Editorial: Moving an Interdisciplinary Journal Forward

Commentary: Moving The Journal forward.

Breaches of ethics are prevalent in biomedical publishing. Kapoor and colleagues identify several of the practical and ethics dilemmas that they have encountered in editing The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Biomedical publishing ethics is continually evolving, with discrepant practice among different publications. Publication ethics apply to authors, editors, peer r...

Moving Geochemical Transactions forward as an open access journal

Editorial Geochemical Transactions, the first online-only journal in geochemistry and environmental chemistry, is now the first major open access journal in this subject area. All issues of Geochemical Transactions, including the back content, will be fully and permanently available online to all, without a subscription charge. Copyright of all future articles will be retained by the authors. G...

Bodhi: an Interdisciplinary Journal

Editorial: Moving the QALY forward or just stuck in traffic?

This Special Issue summarizes an ISPOR Consensus Development Workshop held in November 2007 on methods for estimating and applying quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) [1–7]. Participants were charged with the agenda of “Moving the QALY Forward,” with the primary objective of seeking consensus on how to define and refine the QALY. The authors analyze the underlying assumptions, offer critiques o...

Games: An Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal

Over the last fifty years, game theory has evolved from a mathematical theory of optimal behaviour in stylized situations (“games”) to a general theory of human behaviour, be it actually observed or normatively desirable. Its scope includes both the mathematical modelling and analysis of competition and conflict and the study of human behaviour in strategic contexts and its determinants. Nowada...