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Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society (JSCS) is the scientific journal of the Serbian Chemical Society and this year is celebrating 85 years of its publishing and the 80th volume. After so many years of publishing, the idea of the Editorial Board of the JSCS was to investigate the opinion of the authors, reviewers and Sub-Editors concerning the journal and whether their evaluation and suggestions could aid in its improvement. Questionnaires were sent to the three investigated groups as an e-mail link. The responses were analyzed and only the most general and the most important data are presented in this article. The grades, comments and suggestions showed that most of the contributors are satisfied with the present handling and publishing policy of the JSCS, but certain technical aspects should be improved. After a thorough inspection of the data, the Editorial Board decided to introduce a fully automatic on-line system, to speed-up the peer review process, to improve the Instructions to Authors and Reviewer's Report Form. All these novelties commenced from the beginning of March 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates whether the board members of thirty well-known library and information science journals are especially likely to publish in the journals for which they serve as board members. It compares board member authors with all the authors who published in each journal from 2007 through 2012. Overall, only 36 per cent of board member authors published more articles in their own journals than might be expected based on the publication patterns of all the authors who published in each journal. That is, 64 per cent published fewer articles than expected. This may reflect lower submission rates from board members (perhaps to avoid conflicts of interest), differences in the quality of submissions, or systematic bias in the review process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ARRIVE guidelines have been implemented in BJP for 4 years with the aim of increasing transparency in reporting experiments involving animals. BJP has assessed our success in implementing them and concluded that we could do better. This editorial discusses the issues and explains how we are changing our requirements for authors to report their findings in experiments involving animals. This is one of a series of discussing updates to the BJP Linked Editorials This Editorial is part of a series. To view the other Editorials in this series, visit: ; ; and . Video To view the video on the ARRIVE guidelines, visit: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a list of the editorial board members including Julian Chow, Andrew Scharlach and Jennifer Skeem.

The article list the editorial board members including M. Kroiss, C. Bruns and C. Berking.

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The article presents a list of the editorial board members of the journal including R. Busse, E. Calvo and L. Bueno.

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The article presents a list of the editorial board members of the journal including Peter Coates, Marc Bechard and Bruce Leopold.

Information about the annual editorial board meeting of the periodical which was held in San Diego, California on March 15, 2015 is presented. Topics discussed include introducing members of the 2014 editorial board, certificates to the top performer of the journal, total number of manuscripts submitted to the journal and topics related to reports such as coronary artery diseases and their types which are published in the journal.

The article presents the editorial board of the journal "Transplant Infectious Disease" is presented.

A poorly chosen article title may make a paper difficult to discover or discourage readership when discovered, reducing an article's impact. Yet, it is unclear how the structure of a manuscript's title influences readership and impact. We used manuscript tracking data for all manuscripts submitted to the journal Functional Ecology from 2004 to 2013 and citation data for papers published in this journal from 1987 to 2011 to examine how title features changed and whether a manuscript's title structure was predictive of success during the manuscript review process and/or impact (citation) after publication. Titles of manuscripts submitted to Functional Ecology became marginally longer (after controlling for other variables), broader in focus (less frequent inclusion of genus and species names), and included more humor and subtitles over the period of the study. Papers with subtitles were less likely to be rejected by editors both pre- and post-peer review, although both effects were small and the presence of subtitles in published papers was not predictive of citations. Papers with specific names of study organisms in their titles fared poorly during editorial (but not peer) review and, if published, were less well cited than papers whose titles did not include specific names. Papers with intermediate length titles were more successful during editorial review, although the effect was small and title word count was not predictive of citations. No features of titles were predictive of reviewer willingness to review papers or the length of time a paper was in peer review. We conclude that titles have changed in structure over time, but features of title structure have only small or no relationship with success during editorial review and post-publication impact. The title feature that was most predictive of manuscript success: papers whose titles emphasize broader conceptual or comparative issues fare better both pre- and post-publication than do papers with organism-specific titles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an introduction which highlights various articles within the issue on topics such as relations between compression and thermal contraction in 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, lists members of editorial board of the journal including C. Malla Reddy, and offers information for authors.

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In this paper I reflect on my experience as a member of the editorial executive board of Teaching in Higher Education between 1996 and 2005, during which period I was first reviews editor and then editor. The paper begins by outlining the editorial procedures established in the first 10 years of the journal and highlighting two major priorities in establishing pedagogy as a major field within higher education policy and practice: interdisciplinarity and internationality. The paper then opens up into a discussion of the challenges and opportunities posed by, on the one hand, successive research assessment regimes within higher education and, on the other, the corporatisation of the publishing industry. I argue that the combination of these two factors has had a significant effect on the opportunities open to academic workers for thinking together not only about their own pedagogic practice but about the implications of that practice for the wider social and political sphere. Teaching in Higher Education opens up potentially important spaces for thinking together about the nature and purpose of teaching and learning. But these remain highly contested spaces that academic workers are positioned both within and against. That positioning – as I suggest by way of conclusion – raises important questions for both academics and publishers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the journal's outstanding papers in the area of polymer science. It states that nominations were chosen based on the journal's Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board members. It cites the Best Paper Award 2015 which include a research on mimicking the nanostructure of bone.