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Editorial: From the New Editor-in-Chief

I am delighted to have the opportunity to serve you as the next editor-in-chief of this prestigious journal, beginning August 2021. I regard the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) as the premier journal devoted to the publication of computational, mathematical, and statistical methods that are central to advancing bioinformatics and computational biology. True to its roots within IEEE and ACM, the journal will continue to distinguish itself by focusing on methodological advances, while at the same time requiring that these be rooted in important biological challenges, and are designed for and validated against real-world data. I want to take this opportunity to outline some of my priorities in leading the journal to greater heights. Quality and breadth of coverage within the identified scope is of paramount importance. Together, the editorial board will work to increase high quality submissions, ensure uniformity in acceptance standards, and engage only in partnerships (e.g., with conferences and workshops) that meet journal quality standards. Another priority is to support sensible growth of the journal commensurate with the growth in the field, and ensure that we attract high quality research and survey articles in frontier topics. As a practical matter, we have already taken steps to address the significant backlog of accepted papers pending publication by securing increased page budget for the next year.

The history of IUBMB Life (1980-2020).

The history of IUBMB Life (1980-2020).

State of the Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science

The IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (TBIOM) has already completed two successful years of publication. This issue marks the start of year three! For 2019, the IEEE Biometrics Council was able to arrange an additional increment beyond our initial page budget for the year. As a result, TBIOM published 23 papers plus several editorials in 2019. For 2020, the Biometrics Council was able to again arrange an increment beyond our original page budget, and TBIOM published 34 papers plus several editorials in 2020. A sharp increase in page budget is planned for 2021, to handle a further increase in the number of papers published.

State of the Journal

During 2011, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) has maintained its position as a leading and prestigious publication in the field of computing. The number of manuscript submissions (inclusive of Special Sections) was 872 papers (at the time of writing this editorial in November 2011). The number of papers published was 139 papers plus approximately 140 additional papers were posted online as preprints (with an acceptance rate around 23.6%). Going by the number of papers received to date, I can guarantee you that 2012 will be another successful year for TC. The page budget stood at 1872 pages during 2011, which will maintained at the same level in 2012. As a measure of overall timely review, over the last 12 months the delay encountered from submission to fi rst notifi cation has been under three months. We are striving to improve this turnaround period and I am positive that this will be achieved due to the effort of the great team that we have. The Editor-in-Chie extends his gratitude to the wonderful team of Associate Editors, Guest Editors, reviewers, and IEEE Computer Society staff. Of course, we cannot forget our loyal authors and readers. A number of special sections have been published in 2011. TC does not publish special issues and the special sections are the mechanism used to enable the organization of mini special issues to publish on topical themes that are of importance to our readership. The themes covered in 2011 were Dependable Computer Architecture, Computer Arithmetic, Chips and Architectures for Emerging Technologies and Applications, Science of Design for Safety Critical Systems, and Concurrent Online Testing and Error/Fault Resilience of Digital Systems. The organization of such special sections will continue in 2012. Information on the scheduled special sections appears on the journal's homepage

Aging Capacitor Supported Cache Management Scheme for Solid-State Drives

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have been widely adopted in embedded systems, data centers, and cloud storage due to its well-identified advantages. Inside SSD, random access memory (RAM) is adopted as the built-in cache for achieving better performance. However, due to the volatility characteristic of RAM, data loss may happen when sudden power interrupts. In order to solve this issue, a capacitor has been equipped inside emerging SSDs as an interim power supplier. But due to the capacitor aging issue, which will result in capacitance decreases over time, there still may exist data loss when power interruption occurs. Once the remaining capacitance drops to the threshold value where all dirty pages in the cache can not be written back to flash memory, data loss happens. To solve the above issue, an efficient cache management scheme for capacitor equipped SSDs is proposed in this article. The basic idea of this scheme is to bound the number of dirty pages in a cache within the capability of the equipped capacitor. The proposed scheme includes three steps: 1) a periodical dirty page budget detection (DPBD) scheme is proposed to acquire the maximal number of dirty pages that can be written back within current capability of equipped capacitor; 2) a smart dirty page synchronizing scheme is proposed during normal run time to bound the number of dirty pages in the cache; and 3) when power supply interrupts, an efficient writing back method is applied to further reduce the capacitance consumption of capacitor. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves encouraging improvement on lifetime and performance while power interruption induced data loss is avoided.

