In-house Editors Research Articles

Under the Publisher’s Undifferentiated Patronage: A Corpus-Based Case Study of Chinese Editorial Censorship on Translation about EU-Russia Relationship

ABSTRACT This article sets out to study how a publisher’s in-house editor in China censors the faithfully translated evaluation of the political stance of Russia and the European Union (“EU”) in a translated book on EU-Russia relationship based on a tagged corpus of the editor’s manuscript. The study finds that the editor tends to positively revise, via modification or deletion, evaluations of Russia’s stance and negatively of the EU’s stance. Specifically, the editor mostly understates the negativity of critical content about Russia’s domestic and bilateral stance to typically shift the author’s description of Russia as an authoritarian or aggressor, while overstating the negativity of the EU’s bilateral stance to augment its austerity towards Russia. Adulterating the faithful translation, the editorial censorship is supported by the undifferentiated patronage of the publisher as the project funder and the authorized censor in China where compulsory ideological censorship works covertly and effectively in the publishing industry.

Happy 25th Anniversary, EurJOC!

Happy 25th Anniversary, EurJOC!

Shining a Spotlight on Photochemistry

Shining a Spotlight on Photochemistry

Becoming the First Open Access Journal in the Macromolecular Journals Family

Becoming the First Open Access Journal in the <i>Macromolecular</i> Journals Family

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

The AACR Journals: Advancing Progress Toward the AACR's 115-Year Mission.

Mediation and uptake in manuscript revision

Abstract In line with recent interest in mediation as a widespread phenomenon in multilingual academic publication in English, this paper describes and exemplifies a method of researching production practices that is based on text histories. The evolution of rhetorical patterning in two published articles by established Spanish biomedical authors is used to explore the authors’ writing and how their texts were evaluated by an in-house language editor and later by journal gatekeepers. Semi-structured interviews with the two authors using talk around texts reveals commonalities and differences in author orientations towards mediation from discourse community members (journal gatekeepers) and the language professional (the in-house editor). Textual analysis as exemplified by a single rhetorically significant modification proposed by the language editor to each of the two manuscripts is used to compare the selective engagement of one author with the language editor’s contributions against the extensive reassessment of the other author in response to similar feedback. Discussion highlights the advantages and limitations of the modified text history and genre approach to understanding mediation and author orientations to mediation. Implications for textual mediation practices are discussed.

Opening Up of Editorial Activities at Chemistry Journals. What Does Editorship Mean and What Does It Involve?

The article unpacks the publishing practices and focuses on the curating work carried out by the editors of chemistry journals. Based on a qualitative analysis of multiple sources in two publishing houses (the American Chemical Society, ACS and Nature Research), it first shows that the role of editor-in-chief covers a wide range of realities and is far from being limited to that of a gatekeeper (the most common metaphor in the literature). In journals that are part of the Nature Research portfolio, in-house editors, who are no longer active scientists, work full time for the journals. The article describes the professional trajectories and skills required to join the publishing house. Interviews highlight collective identity-based actions, attention to the growth and the flow of manuscripts, but also specific epistemic properties of outputs in chemistry. Besides tasks that editors outline “as really the same as they were 100 years ago,” as they spend most of their time handling manuscripts and providing quality assurance, they also travel to conferences to support journals and encourage submissions, visit labs where researchers pitch their work or ask questions about journals, and “educate the actors themselves” about new fields. In both cases studied, the publishing houses partner with institutions to offer events (ACS on Campus programme, Nature masterclass) that a university or department can freely host or buy, where editors organize workshops on all aspects of manuscript preparation. Second, publishing houses, whether non-for-profit or commercial, have embraced a catalog logic, where the journals are not necessarily in competition and have an assumed place and hierarchy. At Nature Research, editors-in-chief head business units inscribed in the company's organization. Despite standardized processes imposed by the procedural chain, there is still room to maneuver in these relatively autonomous structures that are ultimately evaluated on their results (the annual production of a certain number of high-quality papers). On the other hand, ACS is seen as a vessel whose course cannot easily be deviated. The conclusion calls for extending this type of investigation to other contexts or types of journals.

