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The Charles Dickens Letters Project ed. by Leon Litvack and Emily Bell

Reviewed by: The Charles Dickens Letters Project ed. by Leon Litvack and Emily Bell Lydia Craig (bio) The Charles Dickens Letters Project. Edited by Leon Litvack and Emily Bell, Dickens Fellowship, 2016–20, dickensletters.com. Charles Dickens destroyed the bulk of his letters in one tragic September 1860 event, known as the Bonfire at Gad's Hill Place. Aided by his reluctant children, Dickens burned baskets of private papers spanning a twenty-year period, perhaps exercising editorial control over his life through this drastic measure, which was repeated in another conflagration a few years later. Most of these were likely authored not by [End Page 454] Dickens himself, but by family members, literary writers, public figures, fans, and perhaps even his secret mistress. His recipients, however, retained, preserved, and treasured Dickens's communications, many of which came to light after his death in 1870. To the delight of Victorians mourning their celebrated author, between 1880–93, Dickens's sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth and eldest daughter Mamie published three editions of his surviving correspondence, The Letters of Charles Dickens from 1833 to 1870. Over the decades, several collections of Dickens's letters have followed, adding to knowledge of Dickens's various public and personal activities. For Dickens scholars, the definitive edition of his correspondence is The Letters of Charles Dickens (1965–2002), edited by Madeline House, Graham Storey, et. al., the "Pilgrim Edition." Reviewers deemed the twelve volumes published by the Clarendon Press "scrupulous and informative" (Sunday Telegraph), "meticulously researched" (Sunday Times), "a superlative work on a grand scale" (Yearbook of English Studies) and "accurately edited, annotated to the full" (Times Literary Supplement). Since publication of the last of these volumes in 2002, previously undocumented letters by Dickens have appeared with steady regularity, on average between thirty to forty per annum. Initially, The Dickensian, journal of the Dickens Fellowship, published the majority of these new letters between 2002–13 in nineteen printed supplements to the Pilgrim Edition. Editors were Angus Easson, Margaret Brown, Joan Dicks, Paul Schlicke, Ben Winyard, and Leon Litvack. Since 2013, Litvack continues to publish these letters through the journal, while also categorizing and uploading Dickens's new letters in his capacity as current principal editor of The Charles Dickens Letters Project, a site sponsored by the Dickens Fellowship. Joining him in his endeavor are editor Emily Bell and consultant editor Michael Slater. As of April 2020, there are approximately 450 letters on the site, with another 150 in the process of being edited for upload. An recent addition is twenty-four edited letters addressed to Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, the official German publisher of Charles Dickens's works and the Tauchnitz Collection of British and American Authors, a series begun in 1842 which released new titles for over one hundred years. Eventually, having achieved the milestone of 1,000 or so discovered letters, this online collection will form the thirteenth printed volume of the Pilgrim Edition. Inclusion of a Dickens timeline and a biographical sketch of Dickens by Michael Slater on the Charles Dickens Letters Project website ensures that those unfamiliar with major events in the author's life and his publications can acquire a swift but solid grounding. At the bottom of the home screen, users can view a list of the twenty most recently uploaded letters. Conveniently located on the left of the home page is the advanced search feature, which allows for text searching (word or phrase) across the collection. Letters are [End Page 455] grouped by nearly one hundred themes, mostly specific titles of works and names of topics discussed (e.g. Bleak House, charity, Germany). Scholars of A Christmas Carol (1843) can simply select that theme to instantly access letters mentioning it by phrase or subject even if no text is entered into the search box. Four demarcated periods are available for searching: 1837–1840, 1841–1850, 1851–1860 and 1861–1870. Selecting any one of these options yields a list of all letters available within this period, though these are not listed chronologically in relation to each other; if written to the same recipient, multiple letters are listed adjacently, but in no particular order. This is perhaps a feature to consider...

Efficient base editing with high precision in rabbits using YFE-BE4max

Cytidine base editors, composed of a cytidine deaminase fused to Cas9 nickase, enable efficient C-to-T conversion in various organisms. However, current base editors suffer from severe trade-off between editing efficiency and precision. Here, based on rationally mutated cytidine deaminase domain, we develop a new base editor, YFE-BE4max, effectively narrow the editing width to as little as approximately three nucleotides while maintaining high efficiency in rabbits. Moreover, YFE-BE4max successfully mediated the Tyr p. Q68Stop and Lmna p. G607G mutation in F0 rabbit with high efficiency and precision, which precisely recapitulates the pathological features of human OCA1 and HGPS, respectively. Collectively, YFE-BE4max system provide promising tools to perform efficient base editing with high precision in rabbits and enhances its capacity to precisely model human diseases.

