Introducing Article Numbering to Modern Pathology

With this issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (JSTQE), a new pagination scheme is being implemented based on article numbers rather than page numbers. Article numbers accelerate the online publication of papers in final, fully citable versions. The article number, which is of the form AABBBCC, is comprised of a topic area code (AA), a paper number within the specified topic area (BBB), and the number of pages for the paper (CC). The topic areas and corresponding codes are indicated on the back cover page. Given the importance attached to keeping the time to publication as short as possible, an unedited preprint of an accepted JSTQE paper is normally posted online on IEEE Xplore within one week of the final files being uploaded by the author(s) on the ScholarOne Manuscripts submission system. The posted preprint has a digital object identifier assigned to it. Once available, the final copyedited and XML-tagged version of the paper replaces the preprint on IEEE Xplore, usually well before the Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2243591 hardcopy publication date. This final version of the paper has an article number assigned to it which is also used for the print version of the Journal.

Advances in Immunogenic Cell Death for Cancer Immunotherapy

From Responsive Molecules to Interactive Materials.

Halide Perovskites – Optoelectronic and Structural Characterization Methods

The International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) will move to 'true continuous publication' during the first months of 2021 to modernize the workflow and align it with the current online-only nature of the journal. In the new format, articles will be cited using an article number rather than page numbering. The article number will be the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) suffix, i.e., the last six digits of the DOI. Benefits of the new system include streamlining in-house processes, hence, reducing time and costs, and speeding up the publication time of the final 'Version of Record'. Because of the new format of the IJSEM, it is necessary to emend Rule 24b (2) and Note 1 paragraph 3 of Rule 27 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) to regulate matters of priority for papers published after January 2021. We also propose adding another example to Note 2 of Rule 33b to clarify how nomenclatural authorities of names published in the IJSEM from 2021 onward must be cited.

From the Ground Up-Materials Science in Singapore.

<i>Advanced Biosystems</i>: Looking Back on our First Year and Welcome to 2018

It is with great pleasure that we present this special issue focused on topological structures in ferroic materials. It is composed of invited contributions from the International Workshop on Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials held at the University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia from 19-21 st May 2015. The aim of the workshop was to capture current research interests regarding interfaces, domains, domain walls, vortices and skyrmions in ferroics as an emerging and highly active fi eld in solid state physics and materials science. Signifi cant emphasis was placed on understanding the fundamental commonalities that bridge topological defects across various types of ferroic materials, and therefore lessons learned on how new and groundbreaking functionalities afforded by the aforementioned concepts could be translated into emerging technologies.

This case study investigated changes in research articles from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) during the COVID-19 pandemic to share information with stakeholders in the research and publishing communities. Data on research published from 2017 to 2024 were collected by searching the database for the number of research articles indexed in Web of Science’s Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), and then extracting the publication date of research articles from the KRIBB’s paper management system. After the number of WoS-SCIE research articles was scaled down by the corresponding number of KRIBB’s SCIE articles in 2017, we analyzed differences in the publication turnaround times of KRIBB’s research articles based on whether MDPI was involved. In both WoS-SCIE and KRIBB data, the impact of MDPI exhibited a clear decline in 2023, a trend that continued into 2024. Generally, KRIBB’s non-MDPI research articles were published more rapidly in high-frequency journals, journals with low impact factors, and for COVID-19–related topics; however, this difference gradually diminished. In 2023, there was a notable reversal from a decrease to an increase in publication speed following COVID-19, along with a narrowing of the gaps between different stages of publication. It remains uncertain whether this trend will continue. Collecting additional similar case studies could provide a more accurate understanding of the changes and trends in the article publishing industry during the COVID-19 period.

Two [1, 2] articles in volume 139 of the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology published with an incorrect article number, this error was caused by a technical problem during publication. This correction article is to publish the incorrect and correct article numbers.

