Editors' Perspectives

From the Editors: Perspectives on turnaround time.

Retina Surgery Global Perspectives Section Editors

C urrently there is no established standard of care for central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). The conditions that are targeted by current treatments are neovascularization and macular edema. Panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) is accepted as an established treatment for neovascularization, but a consensus has not yet been reached on the indications for and timing of the procedure. Recent large-s...

Editors’ introduction Functional and corpus perspectives in contrastive discourse analysis

This special issue of Linguistics and the Human Sciences offers a collection of original contributions to the study of languages in contrast from discourse, corpus, and functional perspectives. The papers were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, held in Berlin 29 September–3 October 2010, in the context of two panels: ‘Discourse analysis and contrastive l...

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

Authors' and editors' perspectives on peer review quality in three scholarly nursing journals.

PURPOSE This study examined the quality of peer review in three scholarly nursing journals from the perspectives of authors and editors. Specifically, the study examined the extent to which manuscript reviews provided constructive guidance for authors to further develop their work for publication, and for editors to make informed and sound decisions on the disposition of manuscripts. METHODS ...