Portfolio Of Journals Research Articles

New era for Tropical Medicine and Health.

It is an honor and pleasure to be able to extend greetings as the Editor-in-Chief of Tropical Medicine and Health (TMH), a journal with a 56-year history of high-quality research and one of the most important publications in the field. When I was appointed to the position of Editor-in-Chief in 2014, I wrote in the editorial that “our greatest challenge is to continue to improve the journal in such a way as to provide essential and timely information regarding research in the field of tropical medicine and global health” [1]. To achieve this goal, we set up a target to shorten the submission/review/decision cycle to 21 days after the initial submission. I am delighted to report that this target was achieved in two consecutive years in 2014 and 2015: the average duration was 21.0 and 19.0 days, respectively. This achievement owes greatly to the efforts of our reviewers and editors. We believe that speedy publication will help to ensure that TMH papers are read and cited more often by experts in the related fields. TMH is attracting ever greater attention. The number of accesses and downloads of the papers on the journal website increased 3.9 and 2.6 times, respectively, in 2015, compared to the average in 2013. We also received 46 % more submissions to TMH in 2015 compared to 2013. While this is due in part to our promotion campaign as well as our recent decision to send e-mail announcements to society members right after a paper is published online, we are deeply indebted to all of our authors, reviewers, and readers for their enthusiastic cooperation. Now I am pleased to announce that BioMed Central is the new publisher of TMH. We have taken this opportunity to revise the aims and scope of the journal to incorporate, in addition to traditional tropical medicine, the issue of global health. Global health is health of populations in a global context which can be characterized by a “health issue that concerns many countries or is affected by transnational determinants” [2]. While traditional tropical medicine is still central to our scope, TMH welcomes clinical, epidemiological, laboratory, and policy research physically implemented in non-tropics when related to health issues in the tropics or in a global context. TMH will continue as an open-access publication as part of BioMed Central’s high-quality portfolio of open-access journals. Authors can expect accepted manuscripts to be published online in professionally copy-edited and typeset form within a few weeks of acceptance. Finally, I would like to convey my cordial request to all our contributors for their continued support of TMH. The TMH staff will continue to make their utmost efforts to achieve speedy publication and to provide essential and timely information on high-quality research in the field of tropical medicine and global health. On behalf of the Editorial Board and TMH staff, I look forward to working with you and serving the community.

The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT)--A Rich Heritage En Route to an Exciting Future.

The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT)--A Rich Heritage En Route to an Exciting Future.

Why an open access publishing cooperative can work

Why an open access publishing cooperative can work

Sports Medicine - Open.

