Current Editorial Research Articles

Transformative Art Making and Caregiving with Young Children: Motherscholarship with The Scribble Squad

Transformative Art Making and Caregiving with Young Children: Motherscholarship with The Scribble Squad

J Guy Edwards, FRCPsych, FRCP, FRCGP (Hon), DPM, HonMFPH, Founding Editor of Human Psychopharmacology.

J Guy Edwards, FRCPsych, FRCP, FRCGP (Hon), DPM, HonMFPH, Founding Editor of Human Psychopharmacology.

Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity

Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are larger and can suffer from higher off-target activity or lower on-target editing efficiency than current adenine base editors (ABEs). To develop a CBE that retains the small size, low off-target activity and high on-target activity of current ABEs, we evolved the highly active deoxyadenosine deaminase TadA-8e to perform cytidine deamination using phage-assisted continuous evolution. Evolved TadA cytidine deaminases contain mutations at DNA-binding residues that alter enzyme selectivity to strongly favor deoxycytidine over deoxyadenosine deamination. Compared to commonly used CBEs, TadA-derived cytosine base editors (TadCBEs) offer similar or higher on-target activity, smaller size and substantially lower Cas-independent DNA and RNA off-target editing activity. We also identified a TadA dual base editor (TadDE) that performs equally efficient cytosine and adenine base editing. TadCBEs support single or multiplexed base editing at therapeutically relevant genomic loci in primary human T cells and primary human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. TadCBEs expand the utility of CBEs for precision gene editing.

Towards “Born-Accessible” Educational Publishing

AbstractThis paper reports on how accessibility is being slowly implemented in the current editorial and production workflows of Australian educational publishers. The findings follow from an online questionnaire commissioned by the Australian Publishers Association completed by 65 educational publishers. The paper shows that many publishers have started working on accessibility implementation, but some of them are still at the scoping stage. While many of the participants believe that the quality of “born-accessible” publication is better for all users, they are concerned about the amount of work and financial cost involved. Overall, publishers understand the need for accessibility implementation, but require further practical support and training. Publishers are also interested in working out the best workflows, timing and processes, and most cost-effective way of implementing accessibility.

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The Gender Gap in Land Sciences: A Review of Women’s Presence on the Editorial Boards of Peer-Reviewed Journals

Women are disadvantaged across all stages of academic publishing. In science, contribution to editorial boards of journals is evidence of a high reputation within a specialty or field. Therefore, the low presence of women on editorial boards can be considered a disadvantage indicator for women in academia. This study aims to highlight the gap in women’s contributions in land science journals. We assessed the gender composition of editorial boards in 60 peer-reviewed journals using systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and we obtained data on current and past editorial boards of these journals. The result shows that the current number of editorial board members is 5197 of which only 25.47 percent are women. Gender inequality is very evident in this group of journals to the extent that journals with a high impact factor indicate inequality that is even more than 75 percent. The results of the time series analysis have also shown that the presence of women on editorial boards has increased over the last decade, although this increase has been more in the Nordic countries. The geographical distribution of editorial board members is also quite unequal in the North and South, 83 percent of female editorial board members are from northern countries, while only 12 percent are from the global South. According to the results, there is still a long way to go to achieve gender equality, especially in the field of land science. Our results also support previous findings of a considerable gender difference in urban land science, geoscience community, biodiversity conservation, and veterinary sciences. Thus, the academic community, editors, and journals must take proactive measures to achieve gender balance.

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Botanical Sciences : an honorable fellow in the international assembly of botanical journals

As in every field of scientific research, publication of new findings is a fundamental task of botanical investigations. Since its launching in 1944, Botanical Sciences (formerly Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México ), the scientific periodical of the Botanical Society of Mexico, has played a major role in the dissemination of botanical knowledge, with a strong emphasis on Mexican plants and vegetation. In this essay, whose preparation was propelled by the publication of the 100th Volume of Botanical Sciences in 2022, we revisit this scientific periodical’s trajectory for almost eight decades of activity, during which it has become an honorable member of an international assembly of journals devoted to publishing research in all botanical subdisciplines. On this ground, we reflect on its future, pondering the challenges it faces, the need to adjust to emerging circumstances, and the opportunities created by current national and international editorial practices. Additionally, we provide a brief overview of the contents of the contributions included in this Special Issue, with emphasis on the main conclusions drawn by their authors. We hope that these articles will become key references guiding future work in their respective botanical subdisciplines.