The Rise of the Guest Editor-Discontinuities of Editorship in Scholarly Publishing.

Scholarly publishing lives on traditioned terminology that gives meaning to subjects such as authors, inhouse editors and external guest editors, artifacts such as articles, journals, special issues, and collected editions, or practices of acquisition, selection, and review. These subjects, artifacts, and practices ground the constitution of scholarly discourse. And yet, the meaning ascribed to each of these terms shifts, blurs, or is disguised as publishing culture shifts, which becomes manifest in new digital publishing technology, new forms of publishing management, and new forms of scholarly knowledge production. As a result, we may come to over- or underestimate changes in scholarly communication based on traditioned but shifting terminology. In this article, we discuss instances of scholarly publishing whose meaning shifted. We showcase the cultural shift that becomes manifest in the new, prolific guest editor. Though the term suggests an established subject, this editorial role crystallizes a new cultural setting of loosened discourse communities and temporal structures, a blurring of publishing genres and, ultimately, the foundations of academic knowledge production.

A rapid decade withpss (RRL)– and nowSolar RRLis here

No abstract is available for this article.

A rapid decade with pss (RRL) – and now Solar RRL is here

No abstract is available for this article.

Surfaces and Interfaces in the Spotlight

Advanced Materials Interfaces includes topics involving any interface between solids, liquids, and gases. In 2016, articles on vanadium flow batteries, oil/water separation, hole-extraction layers in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells, and hybrid membranes as binder-free anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries proved to be very popular with our readership. In particular, we would like to congratulate Robert W. Carpick and his team, whose full paper on “Nanoscale Adhesive Properties of Graphene: The Effect of Sliding History” (DOI: 10.1002/admi.201300053) is among our top-cited articles. The Full Papers by Qiang Zhang et al. on “Strongly Coupled Interfaces between a Heterogeneous Carbon Host and a Sulfur-Containing Guest for Highly Stable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Mechanistic Insight into Capacity Degradation” (DOI: 10.1002/admi.201400227) and Yabing Qi et al. on “Silver Iodide Formation in Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells with Silver Top Electrodes” (DOI: 10.1002/admi.201500195) are cited equally well. Moreover, some articles have drawn additional attention via news and social media platforms, which is reflected by a high Altmetrics score. The sunlight-induced self-cleaning properties of textiles presented by Rajesh Ramanathan, Vipul Bansal et al. in their work on “Robust Nanostructured Silver and Copper Fabrics with Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Property for Effective Visible Light Induced Reductive Catalysis” (DOI: 10.1002/admi.201500632) received a lot of media coverage. Likewise the studies on “Moisture and Oxygen Enhance Conductivity of LiTFSI-Doped Spiro-MeOTAD Hole Transport Layer in Perovskite Solar Cells” (DOI: 10.1002/admi.201600117) by Yabing Qi et al. Both works have been represented in cover images (Figures [1] and [2]). In 2017 we will continue to offer you top-quality articles. This trend is already reflected in the first issue that was published this year. The Special Issue of the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces – Perspectives in Interface Research – which was guest edited by Helmuth Möhwald and covers a wide range of topics on quasi-planar interfaces, multilayers, microcapsules, nanoparticles, and biocomposites. With a steadily increasing number of submissions per year, our team of professional in-house editors, located in Weinheim and Berlin in Germany, and Beijing in China, has also grown and now comprises Peter Gregory (Editor-in-Chief), Prisca Henheik, Yan Li, Ulf Scheffler, Lisa Smith, Anna Troeger, Marc Zastrow, and Bo Weng (Editors). In this context, we are also very happy to announce that our Advisory Board has grown and that the following experts have joined the board: Ariando (National University of Singapore), Charles Ahn (Yale University), Mats Fahlman (Linköping University), Jinlong Gong (Tianjin University), Antoine Kahn (Princeton University), David Kisailus (University of California, Riverside), Maria Antonietta Loi (University of Groningen), and Christof Woell (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Our rising profile in the materials science community would not have been possible without the contributions from Advisory Board members, authors, reviewers and readers. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all contributors for advice, continuous support, and submissions to the journal. We are looking forward to another year of exciting contributions in this highly interdisciplinary research field and wish you a healthy 2017 and continued success with your work. On behalf of the editorial team,

Commentary: A biology journal provides a lesson in peer review

This is a Commentary in $Physics~Today$ on the novel review process developed by the biology journal $eLife$, with the suggestion that it be adopted by physics journals.