Background and Objectives: Academic websites by introducing history, goals, educational, research, administrative and extracurricular services, and the recruitment of students, faculty and staff, play an important role in the dissemination of educational, research and administrative information of universities. The web is a vast collection of heterogeneous information that are interconnected through links. the information on the web is not organized properly, and this heterogeneous nature of information imposed disordered conditions on the web. However, the organization may provide a large amount of information on its website, but if retrieval of it is difficult, its usefulness will be reduced. Furthermore, a website may have a high level of interaction, but if users can not have access to it, this level of interaction will not be significant. This indicates a key problem in that website’s visibility and accessibility. Visibility is a very important metric in Webometrics studies, so that the usefulness of the inventories depends on how its content is visible, and the numbers in the inventory is a good indicator for measuring visibility. The visibility of a site also affects its coverage and retrieval by search engines. Accordingly, visibility and clarity are related to enabling interconnections in a space that todays have found a great importance. The topic of web visibility and its important role in different rankings of universities and higher education institutions has been the subject of several models in this field. With regard to the comprehensiveness of the Fishkin & Pollard’s (2007) industry model, this study intends to examine the characteristics of the top 100 web sites in webometric ranking system. So the main question is, what is the status of the site size, the rich files, and the number of articles, the site links, and the visibility of the top 100 Web sites in Webometric ranking system? And is the size of the website, the number of information rich files, the number of articles retrieved from Google Scholar and Web Links affect their visibility? Methodology: : The present study is an applied research in terms of its objective, and since it seeks to describe the status of the university's superior university webometric system in terms of visibility characteristics, it has been conducted as an analytical survey. Data collection was done by library and field methods in the first six months of year 2017. For this data collection, the checklists according to Fishkin and Pollard’s (2007) model, containing 30 items for the four subsets of visibility, size of website (including the number of web pages, website size in megabytes, and page rank), rich information files (including PDF, DOC, PPT, PS and RTF) and the number of articles retrieved through Google Scholar, was used. The validity of the instrument was formally determined and its reliability was calculated by using the retest method, and the correlation of the results was obtained (r = 0.89), which it confirms the reliability of the instrument and then various instruments were used to evaluate each of them. Data analysis was done using the SPSS 21software. Findings: The results showed that 14 features of the industry model were observed in 100% of the websites. The size of the website is more than 89% between 0.59to 7.39 MB. The results of the hypothesis test showed that the size and volume of the site (r = 0.637) at the significance level (Sig. 0.002), the number of enriched files (r = 0.546) at the significance level (Sig. 0.001), receiving referral links (r = 0. 674) at the significant level (Sig. 0.000), and the number of articles retrieved from Google Scholar (r = 0.654) at the significance level (Sig. 0.001) has a direct impact on visibility. In addition, the intensity of the relationship is stronger for the variable of referred links compared to the other three variables. Discussion: The visibility of a website is an important and essential component because it represents accessibility and find ability of a web site by the various search engines in the heterogeneous web environment. The effect of different components on visibility can be investigated from various aspects. For example, receiving referred links on the one hand points to sharing of a website content with other websites, which itself can be the reason for the validity of information content of a site; on the other hand, the visibility of a website and the ability to retrieve it by search engines refers indirectly to links from other sites. The multiplicity of links within the website and from the subpages and subset of a website can also indicate the distribution of the information content of the website on its various pages. This also refers to the architecture of the website and is associated to the size of the website and the number of pages. Therefore, identifying different factors requires further studies in the future.

Do you care about if and how you and your colleagues’ research articles are cited by other researchers? Which articles published in this journal are the most cited? Is it possible to calculate the impact factor of a journal by yourself? I often go to Google Scholar to check out the citations of articles. And being new as editor I wanted to study how the articles in our journal are being cited. Google Scholar has the advantage of being free to use as compared with Web of Science owned by Thomson (who publish the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor), and Scopus, owned by Elsevier. Subscription fees for Web of Science are secret, but considered to be higher than Scopus fees which in 2005 were $US20 000–120 000 per year depending on institution size [1]. Google Scholar has increased its capacities and features in recent years and is now updated twice a week. Google Scholar used to yield fewer articles published before 1996, while today it readily retrieves earlier research. Bibliometric research comparing Google Scholar with Web of Science and Scopus shows differences but the correlation is high [2–5]. In addition to Thomson journal articles, Google Scholar searches show science reports, dissertations, books, and articles from journals not indexed by Thomson. Lacking access to Web of Science or Scopus, I used Google Scholar to track citations for all 111 original publications in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care (SJPHC) in 2008–2010. The median number of Thomson journal citations according to a manual Google Scholar search for the 111 articles was two. I then calculated a 2010 impact factor by summing all Thomson journal citations published in 2010 that I found in Google Scholar for articles published in the SJPHC in 2008 and 2009. The sum of 144 citations was then divided by 77, which is the number of original articles published in the SJPHC during 2008 and 2009. My own 2010 impact factor calculation for SJPHC was 1.87. The 2010 impact factor delivered by Thomson is 1.909. This means that Google Scholar search missed three citations, i.e. 2% of those that make up the impact factor. In Table I the titles of the most cited articles in each of the 12 issues published in the SJPHC 2008–2010 are presented plus the cumulated number of citations they have received both Google Scholar and Thomson journal citations; the number of cumulated citations from the SJPHC, 18% of all Thomson citations, as well as the share of Thomson journal citations that make up the 2010 impact factor. Obviously, articles published in 2008 and 2009 have been cited more than the 2010 articles. And, evidently, the most cited articles in 2008 contribute twice as much (17%) to the 2010 impact factor as do the most cited in 2009 (9%). This is because they have on average twice as much time available to be cited for the impact factor algorithm. Table I. Original articles published in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care (SJPHC) with the highest number of citations per issue in 2008–2010.1 Looking at the article titles shows that the journal publishes a wide variety of research subjects, which goes with our diverse area of medicine. I wanted to study whether any substantive fields of research were more cited than others. Therefore, I further analysed the article titles and tested a possible correlation between article title content and number of citations. No significant correlations between article title content and number of Thomson citations were found after repeated non-parametric tests using different title content categorizations. Many have criticized the impact factor for various reasons [6]. Nevertheless, the success of research and its implementation requires articles to be read, spread, and cited. And one easy way to measure research impact is counting citations.