From the Editor’s Desk

From the Editor’s Desk Marquis Berrey Dear readers, you hold in your hands the final volume of Syllecta Classica. The editorial board has taken the decision to close the journal after the present issue. Declining numbers of submissions, reduced funding, and an increasingly stretched departmental faculty in recent years have made maintaining the high quality of publishing difficult. Yet the quality has remained high. The current editorial staff gratefully acknowledges the efforts of previous editors in building the reputation of the journal. Syllecta Classica has published numerous important papers in Classics over its thirty-one-year existence and, I believe, contributed substantially to the peer-reviewed ecosystem of open debate responsible for making advances in our field. Digital copies of all volumes of Syllecta Classica will remain available through Project Muse, to be read and used for future scholarship. In sincere appreciation for your continued readership over the years, Marquis Berrey, Editor [End Page i] Copyright © 2020 The University of Iowa

Die Luther-Gesellschaft 1918–2018. Beiträge zu ihrem hundertjährigen Jubiläum ed. by Johannes Schilling and Martin Treu

Reviewed by: Die Luther-Gesellschaft 1918–2018. Beiträge zu ihrem hundertjährigen Jubiläum ed. by Johannes Schilling and Martin Treu Robert Kolb Die Luther-Gesellschaft 1918–2018. Beiträge zu ihrem hundertjährigen Jubiläum. Edited by Johannes Schilling and Martin Treu. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018. 351 pp. For a century the Luther-Gesellschaft has served as an important institution for conveying Luther's life and thought among both professional and lay audiences. Writing a history of an institution is a delicate task, filled with the danger of external criticism in the service of an ulterior agenda or the weakness of internal bragging. This sober assessment of the Society's development avoids both dangers even though it is written by a team of insiders. The editors, the current president of the Society, Johannes Schilling, retired professor of Reformation history at the University of Kiel, and Martin Treu, the Society's business manager, retired from long years of service at the Luther House in Wittenberg, marshalled eleven others to assist them in reviewing the activities of the Society in the turbulent century since its founding in the last days of World War I. The authors render careful assessments of how scholarship and culture are interwoven in the practice of the scholarly task. Essays focused on the presidents of the Society provide a chronological thread that highlights how the general atmosphere of German culture shaped the agenda and activities of the Society at each stage. In addition, the current editors of the Society's scholarly periodical, the Lutherjahrbuch, Christopher Spehr, and its more popular journal, Luther, Helmut Zschoch, trace the development of their publications, revealing how cultural pressures from German nationalism, National Socialism, and the concerns of a divided Germany, with the necessity of taking Marxist Reformation scholarship seriously in the 1960s–1980s, stood in tension with the ever-present concern to preserve text-driven scholarship while providing aid for parish pastors and laypeople through exposition of Luther's way of thinking. [End Page 461] Further essays explore the vital work of regional groups organized to conduct seminars and conferences dedicated to fostering Luther's theology through good scholarship brought to the popular level. The regional groups have come and gone in various parts of Germany but have provided a forum for demonstrating the relevance of Wittenberg thought. Other essays treat recently developed prizes and the valuable Luther bibliography of the Lutherjahrbuch. Personal recollections of two presidents, Schilling and Bishop Gerhard Müller, provide insights into the challenges of fulfilling the goals of the Society, among which scholarship in its purest form sometimes took second place to bringing Luther's insights to the educated public. Müller's and Schilling's particular perspectives lend depth and color to reviews by others of other leading personalities, including Karl Holl, who served briefly as president; Paul Althaus, whose thirty-seven years as president (1927–1964) spanned the break in the Society's existence caused by National Socialist crackdown and the collapse of 1945; Walther von Löwenich; Reinhard Schwarz; and also the founder and organizer of the Society, Rudolf Eucken, a philosopher, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, and ardent German nationalist. Eucken devoted the Society to making his vision of the German Luther speak to contemporaries in the dreary days after the German defeat of 1918. Eucken soon abandoned the Society, but in the 1920s the concern for the German Volk and nation that drove Karl Holl into Luther scholarship continued to influence the activities of the Society. The long, dedicated service of Theodor Knolle, pastor in Wittenberg and Hamburg, as vice-president held the Society together from the 1920s to the 1950s. His rejection of his initial commitment to the German Christian movement sympathetic to National Socialism and his later activities in the Confessing Church embody the tensions that all Germans felt throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The post-war situation revived earlier desires to attract participation from those outside Germany, particularly the Nordic lands and North America. Details of the pressures placed upon Luther scholars and those who used his thinking in preaching and teaching enrich the feel of the book for the interaction of...

