International indexing remains a significant challenge for university journals, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where editorial teams often operate with limited institutional support. This study investigated whether meeting internat...
This study examines the tension between audience interests and editorial lines in the major national and regional digital media outlets in Chile. It analyzes how editors incorporate metrics and user feedback into content selection and prioritization...
In this paper we report on a study of 1541 articles from three different journals (Journal of Informetrics, Information Processing and Management, and Computers and Electrical Engineering) from the period 2007–2014. We analyzed their dates of submiss...
Women are disadvantaged across all stages of academic publishing. In science, contribution to editorial boards of journals is evidence of a high reputation within a specialty or field. Therefore, the low presence of women on editorial boards can be c...
16 February 2023
This paper analyses the Editorial Board (EB) distribution of Occupational Therapy journals from a gender perspective. The “Occupational Therapy” field in the Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) and the “Occupational Therapy&rdquo...
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) provides recommendations to improve the editorial standards and scientific quality of biomedical journals. These recommendations range from uniform technical requirements to more complex...
Peer review fails when it is delivered without fairness, accountability, or respect. When unprofessional reviews are communicated without editorial intervention, they undermine trust, distort scientific dialogue, and disproportionately harm early-car...
Open access (OA) has expanded scholarly publishing, yet concerns remain about the sustainability of journals indexed in selective databases. This study analyzes editorial predictors of discontinuation among 8730 journals simultaneously registered in...
Science communication is increasingly recognized as a key component of higher education; however, its integration into disciplinary training remains limited, particularly in pharmaceutical sciences. This study analyzes the Panamacani initiative as an...
Contemporary scientific publishing plays an increasingly important role in the accessibility, circulation, and governance of scientific knowledge within the context of open science and growing demands for editorial transparency. Despite the expansion...
In the literature on academic publishing, little attention has been paid to the needs and concerns of non-English-speaking researchers in professional contexts. This paper addresses the gap in that literature by providing insights into the situation...
Meticulous self-evaluative practices in the offices of academic periodicals can be helpful in reducing widespread uncertainty about the quality of scholarly journals. This paper summarizes the results of the second part of a qualitative worldwide stu...
In this day and age of challenging post-publication peer review and heightened academic scrutiny, editors serve an increasingly important role in screening submissions and managing the quality of information that is published in scholarly journals. P...
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into scientific publishing is reshaping how academic text can be produced, revised, and scaled. While transparent and limited use of AI for language support may be acceptable, a new structur...
Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (COI) is used by biomedical journals to guarantee credibility and transparency of the scientific process. COI disclosure, however, is not systematically nor consistently dealt with by journals. Recent joi...
Animal research is not only regulated by legislation but also by self-regulatory mechanisms within the scientific community, which include biomedical journals’ policies on animal use. For editorial policies to meaningfully impact attitudes and practi...
The artificial generation of text by computers has been a field of study in computer science since the beginning of the twentieth century, from Markov chains to Turing tests. This has evolved into automatic summarization and marketing chatbots. The g...
The emergence of artificial intelligence tools in scientific production is generating significant challenges for scientific integrity and editorial governance, prompting journals and publishers to develop normative guidelines for their use. This stud...
This study examines how major newspapers in South Korea and China portrayed national crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative content analysis with qualitative interpretation, this...
The killing of a satellite-tagged male lion by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in July 2015 provoked an unprecedented media reaction. We analyse the global media response to the trophy hunting of the lion, nicknamed “Cecil”, a study animal in a long-term...
Non-human animals are systematically excluded from public narratives, rarely recognized as sentient subjects, and instead framed within anthropocentric narratives of production and consumption; efforts to challenge this pattern and make the more-than...
Document-level stance detection has received little attention for low-resource languages written in scripts with little digital text. We compare word-level, character-level and concatenated word-plus-character (Dual-Granularity Lexical Fusion, DGLF)...
This study investigates Armenian editorial conventions for inscriptions and evaluates their compatibility and the possibility of their further integration with international standards of epigraphic editing for open access and equal use. It focuses on...
