Interim Editor Research Articles

Editorial

Readers of this issue of Obesity Research will note that the index of contents includes a large number of manuscripts that are available only on line and will not appear in print. I want to offer an explanation for this unusual action. When I took over as Interim Editor in January of this year, I discovered there was a backlog of accepted manuscripts that was equivalent to 14 months of publication space. Many manuscripts were taking longer than 12 months to go from acceptance to appearance in print. I did not consider this situation to be fair either to the authors or to our readers since many of the reviews may be outdated by the time of their publication as research productivity in all fields related to obesity is currently so high. New information and insight is appearing weekly in the literature, so there was a strong possibility that some reviews would already be ‘out of date’ by the time of their appearance in print. We and the publishers felt the most appropriate response was to offer speedy electronic publication for the majority of back-dated manuscripts. I personally would like to thank the authors that have accepted this route for their understanding and agreement. None of us is happy with this situation, but we feel it is the best solution to the current problem. How then does the editor and editorial board prevent this situation arising again in the future? Obesity Reviews has an Impact Factor greater than 5, so it is recognized as a major journal in the field of obesity and its related comorbidities. To ensure that the acceptance rate matches our publication abilities in the short term, I have initiated a review system that, with the help of our expert reviewers, will allow prioritization of manuscripts for publication to those that cover topics that have not been reviewed elsewhere recently in the literature, to those that offer novel insights, interpretations or hypotheses and to those that are seen by the reviewers to have major importance and impact on the field. The need for up to date reviews in the Obesity field and the success of Obesity Reviews in meeting this need, has created the current problem. Our longer term aim must be to address this need by increasing our page numbers but this will be contingent upon increased subscriptions and income to the journal that will make it financially possible. Readers can help by recommending subscriptions to your libraries and colleagues.

Board Will Help Members Navigate Practice Changes

Board Will Help Members Navigate Practice Changes

Message from the Interim Editors

Message from the Interim Editors Diane Wenger and John Hepp Welcome to our first issue of Pennsylvania History as the interim editors. Paul Newman has taken a position that no longer allows him the time needed to edit the journal and we have stepped in to continue the journal until a new full-time editorial team can be appointed. We do not expect any significant changes to take place in our short management other than responses may be a bit slower as we learn the ropes. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. We would like to thank Paul and his team for doing much of the hard work for this issue (including the key job of choosing the articles), which has allowed for a relatively easy transition. [Begin Page vi] Diane Wenger and John Hepp Wilkes University Copyright © 2011 The Pennsylvania Historical Association

A Brief History of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences' First 50 Years

A Brief History of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences' First 50 Years

A Season of Thanks and Appreciation

A Season of Thanks and Appreciation

Letter from Interim Editor in Chief

Letter from Interim Editor in Chief

JSCM: This Journal's Journey

JSCM: This Journal's Journey

Jerry Turner Williams: 1924–2010

JERRY TURNER WILLIAMS 1924 - 2010 “THE ACADEMIC LOVE OF MY LIFE”—THAT’S HOW JERRY WILLIAMS characterized her relationship with the Mississippi Quarterly. Anyone who knew Jerry would likely agree with her assessment, for even after she retired from the English department at Mississippi State University in 1988 the interests of the Mississippi Quarterly occupied many, if not most, of her waking hours. Jerry became associated with the Quarterly in 1970 when her husband Peyton was appointed first as the interim editor and then a short time later as editor. From that fall until a few weeks before her death on March 20, 2010, she tended the pages of the journal with a careful and critical eye for practically everything that went onto them—the language and contents of the articles, the layout and arrangement of the contents, the few ads we regularly ran, and the art work, some of which her daughter Susan drew. She seemed to enjoy finding clip art for the widows, but then she enjoyed everything she did for the Quarterly. She enjoyed especially later on after I had become editor making comments in the margins of proof pages, comments that usually pointed out my ignorance and other shortcomings or the unnecessary abstruseness of the language of critical theory or the contents of articles our contributors had published elsewhere. Few people knew the scholarship on Southern literature as thoroughly as Jerry Williams knew it. The founders of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature believed that publishing an annual annotated bibliography that would continue what Louis Rubin had begun with A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature would provide impetus as well as a necessary tool to encourage academic investigation of the region’s literary culture. If the growth in the size of the bibliography over the years that the Mississippi Quarterly published it adequately measures interest, then the founders succeeded admirably and probably beyond anything they imagined. Almost from its inception Jerry Williams worked with the bibliography; she knew what went into it, and as the compilations grew larger, she could recall a great deal of hundreds of books and articles. By 1973 with the publication of the first five-year conflation, Jerry was recognized as the “Editor of the Checklist” and the editor of the conflations. 366 Mississippi Quarterly Those who used the SSSL bibliography during the 1970s and ’80s generally had great respect for its inclusiveness and the usefulness of its annotations. The Bibliography Committee of the SSSL, under the direction of Pascal Reeves, James Kibler, George Longest, and Mary Weeks-Baxter, did excellent work managing the committee, but even so, Jerry insisted on traveling to libraries in Mississippi and neighboring states where she found journals and magazines not on the committee’s list and recent issues of some of those that were so that she could add entries. And, when she exhausted new material, she would begin to check the annotations to see if she agreed with them. The editors of even more specialized bibliographies during those years often waited for the SSSL bibliography to appear before they published their own, and usually they thanked Jerry specifically for her work. Later, after the computer had worked its changes on the way we do bibliography, Peter Scholing tutored her on the programs he had devised. Unlike a lot of us, she learned the new ways very quickly and helped improve on them. She brought that same thoroughness to her editorial work with the Quarterly, and she cared deeply that the journal be as presentable and useful to the academic community as it could be. During the years that I edited the journal we seldom published anything that Jerry had not approved. When her health began to falter so that, not trusting the vagaries of the elevator they installed in our building, she could no longer reach our office, she would call instructing me to meet her in the parking lot where she delivered articles she had read or those she had finished copy editing and picked up new ones. In the parking lot we had some of the more interesting conversations I had at Mississippi State. She could be as...