The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson by Mark R. Cheathem

Reviewed by: The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson by Mark R. Cheathem Jacob T. Wood (bio) The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson. By Mark R. Cheathem. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 248. $64.95 cloth; $24.95 paper; $14.72 ebook) In a historical moment where presidencies and politics are defined as much by Saturday Night Live and Twitter as they are from bills in Congress, one could be forgiven in assuming that the intersection of politics, entertainment, and popular culture is a new phenomenon. However, Mark Cheathem, current editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers and biographer of Andrew Jackson and family, presents the [End Page 504] early republic as a period where “entertainment, things such as music, public events, and cartoons, held important political meaning” for Americans (pp. 2–3). Cheathem focuses The Coming of Democracy on the five presidential elections that occurred between the controversial election of 1824 to the apotheosis of cultural politics in the election of 1840. Through each election, Cheathem covers how the confluence of informal entertainment and politics facilitated the rise of Jacksonian democracy through the creation of partisan clubs, political media such as cartoons and music, and appeals to women. He admits these factors all existed prior to the election of 1824 but argues that it was the period between 1824 and 1840 where they became far more widespread and accessible to Americans at large (p. 9). The Coming of Democracy synthesizes previous historical works to contribute to the field a succinct précis of Jacksonian politics. He draws upon the most recent scholarship of the past twenty years, including expanding upon his previous books on Jackson, Van Buren, and the rise of the Democratic Party. A credit to Cheathem’s research is the numerous political cartoons and excerpts from contemporary songs poking fun at the leading men and issues of the antebellum period. His coverage of the use and spread of print culture notably during the 1836 election portrays a United States where the average American could see their presidential candidates before them in cartoons, read about those candidates and their stances in new biographies and newspapers, and celebrate their impending victory with clubs and songs and Liberty Balls rolling through the streets. Cheathem also demonstrates the prominent role previously excluded women played in influencing the political process, especially for Whig candidates. The democratic impulse extended beyond discussions of policy; it entered the realms of popular culture, pushing 80 percent of eligible voters to participate in 1840 (p. 175). The key year for both the coming of democracy in the abstract and The Coming of Democracy in the literal sense was 1840. Perhaps the greatest strengths of this work, its extensive chronology and readable page length, also act as its major drawback. Friends [End Page 505] of Tippecanoe rejoice with the Whig triumph in 1840 as Harrison and allies outmaneuver Van Buren and the Democrats through their use of cultural politics; yet The Coming of Democracy could elaborate further as to why the Democrats in 1836 and 1840 utterly failed to take advantage of an arena that seemed perfectly suited to them following Jackson’s successes. After successfully electing Jackson twice along with Van Buren, the work can explain more of the rationale or circumstances that prevented Democrats from fully embracing music, lithographs, or women’s participation in Van Buren’s campaigns (pp. 108, 162, 168). Despite cutting off his study at the election of 1840, Cheathem’s work demonstrates a breadth of subject matter that would benefit upper level history majors and early graduate students in understanding the changes that occurred in how Americans participated in their presidential politics. By consolidating the latest scholarly works on the intersection of three cultures—political, print, and material—Cheathem offers readers an introduction into the world of Jacksonian politics that future scholars can expand upon. Jacob T. Wood JACOB T. WOOD is a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky. He is currently researching the role of fluid political boundaries in the partisan debates of the election of 1844. Copyright © 2020 Kentucky Historical Society