Dear Sports Medicine and Exercise Researchers, It is with great pleasure that Springer announces the launch of Sports Medicine - Open, a new peer-reviewed, online-only, open-access journal designed to provide an avenue for publication of original research in the field of sports and exercise medicine. Sports Medicine - Open is a sister publication of Sports Medicine, which has been published since 1984 by Adis and is now part of the Springer journal portfolio. The original Sports Medicine journal has been a leading publication in sports and exercise medicine for 30 years and has consistently been one of the most highly ranked vehicles for publication of review articles in the field. This focus on reviews has left little scope for the inclusion of original research, although Sports Medicine regularly receives submissions of original research articles. The launch of a sister journal to Sports Medicine, publishing original research, aims to provide the first top-tier open-access avenue for these papers. Given the well-regarded Sports Medicine brand and the community of top-tier researchers that support the journal, we believe that Sports Medicine - Open will fill a gap for our target audience of sports medicine practitioners, physiotherapists, exercise scientists/physiologists, team doctors, and trainers. Sports Medicine - Open will have similar aims and scope to those of the original Sports Medicine journal but with a different, complementary focus. Specifically, Sports Medicine - Open aims to publish original medical and scientific research in the following areas: Sporting performance enhancement Medical syndromes associated with sport and exercise Injury prevention and treatment Exercise for rehabilitation and health The application of physiological and biomechanical principles to specific sports Sports Medicine - Open will also consider publication of a smaller number of high-interest, definitive reviews. To ensure consistency and continuity of the editorial services associated with the original Sports Medicine journal, Sports Medicine - Open will be managed by an expanded team based on the editorial staff responsible for the original journal. Thus, authors will enjoy the benefits of publishing in a journal following the strong publishing practices of Sports Medicine, with the same editorial and publishing expertise and experience associated with that journal. Springer publishes more than 2,200 journals, including over 500 in its Medicine Journal Collection. The successful integration of the Adis portfolio of journals into the Springer production systems and custom-built platforms (SpringerLink, Springer for R&D, and Springer for Hospitals & Health) means that authors now have: Easy article submission, peer review, and tracking processes Shorter time to publication Unparalleled article visibility, worldwide reach and discoverability Convenient, global, online access of readers to their work These benefits of the Springer organization will flow into the new Sports Medicine - Open journal from its inception. Therefore, our final message is a simple one: if you have an original research article in the sports and exercise field that you believe would be a candidate for publication in Sports Medicine - Open, please submit your manuscript to us for an assessment. With the support of both the community of researchers who publish review articles in the original Sports Medicine journal, and the large number of other readers and followers of the journal, we believe that we can quickly establish a journal that provides a high-quality, open-access option for researchers in the field. We ask you, particularly if you are a ‘friend’ of the original Sports Medicine journal, to keep Sports Medicine - Open in mind when considering where to submit your original research. Yours sincerely Roger Olney and Steve McMillan, Editors editorial@sportsmedicine-open.com

Journal Portfolio Analysis for Countries, Cities, and Organizations: Maps and Comparisons?

Using Web-of-Science data, portfolio analysis in terms of journal coverage can be projected on a base map for units of analysis such as countries, cities, universities, and firms. The units of analysis under study can be compared statistically across the 10,000 journals. The interdisciplinarity of the portfolios is measured using Rao-Stirling diversity or the 2D3 measure proposed by Zhang et al. (2015). At the country level we find regional differentiation (e.g., Latin-American or Asian countries), but also a major divide between advanced and less-developed countries. Israel and Israeli cities outperform other nations and cities in terms of diversity. Universities appear to be specifically related to firms when a number of these units are exploratively compared. The instrument is relatively simple and straightforward, and one can generalize the application to any document set retrieved from the Web-of-Science (WoS).

Stephen Duncan Prudhomme: August 15, 1952-October 20, 2014.

Stephen Prudhomme, our friend, colleague, and mentor passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer on October 20, 2014. Stephen was everyone’s favorite Canadian. He graduated from Carleton University where he received his Master’s degree of Science in Biology. He joined the National Research Council, Canada’s premier science and technology research organization where he held many positions from 1980 through 1992. After departing the National Research Council, he joined the Canadian Medical Association in Ottawa, holding many senior positions including as Publishing Director. Stephen joined the American Heart Association (AHA) in 2001 to lead AHA’s Scientific Publishing Department. In his first AHA role, Stephen’s many accomplishments included setting the groundwork for expanding the AHA’s portfolio of science journals through the launch of the Circulation subspecialty journals. In 2007, he became …

A Brief History of USNCB: Motivation and Formation

A Brief History of USNCB: Motivation and Formation

Association News

This year APSA celebrates the first decade of publication ofPerspectives on Politics. Added to the APSA journal portfolio in 2003,Perspectiveshas developed into an important publication for the discipline under the stewardship of its first three editors Jennifer Hochschild, Jim Johnson, and current editor Jeffrey C. Isaac and their respective editorial boards.