Research in the field of plasma medicine has provided many explanations for various phenomena, as well as the involvement of the chemical elements of plasma; however, it still lacks in biological mechanism analyses [...]
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the integration of technology and the employment of technological experts within newsrooms. However, there remains a paucity of scholarly research examining the evolution and maturation of these p...
This work sets out the planning phases adopted for the first time to put together a manual on injury and accident prevention in the use of farm tractors. The goal is to convey information more effectively than at present, while taking the end users’...
In the context of the 2020 public health crisis that discourages exchanges of physical objects in society, university-led publishing needed to rethink its operations. Worldwide the opening of quality scholarly content proved to be a solution. Univers...
Retractions are an essential mechanism for correcting the scientific record, yet retraction notices do not always fully explain the circumstances behind the decision. This study assessed the quality of communication in retraction notices published by...
This editorial is a part of the Special Issue (SI) “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Natural Hazards” [...]
Though scientific misconduct perpetrated by authors has received much press, little attention has been given to the role of journal editors. This article discusses cases and types of “editorial misconduct”, in which the action or inaction of editoria...
1 December 2012
We would like to thank our co-editors, editorial board members, guest editors, referees and authors that have contributed to JTAER with new ideas and editorial work during the last seven years. […]
1 January 2003
Emanuel Hurwitz hat in einem früheren Editorial einen ethischen Gesichtspunkt aufgegriffen, als er den Ausstellungsbetrieb der Pharmafirmen an einem Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie kritisierte [...]
This editorial is for collating the Special Issue on micro-manufacturing and applications, based on stringently selected papers presented to the editorial board of this Special Issue [...]
8 April 2023
It is with a heavy heart that we write our last Editorial for the CMTR journal and yet it is an honor to dedicate this to our friend, colleague, and my previous boss, Andrew Baker, who tragically passed away in a road traffic accident in South Africa...
Gender equality, with an emphasis on female education, has been designated by the United Nations as one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be completed by 2030, since gender disparity is a major impediment to scientific and economic pr...
This is an editorial on low energy nuclear astrophysics and sterile neutrinos as dark matter. First, the symmetric cosmic microwave background radiation and the the symmetric evolution of the Universe are editorialized. Then, low energy astrophysics...
Editorial boards should be representative of the people doing science but they are often plagued with inequality. This article presents some starting points towards increasing editorial diversity, hoping to spark new initiatives to recruit people of...
1 September 2017
In the previous editorial we informed you of the inclusion of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER) in the Social Science Citation Index from February 2016[…]
This editorial provides closing remarks for the Special Issue on “Optical Measurements and Sensing Technology” published in Sensors [...]
The Special Issue titled “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Diseases” is a collection of papers from our Editorial Board Members and researchers invited by them [...]
This is an editorial article summarizing the scope and contents of the Special Issue Entropy in Networked Control.
This editorial aims to summarize the 19 scientific papers that contributed to the Special Issue “Adipokines 2”.
Computational intelligence is a very active and fruitful research of artificial intelligence with a broad spectrum of applications. Remote sensing data has been a salient field of application of computational intelligence algorithms, both for the exp...
The Editorial Board of Nutrients is pleased to announce that the journal impact factor has continued to rise to reach 3.270 in 2015. [...]
We begin this editorial with a discussion about insulin [...]
I am pleased to introduce ChemEngineering, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, on behalf of the Editorial Board members. [...]
This editorial is a part of the Special Issue (SI) “Electromagnetic Radiation and Human Environment” [...]
For this Special Issue “2020 Feature Papers by JDB’ Editorial Board Members,” we present a collection of studies, including original research papers, and review articles by our distinguished editorial board members that focus on advances in understan...
1 January 2020
This editorial presents special features of digitization in context with innovation[…]
It is our privilege to present the concluding editorial for this Special Issue, Advances in Functional Equations, Second Edition [...]
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