Editorial time management: Peer review dates and other key dates of Spanish Communication journals

Blind dates in sciences: dealing with rejection in peer review.

Improving the peer-review process and editorial quality: key errors escaping the review and editorial process in top scientific journals.

We apply a novel mistake index to assess trends in the proportion of corrections published between 1993 and 2014 in Nature, Science and PNAS. The index revealed a progressive increase in the proportion of corrections published in these three high-quality journals. The index appears to be independent of the journal impact factor or the number of items published, as suggested by a comparative ana...

Birth Dates and Admission Dates in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

The well established phenomenon 0/ seasonality 0/ birth dates (winter excess) and admission dates (summer excess) o/patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was re-examined in a Southern A/rican study 0/ ill-patients. Monthly and seasonal analyses relpectively resulted in a May (late autumn and winter) excess o/schizophrenic male births and a March (late summer and autumn) excess among ...

A Review on the Editorial Peer Review

Background and Objectives: The editorial peer review has an important role in the publication of scientific articles. Peers or reviewers are those scholars who have the expertise regarding the topic of a given article. They critically appraise the articles without having any monetary incentives or conflicts of interest. The aim of this study was to determine the most important aspects of the ed...

Idw ’ 14 Features Deadlines and Key Dates Language Conference Site

Niigata City can be easily accessed from Tokyo by the JR Joetsu Shinkansen (100 min.), which arrives approximately every 30 min. Niigata Airport has direct flights from Nagoya Chubu Centrair, and Osaka International Airport, and is also an international gateway with regular flights from Harbin, Incheon, Shanghai, Taipei and other international cities. It takes 25 min. by bus from Niigata Airpor...