Editorial

What does Transactions mean to you? In casting around for impressions of the journal – as I have done in preparation for taking up the role of Editor from 2013 – one word comes up frequently: flagship. On the face of it, that's not surprising as the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) often uses this term to describe and differentiate the role of Transactions within the Society's portfolio of journals. Flagship seems a rather curious metaphor for an academic journal: military in derivation, often corporate in application, it nonetheless serves as convenient shorthand – a cargo of meanings stowed within a word. What it seems to denote most of all, among those with whom I've talked over the last few months, is the journal's justifiable reputation for the highest quality academic research and writing. Secondly, it signifies how Transactions should draw upon and serve a vibrant and diverse geographical community, which, while far from unified in a simple sense, nonetheless constitutes a coherent totality of research concerns. There is a third thread too: that Transactions carries a certain weight of representation – in the papers it publishes and the diversity of the voices speaking through it, this journal ‘performs’ geography to a range of disciplinary audiences. Furled inside ‘flagship’, these three meanings outline the significance and distinctiveness of Transactions as a leading international journal. For an incoming Editor they serve as triangulation points, establishing the space this journal should define. The extent to which they may already characterise Transactions is testament to the ambition for the journal and hard work of those who have authored, reviewed and edited for it in the past. But, in a vital sense, the place of Transactions in the life of the discipline and wider research community is unfinished business. Ensuring this journal is the publication of choice for the highest quality geographical research and writing is an on-going project. It is also unfinished because the context of academic publishing is rapidly changing. In particular, the expansion of Open Access (OA) publication – the shift towards making research findings and outputs freely available to readers – is going to have far reaching consequences. There are significant uncertainties, but what is clear is that OA will drive changes in publication practice: see www.rgs.org/OpenAccess for a summary of the emerging context and its significance for the geographical community. As Editor, I am committed to working with authors, reviewers and readers, and with the Editorial Board, publisher and Society, to maintain and enhance Transactions’ role as the geographical community's leading research journal. Thriving in a dynamic external environment will require collective creativity and careful thought, and will inevitably involve some changes. Transactions must be a flagship, yes; but not a stately galleon. I am very pleased to have this opportunity to recognise publicly the stewardship of the journal over the last five years by Editor Alison Blunt, and by Associate Editors Martin Evans and Kate Gough. I would also like to thank the Society for the invitation to join Transactions at this most interesting of times. I am looking forward to finding out much more over the coming months about what this journal means to you, and to the geographical community at large.

A new era for the Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

The Journal of Endocrinology (JOE) was founded seventy-three years ago as a vehicle for publishing research in the endocrine sciences. Over the ensuing years the journal proved a vital forum to report the major expansion in endocrinology over this period including a multitude of highly cited articles describing new assays, new hormones and new concepts in endocrinology. However, during the 1970s a technological explosion began with the development of recombinant DNA techniques and DNA sequencing, followed a decade later by invention of the PCR. Understanding of endocrine mechanisms was one of the earliest sectors to benefit from these new developments, and this prompted the founding of a new sister journal for JOE, the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology (JME). This journal development has been an outstanding success – a situation that continues to this day. The molecular biological revolution that began in the seventies and eighties has not of course spawned an independent discipline of molecular endocrinology. Rather, this technology has over the years become inherent in a multitude of aspects of endocrine science, to the extent that much of the work now published by JOE includes molecular biological methods. As a consequence the subject areas covered by the two journals has become blurred, with authors often uncertain as to which is the preferential journal for publishing their work. Recognizing this issue, the Publications Committee of the Society for Endocrinology commissioned a wide-ranging and independent in-depth review of its journal portfolio and its place in the universe of publication in endocrinology and metabolism. One of the conclusions of this exercise was that the remit of these two journals was indeed unclear and that many papers would be equally ‘at home’ in the sister journal. In an attempt to address this a new journal strategy has

