The New Editorial Boards

Editorial Boards , Publishing Council

s, Mathematical Reviews, MatSciNet, MatSci on SilverPlatter, Scopus, Zentralblatt Math The issuing of the Informatica journal is financially supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Trg OF 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Volume 31 Number 2 June 2007ISSN 0350-5596 IntroductionM. McPherson,P. Isaias139 Intelligent Decision Support for Architecture and<l...

The Viewpoint of IJMS New Editorial Board

Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences

We study gender representation on the editorial boards of 435 journals in the mathematical sciences. Women are known to comprise approximately 15% of tenure-stream faculty positions in doctoral-granting mathematical sciences departments in the United States. Compared to this group, we find that 8.9% of the 13067 editorships in our study are held by women. We describe group variations within the...

Composition of the editorial boards of leading medical education journals

BACKGROUND Researchers from the developing world contribute only a limited proportion to the total research output published in leading medical education journals. Some of them believe that there is a substantial editorial bias against their work. To obtain an objective basis for further discussion the present study was designed to assess the composition of the editorial boards of leading medic...

Statistics for Ranking Program Committees and Editorial Boards

Ranking groups of researchers is important in several contexts and can serve many purposes such as the fair distribution of grants based on the scientist’s publication output, concession of research projects, classification of journal editorial boards and many other applications in a social context. In this paper, we propose a method for measuring the performance of groups of researchers. The p...