Our journal has a new name and scope

Announcing a Name Change and New Scope

W ELCOME to the first issue of the new year! As you have no doubt noticed, our transaction's name has changed—from IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS PART B: CYBERNETICS to a more concise IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS (TCyb). For the past many months, the publications of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) have been undergoing a major reorganization. The reo...

Implementation science: a reappraisal of our journal mission and scope

The implementation of research findings into healthcare practice has become increasingly recognised as a major priority for researchers, service providers, research funders and policymakers over the past decade. Nine years after its establishment, Implementation Science, an international online open access journal, currently publishes over 150 articles each year. This is fewer than 30% of those...

Our new journal.

Brave new world: Our journal has become an Open Access journal

In 2015, it has been 6 years since the Journal of Diabetes Investigation (JDI) was launched as the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). Since the start, it has been a bimonthly printed journal, and our journal has been making satisfactory progress. However, we decided that our journal become an Open Access journal from last year, 2014, as previously announ...

A New Adventure for our Journal!

A journal editor writing an editorial, or indeed anyone else entrusted with this task, is usually expected to draw attention to the highlights of the current issue (new developments, debated issues, controversial opinions, and so on), thereby giving an idea of the potential impact of its content on readers and on the broader scientific community. It is therefore hardly surprising that I am open...