A new era for the Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

The Journal of Endocrinology (JOE) was founded seventy-three years ago as a vehicle for publishing research in the endocrine sciences. Over the ensuing years the journal proved a vital forum to report the major expansion in endocrinology over this period including a multitude of highly cited articles describing new assays, new hormones and new concepts in endocrinology. However, during the 1970s a technological explosion began with the development of recombinant DNA techniques and DNA sequencing, followed a decade later by invention of the PCR. Understanding of endocrine mechanisms was one of the earliest sectors to benefit from these new developments, and this prompted the founding of a new sister journal for JOE, the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology (JME). This journal development has been an outstanding success – a situation that continues to this day. The molecular biological revolution that began in the seventies and eighties has not of course spawned an independent discipline of molecular endocrinology. Rather, this technology has over the years become inherent in a multitude of aspects of endocrine science, to the extent that much of the work now published by JOE includes molecular biological methods. As a consequence the subject areas covered by the two journals has become blurred, with authors often uncertain as to which is the preferential journal for publishing their work. Recognizing this issue, the Publications Committee of the Society for Endocrinology commissioned a wide-ranging and independent in-depth review of its journal portfolio and its place in the universe of publication in endocrinology and metabolism. One of the conclusions of this exercise was that the remit of these two journals was indeed unclear and that many papers would be equally ‘at home’ in the sister journal. In an attempt to address this a new journal strategy has

Onwards and upwards: European Journal of Medical Research continues as an open access publication

The well-established European Journal of Medical Research has joined BioMed Central's portfolio of journals in January 2012, converting to the open access publishing model. Since its launch in 1995 the journal has been a print-only publication; from now on, it continues as an open access, online-only journal. The conversion to open access opens up the potential for the journal to become a leading, globally visible title in the field of general medicine over the coming years.

A New Standard in the Conflict of Interest Policy of the American Heart Association

As is abundantly clear from the activities that it sponsors, the American Heart Association (AHA) is highly sensitive to real or perceived conflicts of interest (COIs) and has therefore implemented a comprehensive set of policies and procedures to scrupulously avoid them. Indeed, the AHA has been a leader in developing and continually refining rigorous COI policies. The latest evidence for this commitment is the decision taken this year by the Scientific Publishing Committee to revise the scientific publishing policy on disclosure of COIs for editors of AHA journals. The new policy further tightens the already stringent procedures for avoiding COIs by stating, “Original manuscripts authored or coauthored by a collaborator who has published with the Editor-in-Chief within three years at time of submission will be handled by a Consulting or Guest Editor. Original manuscripts authored or …

The Future of Biomedical Content in Applied Optics

Applied Optics has had a long and distinguished history of content related to optics and photonics in the life sciences. Many seminal papers in tissue optics, biomedical spectroscopy, biomedical optical imaging, and biological microscopy have appeared in these pages. Many topical editors with specific expertise in biomedical optics have served the journal with distinction, and the Division of Biomedical Optics was launched as the fourth independent Division of the journal in 2006. Due to the outstanding quality of biomedical content throughout all of its journals and continued rapid growth anticipated in this area, this fall the OSA is launching a new peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to biomedical optics and photonics. Biomedical Optics Express will become OSA’s principal outlet for serving the biomedical optics community with rapid, open-access publication of content related to optics, photonics, and imaging in the life sciences. The new journal will offer many features of particular interest to biomedical authors, including free color figures, movies, animations, and live reference links. Authors will also be able to take advantage of interactive science publishing (ISP) capability for online visualization of large datasets, and automated submission of published articles to PubMed Central to assist in compliance with federal open-access requirements. Although authors will initially not be charged for publishing in Biomedical Optics Express (no author fees in the first year of publication and reduced fees in the second), the open-access publishing model requires that authors and their funding sponsors eventually offset the bulk of publication costs through author fees. In order to support consolidation of biomedical content in the new journal, Applied Optics will close its Division of Biomedical Optics by the end of 2010 and encourage all authors to consider submitting their work to Biomedical Optics Express. The Division will officially close for submissions on August 31, 2010 and will attempt to publish all remaining manuscripts under review by the end of the year. Despite the closure of the Division, however, there may remain circumstances under which some authors may prefer to submit and publish selected manuscripts with biomedical content to Applied Optics. Such submissions will remain welcome, and should be submitted to the most appropriate of the other Divisions, whether Optical Technology, Information Processing, or Lasers, Photonics, and Environmental Optics. We thank the biomedical optics community for its longstanding support of Applied Optics, and join in welcoming Biomedical Optics Express to OSA’s portfolio of journals.