Wat’s Dyke: An Archaeological and Historical Enigma

One of the very few published articles dedicated to the investigation of Wat’s Dyke, Margaret Worthington Hill’s article stemming from her University of Manchester M.Phil thesis was originally published in a special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library published by Manchester University Press. Guest-edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, the theme was Anglo-Saxon Texts and Contexts (Worthington 1997). Her article is re-printed here with the permission of the author and with the support and permission of the guest-editor, the current editors of that journal, and Manchester University Press. This version has been revised for style (including the removal of footnote citations and the inclusion of a Bibliography) and includes new photographs taken by this journal’s editors to illustrate the character of the monument at key locations mentioned in the text. The article remains an invaluable resource for those studying Wat’s Dyke and it might be profitably read in conjunction with the published fieldwork and dating of Wat’s Dyke at Gobowen (Shropshire) by Malim and Hayes (2008). Margaret spoke eloquently about her long-term research on Offa’s Dyke and Wat’s Dyke at the first meeting of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory in Shrewsbury in April 2017 and attended the Offa’s Dyke Conference at Oswestry in September 2018. In this context, it is a particular privilege to include her important study in the first volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal, thus recognizing her longstanding contribution to the study of Britain’s longest early medieval linear earthworks.

Authorship in the Medical Humanities: Breaking Cross-field Boundaries or Maintaining Disciplinary Divides?

Medical humanities is a field which implies collaborative work across disciplines although the degree to which this actually occurs is unknown. Our purpose was to determine the degree of joint work in medical humanities through analysis of authorship and acknowledgements in the two main medical humanities journals. Observational survey of authorship. We studied authorship data in all papers published in the two major general medical humanities journals between 2009 and 2018 (n=595). Two-thirds of papers (67.4%) had single authors, of whom a majority declared a single disciplinary affiliation (70.3%). The titles of 60.8% of papers explicitly suggested collaborative content of which 19.9% had multiple authors from more than one discipline (not within the same school); of the remainder, almost half (48.1%) had a single, single-disciplinary author (although 8.5% demonstrated interdisciplinarity in the acknowledgements). One-third of papers (193/595;33%) referenced one or more people in the acknowledgements. Among papers whose titles suggested humanities or medical content only, authorship lists of 10.2% and 17.9% respectively demonstrated collaborative scholarship. Despite considerable involvement from both humanities and medical practitioners, there is still substantial scope for enhanced emphasis on collaborative (multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary) seminars and exchanges in the medical humanities and editorial policies to promote transparency of the nature of collaborative work among disciplines. Journal editors and editorial boards should reflect on the opportunity to promote enhanced visibility of joint work in scholarship in the medical humanities through reflection and review of current editorial policies.

Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief of Social Psychology

Free AccessCall for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief of Social PsychologyPublished Online:November 06, 2019https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000405PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditE-Mail SectionsMoreSocial Psychology is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief for an editorial term starting summer 2020. The journal covers all areas of social psychology, publishing innovative and methodologically sound research and serving as an international forum for scientific discussion and debate in the field of social psychology. Topics include all basic social psychological research themes, methodological advances in social psychology, as well as research in applied fields of social psychology. The journal is committed to principles of open science and replicability. It is published by Hogrefe Publishing. The journal maintains links to the social psychology section of the German Psychology Society (DGPs).Timeline and DetailsIdeally, the new Editor-in-chief should start onSeptember 1, 2020.The publisher provides administrative support as well as a budget for an editorial assistant and various other activities.More information can be obtained from the current Editor-in-Chief, Kai Epstude (k.epstude@rug.nl).More information about the journal can be found here: https://us.hogrefe.com/products/journals/social-psychologyNominations, including self-nominations, will be reviewed by the current editorial team. The final decision will be made in close coordination with the publisher and the board of the social psychology section of the DGPs. Nominations should be submitted via email by January 31, 2020, and should include a CV of the applicant as well as a letter of motivation.For the Editorial Team, Kai Epstude, University of Groningen, Department of Psychology, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS, Groningen, The Netherlands, E-mail k.epstude@rug.nlFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 0Issue 0ISSN: 1864-9335eISSN: 2151-2590 InformationSocial Psychology (2019), 0, pp. 1-1 https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000405.© 2019Hogrefe Publishing

Regions in Europe and Europe of the regions. The origins of Regional and Federal Studies

ABSTRACT Regional and Federal Studies started life in 1991 as Regional Politics and Policy published by Frank Cass & Son, a small family-run publishing firm which was later absorbed by Routledge. In 1995, it adopted its current name, Regional and Federal Studies. The journal is now turning 30. For this anniversary, the current editorial team asked me to write a short account of where the original idea of founding such a journal came from, the difficulties of setting it up, and what I think of the journal today.