Computational Dissemination: Toward Precision and Smart Impacts for Computational Social Systems

Welcome to the last issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS) of 2017. TCSS is now in a great shape and has an increasing supply and inventory of high-quality papers in its review pipeline. As an important part of our task of rejuvenating TCSS, we planned to publish at least ten papers in each issue, and we actually have 12 papers ready for this issue. However, due to the limit imposed by 2017 page budget, we have only 36 pages left, so only 3 out of these 12 papers can be published in this issue. I apologize to those authors whose papers will be postponed to the next issue. The situation will be significantly improved next year.

Editor's Note

Summary form only give, as follows. IEEE TDSC is today a well established journal in the field of information and computer dependability and security attracting top quality papers covering different topics within this field. This increase in quality and coverage has been made possible by the dedicated work of the Editorial Board Members and Reviewers and of Guest Editors who have over the years organized special issues on a variety of topics. As a result, the impact factor of IEEE TDSC has recently increased to 2. 926. Also in order to make it possible the timely publication of accepted papers, the TDSC’s annual page budget has been increased from 700 to 1100. This change will take effect in 2018 and I hope that it will help in further attracting high quality timely papers on topic of interest to the research community. Many individuals have contributed to the success of TDSC. First and foremost I would like to thank the authors for submitting their best research work to TDSC. Special thanks are due to the Associate Editors in Chief, Professor Joon-Gail Ahn (Arizona State University) and Professor Neeraj Suri (Technical University of Darmstadt); their advice and assistance on many different issues concerning TDSC have been invaluable. As my term of service as Editor-in-Chief will end on 1 January 2018, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all the reviewers for their dedicated work in reviewing papers, and the Editorial Board and IEEE Computer Society Publications Staff for their continuous assistance. I would like to extend my best wishes to Professor Jaideep Vaidya, the incoming Editor-in-Chief of TDSC. His distinguished research track in the field of information and computer dependability and security gives us confidence that under his leadership this journal will continue to thrive in its mission to serve our research community.

Editorial for 32:4

I would like to welcome all our readers around the globe to the final issue of 2017. This marks a change in how I, along with my Wiley colleagues, put together an issue. With so much publishing online these days, a strict page budget is no longer necessary. Taking into account also the increased submission rate to our journal, issues containing many more articles allow speedier publication following acceptance. 32.4 contains 21 articles and a book review: Professor Stephen Peckham has submitted a review of my own book on the politics of health policy reform in the UK. We suspended a regular Book Review section some years ago to make more room for articles, but I would like to announce now that we are open to publish book reviews both commissioned and speculative. We are also open to submissions constituting “special reports” on policy, whether pertaining to one country or more than one; whether general/theoretical or applied. Given the larger number of articles per issue, there will no longer be issues where the articles selected from our Earlyview (ie, those accepted but not yet published) are organised around a theme, although specially commissioned “special issues” may feature occasionally as before, eg, our recent issue on China. Related to this, my Editorials for each issue will no longer summarise the articles contained therein. This would amount, in the new system, to little more than a verbose version of the Table of Contents, which is of course the easiest way to apprise oneself of what lies in store!

