Publishing Policy

Publishing on Policy: Trends in Public Health

Our goal was to explore the number and topics of policy articles published in general public health journals. We conducted an audit of articles in 16 public health journals from 1998 through 2008. Results showed no trends for the decade studied; only 3.7% of all articles published in these journals were policy-related, and the topics most represented were smoking/tobacco, health care, and schoo...

Periodical publishing policy of the science world

Visibility, the current challenge for publishing policy!

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 23(12):2804-2805, dez 2007 More than a decade ago, LaPorte et al. [BMJ 1995; 310(6991):1387-90] predicted that hard copy scientific journals from the health field would have to undergo important changes in order to avoid obsolescence. Today, there is no relevant journal that does not have its own corresponding electronic version. For authors, the “publish or ...

Changes in policy for publishing manuscripts in Neurology.

Expedited publications must not exceed four printed pages in Neurology, including all figures, figure legends, tables, and references. This is equivalent to 24,000 characters (one space is one character as is one letter). Each table and figure within a manuscript decreases the space available for text; an accurate estimate of the character equivalence of tables and figures can be made by lookin...

Standardising and Harmonising Research Data Policy in Scholary Publishing

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz*, Head of Data Publishing, Springer Nature [email protected] Aliaksandr Birukou, Senior Editor, Computer Science, Springer-Verlag GmbH [email protected] Mathias Astell, Marketing Manager, Nature Research [email protected] Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Editorial Policy, Nature Research [email protected] Amye Kenall, Global Head of Li...