From the Interim Editor

From the Interim Editor

From the Interim Editor

From the Interim Editor

Editorial

The staff of Journal of Oral Implantology is hopeful that 2009 finds each of you filled with success and happiness. The JOI enters a new era with the retirement of Editor-in-Chief, Dr A. Norman Crainin. I will serve as the Interim Editor until the Board of Trustees appoints a new Editor-in-Chief. I take on this responsibility with great respect for those editors who have gone this way before: Drs Robert Buhite, Arthur C. Jermyn, Paul J. Mentag, Eugene Wozmak, and most recently, A. Norman Cranin. The JOI is a treasure of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. Since its inception in November 1954 as the Journal of Implant Dentistry, the first journal in the world devoted exclusively to implant dentistry, the JOI has distinguished itself as the official publication of The American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID) and The American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics (AAIP). The JOI is well respected for its peer-reviewed scientific articles, original research, clinical reports, comprehensive reviews, editorials, and letters, all of which have contributed to the implant dentistry literature that facilitates clinicians in discerning what benefits our patients.The JOI's rich heritage is due, in large part, to the leadership of A. Norman Cranin, DDS, DEng. Since his appointment as editor in 1964, Dr Cranin has continually addressed the clinical science of our profession and transformed the JOI from a quarterly publication to one that is published bimonthly. When Norman began, implant dentistry was on the periphery of the dental profession and performing implant procedures was regarded as unprofessional conduct for any dentist, whether a generalist or specialist. Thanks to the courage of many clinicians who have gone before us, implant dentistry is now regarded as “state of the art.” Dr Cranin's dedication to finding and publishing the “truth” regarding the art and science of our profession has been instrumental in this ascension. The expression that “it takes a community to get things accomplished” is true of implant dentistry's growth. Dr Cranin will always be regarded as a key member of the implant community and for this I will always hold him in high esteem and welcome him as our newest Editor Emeritus.I have had the pleasure of spending time with Norman and Marilyn, his wife, both of whom are delightful and share their knowledge and history of the JOI in a most gracious manner. Another person instrumental in JOI's success was Dr Cranin's dedicated assistant Ms Ethel Bruck. As an author who had the privilege of working with Ethel, I was impressed with her mastery of the complexities of getting a manuscript ready for publication.The AAID and AAIP have a special treasure in the JOI, thanks to the efforts of Dr Cranin and Ms Bruck. We salute both of them and wish them many happy days as they begin new chapters in their lives.As for the future of the JOI, we will build on its great heritage while we incorporate advances in the publication process into our methodology, including a new online manuscript submission and peer review process. I look forward to JOI becoming a must read for all implant dentists and encourage those involved in the science and practice of this aspect of the dental profession to submit their manuscripts to this rich and proud journal.With warmest regards,James L. Rutkowski, DMD, PhD

EHP Update

<i>EHP</i> Update

Announcement: Appreciation to Associate Editor Branka M. Ladanyi for her service as Interim Editor

Announcement: Appreciation to Associate Editor Branka M. Ladanyi for her service as Interim Editor

Recent Changes at Environmental Health Perspectives

Readers of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) will note several changes in the masthead of the journal, reflecting a renewed commitment to publishing the best research and news in the environmental health sciences. In the 4 months since I assumed the role of editor-in-chief for EHP, I have added 21 new associate editors and 26 new Editorial Review Board members. Associate editors are responsible for managing the peer review of papers and making a recommendation to the journal concerning the acceptability of a manuscript to be published in EHP. The Editorial Review Board serves as a pool of potential reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Editorial Change and Continuity for the Journal of College Counseling

