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People who the author would like to thank for their assistance in reviewing manuscripts for the "European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Disease" between December 1, 2012 and November 30, 2013 are mentioned, including H. Aamot of Norway, E. Bouza of Spain and N. Che of China.

The author discusses issues related to searching and accessing scientific articles, particularly in the area of microbiology. He mentions the concept of open access (OA) that created in response paralleled similar movements in many other areas such as Open Source software. He also mentions the traditional subscription model of scholarly publishing.

Human data on the relationship of semen quality with pesticide and metals are mostly inconsistent. The purpose of the study is to confirm the toxicity of organochlorine pesticide β- and γ-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), DDE and DDD, and metals lead or cadmium on sperm motility in epidemiological study among fertile and infertile men and to determine whether in vivo and in vitro results are in the same direction. Semen analysis and estimation of the toxicants were done in 60 fertile and 150 infertile men. In the in vitro studies, sperm were exposed to the highest levels of these toxicants found in vivo, as well as five and ten times higher, and to the mixture of all compounds. The study assesses sperm viability and motility for a period ranging between 30 min and 96 h. Epidemiological data showed an inverse correlation of toxicant with sperm motility. In vitro study showed that γ-HCH and lead after 12 h, cadmium after 8 h, and coexposure to toxicants after 6 h of exposure caused significant concentration- and duration-dependent decline in sperm motility. Data of in vitro study were concurrent with epidemiological finding that might be useful in establishing the possible association between exposure and effect of these selected pollutants on sperm motility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction to this issue of "Environmental Science and Pollution Research" is presented.

The aim of this special issue is to address issues surrounding the use of live animals in experimental procedures in the pre-modern era, with a special emphasis on the technical, anatomical, and philosophical sides. Such use raises philosophical, scientific, and ethical questions about the nature of life, the reliability of the knowledge acquired, and animal suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the editorial process and policy of "International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries." Information on the history of the journal is provided, as well as transformation throughout its 33 years of existence. He describes the current editorial and publication process. He points out the improving quality of articles accepted for publication. He also points out the important role of abstracting and indexing agencies in the development of the journal.

Authorship problems in scholarly journals shake the foundations of research, diminish scientific quality of papers and devalue records of citation tracking services. The 'Publish or Perish' mantra is thought to drive some instances of unfair, honorary authorship, particularly in countries of emerging scientific power. Though causes of honorary, gift, guest and ghost authorship are still ill-defined, it is possible to avoid some of these instances by improving awareness of what constitutes authorship and by adhering to the editorial policies of learned associations. This paper overviews common cases of inappropriate authorship and suggests options to solve related problems by authors, reviewers and editors of scholarly journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors reflect on the journal's progress and future prospects. They applaud Carola van Eck and Coen Wijdicks for receiving the recognition as outstanding reviewers of 2012. The authors highlight the strengthening of the journal's editorial office, as well as its improved Impact Factor. Also included are information on proposed changes to the Editorial Board.

This paper considers the search for the best papers by the editors of an academic journal. At each period, each editor receives a set of submissions and has to decide which paper to accept. Some editors being more demanding than others, researchers choose the quality level of their papers taking as given the composition of the editorial board. According to the specific structures of the editorial board, various equilibria may appear. We show that the journal will publish a high number of high quality papers only when the editorial board is composed by a homogeneous set of very demanding editors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the transformation of Minerva from an intellectual towards a scholarly journal by making use of bibliometric methods. The aim is to provide some empirical insights that help to understand what properties of the journal changed in the course of this transformation process. Minerva was one of the first journals that reflected on science and its role in society and science policy in particular. Analyzing the development of the journal sheds light on the emergence of science (policy) studies and on Minerva's role as a forerunner in this field. In a first step, the methods will be described. The second section provides some empirical results of the publication output of Minerva and its relations to other journals in the field. The empirical findings are put into a broader perspective in the concluding third section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Population aging, in conjunction with social and cultural transformations of the life course, has profound implications for social systems-from large-scale structures to micro-level processes. However, much of sociology remains fairly quiet on issues of age and aging, including the subfield of social psychology that could illuminate the impact of these broader social forces on individual lives. This study examines the scope of research on age, aging, and the life course in the leading social psychological journal in sociology ( Social Psychology Quarterly) and compares it with coverage in the primary social psychology journal in psychology ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) and two sociology journals ( American Sociological Review and Journal of Health and Social Behavior). An analysis of articles published between 1977 and 2006 shows that approximately 7 percent in Social Psychology Quarterly or Journal of Personality and Social Psychology seriously considered age. In contrast, 11 % of articles in American Sociological Review and 25 % in Journal of Health and Social Behavior did so. Across the journals, examinations of age increased over time. However, studies reflect a limited range of methodological and theoretical approaches with few employing qualitative methods or a symbolic interactionist perspective. We discuss several under-explored sites for research on age, aging, and the life course that would enrich social psychological and sociological scholarship more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various reports within the issue on the topic of Chinese traditions in foreign relations.

