Editorial Appointments, JTT Statistics and Acknowledgements

Impact factor, Associate Editors, acknowledgements and new editorial rules

We were extremely pleased with the new impact factor of 0.966 of the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS) in the Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine category of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Science Edition, which represented a 2.5-fold increase as compared with the 0.384 in the previous year. This achievement was an important indicator of the improvement in the international visibil...

Editorial: Statistics and computing: Having an impact

We all have a sense of which are the premier research journals and which are secondary or tertiary. Long established journals such as the journals of the Royal Statistical Society, the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, and so on, have come to define the nature of the disciplines they advocate. They have a stature to match their longevit...

Editorial: Metabolome Informatics and Statistics: Current State and Emerging Trends

Metabolomics has developed tremendously since the term “metabolome” was coined almost 20 years ago (Oliver et al., 1998). Once the domain of few laboratories, it is now a core capability at most major universities and research institutions. An important developmental indicator for any scientific discipline is the maturity of its informatics – the functional diversity and efficacy of computation...

Preface and Acknowledgements

On May 19 and 20, 1994, the Centre for North, East, and Central European Studies (NOMES) at the University of Groningen hosted its first international conference, "The Baltic: Languages and Cultures in Interaction", devoted to aspects of the languages, literatures, and history of that area. It was one of the scholarly and scientific manifestations organized that year in celebration of the 380th...

Summary, Abbreviations and Acknowledgements