This issue, Volume 10, Number 2, marks 10 years of publication of the Journal of College Counseling (JCC). Over this time, JCC has provided its readers with 20 issues containing more than 175 Research, Professional Issues, and Innovative Practice articles. The aim of these articles was to advance the college counseling knowledge base and positively affect the day-to-day work of counseling professionals on 2- and 4-year college and university campuses. JCC is now a mature scholarly journal and remains one of the only such publications with a strong, clear focus on college counseling. Receiving JCC is an important benefit of membership in the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), a member association of the American Counseling Association. The journal is widely read by professional counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and others on campus and appears in important indexes, including Current Indexes in Journals in Education, Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Just under 25% of submissions to JCC are accepted for publication. We use an efficient electronic submission and review process, and an author's wait time between manuscript acceptance and seeing his or her article in print is as short as possible. This issue also marks a change in editors. Laura Hensley Choate of Louisiana State University has completed her tenure as JCC's fourth editor. Laura further advanced the journal's reputation. She emphasized careful writing and ensured that articles spoke to readers and offered clear implications for practice. I worked as Laura's associate editor, and I saw firsthand the energy, time, and commitment she brought to her leadership of the journal. She now turns to other scholarly work and to the demands of a growing family. I know the ACCA Executive Council and JCC's readers, authors, and editorial review board join me in thanking Laura for her leadership and hard work on the journal's behalf. Thanks to Laura, too, for her support and guidance during our editorial transition. I am privileged to begin my own term as editor as JCC prepares to enter its 2nd decade of publication. I have been an editorial board member, associate editor for research, and interim editor, and I am honored by my association with JCC. My background includes more than 20 years as a college counseling practitioner, researcher, and educator. I practiced college counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University, The University of Texas at Austin, Tulane University, and lames Madison University. I am indebted to my mentors, including Steven B. Robbins and the late John C. Jack Corrazini at Virginia Commonwealth University and Dave Drum and Augustine Baron at The University of Texas at Austin. I want to express my sincere gratitude to the ACCA Executive Council and membership for their confidence and support. There are few professional homes built especially for college counseling professionals; ACCA is an inviting organization that serves its members and the field with distinction. Old Dominion University (ODU) now hosts the JCC editorial office. Sincere thanks are due to ODU's Dean Graves, Provost Isenhour, and President Runte for their support of the journal and its mission. Douglas Guiffrida, of the University of Rochester, continues as the journal's associate editor for Professional Issues and Innovative Practice. Kelly Wester, of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, joins him as associate editor for Research. Kelly Wester also continues as the journal's statistical consultant. Both have strong ties to JCC and bring a combination of clinical expertise and scholarly acumen to their roles. A journal's editorial review board is its backbone. Board members' names and affiliations appear on the inside front cover. Finally, ODU graduate student Shabari Bhattacharyya is the journal's editorial assistant. JCC's 2nd decade promises to be an exciting one. I hope to maintain the journal's traditions and high quality and also plan new advances. …

Announcement: New Interim Editor Appointed

Announcement: New Interim Editor Appointed

From the Interim Editor

Professor Prakash Mirchandani found it necessary to step down as JOC Editor-in-Chief in February 2007, due to a family health issue. During and in the months before his time as EiC, Prakash brought a number of changes and needed initiatives, on which he reported in this column in the Winter 2007 issue. We thank him for his EiC work, not to mention his many years of prior service as JOC Area Editor for Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce. Professor Terry Harrison, INFORMS Vice President for Publications, then asked me to return as EiC on an interim basis, while last year’s search committee reconvenes and recommends a new EiC, and I was happy to do so. I’m grateful for the search committee’s agreement to resume their work; Bob Fourer chairs the committee, and its other members are Bruce Golden, Steve Graves, and Ramesh Sharda. In the meantime, the business of JOC continues uninterrupted, with submissions, reviews, decisions, production, and publication, as usual. Last year as EiC, I requested a substantial page-budget increase to 672 pages, which was granted by the INFORMS Board. Thus, this issue and the one before it this year are substantially thicker, with substantially more papers than has been possible over the past few years. Although we still have a healthy backlog of accepted work (see “Forthcoming Papers” on the JOC website), we’re now in the process of meaningfully reducing that backlog, with the result that the time from acceptance to publication is being shortened noticeably, better serving readers and authors alike. After many years of fine service to JOC, Professor Edward Kao of the University of Houston has decided to step down as Area Editor for Computational Probability and Analysis. Under Edward’s leadership, this important Area has grown and flourished, certainly covering the uncertain aspects of the OR/CS interface. Rather than naming a new Area Editor, I’m supporting that role until a new EiC is chosen. There are several changes among the Associate Editors to report as well. In the Simulation Area, Paul Fishwick (University of Florida), Harriet Black Nembhard (The Pennsylvania State University), and Leyuan Shi (University of Wisconsin) have rotated off after many years of fine service to that community, and James Calvin (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Bruno Tuffin (IRISA/INRIA) have agreed to come on board. In the Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce Area, Debabrata Dey (University of Washington) has rotated off after long-standing and excellent work for the journal, and Bernard Fortz (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) has agreed to come on. In the Design and Analysis of Algorithms Area, we welcome Christoph Helmberg (Technische Universitat Chemnitz). And in the former High-Performance Computing Area, Betty Hickman (University of Nebraska at Omaha) has rotated off. At this writing, the JOC EiC search committee has made excellent progress, and by the time you read this editorial a new EiC could well have been named. Please check the JOC website for this information.