The authors discuss the situation of the periodical Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Austrian Journal of Sociology) and its plans to integrate it with the interdisciplinary Social Sciences Citation Index SSCI. The newly established academic advisory board members are introduced, among them Marek Czyzewski from the University of Lodz, Poland, Richard Münch from the University of Bamberg, Germany, and Claire Wallace from the University of Aberdeen's School of Social Science, Scotland.

The article focuses on the activities of the International Mine Water Association (IMWA) from 2011-2014. The association's Secretary-General Christian Wolkersdorfer and Bob Klienmann have continued to improve the IMWA's website by developing a social network feature. It mentions the conferences related to mine water & the environment including the 9th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD) in Otawa, Ontario on May 21-26, 2012, the IMWA 2012 Symposium in Bunbury, West Australia, and IMWA 2014 Congress in Xuzhou, Hiangsu Sheng, China. Also, it presents the members of the association including Sonny Abfertiawan of Bandung, Indonesia, David Brett of Hobart, Tasmania, and Uwe Boester of Aachen, Germany.

The new mineral agricolaite, a potassium uranyl carbonate with ideal formula K(UO)(CO), occurs in vugs of ankerite gangue in gneisses in the abandoned Giftkiesstollen adit at Jáchymov, Czech Republic. The name is after Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), German scholar and scientist. Agricolaite occurs as isolated equant irregular translucent grains to 0.3 mm with yellow color, pale yellow streak, and vitreous luster. It is brittle with uneven fracture and displays neither cleavage nor parting. Agricolaite is non-fluorescent. Mohs hardness is ~4. It is associated with aragonite, brochantite, posnjakite, malachite, rutherfordine, and 'pseudo-voglite'. Experimental density is higher than 3.3 g.cm, Dcalc is 3.531 g. cm. The mineral is monoclinic, space group C2/ c, with a 10.2380(2), b 9.1930(2), c 12.2110(3) Å, β 95.108(2)°, V 1144.71(4) Å, Z = 4. The strongest lines in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern are d( I)( hkl): 6.061(55)(002), 5.087(57)(200), 3.740(100)(202), 3.393(43)(113), 2.281(52)(402). Average composition based on ten electron microprobe analyses corresponds to (in wt.%) UO 48.53, KO 31.49, CO(calc) 22.04 which gives the empirical formula K(UO)(CO). The crystal structure was solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data and refined to R = 0.0184 on the basis of the 1,308 unique reflections with F > 4 σF. The structure of agricolaite is identical to that of synthetic K(UO)(CO) and consists of separate UO(CO) groups organized into layers parallel to (100) and two crystallographically non-equivalent sites occupied by K cations. Both the mineral and its name were approved by the IMA-CNMNC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study provides an insight into the dominant negotiation processes that occur between the authors of research articles and academic reviewers at the peer reviewing stage. Data of reviewers comments and authors responses on 32 science and engineering based journal articles covering four decision categories (accept as is, accept with minor revisions, major revisions and reject) were collected. A commonly practised peer-review approach in teaching was applied to analyse the data and to identify the key negotiation attributes, their frequency of occurrence, authors' reaction and approach to negotiate with the reviewers. Six main negotiation attributes were identified. Technical quality was the most frequent (31% of all instances) attracting mixed reactions from the authors. The remaining attributes constituted suggestion (20%), explanation (20%), restatement (15%), grammar (13%) and structure (~1%). With the exception of 'explanation' where authors had to counteract to clear misunderstood concepts or contents by the reviewers, the other attributes were of highly collaborative nature and were willingly accepted by the authors. All these negotiations were found to help authors in improving the overall quality, clarity and readability of their manuscripts, besides forcing them to rethink about unclear contents. The negotiation trends emerged here can help the academic researchers to improve the quality of their articles before submission to the peer-reviewed journals. It can also provide a link through which their classroom teaching experience involving supervision of peer review negotiations among students can be utilised in writing their research articles and negotiating with academic reviewers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's insight regarding the journal "Studies in Philosophy and Education" on its 50 year-anniversary in the business since 1960. The author states that the journal was able to publish 30 volumes for the past 50 years and being included in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index in 2008. He also mentions that the journal aims to make an intervention towards analytical revolution in philosophy of education.

