This issue marks the onset of the fifth decade of the Journal of Biogeography. The first issue was published in March 1974 under the editorship of David Watts, with John Flenley and Daniel Simberloff acting as associate editors. The journal was then a slim, sub-A4-sized publication appearing in four issues a year and including an eclectic mix of papers from study systems around the globe and fe...

Getting published in the premier journals in psychology can be a daunting task, especially for the novice. Young scholars or those with limited experience publishing often ask editors what factors affect the probability of a manuscript being accepted and what they should do to enhance their chances of getting published. Of course, many factors affect whether a manuscript is accepted, including ...

Welcome to the first edition of volume 54 Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. As some you may know, Jon Rhodes stepped down from co-editorship journal at end June 2021. I would, therefore, like take this opportunity acknowledging his many contributions ongoing success AP&T. was an Associate Editor 2004 until 2015, and co-Editor 2016 retirement. An international authority on IBD, clinical nu...

With this issue of Allergology International, there has been a change in the editorship. When the former editor-in-chief, Professor Hirohisa Saito, assumed the presidency of the Japanese Society of Allergology in June 2013, he resigned as the editor-in-chief. He had become the fourth editor-in-chief in 2005 and for eight years made outstanding contributions to the journal. In 2005, under his le...

Well, our term isupand it is time tomoveon.Theownershave selected a new bench andwe slowly fade into that good night. As I reflect on my 6 years as editor-in-chief, there are many highpoints in reporting new discoveries, but none compares with sharing the complexity of publishing with dedicated people; there is something inspiring about having worked with such a fabulous group of associate edit...

in agriculture, an application that accounts for approximately 40% of the total production of these agents. It is obviously impossible to give detailed descriptions of the many excellent papers in this volume, but some points may be noted. From a pharmacological viewpoint, the area of structure-activity relationships is particularly well covered in regard to penicillins (K. et al.) and lincomyc...

In the last ten years great advances have been made in elucidating the properties of immobilized enzymes, which have already found practical applications in chemical analysis as well as in large scale industrial processes. The term "immobilized enzymes" embraces a variety of systems in which one or more enzymes are sequestered in gels or microcapsules, covalently bound or adsorbed to solid supp...

enterology. The current issue of the tripartite volumes is the largest with 200 illustrations and contributions by twenty consultants under the editorship of Dr. Ernest Oppenheimer. Further, whereas the fine structure of the liver (1957) was demonstrated by light microscopy and mitochondria by Janus Green staining, the jejunal villi are depicted by three-dimensional schema from electron microsc...