes, and then argues from it.
The Journal of Model Based Research exists for that shared method. It treats the model itself as the object of scholarly attention — how it is formulated, calibrated, tested and interpreted — rather than treating modeling as a preliminary step toward a result reported elsewhere.
That premise makes room for work whose contribution is the model itself: a methodological formalization with no new dataset, a conceptual or physical model, a theoretical derivation, a simulation study, or an applied analysis whose contribution lies in the structure it proposes. Each is judged on the clarity of its assumptions and the fit between its model, its evidence and its claim.
Where this page sits
This page describes the journal, its readership and its editorial responsibilities. The formal statement of what the journal will consider is published separately on Aims and Scope.
The published record
Two volumes, six issues, one continuous archive
The journal’s first issue dates to 2019. The subjects below are those of the articles actually in the archive; they show the range the journal serves; what it will consider is set out in Aims and Scope.
- Volume 1, Issue 12019–2020
- Modeling of leadership, management and talent processes in organizations; design support for open-ended problem solving; a quantitative-genetics simulation.
- Volume 1, Issue 22019–2020
- A constructed virtual neuron and memory consolidation; an artificial neural network fitted to rainfall data.
- Volume 1, Issue 32020
- Genetic algorithms coupled with neural networks; a fuzzy-logic inventory model; an experimental study of coated silver nanofluid properties.
- Volume 1, Issue 42021–2023
- Statistical analysis of an election result; an analytical solution for an intracellular life cycle; a modified SEIR analysis; gas turbine design analysis.
- Volume 2, Issue 12023
- A specified model of a workplace environment; formalization of correlational study design; seasonal ARIMA and time-series prediction.
- Volume 2, Issue 2Current issue
- A general approach to modeling an epidemic; a body-composition model; a typhoid transmission and intervention model; and a retraction notice.
Across those six issues the archive holds 22 published records, every one of them openly readable without subscription, registration or fee to the reader.
Corrections and retractions
Where the published record needs to change, the journal issues a correction or a retraction notice as a citable record in its own right, and the article it concerns stays in the archive, marked so that its status is visible to anyone who reaches it. The full policy is set out in the Editorial Policies.
Readership
Who the journal is for
Its readers are researchers who build and use models: applied mathematicians and statisticians, computational and simulation scientists, systems and design engineers, quantitative researchers in the life, environmental and physical sciences, and social and management scientists working with formal representations. They read the journal for what a study assumed, how it was specified and what its result will support — the parts of a paper this journal gives the most room to.
It is also written to be usable across those boundaries. An article is expected to state its model clearly enough that a reader trained in another discipline can see what was assumed, follow how the assumptions were tested, and judge whether the same structure would carry into their own problem.
Researchers who would like to know whether a particular piece of work fits the journal are welcome to read Aims and Scope or write to the editorial office before preparing a submission.
Editorial responsibility
What the journal takes responsibility for
Independent review
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
The basis of a decision
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. Those decisions are made independently of any fee, service, membership or role.
An editorial board with its own subjects
Eleven editors are listed publicly, working in eleven countries across Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. Their recorded research interests reach from structural optimization, renewable energy, physical modeling, hydroinformatics and reverse engineering to architecture-driven code generation, digital halftoning, neuroimaging, flow cytometry, human coronary arteries and sickle cell disease — the spread of subject knowledge that model-based work asks of a board. Every member is named, with an affiliation and a profile, on the Editorial Board page.
Rights that stay with the author
Authors retain copyright. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, so that anyone may read, redistribute and build on the work, including commercially, with attribution to the authors and the journal.
A record that can be checked
Every published record carries a DOI and its descriptive metadata, and the complete archive remains open. The journal's Editorial Policies set out how authorship, competing interests, data availability and corrections are handled.
Where to go next
Aims and Scope states what the journal will consider and on what terms. The pages beside it hold the board, the current issue, the archive and the requirements for preparing a manuscript.
Editorial Board Current Issue Archives Instructions for Authors