Historical Analysis: Editors' Reflections on 50 Years of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.

This article provides an historical perspective on the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (JPP) on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Former and current editors of JPP participated in a symposium at the 2019 Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC), each highlighting prominent types of articles published during their terms, the influence of these papers over time, and their reflections on the next 50 years of the journal. Their presentations were summarized and integrated for this article. Additional data on editorial teams, special issues, and publication metrics over time are included. The data demonstrate changes over time in the growth, scope, and impact of JPP. The article also shows the consistency in areas of emphasis over time. Anticipated topics for the future were quite consistent across editors and included increased use of technology, broader attention to teams and approaches, and methodological advances as the field will continue to grow. This article provides an unusual collaboration among editors of JPP, providing an historical perspective on the journal's growth over time and anticipation of continued impact into the future.

Reflecting on the past 25 years of the journal of purchasing and supply management: The editors′ perspectives

Purchasing and supply management scholarship and practice has significantly evolved during the past 25 years. In parallel, the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management has likewise emerged from its origins as the European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management as an important source for publishing purchasing and supply management research. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide the journal's current and future readership a historical perspective of how the journal has evolved during the last quarter century from the viewpoints of its current and former editors, and where we believe the future of purchasing and supply management is going as an academic discipline.

Editorial introduction to Annual Literature Review.

Dear Water Environment Community, Welcome to the 2019 Water Environment Research Annual Literature Review. The review this year includes over 30 sections related to the water environment. Dozens of authors and volunteers have spent countless hours putting this review together. The review is supervised by the Literature Review Committee of the Water Environment Federation. New this year, Wiley Publishing is partnering with the Water Environment Federation to bring this review to print. This is exciting news that will provide additional professionalism, visibility, and access to the review. The purpose of this review is to provide a brief synopsis on the literature over the past year related to topics on the water environment. It is provided as a service to the readers of the journal and the water environment community as a whole. The process starts with the committee choosing the topics that will be included in the review and then each volunteer author scouring dozens of journals, papers, and proceedings from the previous year in search of articles related to their topic. Once the articles are selected the authors have to organize those articles into subcategories and then summarize each selected article. Many of the sections have multiple authors, and a lead author will then assemble the various subsections and submit a finished version to the Water Environment Research journal. At that point, the staff and editors engage in the review process to prepare the section for publishing. I would be remiss if I did not personally thank all of the individuals that have worked on the review this year and over the past years. I have been involved with the literature review for 17 years starting as a co-author of a section and understand the amount of work that goes into producing the review. Therefore, I would like to first thank all of the authors of the sections. They are the engine that makes this review go. I would like to thank all of the staff at both the Water Environment Federation and Wiley Publishing that have helped in editing and managing the review including Jason He the current editor in chief of the Water Environment Research journal. Finally, I would like to thank the vice-chairman of the literature review committee, Val Frenkel, who not only helped review sections, but also wrote a section in the review. I hope that each of you find this review beneficial and I look forward to continuing to serve the water environment community. Sincerely,

Participation of Women in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management: An Update and Extension

ABSTRACTA number of articles have examined the participation of women in behavior analysis research. However, most have excluded JOBM from the analysis. For this review, we coded participation of women yearly, since the inception of the journal. We examined participation of women overall, as first authors, as sole authors, and in empirical articles. We also assessed collaborations between genders and identified the ten most published women in JOBM. Next, we examined the current editorial board and associate editors to provide updated information on the participation of women in those roles. Overall, we found an increasing trend of participation of women over the years with participation approaching parity in most categories in the most recent years. Finally, we discussed these results and suggested greater attention be paid to increasing participation of other underrepresented groups.

Behind the door: a critical look at the process of publication in Educational Studies in Mathematics

To commemorate the 100th volume of Educational Studies in Mathematics (ESM) we invited all past and current editors to reflect on the journal’s trends and internal processes. We complemented these discussions with comparisons of submitted and published manuscripts by countries of submitting authors. We found disparities in representation of articles from different countries and various attempts editors use to address such disparities. The analysis of internal editorial processes illustrates how editorial autonomy is exerted and raises questions about the necessity for higher editorial accountability, while maintaining the necessity of independent scientific judgment. We close the article with an open invitation to take up important questions about publication processes and their connection to the scholarship that is valued.