In order to study the prevalence, nature (direction), and causes of reporting errors in psychology, we checked the consistency of reported test statistics, degrees of freedom, and p values in a random sample of high- and low-impact psychology journals. In a second study, we established the generality of reporting errors in a random sample of recent psychological articles. Our results, on the basis of 281 articles, indicate that around 18% of statistical results in the psychological literature are incorrectly reported. Inconsistencies were more common in low-impact journals than in high-impact journals. Moreover, around 15% of the articles contained at least one statistical conclusion that proved, upon recalculation, to be incorrect; that is, recalculation rendered the previously significant result insignificant, or vice versa. These errors were often in line with researchers' expectations. We classified the most common errors and contacted authors to shed light on the origins of the errors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study demonstrates that IPCC Third Assessment Report is strongly dominated by Natural sciences, especially the Earth sciences. The Social sciences are dominated by Economics. The IPCC assessment also results in the separation of the Earth, Biological and Social sciences. The integration that occurs is mainly between closely related scientific fields. The research community consequently imposes a physical and economic bias and a separation of scientific fields that the IPCC reproduces in the policy sphere. It is argued that this physical and economic bias distorts a comprehensive understanding of climate change and that the weak integration of scientific fields hinders climate change from being fully addressed as an integral environmental and social problem. If climate change is to be understood, evaluated and responded to in its fullness, the IPCC must broaden its knowledge base and challenge the anthropocentric worldview that places humans outside of nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article celebrates 35 years of Sex Roles’ contributions to research and other scholarship about gender. It begins with a reminder of what academia was like prior to the rise of second-wave feminism and shows how Sex Roles contributed to changing that androcentric climate. The article describes the founding of the journal and traces its growth and development, including its internationalization. Trends in the research topics reported in its pages are reviewed; assessment measures that debuted in Sex Roles, topics of special issues of the journal, and names of all of those who served on the editorial board over the years are mentioned. The article closes with speculation about the journal’s future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using 10 years of publication data (1999–2008) from 10 leading business ethics journals, we examine global patterns of business ethics research and contributing institutions and scholars. Although U.S. academic institutions continue to lead in the contributions toward business ethics research, Asian and European institutions have made significant progress. Our study shows that business ethics research output is closely linked to the missions of the institutions driven by their values or religious belief. An additional analysis of the productivity of each highly ranked institution suggests that business ethics research is highly concentrated in a limited number of eminent scholars within each institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We selected five Chinese university-based journals and five Western university-based journals to examine the extent of contributions by editorial board members and faculty from the universities in which the journals are published over a 6-year period from 2001 to 2006. A disproportionate contribution of faculty papers was from editorial board members in the Chinese university-based journals and faculty in the universities the journals are affiliated to. We speculate that this could be attributed to various reasons, including issues of protectionism, academic accountability, and the social capital of guanxi in the specific context of China. We suggest that editorial review boards of university-based journals in China may need to re-examine professional roles, responsibilities and ethics that may require new thinking on scholarship in higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By means of a citation analysis I aim to determine which scholarly journals are most important in the sub-field of philosophy of science. My analysis shows that the six most important journals in the sub-field are Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and Erkenntnis. Given the data presented in this study, there is little evidence that there is such a field as the history and philosophy of science (HPS). Rather, philosophy of science is most properly conceived of as a sub-field of philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faced with an ever-growing number of ethical marketing issues and uncertainty about the impact of specialized ethics journals, researchers are struggling to keep abreast of developments in the field. In order to address these challenges, our paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature on marketing ethics over almost 50 years, offers a citation analysis and develops a unique marketing ethics impact factor (MEIF). We contribute to the field in three important ways. First, we present a state-of-the-art picture of marketing ethics research. This provides an account of the research focus in each decade, assesses the importance of specific topics in the debate and identifies existing research gaps. Second, we identify the most influential papers and researchers in the marketing ethics area. Third, we evaluate the most important journals in terms of their impact on marketing ethics. To this end, we have developed an MEIF. This improves our ability to judge a journal’s influence on this particular sub-discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on changes in format made in the periodical "Research in Engineering Design" for 2010.