Theater, Revision, and The Merry Wives of Windsor

Surveying several centuries of debate about the relationship of Q (1602) and F (1623) Merry Wives, Jeanne Addison Roberts concluded in 1975 that textual criticism’s “major insight” was that “F is not a revision of Q—an insight now almost completely and apparently finally accepted. The second major insight is seen in [W. W.] Greg’s enunciation of the idea that Q is a memorial reconstruction of F prepared chiefly by the Host—a view that has been developed and challenged but appears to hold its ground quite firmly.”1 What is striking about Roberts’s conclusion is how stable it has remained across the almost five decades of change in editorial theory and practice associated with the new textual criticism. As recently as 2013, Martin Wiggins could describe Q as “a memorial reconstruction probably compiled in or after 1601 by the actor who played the Host; this version has also been abridged and adapted for theatrical use.”2 Although all current editions of Merry Wives acknowledge the textual unorthodoxies of both Q and F, and agree that there has been some specific, purposeful intervention to produce the Folio’s final scene and in particular the Garter-specific speech at TLN 2315, they all more or less subscribe to Roberts’s summary.3 As we will see, the current editorial consensus is that F Merry Wives became Q by some combination of theatrical, memorial, and print depredations and sometimes via a lost intermediary or Ur-text. In a recent survey of editorial practice, Andrew Murphy notes that despite the challenges of 1980s New Textualism, it is “remarkable how much of the old edifice of the New Bibliography remains standing.”4 In this light, W. W. Greg’s foundational work on the texts of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and its editorial influence on recent editions, deserves further attention.

Retrospective: A tribute to the past editors from the current editorial team


 
 
 This retrospective, as the first piece in the new online version of Kairaranga, looks back over two decades of the print version of this journal. The current editorial team pays tribute to the original editors and acknowledges their vision and achievements. Locating the journal within the changing educational landscape over the past twenty years, this piece provides a meta-analysis and reflection of the articles published from 2004 to 2021. It explores the key themes that emerged as threads across 24 Kairaranga issues published between these years.
 Looking forward to Kairaranga’s future, there is a commitment to honouring the past. The original vision and focus of Kairaranga will remain: to foreground evidence-based practices that put learners at the centre. Opportunities to weave new Kairaranga threads will be explored, including expanding the voices and perspectives of contributors, widening the journal focus to equity issues across learning support and enabling online and multi-media submissions in both English and te reo Māori.
 Looking back to look forward, the core kaupapa of this interprofessional journal stays constant, so that Kairaranga can continue to promote educational equity across Aotearoa.
 
 

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Contributors

Previous articleNext article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreBoróka Bó is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Essex. Her research delineates the mechanisms linking sociotemporal disparities and inequalities in well-being. She is currently writing a book on the relationship between the social experience of time and our individual and collective emotions.Jennifer W. Bouek is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her research interests broadly include families, inequality, and the state. She is currently writing a book on the American childcare system and its role in widening economic inequality.Jennifer A. Jones is associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research lies at the intersection of the sociology of race, immigration, and politics with an emphasis on the relationship between categorical ascription and meaning making. She is the author of The Browning of the New South (University of Chicago Press, 2019).Celene Reynolds is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University with research and teaching interests in law and organizations, comparative and historical sociology, gender and sexuality, and higher education. She is also an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Inequality and a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Organizational Behavior. Her research centers on understanding inequality in organizations and the laws designed to reduce it. (SA)Daniel McArthur is a lecturer (assistant professor) in Education at the University of York, where he works at the intersection between education, sociology, and political science. He studies the institutional causes and political consequences of economic inequalities, with a particular interest in the role that geography plays in the reproduction of advantageAaron Reeves is a sociologist and associate professor in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University, a fellow of Green Templeton College, and a visiting senior fellow in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is working on the political economy of health and social stratification and is currently writing a book on the British elite.Mike Vuolo is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University and current editor of Sociological Methodology. His research interests include crime, law, and deviance as well as health, work and education, substance use, the life course, and statistics and methodology.Lesley E. Schneider is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on criminal record stigma and discrimination, reentry and supervision experiences, responses to legal change, and bureaucratic aspects of charging and sentencing.Eric G. LaPlant is a survey statistician at the Veterans Health Administration’s Healthcare Analysis and Information Group. His research reporting focuses on healthcare-based program evaluations and surveys aiming to inform policy recommendations. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 128, Number 2September 2022 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/722503 © 2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