A New Partner

We begin this year with exciting new developments at the JBMR. For a decade, ASBMR managed the editorial and business affairs of JBMR from an office in Durham, North Carolina. When I last corresponded with you in these pages,1 I described the challenges of keeping pace with rapidly changing practices in scientific and medical publishing. Authors expect ever-shorter review times, with instant electronic publication of accepted papers at the lowest possible cost and with intelligent cross-referencing to related material. Libraries at universities, medical schools, and research centers are increasingly scrutinizing the value of their journal holdings and seek new and complex pricing models. Readers expect journals to adopt new electronic forms and capabilities without large increases in prices or fees. These changing practices and other considerations have become a greater financial challenge to ASBMR and threaten its other key programs. The JBMR's financial base, which was very advantaged in the early years of self-publishing, has become more and more marginal. Commercial publishers with large journal portfolios have the infrastructure and expert staff required to cost-effectively adapt to rapidly changing practices in journal publishing. As a result, many societies have benefited from arrangements in which the business challenges of journal publishing are handed to a commercial firm while the society focuses on the quality of journal contents and obtains a favorable financial return from its publications program. Over the last year, the Publishing Review Group (PRG), led by Publications Committee Chair F. Patrick Ross and Marc Drezner (President, ASBMR, 2008–2009), completed a comprehensive assessment of ASBMR's publications program. This analysis identified overwhelming advantages to outsourcing the production and business management of the Society's publications. Deliberations by the PRG culminated in selection of Wiley-Blackwell from over six other firms. Wiley-Blackwell was selected because of their track record in publishing high-impact society journals and their creative business plans for the JBMR and the Primer. The contract we negotiated ensures that the Society retains complete authority and responsibility for editorial matters, with Wiley-Blackwell managing the business of production and marketing, with significant input from ASBMR. To better coordinate our editorial process, we have relocated our office staff to the ASBMR headquarters in Washington, DC. Wiley-Blackwell's primary focus, along with that of the JBMR editors, will be on continuing to streamline and accelerate the peer review process. The new partnership with Wiley-Blackwell has immediate benefits. First, we are pleased to project a stable and steadily growing revenue stream for JBMR owing to Wiley's global reach, which includes emerging countries in Asia and other parts of the world. Other improvements also will be realized in the layout and formatting of JBMR. You will notice that the interior pages have a contemporary and more readable look. In addition, authors will now be able to review proofs of their articles electronically. A brand-new JBMR Web site is now live and features user-friendly navigation, a more attractive design, prominent displays of notable papers, and previews of upcoming articles. Finally, we are delighted to announce the online availability of two “virtual issues” that are collections of our Perspective (minireview) series published since July 2008. Expect other virtual issues organized around specific themes or topics in the coming months. Lastly, I also want to take this opportunity to welcome a new slate of Editorial Board members, whose names appear in this issue, and thank the members who have served the JBMR and have rotated off the Board. Your service has helped JBMR to maintain its number one position in the bone and mineral field. We are committed to selecting only the best basic and clinical science for publication in the Journal. I welcome your comments and encourage you to submit your work to the JBMR.