Present and Future of Biblical Studies: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Brill’s Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Tat-Siong Benny Liew

Some of us are old enough to remember well when David Orton, then working for the publisher Brill in Leiden, announced his plans to launch a new journal which would welcome the discussion of biblical texts from multidisciplinary points of view. The impression was given that there would be an especial welcome for what at the time sounded like very ‘daring’ approaches, and the editorial statement in the first issue spoke of ‘sociology, anthropology, psychology, archaeology, history, philosophy, linguistics and literary theory’. Since then, of course, post-colonialism, feminism, gender studies, and more have been added. By whatever means I do not know, but perhaps partly because she had previously been one of the editors of the Semeia series, Orton wisely recruited Cheryl Exum, then of Boston College and later of Sheffield University in England, initially jointly with Mark Brett of Melbourne in Australia, as the founding editor; she served for sixteen years until 2007 (see the appreciation by her successor Hugh Pyper in BibInt 16 [2008], 307–14). She succeeded in rapidly establishing the journal as an international forum whereby what once seemed marginal is now mainstream. With more than 150 titles also now included in the journal’s associated monograph/collected studies series, it was understandable indeed that the journal’s current editor should have wanted to celebrate the first twenty-five years. Liew tells us with some honesty that he had no real conception of what sort of collection would emerge from his invitation to twelve other authors to write on ‘the present and the future’ of the discipline. The result, almost inevitably, is a mixture which in his extended introduction he attempts bravely, but perhaps a little too optimistically, to weave together into some sort of coherent whole.

Editorial: <em>Trabajos de Prehistoria</em>, a hombros de gigantes

El editorial inicia el cuatrienio del actual equipo de la revista Trabajos de Prehistoria, valorando el protagonismo de los miembros de los anteriores Consejos de Redacción y Asesor, evaluadores externos y autores en la trayectoria de creciente internacionalización de la revista. Se destaca el impulso que el Profesor Antonio Gilman, director saliente y el primero no perteneciente a una institución española, ha dado a esa trayectoria. Se reflexiona sobre las implicaciones que el cambio generacional en curso en la academia española puede tener en la visibilidad de las revistas y se reivindica el papel de un espacio abierto, público y colectivo de comunicación científica como el ejercido por Trabajos de Prehistoria.

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LO54: The CanadiEM Junior Editor program: a quantitative study and program evaluation

Introduction: CanadiEM.org is a multi-author open access medical education website which aims to improve emergency care in Canada by building an online community of practice for healthcare practitioners and providing them with high quality, freely available educational resources. It is used by physicians, allied health professionals, and trainees globally. Junior (medical student and/or resident) Editors are key members of the community who are mentored to advance their academic skills and knowledge for their careers and the healthcare field. The program also aims to increase the sustainability of the CanadiEM project by supporting the creation and publishing of online content. We aimed to assess the impact and efficacy of this program while discovering ways to improve it. Methods: The experience of all current and previous Junior Editors were assessed through a survey developed by the authorship team for this purpose. The survey consisted of 48 questions, including 15 multiple choice questions rated using a Likert Scale, 10 open-ended questions, and 23 demographic or binary yes/no questions. The participants' perceptions of their experience, desire for future involvement, and opinions regarding implementation of the program at other medical education websites were assessed using open-ended qualitative questions. These responses were thematically analyzed. Results: A total of 28 Junior Editors responded (71.7% of those surveyed). They listed their responsibilities as uploading/copyediting posts, authorship of posts, infographic creation, social media promotion, authorship of podcast summaries, editing of podcasts, and logo design. Results revealed a positive experience across all domains, with participants citing a better experience when compared to previous similar roles. 85.7% (24/28) stated they achieved their expectations from the program, and 82.1% (23/28) would incorporate this program into another medical education website if given the opportunity. Conclusion: Junior Editors reported positive experiences across all responsibilities, with particular value placed on digital and authorship skills development, inspiration for future FOAMed, research engagement, and mentorship/networking. Through collaboration with current team members, we will implement improvement initiatives. Based upon these results, we believe that the Junior Editor model may also be viable within other medical education communities.

Reflections on The Plant Cell Classics

The year 2019 marks 30 years since The Plant Cell began publishing. To celebrate this milestone, we invited several current and former editorial board members and others to contribute their perspectives on influential papers published in The Plant Cell . These editorial perspectives will be