Handing over a safe sailing boat

Uwe Bornscheuer Dear Reader This is the last issue of the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology (EJLST) for which I have served as Editor-In-Chief since 2008. From 2017, Wiley will run EJLST using an in-house editorial model – similar to many other of their scientific publications – supported by four highly experienced external Executive Editors covering the various disciplines in the area of lipids, fats and oils. I am extremely grateful to all the very helpful and highly competent people supporting me over the years in their function as Review Editors and as members of the Editorial Board. But even the entire board could have not handled the great number of manuscripts received without the considerable efforts of several hundred individuals who evaluated the submitted papers, especially aiming to improve them through the very useful peer-review system. A big “thank you” to all of them! My very special thanks go to Lucie Kalvodova − without her I would have been completely lost to deal with all the papers and to ensure that every month we have an issue ready to publish containing exciting new science. As it is true for many other journals, we have observed a considerable increase of submissions; more than doubling since 2008 reaching about 600 manuscripts per year! Thanks to our great team, we could deal with this avalanche mostly in a timely manner. Moreover, I am happy that we could publish many special issues dedicated to specific research topics, which were all well appreciated by the scientific community. The impact factor is nowadays considered an important “quality” criterion for scientific journals. In 2008, I hoped that we soon pass the threshold of an IF of 1.5 1. I am very pleased that this value has further increased over the years and even surpassed 2.0 (Fig. 1). When I took over the responsibility to serve as Editor-In-Chief for EJLST, I entitled my first editorial “Taking over a safe sailing boat” 1 as at that time Fritz Spener had already established EJLST as an important journal in its field and I was very grateful for his trust in me to ‘run’ the journal. Living very close to the Baltic sea in Greifswald, sailing became my primary hobby to relax from work. So now it is time to “hand over the safe sailing boat” EJLST. I was very delighted to learn that Lucie Kalvodova will be the new Editor-in-Chief! Her excellent knowledge in all areas of lipid science combined with her strong experience gained in the Wiley Publishing House over the years, assures me that EJLST will continue along its established lines and will remain the primary source of scientific information in the area of lipids, fats, and oils. I wish EJLST “fair winds and following seas”. Uwe Bornscheuer

P2X7 receptor in skin biology and diseases

The P2X7 receptor is a trimeric ligand-gated cation channel present on immune and other cells. Activation of this receptor by its natural ligand extracellular adenosine triphosphate results in a variety of downstream responses, including the release of pro-inflammatory mediators and cell death. In normal skin, P2X7 is present on keratinocytes, Langerhans cells and fibroblasts, while the presence of this receptor on other cutaneous cells is mainly inferred from studies of equivalent cell types present in other tissues. Mast cells in normal skin however express negligible amounts of P2X7, which can be upregulated in cutaneous disease. This review discusses the potential significance of P2X7 in skin biology, and the role of this receptor in inflammatory skin disorders such as irritant and chronic dermatitis, psoriasis, graft-versus-host disease, as well is in wound healing, transplantation and skin cancer. Publication Details Geraghty, N. J., Watson, D., Adhikary, S. R. & Sluyter, R. (2016). P2X7 receptor in skin biology and diseases. World Journal of Dermatology, 5 (2), 72-83. This journal article is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/3722 Nicholas J Geraghty, Debbie Watson, Sam R Adhikary, Ronald Sluyter Nicholas J Geraghty, Debbie Watson, Sam R Adhikary, Ronald Sluyter, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2252, Australia Nicholas J Geraghty, Debbie Watson, Sam R Adhikary, Ronald Sluyter, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong NSW 2252, Australia Author contributions: All the authors contributed to the paper. Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this manuscript. Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Correspondence to: Ronald Sluyter, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia. rsluyter@uow.edu.au Telephone: +61-2-42215508 Fax: +61-2-42218130 Received: September 9, 2015 Peer-review started: September 10, 2015 First decision: November 7, 2015 Revised: November 23, 2015 Accepted: January 27, 2016 Article in press: January 29, 2016 Published online: May 2, 2016

50 years of Crystal Research and Technology (1966 – 2016)

50 years of Crystal Research and Technology (1966 – 2016)

Introduction of Surgical Case Reports: the second official journal of the Japanese Surgical Society.

