Correction to: How origin,packaging and seasonality determine the environmental impact of apples,magnified by food waste and losses

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - After publishing the abovementioned article in the “Online First Articles” list, an error was discovered.     

Publishing bioethics and bioethics--reflections on academic publishing by a journal editor

This article by one of the Editors of Bioethics, published in the 25th anniversary issue of the journal, describes some of the revolutionary changes academic publishing has undergone during the last decades. Many humanities journals went from typically small print-runs, counting by the hundreds, to on-line availability in thousands of university libraries worldwide. Article up-take by our subscribers can be measured efficiently. The implications of this and other changes to academic publishing are discussed. Important ethical challenges need to be addressed in areas such as the enforcement of plagiarism-related policies, the so-called 'impact factor' and its impact on academic integrity, and the question of whether on-line only publishing can currently guarantee the integrity of academic publishing histories.     

Withdrawn: Z. Cui,Q. Sun,W. Yan,Q. Han,G. Wang,Y. Hu. The role of miR-320a and its target gene GMEB1 in epithelial-mesenchymal transition and invasion of colorectal cancer,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine.

The above article, published online on 22 February 2021 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Withdrawn: X. Sun,J. Sun,D. Zhao,Y. Song,L. Yu. Phosphatase and actin regulator 1 rs9349379 polymorphism is associated with an elevated susceptibility to coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine.

The above article, published online on 06 July 2019 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Withdrawn: X. Chen,Y. Li,M. Zhang,X. Wu,J. Zhu. Silencing LCK inactivates the NF-κB pathway to attenuate cartilage injury in osteoarthritis: An in vivo and in vitro study,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine.

The above article, published online on 10 August 2021 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Withdrawn: F. Jin,M. Li,X. Li,Y. Zheng,K. Zhang,X Liu,B. Cai,G. Yin. PlncRNA-1 stimulates hair follicle stem cell differentiation in wound healing via the EZH2/ZEB1/MAPK1 axis,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine, 10.1002/jgm.3408

The above article, published online on 05 January 2022 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Why Publishing Everything Is More Effective than Selective Publishing of Statistically Significant Results

Background

De Winter and Happee [1] examined whether science based on selective publishing of significant results may be effective in accurate estimation of population effects, and whether this is even more effective than a science in which all results are published (i.e., a science without publication bias). Based on their simulation study they concluded that “selective publishing yields a more accurate meta-analytic estimation of the true effect than publishing everything, (and that) publishing nonreplicable results while placing null results in the file drawer can be beneficial for the scientific collective” (p.4).

Methods and Findings

Using their scenario with a small to medium population effect size, we show that publishing everything is more effective for the scientific collective than selective publishing of significant results. Additionally, we examined a scenario with a null effect, which provides a more dramatic illustration of the superiority of publishing everything over selective publishing.

Conclusion

Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.     

HUPO World Congress Publication Committee Meeting August 2008, Amsterdam,The Netherlands

The plenary session of the Publications Committee of the Human Proteome Organisation at the 7^th annual HUPO world congress examined the relationship between journals, proteomics standardization initiatives, such as the work of the HUPO‐PSI, and the public domain data repositories. Delegates from industry, academia and the publishing houses discussed how best to bring these bodies closer to together and facilitate the publication process for the bench scientist.     

Withdrawn: L. Xuan,Z. Sun,J. Wang,S. Gao. Long non-coding RNA SNHG8 promotes ovarian cancer progression through serving as a sponge for miR-1270 to regulate S100A11 expression,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine.

The above article, published online on 25 January 2021 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

UNIQEM, a microbiological database: Problems and prospects

The UNIQEM database, designed to accumulate general microbiological data, is currently used to store and make available information about microorganisms studied and maintained at the Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences. UNIQEM can accumulate and maintain list-form information on a wide range of microorganisms (a property database) and facilitates collecting, processing, and publishing diverse data having to do with these microorganisms and their properties (a catalogue database). The database supports the retrieval of microorganisms by specifying an arbitrary set of their properties and has the potential for eventually evolving into a computer instrument for unattended identification of microorganisms. UNIQEMAkhlynin, D.S. and Gal’chenko, V.F., 1998.     

