Though scientific misconduct perpetrated by authors has received much press, little attention has been given to the role of journal editors. This article discusses cases and types of “editorial misconduct”, in which the action or inaction of editorial agents ended in publication of fraudulent work and/or poor or failed retractions of such works, all of which ultimately harm scientific integrity...

2169 The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) Advisory Editorial Board includes over 100 prominent scientists. To ensure that the Advisory Editorial Board covers the diversity of research fields served by the journal, offers the next generation of researchers an opportunity to participate, and improves in gender balance, we welcome to the Board the experts listed below. Adding new voices and ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this research is to learn how the editorial staffs of bioinformatics and medical informatics journals provide support for cross-community exposure. Models such as co-citation and co-author analysis measure the relationships between researchers; but they do not capture how environments that support knowledge transfer across communities are organized. METHODS In this paper...

Characteristics of JASIST and 76 other journals listed in the Information Systems category of the Journal Citation Reports – Science edition 2009 were analyzed. Besides reporting usual bibliographic indicators, we investigated the human cornerstone of any peer-reviewed journal: its editorial board. Demographic data about the 2,846 gatekeepers serving in IS editorial boards were collected. We di...

A Balanced Physiological Viewpoint To the Editor: We were disappointed to read the editorial presented by Drs Gladwin and Schechter,1 which appeared in the same issue of Circulation Research as our article.2 We believe that the views reflected a selective bias from 1 of 2 camps that have posed diametrically opposite views. This editorial was simply another review on nitrite by these authors. We...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 211 No. 4 723–727 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201511023 723 Members of the editorial board play a critical role at JCB. Our board members help authors navigate the editorial process by actively engaging with peer reviewers, offering guidance during revision, and ultimately determining the work that ends up in the pages of the journa...

Editors play a critical role in the peer review system. How do editorial behaviors affect the performance of peer review? No quantitative model to date allows us to measure the influence of editorial behaviors on different peer review stages such as, manuscript distribution and final decision making. Here, we propose an agent-based model in which the process of peer review is guided mainly by t...

The editors of the Revista de Saúde Pública describe the journal's editorial profile and discuss the challenges of scientific publication in the area. A historical overview of almost 50 years of the journal is reported, with the temporal projection of their bibliometric indicators. Qualitative and quantitative parameters of its editorial profile and indexes are also reported. Budget constraints...

It is with a proud sense of accomplishment that I am sharing with you this last Editorial during my tenure as your Editor-in-Chief. Since January 1, 2007, I have had the honor and privilege of serving as APJM’s first Editor-in-Chief who is based outside of Asia. Now, after nearly three years and hundreds of manuscripts, I am pleased to announce my editorial retirement and introduce to you our n...