This paper revisits the observation made by Ward and Grant (Current Perspective in Social Theory 11:117–140, ) that there had been a “peculiar eclipsing” of women in sociological theory. It provides longitudinal studies of women’s participation and recognition in three conventional outlets for sociological theorizing: the theory section of the American Sociological Association (ASA); sociological theory textbooks; and sociological theory journals. It finds that the percentage of ASA Theory Section members who were women increased from 12% in 1982 to 31% in 2008, but is not nearly as high as the 53% in all ASA sections taken together; that women’s recognition in sociological theory textbooks grew, more between the 1980s and the 2000s than between the 1960s and the 1980s, undoubtedly reflecting the increasing respectability of feminist theory within the profession; and that women’s relative participation as authors in sociology theory journals increased from the 1980s to the 2000s by about 33%, but nowhere near as much as their participation as authors in the American Sociological Review, where their relative participation in the 2000s was more than three times what it had been in the 1980s. We speculate that, given women’s increasing leadership roles in both the Theory section and the theory journals, women may be using less conventional outlets for their theorizing than is offered by either the section or the journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of business ethics studies during 1997–2006 by analyzing 85,000 cited references of 3,059 articles from three business ethics related journals in SSCI and SCI databases. In this article, co-citation analysis and social network analysis techniques are used to research intellectual structure of the business ethics literature. We are able to identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications by analyzing citation and co-citation. Three factors emerged in this study are: (1) ethical/unethical decision making, (2) corporate governance and firm performance, and (3) ethical principles and code of conduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the use of impact factor on assessing the impact of research in funding agencies, society, and research community. Topics discussed include the evaluation on the quality of journals, the influence of report on sustainability issues from private-sector firm DNV GL on the major multinational company, and the difficulty on creating better metrics.

This article focuses on a study which examined the impact of aquatic scientific journals using alternative metrics. Three different databases were used to compare the positions of "Hydrobiologia" and other relevant journals in freshwater and marine sciences. 85 journals on aquatic ecology were chosen for this study. Results of the study showed that the performance of "Hydrobiologia" was constant among these databases and was one of the 41% most important journals in the Thomson ISI and among the 44% at the Eigenfactor.org databases. The impact factor of "Hydrobiologia" increased from 0.65 in 2003 to 1.45 in 2008.

An introduction is presented to content in the current issue including the articles "Migration of Chinese Consumption Values: Traditions, Westernization, and Cultural Renaissance" by Cheng Lu Wang and Xiaohua Lin, " Harmonious Norms for Global Marketing - The Chinese Way" by Leila Choukroune, and "The Impact of Chinese Culture on Corporate Social Responsibility: The Harmony Approach" by Lei Wang.

