On 28 January 2010 the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) launched their annual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks for 2008. The report provides a comprehensive overview of zoonotic infections and disease outbreaks caused by consuming contaminated food. The number of reported human cases of the three most reported zoo...

Self-citation is a common practice in the research community. It includes citing one’s own papers and one’s target journal. A recent action by a publisher requesting each author of its journal to cite at least five papers published by the journal calls for a study of the self-citation patterns in MIS journals. This study intends to examine the cited table and the citing table in the database of...

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Sir, Within the last decades, the increase in the number of researchers in the scientific community has led to an increase in the number of funding and tenure decisions that have to be made. It is therefore a necessity to find simple yet objective measures to compare the scientific achievement of researchers. Hirsch’s h (2005) has been claimed to have these attributes because it incorporates bo...

Dear Readers, As part of a continued effort to improve the quality of our papers and the transparency of the publication process, Cosmetics will introduce in the near future the possibility for the Authors to choose an Open Peer Review process (OPR). OPR is as a process in which the names of the authors and reviewers may be known to each other, and where review reports are published alongside t...

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Reviewers are the unsung heroes of scientific publishing. They are unpaid and rarely acknowledged, yet they work hard reading initial drafts of papers, many of which will not appear in TODS. I want to highlight their contributions and to publicly thank them for their time and effort. As discussed in previous columns, TODS goes to great lengths to ensure that reviewers (a) remain anonymous, (b) ...