Editorial

Dear Readers, Change is the only constant – a statement used often, is very true for Steel Research International. This is the first issue of the 87th volume of this journal, which was founded as “Archiv für das Eisenhüttenwesen” (1927), was later relaunched in English as “Steel Research” (1985), then merged with the former “Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy” (2006) and finally became “Steel Research International” in 2003. Originally, the journal was published in German only; now, it is truly international, with publishers from Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, and China: Steel Institute VDEh (Germany), The Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials, Fédération Française de l'Acier, Jernkontoret (Sweden), and the Chinese Society for Metals. In 2015, we received contributions from more than 30 nations. If you consider the last decade only, you will see changes in the layout, the submissions systems, the editorial structure, and also in published article types. For the third year in a row, the journal's ISI Impact Factor has grown – an impressive increase of 125% over the last three years. The total number of citations has grown by 50% in the same period of time. We received record numbers in submissions and are therefore forced to be more selective than ever before despite an increased page budget. A selection of most accessed articles from the last twelve months in Table 1 shows the wide variety of topics published in Steel Research International. Papers on modelling and simulation aspects of steelmaking can be found, along with articles with a more experimental focus. The last year has seen the publication of three exciting special issues. The most recent special issue, guest-edited by Wolfgang Bleck (Aachen, Germany), is a selection of articles based on presentations at the HMnS2014 in Aachen, Germany and presents some highlights from this conference. The second special issue is a compilation of articles devoted to the numerical simulation of sheet forming that were selected from over 250 presentations at the NUMISHEET 2014 conference. This issue was guest-edited by Jeong Whan Yoon (Deakin University, Australia), Peter Hodgson (Deakin University, Australia), and John Beynon (Adelaide, Australia). “Iron and steel making in Australia and China” is in the focus of a third special issue with contributions from the Second Australia–China Joint Symposium on Metallurgy, organized by the Australia–China Joint 3M-Centre. The issue was guest-edited by Aibing Yu (Monash University, Australia). After this retrospective, what will happen in the near future? We look forward to receiving and publishing many exciting articles on the most important developments in the area of steel research. This year will also see the publication of a special issue commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Bergakademie Freiberg, the oldest existing mining science university in the world. At this point, we would like to thank our authors, readers, reviewers, and last but not least our board members for their contribution to the success development of Steel Research International and look forward to another exciting year in steel research. Best regards, Sandra Kalveram Editor-in-Chief

Editorial: One hundred and fiftieth issue

Editorial: One hundred and fiftieth issue

Unrestricted access to medical case reports.

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports is an open access journal that publishes short case reports providing key insights into real medical cases that are essential for physicians, and that ultimately help to improve patient outcomes. It publishes online only and does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance.

A note from Francisco H. G. Ferreira, outgoing editor-in-chief

It has now been just over two years since I took over as editor in chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality. During this period, we have continued to build on the solid foundations laid by Jacques Silber and Jean-Yves Duclos, our previous editors. The Journal’s impact factor has continued to grow, and is now higher than those of a number of older, more established journals in the field. Submissions have risen to over 180 in 2013—about one every other day. As a result, despite a growing page budget, the journal’s acceptance rate has had to continue to decline. Most importantly, I feel that we have continued to publish a number of very interesting papers, some of which will make a lasting contribution to how the profession understands inequality. The Forum, Book Review and Rediscovered Classics sections have continued to flourish, under the superb stewardship of Nora Lustig (Tulane University), Xavi Ramos (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and Peter Lambert (University of Oregon), respectively. Most recently, following our editorial board meeting in Bari (Italy), we have also renewed the Editorial Board, and expanded our cadre of Associate Editors, bringing in Markus Jantti, of Stockholm University. Markus joins an excellent group of Associate Editors, comprising Andrea Brandolini (Bank of Italy), Valentino Dardanoni (Universita di Palermo), Cacilia Garcia-Penalosa (Aix-Marseille University) and Buhong Zheng (University of Colorado, Denver). Over the last two years, these four public-spirited scholars have contributed to the Journal very generously with their time and expertise, and I have felt truly privileged to work alongside them. For various professional regions, I have resigned as Editor in Chief on January 31, 2014. I am delighted to report that Professor Stephen Jenkins, of the London School of Economics, has kindly agreed to replace me, and took over the helm on February 1st. Prof. Jenkins needs no introduction to anyone working on issues of economic inequality. He was appointed to the position by our publishers, Springer, following detailed consultations with the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). The Society, the publishers and I are truly