What’s Up with Cultural Sociology? From Bourdieu and the Mainstream to ‘Productive Weirdness’

What constitutes the field of ‘cultural sociology’ today? Where has it come from, and where is it going? And how has the journal Cultural Sociology played a role in the field over the journal’s 15 years of existence? This article comprises a dialogue between one of the current editors, Christopher Thorpe, and one of the founding editors, David Inglis. Reflecting on these questions, the dialogue also touches on major issues in cultural sociology today; these include the continuing legacy of Bourdieu, the presence of Actor Network Theory, differences between critical-theoretical and Yale School conceptions of cultural autonomy, neo-liberalization processes, the status of postcolonial sociological ideas in the field, attempts to decolonize sociological accounts of culture, and the interplay between mainstream and ‘productively weird’ kinds of cultural sociology.

Editorial Note Summer Issue

The Board of Amsterdam Law Forum (ALF) hereby proudly presents the second issue published by its current editorial team. In this 2022 Summer Issue, we are pleased to introduce three articles in total. The first one is a peer-reviewed article that provides an analysis of the eighteenth-century prize systems and their role in the dynamics of the slave trade. The second one is an opinion article concerning the European Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), and the third one is a Special Collection presenting a Report on blockchain in relation with the well-being of societies. We are proud of the combined efforts of authors, editors, and peer reviewers that made these three articles possible, enabling ALF to continuously bring high quality contributions to our academic community.

A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness

AbstractIn recent years, we witnessed an increasing number of funding agencies, scientific journals and scientists agreeing that society and science benefit from open access to research data. Benefits derive mainly from increased access to knowledge for all and improved transparency and credibility in academia. However, despite the advances in open science and open data, three significant aspects still need considerable policing: data quality, the accompanying summaries with basic information of the data files (i.e. metadata) and computational codes used to generate the research outcomes. Only by having these three components together, we can achieve efficient data sharing and reuse, and hence higher transparency. Here, we present two complementary approaches that potentially can help with shared data quality: (i) data file(s) sharing should be guided step‐by‐step in public archives with mandatory metadata, and (ii) journals creating assistant data editor positions at editorial boards with a leading role in data quality and computational reproducibility. Forty‐four editors‐in‐chief in the field of behaviour, ecology and evolution shared their opinion with us regarding these two approaches. Although most of the views were divided, the majority estimated that their current editorial board members do not have the necessary skills to assess the quality of shared data. Since data are the core of research studies, we should consider not only data presence but also quality as a requirement for publication.

Editorial. Qualitative Health Communication: Current editorial challenges

Editorial. Qualitative Health Communication: Current editorial challenges

Editorial report 2022

AbstractWith its eighteenth annual volume, theJournal of Institutional Economics(JOIE) has come of age. This editorial report looks at the growth of the journal, summarises some of its achievements, reviews progress in addressing diversity and gender balance, outlines current editorial policy, and considers some further issues that are important for the future.

What the Current Editorial Team Values in Reviews for JRME

What the Current Editorial Team Values in Reviews for JRME

Future of Healthcare

In the current editorial, I delineate the factors that must constitute a recipient rights-based health care system, at least a future health care system. As a reflection on what transpired in the two years of the pandemic, the considerations offered are to assist in rebuilding a realistic allied health care perspective that would not only meet the demands of the future but is able to cope should some other crisis-hit humanity. The conception here calls for more dominant roles for human services professionals involved in social care from various persuasions, such as social work, psychology and several other disciplines that are sector-specific to children and the frail aged.