Maintaining the Competitiveness of the American Fisheries Society Journals: An Assessment Based on Influence and Cost‐Effectiveness

AbstractRecent changes in the landscape of scientific publishing prompted the Publications Overview Committee of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) to review the Society's portfolio of scientific journals. We evaluated journals based on metrics in two categories: (1) citation‐based measures of the influence of a journal on the scientific literature, and (2) measures of the cost‐effectiveness of a journal (citation rate adjusted for subscription cost). Over the long‐term, we found that ecology journals had far stronger citation‐based influence than fisheries and aquatic sciences journals, and that journals publishing primarily basic research had stronger influence than journals publishing applied research (including four AFS journals and Fisheries magazine). In evaluating the current status of fisheries and aquatic sciences journals, we found that metrics of influence and cost‐effectiveness provided considerably different portrayals of journals relative to their peers. In terms of citation‐based influence, we found that the AFS journal Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (TAFS) and Fisheries magazine were competitive with highly regarded peer fisheries journals, but that North American Journal of Aquaculture (NAJA) and Journal of Aquatic Animal Health (JAAH) were less influential than their peers. The citation‐based influence of North American Journal of Fisheries Management (NAJFM) was intermediate between TAFS/Fisheries and NAJA/JAAH. For journals like NAJFM and NAJA, we expect that much of the scientific influence on policy and management is not captured by citations in the primary literature, and alternative methods of evaluation may be needed. All of the AFS journals ranked highly with regard to cost‐effectiveness because their subscription costs are low, and these rankings are in accordance with membership needs and the strategic mission of AFS to provide broad and timely dissemination of scientific information. We conclude by suggesting ways to increase the influence of AFS journals without compromising their accessibility and affordability, and offer advice about methods and frequency for future journal evaluations.

Purchase of Journal Portfolios by Research Libraries is not Cost-Effective and May Lead to Normalization of Collections

Purchase of Journal Portfolios by Research Libraries is not Cost-Effective and May Lead to Normalization of Collections

The Effects of Portfolio Purchasing on Scientific Subject Collections

A citation analysis was conducted to understand how the purchase of journal portfolios supports the research of faculty in the life, medical, physical and applied sciences and influences collections at The Ohio State University. Of the 253,604 citations from 6,815 articles reviewed, faculty cited 2,407 journal titles ten or more times. Results indicated that less than 50 percent of the titles listed for faculty in the Colleges of Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine were acquired through a portfolio. A discussion questioning the value of the portfolio purchase follows, with the author concluding that journal portfolios are contributing to the normalization of library collections.

A New Forum for Cardiovascular Imaging Research

The field of cardiovascular imaging is witnessing an explosive expansion of its armamentarium of noninvasive technologies capable of providing detailed information about the structure and function of the heart and vasculature. Many of these technologies are integrating (eg, positron emission tomography and computed tomography, positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging), compounding the unique strengths of the component technologies to achieve improved diagnosis of disease and better patient care. In addition, the miniaturization of imaging devices with dramatic increases in sensitivity and spatial resolution, coupled with the development of quantitative targeted imaging approaches for evaluating physiology and pathophysiology at the cellular and molecular levels, provides a unique platform for a new era in diagnostic imaging. The crucial role of imaging in early phenotyping of disease, risk definition, management guidance, and outcome assessment is expanding rapidly in ways previously thought unrealistic. These technological advances have ignited an unprecedented convergence of disciplines (cardiology, radiology, nuclear medicine, molecular biology, medical physics, and chemistry) that together are promoting innovation and new clinical applications in cardiovascular imaging. The dramatic growth …

PUBLISHING ACS transfers share in Biotechnology Progress back to AIChE

The American Chemical Society will transfer its half share in Biotechnology Progress to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), giving the engineering society full ownership of the journal beginning with the July/August issue. Jerome S. Schultz, a bioengineering professor at the University of California, Riverside, will remain the journal’s editor. “ACS and AIChE see mutual benefit in this transaction, in that the publishing scope of Biotechnology Progress better complements AIChE’s current pursuits and focused journal portfolio,” says Susan King, senior vice president in ACS’s journals publishing group. Biotechnology Progress publishes peer-reviewed research reports, reviews, and descriptions of the application of biological and engineering principles in fields such as cellular physiology and metabolic engineering, biocatalysts and bioreactor design, bioseparations and downstream processing, cell-culture and tissue engineering, biosensors and process control, bioinformatics and systems biol...