New Editorial Policies

Time for gender mainstreaming in editorial policies

The HIV epidemic has been continuously growing among women, and in some parts of the world, HIV-infected women outnumber men. Women's greater vulnerability to HIV, both biologically and socially, influences their health risk and health outcome. This disparity between sexes has been established for other diseases, for example, autoimmune diseases, malignancies and cardiovascular diseases. Differ...

EDITORIAL - A new trend to Rehabilitation

Current understanding of disability and impairment has led to new approaches in Rehabilitation. In this issue of Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, a variety of articles introduces a new trend in rehabilitation. "Emotion pitch" of each vowel sound and Percentage of vowel correct is the subject which Talie Zarifian and her colleagues discussed in their article. Persian speaking children can get ben...

The Viewpoint of IJMS New Editorial Board

A new editorial board for a new editorial period

Two years after launch, Microbial Cell Factories has completed the first period of its editorial life as an Open Access journal, by publishing scientifically sound Research papers and Reviews. To start a new and more dynamic stage, a new editorial board http://www.microbialcellfac tories.com/edboard/ has been configured by joining thirty-one experts from twelve different countries, with differe...

Conflicts of interest: call for new editorial policies in European national journals

During the past decade, disclosure of conflicts of interest (COIs) has been considered the key to ensure the credibility of the scientific process [1, 2]. Biases in design, analysis, and interpretation of studies may rise when authors or sponsors have entrusted interests. Therefore, COIs should be made clear to the readers to facilitate their own judgement and interpretation of their relevance ...