Educational psychology as a field of study has encountered a lack of distinction by overlapping with other fields of study or disciplines. Consequently, educational psychology continues to have difficulty claiming jurisdiction over bodies of research knowledge and has been encroached upon by other more crystallized disciplines. The purpose of this study is to examine the research literature published across top-ranked educational psychology journals to identify the common ground and current trends in research content and to identify those areas that can be reclaimed by the discipline as its own. Overall, 758 articles published in six journals from January 2003 through December 2007 were included in this study. A combination of statistics-based and linguistics-based methods were used to determine how frequently terms occur in the data and establishing a semantic network which created a probabilistic analysis of the co-occurrence of terms resulting in a constellation of terms showing the relationship and relative importance of the categories of terms. The results showed a consistency of research categories suggesting that in spite of reports to the contrary, there is a collective agreement among educational psychologists demonstrated by the empirical research in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Robinson, McKay, Katayama, and Fan ( Contemporary Educational Psychology, 23, 331–343, ) reported that women were underrepresented in terms of authorships, editorial board memberships, and editorships in the field of educational psychology based on membership trends. More recently, Evans, Hsieh, and Robinson ( Educational Psychology Review, 17, 263–271, ) reported that women had made gains as editors but had not kept pace with organizational membership in terms of authorships and editorial board memberships. Our goal in this paper was to further examine women’s participation in educational psychology journals by extending the datasets of Robinson et al. and Evans et al. The number of female authors per article, particularly those from non-US institutions, has continued to increase. However, consistent with Evans et al., although females are continuing to make numerical gains in both authorships—both primary and secondary—and editorial board memberships, their involvement has not kept pace in relation to membership trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of reviewers who contributed to the 2009 issue of "Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing" is presented including Hasan Abatay, Antonio Amodeo and Mark Anastasio.

In this paper we assess the reading preference for marketing journals by deriving a journal utility scale based on click responses to table of contents postings to the ELMAR virtual community. Use of ELMAR data provides a unique window into journal importance, allowing us to look at table of contents reading behavior rather than citing behavior or attitudinal constructs as has been the case in previous studies. At the time of the study, there were more than 5,100 ELMAR subscribers, easily making this the largest journal ranking study ever undertaken. The external validity of our sample is high since ELMAR subscribers include a high percentage of the population of those interested in scholarly research in marketing. Our results are based on actual choice behavior of subscribers as they simply decide what tables of contents to read. The list of journals included in the study contains 165 different titles posted during the study period, which spanned a year. During that period there were multiple issues posted of these 165 journals, resulting in a replicated field study with high reliability. In fact, our journal reading utility measurement yielded a model with an R2 value of .95. We use this model to suggest ways that researchers might come to a richer understanding of the journal consumption process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the changes in the journal "Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR)." The changes includes the adoption of the Springer Editorial Manager for the handling of manuscripts and the reorganization to implement it. The move is to realign its focus and reorganize its management to continue to be dynamic and relevant to the disciplines and scientific community that the journal serves.

The article focuses on the impact factors, h indices and citation in toxicology journals. The factors that contribute to the low impact factors of toxicology journals compared to other scientific disciplines are presented including the small number of practitioners of medical or clinical toxicology. The total circulation number of a journal reportedly affect its impact factor. It expects toxicology journals to see decreased submissions as authors attempt to get their work published in journals with higher impact factors.

The article explores the scientific publications of academician I. P. Pavlov. Pavlov has publishd 279 papers during the 63 years of his active scientific work. His first scientific investigations from 1874-1890 were mainly related with studies of circulatory physiology. His creative activity continued from 1891-1902, from 1903 to 1916 and from 1917 to 1936. His published works can be divided into three groups: publications in journals, monographs and reprints and other publications.

The article announces the selections for the Duncan Black Prize and the Gordon Tullock Prize, awarded to the authors of the best papers published in the journal during 2020.