A perspective of the journal's life in the last three years

I am pleased to report that at the end of my first, three-years term as Editor-in-Chief of JHSN the journal has experienced significant improvements, by consolidating its position as a leading and prestigious publication. The number of manuscript submissions in the aforementioned time window was 330 papers (at the time of writing), 58 of them have been published in volumes 18 to 20. The page budget stood at about 750 pages and the average turnaround period, measured as the delay experienced from submission to first notification has been kept under three months, that is about one third of the one observed in the previous three years. Overall, the values of the manuscript submission, acceptance and page budget metrics returned approximately back to the ones observed before 2007, that corresponds to the period of maximum success of the journal. Regarding the journal contents, besides traditional communications-related papers, we also opened our scope to new interesting topics such as network security, advanced network-based services and applications as well as to network-related aspects in distributed computing. I am sure that this will contribute to the overall appeal and hence to the success of the journal in the future, while preserving its solid tradition in the core high performance networking field. We hosted in the last three years period a single special issue focused on a very hot topic at the state-of-the-art such as energy-aware networking. We also encouraged the publication of experimental papers, believing that it is healthy and necessary for our community to consolidate also already mature research areas, by systematically evaluating techniques that shed further insights on their effectiveness. I would like to conclude by strongly emphasizing the importance of all the people contributing to journal activities, starting from the editorial board members, the reviewers, the IOS Press staff, and the production and typesetting crews. Their efforts and contributions are vital for continuing on a success path. I look forward to work with you all. Of course, I cannot forget our precious authors and readers. I thank you all for your interest and support and hope to further improve our journal’s quality in the near future.

Incoming Editorial

The main issue that needs attention is the average time an article takes to appear in print (the sub-to-pub time). The work of the previous editorial board has resulted in a more streamlined review process, with a reduction of much of the "slack" in the system. As a result, it is now not an uncommon occurrence that a well written paper submitted to TCAS-I is accepted within two months of first submission, after having gone through two cycles of review. In spite of the reduced time-to-first-decision, the average time from submission to appearance in print is still long at 9 months - and this is in spite of a generous increase in the page budget (which now stands at 3400 pages a year). A perusal of the print edition of the Transactions indicates that most papers are about 11–12 pages long. While this is warranted in many cases, I cannot help but notice that there is a fair amount of wasted space in terms of poorly scaled or redundant figures, diagrams that (unnecessarily) span two columns, superfluous equations, tables and appendices - the list is long. In a few cases, the last page of the paper consists only of the photograph and biography of the author. As authors, it is our duty to make responsible use of every square inch of space in the printed version of the Transactions. With many papers, it seems to be very easy to reduce the page count without losing any technical clarity by simply paying attention to the issues I have raised above. If a bit of care on each of our parts can reduce the average page count by 20%, the publication backlog can be reduced without increasing the page budget. This will involve authors working more proactively with the IEEE publication department upon receipt of the final proofs prior to publication. One of our endeavors will be to focus on reducing average paper length with an aim to provide more technical value to you in every issue.