Spotlight on … <scp>MBRRACE</scp>‐<scp>UK</scp>

This article analyses special issues, also referred to as thematic issues, monographic issues, or supplements, a mode of scientific journal publishing that has rarely been studied. It presents a bibliometric analysis of the production of journals in the field of communication in the period 2015–2019 and studies the impact of the publication of special issues in this field. The sample analysed includes 21,458 articles and reviews, 524 special issues, 418 publishers, and 94 journals. The study considers the presence of special issues in communication journals and the distribution and number of papers published in them and compares the impact of papers published in this mode with papers published in regular issues. The results reveal that 19% of articles and reviews published in the period studied appeared in special issues, which generally contain the same number of articles as regular issues. Moreover, 75% of journals achieved a higher average impact factor with articles published in special issues than they did with articles in regular issues. It is concluded that the publication of special issues appears to offer the potential benefits of attracting submissions, increasing profits, and improving impact, although it also has disadvantages. A reflection is offered on the strengths and weaknesses of this publishing practice.

To discuss the variations and distributions of authors who published their papers in World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG) during 2001-2007 and evaluate the development of WJG and gastroenterology core journals in recent years by comparing the contributions of the authors. WJG articles published in 2001-2007 were searched from MEDLINE database (by ISI Web of Knowledge). The variations (cooperation degree, cooperation rate) and distributions of the first authors were analyzed with bibliometric methods. SCIE was used to collect articles published in Am J Gastroenterol, Gastroenterology, Scand J Gastroenterol and WJG in 2007, and comparison of the data was made. Comparison indicators included the article number of annual journals, cooperation degree of authors, cooperation rate, mean number of articles published in each WJG issue, number of countries of the first WJG authors, geographical distribution and article contribution ratio of all WJG authors and domestic authors. Of the 5851 articles covered in MEDLINE, 173, 236, 633, 826, 1496, 1382 and 1105 articles were cited from 2001 to 2007. The cooperation degree was 5.11, 5.56, 5.75, 5.76, 6.31, 5.90 and 5.64 respectively. The cooperation rates was 94.80%, 99.15%, 98.89%, 98.55%, 99.13%, 96.67% and 95.66%, respectively. The mean number of articles published in each WJG issue from 2001 to 2007 was 28, 39, 52, 34, 31, 28 and 23, respectively. The number of countries of the first WJG authors was 8, 8, 27, 32, 49, 61 and 56, respectively. The first authors of WJG came from 3 continents in 2001 and covered 6 continents in 2006-2007. The number of articles written by Asian authors was 136 (79.07%), 227 (96.19%), 575 (90.98%), 713 (87.81%), 1111 (75.32%), 712 (53.98%) and 555 (53.21%), respectively in 2001-2007. The number of articles written by European & American authors increased from 36 (20.93%) and 8 (3.39%) in 2001-2002 to 563 (42.68%) and 452(43.34%) in 2006-2007. The number of countries except for China contributing papers was increased. The number of articles written by first authors of Japan rose from 0 (0%) in 2001-2002 to 287 (12.15%) in 2006-2007. The number of articles written by American authors increased from 6 (1.47%) in 2001-2002 to 158 (6.69%) in 2006-2007. The number of articles written by Chinese authors was 136 (79.07%), 227 (96.19%), 548 (86.71%), 669 (82.39%), 884 (59.93%), 380 (28.81%) and 320 (30.68%), respectively, in 2001 to 2007. The number of articles published in Am J Gastroenterol, Gastroenterology, Scand J Gastroenterol and WJG was 565, 586, 238 and 1118, respectively in 2007. The cooperation degree was 4.77, 6.14, 5.95 and 5.64, respectively, in 2007. The cooperation rate was 95.40%, 84.18%, 96.63% and 95.66%, respectively, in 2007. The number of countries of authors contributing papers was 44, 35, 42 and 62, respectively, in 2007. The geographical distribution of WJG authors is wide for the past 2 years. WJG has made a step onto international publishing, and drawn even more attentions from gastroenterology researchers. Its authors are distributed over 74 countries in 6 global continents, and the journal has become the main intermediary for international gastroenterology researchers to demonstrate their research accomplishments.