Interim Editors Bring Breadth of Experience

Vol. 115, No. 3 PerspectivesOpen AccessInterim Editors Bring Breadth of Experience Kenneth S. Korach Kenneth S. Korach Search for more papers by this author Published:1 March 2007https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.115-a124AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit As many of you are aware, Jim Burkhart retired as editor-in-chief of EHP in January of this year. Jim did an exceptional job of guiding the journal, and under his leadership EHP saw a rise in impact factor that now ranks the journal in first place in two categories of scientific publications: environmental sciences and public, environmental, and occupational health. Jim also believed strongly in the importance of EHP ’s news section and its use in international environmental health, and worked to maintain these efforts. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, Matthew P. Longnecker, and Steven R. Kleeberger as the interim editor-in-chief and deputy editors, respectively, of EHP, and share with you our intentions for the journal during our editorial tenure, while a formal editor-in-chief is selected.As some background, I currently serve as program director of the Environmental Diseases and Medicine Program, chief of the Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, and chief of the Receptor Biology Section at the NIEHS. My research areas of interest include the basic mechanisms of estrogen hormone action in a variety of responsive tissues, with an application toward understanding how hormonally active environmental estrogens influence physiological processes; the role of the estrogen receptor in mediating hormonal responses; the estrogen receptor’s role in hormonal responsiveness during early development; the coupling of growth factor and nuclear receptor signaling pathways; and estrogen carcinogenesis and toxicity. I have been an editor and editor-in-chief of Endocrinology, the flagship journal of the American Endocrine Society.Matt Longnecker is a board-certified internist with a doctorate in epidemiology who serves as a senior investigator in the Epidemiology Branch of the NIEHS. Matt’s early research focused on diet and cancer, especially the relationship of alcohol consumption to the risk of breast cancer. His current research program focuses on the health effects of early-life exposure to environmental agents. Matt serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Research, and Epidemiology, and served for five years as an associate editor for the Annals of Epidemiology.Steve Kleeberger serves as chief of the Laboratory of Respiratory Biology and director of the Environmental Genetics research group at the NIEHS. He is the principal investigator for the Director’s Challenge Program “Mechanisms of Susceptibility to Oxidative Stress–Induced Disease.” Steve’s research focuses on identifying genes that determine susceptibility to environmental lung disease. His work has led to the identification of significant susceptibility quantitative trait loci and functional characterization of candidate genes for susceptibility to lung injury induced by environmental pollutants. Steve’s laboratory is also focused on gene–environment interaction in human populations, and the pathogenesis of disease including coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, respiratory syncytial virus infection and chronic lung disease in infants, and acute respiratory distress syndrome in acute lung injury patients. Steve has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Environmental Protection Agency regarding susceptible subpopulations and airborne pollutants. He has held a number of editorial positions, and is currently a reviewer for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals.Through our various research endeavors, all of us have come to value EHP as an important voice and source for the field of environmental health science. During our tenure, journal operations will continue under EHP ’s established principles and policies, including particularly those addressing competing financial interests. We will continue to objectively and critically triage manuscripts, to work to reduce the time to first decision, and to provide a fair and objective review process for all manuscripts. We are investigating mechanisms for improving the manuscript submission and review process, and we will work to implement more effective reliance on EHP ’s editorial boards. Most importantly, we are dedicated to maintaining the high scientific quality and rigor of EHP, and the overall value of the journal and its programs to the environmental health science community.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 115, No. 3 March 2007Metrics About Article Metrics Publication History Originally published1 March 2007Published in print1 March 2007 Financial disclosuresPDF download License information EHP is an open-access journal published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. All content is public domain unless otherwise noted. Note to readers with disabilities EHP strives to ensure that all journal content is accessible to all readers. However, some figures and Supplemental Material published in EHP articles may not conform to 508 standards due to the complexity of the information being presented. If you need assistance accessing journal content, please contact [email protected]. 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From the Interim Editor

From the Interim Editor

Plan Petroleum In Putumayo

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsGarry LeechGarry Leech is interim editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and author of the book Killing Peace: Colombia’s Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Intervention (INOTA, 2002).