Entering the second year of the transatlantic Andrology collaboration

Entering the second year of the transatlantic <i>Andrology</i> collaboration

Conveying Science: Original Studies Versus Case Reports

The art of conveying scientific discovery in medicine has evolved significantly in style and content over the past three centuries. In past centuries, the experience of physicians was conveyed through elaborately described observations of a patient’s presentation, response to treatment, and changes observed as time elapsed. This tradition continues to be practiced in the medical literature through case reports. The reports of yesteryears were of a personal nature as they described findings of the treating physician with specific patients. This frequently was reflected in the style of writing and presentation of facts. Over the centuries, medical research progressively developed to emulate scientific research in other fields, with observations based on a group of patients rather than a single patient. These original studies offer medical knowledge less hampered by the bias inherent to anecdotal experience. Despite this development, reports of single case observations, known currently as ‘‘case reports,’’ continue to find receptive audience and readership in the medical literature as they provide actual experience of physicians very similar to what readers face every day. These case reports make more sense to physicians because they are easy to understand and logical in their conclusions, albeit highly anecdotal. Case reports serve to provide the experience of a single patient. Grouping of observations to lend a greater scientific impact resulted in reports of a series of cases. This scientific fine tuning of case reports’ usefulness has been routinely used in reporting the unique side effects of medications. The British Pharmacopeia of several decades ago masterfully provided brief case reports of wanted and unwanted effects of medications though similar series of case reports. They were informative and quite enjoyable to read. Pediatric Cardiology, the first journal to publish exclusively in the field of heart disease in children as well as congenital heart diseases in children and adults, has published throughout its 35 years of existence an extensive list of such case reports, mostly during the first two decades of its existence. However, the increasing number of original studies conducted and submitted to Pediatric Cardiology over the past several years has forced the publication of increasingly fewer case reports, despite the rising frequency of issues per year and pages per issue, currently case reports occupy less than 10 % of its page budget. This had led us to adopt a new policy of restricting publication to original and review studies and to abandon altogether the long tradition of case report publication. Focusing entirely on original studies and review articles is a development shared by many mature journals in their fields. We believe that the valuable experience conveyed through case reports continues to be important but difficult to achieve in view of the increasing demand for and reliance on original studies. The ability to publish case reports may once again be possible once medical publications become entirely electronic with less regard to page budgets and cost of print issues.

The Launch of PRS GO

The Launch of PRS GO

E-ditorial: State of the Journal

E-ditorial: State of the Journal

One Year of JAHA

With the February 2013 issue, the Journal of the American Heart Association ( JAHA ) begins its second year. JAHA was created as a forum for high‐quality cardiovascular and cerebrovascular science and to particularly represent the domains of the 16 Scientific Councils of the American Heart

Another Great Year for Macromolecular Materials and Engineering!

Dear Readers, I am delighted to report that 2012 has been another great year for Macromolecular Materials and Engineering (MME). In the summer we were happy to see that the journal's quality and recognition in the scientific community resulted in a further increase of the ISI Impact Factor: the recent value of 1.99 is the highest ever in the journal's history, and represents a rather impressive growth when compared with the journal's initial IF value of 0.84 in 2001. These facts confirm the journal's position as the leading publication platform for work in the field of advanced polymeric materials, including their design, modification, characterization, and processing - and they result in an ever-increasing number of authors interested in having their results published in MME. As a consequence we, unfortunately, need to apply very strict selection criteria and only less than a third of all submitted contributions can be accepted. Given the limited space and page budget, a certain backlog in the final print publication cannot always be avoided; however, all accepted articles are typeset, published online, and visible and citable (using their DOI) as fast as possible. Some examples of work published throughout 2012 that attracted the highest interest with our readership are collected in Table 1. As you can see, these publications were not only contributed by a wide variety of authors from different areas and institutions, but they also cover a wide range of topics: carbon or biofibers and their properties and processing are discussed as well as nanocomposite systems, computational studies of blending processes or a review of gradient materials. Furthermore, in June 2012 we published a special issue “New Trends in High-Performance Fibers and Fiber Technology”, guest-edited by Michael R. Buchmeiser and highlighting the importance and recent trends in fiber technology, covering aspects of chemistry as well as chemical engineering. Very recently, the December 2012 issue of Macromolecular Materials and Engineering presented another special issue, this time dedicated to “Advances in Actively Moving Polymers” under the guest-editorship of Andreas Lendlein. Here, the main focus was on shape-memory and shape-changing effects in polymeric systems, considering fundamental research as well as sophisticated applications. To give a brief outlook: In spring 2013 we are planning to publish a special issue dedicated to “Functional Nanofibers”, guest-edited by Il-Doo Kim. And we are quite certain that you will also find lots to interest you in the regular issues of the journal. So, the future of MME is promising and we look forward to discovering and publishing exiting new results from all materials-focused areas of polymer science. Of course, I cannot close this Editorial without thanking those people indispensable for Macromolecular Materials and Engineering: our authors for their fascinating research and interest in the journal, our referees for helping us to identify the best articles, and the members of the advisory boards for their encouraging support! Stefan Spiegel Editor