It gives us great pleasure to announce the launch of our new journal, Surgical Case Reports: an international peer-reviewed open-access journal, published online by the Japan Surgical Society, in partnership with Springer. This new journal is devoted to original case reports and letters to the editor. Surgical techniques and perioperative management have advanced rapidly and become more specialized. For example, the archive of robotic surgery is representative of the progress of this exciting breakthrough, which has gained widespread popularity over the last decade. In addition, translational research has come to be a critical and core component of full-spectrum biomedical research and is becoming more important in all medical fields. Large studies on these aspects of surgery, as well as randomized control trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses have provided critical evidence. The guidelines and general rules for the diagnosis and management of various diseases such as malignancy are generally established based on this evidence. However, surgeons are encouraged to report very rare cases, unanticipated surgical complications, or adverse events and explain how they used their resources to resolve them. Surgeons also often report on innovative new ideas to improve procedures in their specialty. Thus, an excellent case report can provide important detailed information about an individual case, which would be lost in an RCT or large study [1]. From case reports, readers can acquire early warning of the adverse effects of new medications or the rare presentations of new and emerging diseases. Whereas much medical and surgical literature includes case reports, these articles are underrepresented in those journals and journals that do publish valuable case reports specifically are very limited. Surgical Case Reports fills this void. This exciting new journal is dedicated to the publication of high-quality case reports and aims to expand current knowledge in all surgical fields. Since 1992, the Japan Surgical Society has been publishing Surgery Today as its official journal. Surgery Today is a monthly journal, with an archive of 44 volumes to date. Because Surgery Today is published in English and documents the latest progress in all surgical fields, articles in this journal have been widely indexed. The number of submissions to Surgery Today has increased steadily to more than 1,200 per year; however, as the number of pages is limited, so is the number of papers that can be published after careful peer review. Until now, Surgery Today has included original articles, review articles, short communications, ‘how-to-do-it’ papers, letters to the editor, and case reports. It has been decided that the focus of Surgery Today will be original articles, so that more papers documenting recent surgical progress can be communicated to the world in a timely manner. Hence, we decided to establish a new journal: Surgical Case Reports [2]. The purpose of this journal is to contribute to the progress of surgery by providing clinicians and researchers with an educational forum. This journal will disseminate each contributor's personal experience and novel treatments to a wide readership and share interesting rare cases encountered by colleagues all over the world. Surgical Case Reports welcomes well-described reports of cases, which include the following: ✓ New associations or variations in disease processes. ✓ Presentations, diagnoses, and/or management of new and emerging diseases. ✓ Unreported or unusual side effects or adverse interactions involving medications. ✓ Unexpected or unusual presentations of a disease. ✓ An unexpected association between diseases or symptoms. ✓ An unexpected event in the course of observing or treating a patient. ✓ Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect. ✓ Movies of the author's surgical teaching or technical development. Surgical Case Reports also invites letters to the editor, which generally take one of the following forms: ✓ A substantial re-analysis of a previously published article in Surgical Case Reports or another journal. ✓ An article that may not cover ‘standard research,’ but is of general interest to the broad readership of Surgical Case Reports. ✓ A brief report of research findings adequate for the journal's scope and of particular interest to the community. All manuscripts submitted to Surgical Case Reports will be subject to immediate screening by the in-house editorial team and selected manuscripts will be sent for peer review. Accepted articles will be published online and indexed in PubMed. Open-access is a modern system of publication, which provides a valuable opportunity for both readers and authors to expose and share the publications. Based on this new form of publication, we anticipate that Surgical Case Reports will become a useful interdisciplinary journal. We hope that we have aroused your interest and that you will support this exciting new journal by submitting your next case report to Surgical Case Reports.