This study is motivated by two research questions: (1) Which recent contributions have been driving the research agenda in international business? (2) Which emerging themes in the literature are likely to set the stage for future work? To examine these questions, the study examined scholarly work in international business over the time period 1996-2006 in six leading international business journals (Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, International Marketing Review, Journal of International Marketing, and International Business Review). Next, a Delphi study of the most prolific authors in these journals over the same time period was conducted to delineate a future research agenda in international business. Addressing these two research questions provides us with a more complete understanding of the progress made to date in international business research, and provides a glimpse of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the role of the journal "Minerva" in academic career system of science studies. He states that this journal manifests not only the specialization and internal differentiation of the broad area of science studies. Likewise, it contemplates the social structural and political realities of study in the field of science. It is also the author's opinion that both economic views and science policy have been disregarded in the specialization of references in the journal.

Are there similarities in the writing approaches and practices among the top-producing authors in our field? If so, perhaps knowing this information may benefit graduate students or recent graduates. In this paper, I asked 13 authors to explain why they were so productive in terms of publishing in educational psychology journals. Four categories of authors’ attributions for productivity were identified: collaboration, passion/curiosity, research skills, and time management. All categories were consistent with the extant literature on productivity. It is hoped that providing beginning scholars with the practices of the top authors in their field may help them to be more efficient and effective in their quest of writing for publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an editorial discussing the use of computational intelligence approaches in medical and biological applications. The author discusses searching through journal articles to find instances where intelligent systems are mentioned in regard to medical applications, and tabulating the results to find which areas of computational intelligence are being explored most in the medical field.

The article discusses developments in publishing scientific articles focusing on life cycle assessment (LCA). The author explains a pragmatic solution to make LCA as scientific as possible by strict adherence to the ISO standards of the 14040 series. He also discusses the short history of scientific publishing, the philosophical background of publishing and the special role of LCA and similar assessment tools. He also provides a list of journals publishing LCA-studies on a regular basis.

In June of 2019, the General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council jointly issued a document meant to "promote scientist spirit and improve the conduct and ethics of the science community" (The General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, PRC [1]). References 1 The General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, PRC. [Extracted from the article]

With all that tailwind and momentum, I am happy to announce the next stage of our strategy, the creation of a large international open access journal in business research. As has been announced by the Boards of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) and the Schmalenbach Gesellschaft (SG) at the Frankfurt Annual VHB Conference, the two associations will join forces and merge their research publication platforms to generate a strong common journal with international reach, the I Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research i - I SBUR. i Building on the momentum of our open access accomplishments, we are convinced that the merger will add even more critical mass necessary for a strong journal in the international academic market. Details about I SBUR i and submissions for I SBUR i will be communicated shortly on the homepages of both the VHB and the SG. [Extracted from the article]

• The paper considers the use of mixed methods in international business research by reviewing empirical studies in four major journals. A total of 484 articles were reviewed, 68 of which had applied a mixed method strategy. • In our analysis we categorize mixed methods according to their use in different stages of the research process and provide a range of alternative designs for mixing qualitative and quantitative methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Geert Hofstede's "Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values" was published, researchers have utilized Hofstede's cultural values framework in a wide variety of empirical studies. We review 180 studies published in 40 business and psychology journals and two international annual volumes between 1980 and June 2002 to consolidate what is empirically verifiable about Hofstede's cultural values framework. We discuss limitations in the Hofstede-inspired research and make recommendations for researchers who use Hofstede's framework in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Randomized controlled trials have become an important component of evidence-based policy in criminal justice. Because searches of electronic bibliographic databases often miss relevant trials, handsearch – or the visual inspection of the contents of an article – is recommended as an additional search strategy. In this paper, we conducted an electronic handsearch of every available issue of the British Journal of Criminology (1960–2004) to determine how many randomized field experiments were published. We compare these results to earlier manual handsearch efforts to augment the Campbell Collaboration Social, Psychological, Educational and Criminological Trials Register (C2-SPECTR). We find only nine trials (although two used quasi-random allocation such as alternation), and just one published in the past 20 years. We discuss some possible reasons for this, and conclude with a modest agenda for improving the reporting of evidence in the age of evidence-based policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents instructions for authors of articles included in the "Journal of Experimental Criminology."