Withdrawal: Booher,Adam & Kathryn Oths. The last bonesetter: An encounter with Don Felipe. DVD/PAL, 27 mins,colour. Watertown,Mass: DER, 2018. $295.00 (institutional use). Reviewed by Howard Reid

The above article from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, published online on 5 December 2022, in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editors in Chief, Hannah Knox, Adam Reed, Chika Watanabe, and Thomas Yarrow, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed due to a technical error at the publisher that caused the article to be mistakenly published online although its author has not signed the journal's publishing license.     

Interlinking journal and wiki publications through joint citation: Working examples from ZooKeys and Plazi on Species-ID

Scholarly publishing and citation practices have developed largely in the absence of versioned documents. The digital age requires new practices to combine the old and the new. We describe how the original published source and a versioned wiki page based on it can be reconciled and combined into a single citation reference. We illustrate the citation mechanism by way of practical examples focusing on journal and wiki publishing of taxon treatments. Specifically, we discuss mechanisms for permanent cross-linking between the static original publication and the dynamic, versioned wiki, as well as for automated export of journal content to the wiki, to reduce the workload on authors, for combining the journal and the wiki citation and for integrating it with the attribution of wiki contributors.     

中国生态学期刊现状分析

通过对我国12种主要生态学期刊的出版指标、引用指标和网络传播能力的现状分析,得出《生态学报》、《应用生态学报》、《植物生态学报》和《生态学杂志》已经成为我国生态学期刊的第一方阵,出版能力和引用表现都要优于其他期刊,但是期刊特色不明显。生态学期刊已经不能满足生态学快速发展的需要,应该有新的期刊来承载新生分支学科的内容,同时生态学期刊需要进一步加强网络传播能力的建设。最重要的是生态学期刊应该从散落在其他学科的状态中聚集起来形成生态学期刊集群。     

ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate systems of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion--Part II: shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand

In this communication, the Standardization and Terminology Committee (STC) of the International Society of Biomechanics proposes a definition of a joint coordinate system (JCS) for the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand. For each joint, a standard for the local axis system in each articulating segment or bone is generated. These axes then standardize the JCS. The STC is publishing these recommendations so as to encourage their use, to stimulate feedback and discussion, and to facilitate further revisions. Adopting these standards will lead to better communication among researchers and clinicians.     

Publication Committee meeting. HUPO 5th annual World Congress. Long Beach, CA, USA 30 October 2006

This meeting brought together delegates from industry, academia and the publishing houses to facilitate discussions on the level of support from the journals for the use of standardised data formats and their interest in the creation of a network of proteomics repositories collaborating on a coordinated data curation effort. Discussions centred on how best to structure interactions between journals, databases and researchers to improve accessibility to data, and facilitate comparisons between datasets.     

PUBLISHING IN THE GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A principal method of mastering the 'publication explosion' should be a more consistent structural differentiation of publishing, thus enabling a better channelling of information. Besides subject specialization, this can be achieved by clearer distinction between local, national, and international spheres of interest and between idiographic and nomothetic aspects of papers. The 'publication explosion' is a consequence of a corresponding increase in research, and quantitative curbing of publication should not be applied to such an extent that it affects the universal availability of scientific results. More stringent selection, however, would reduce the volume of primary publishing considerably. Training of authors in publishing techniques would greatly ease the burden of routine labour for editors. This, and the organization of scientific serials and articles to meet modern bibliographic-documentalistic needs, present problems calling for urgent solution at an international level.     

It Is Time to Re‐Evaluate the Peer Review Process for Preclinical Research

Problems in peer review, the backbone of maintaining high standards in scientific publishing, have led to wide spread discontent within the scientific community. Training in the peer review process and a simpler format to assist in decision making are possible courses to improve and expedite the process of peer review and scientific publishing.     

Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology in the American Anthropologist Rare but Exquisite Gems

This article explores forensic anthropological and bioarchaeological publishing patterns in the American Anthropologist (n.s.). Early contributions by Harris Hawthorne Wilder on both subjects are considered in detail, including previously unrecognized discussions of taphonomic variables. Articles on forensic anthropology in the American Anthropologist appear only during the first four decades of publication. While relatively well represented in early issues, bioarchaeological articles decrease in number over time. Comparative data from six other journals suggest that their presence has had a profound effect on the American Anthropologist . The impact of the "new" physical anthropology on publishing patterns in bioarchaeology is also assessed. [Keywords: forensic anthropology, funerary archaeology, paleodemography, paleopathology, taphonomy]