Editorial

SAGE Publishing announces its partnership with Editage, a leading global scholarly communications brand by CACTUS, to offer high-quality pre-publication and research dissemination services. The pre-publication service portfolio includes Manuscript Formatting, Translation with Editing, English Editing, Plagiarism Check, and Artwork Preparation to help authors traverse publication deadlines in a cost-efficient and timely manner.

John Wiley and Sons Inc. is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN). Effective January 2020, ISDN has selected Wiley to publish the International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience (IJDN).

Customer insight experts DataSalon announce the launch of PaperStack, the only service to provide publishers with a complete reporting suite for the scholarly submissions process, incorporating all publishing activities from submission to publication, and fully integrated with major peer review systems.

John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B) announced today a new partnership with the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). Beginning in January 2020, Wiley will assume publishing responsibility for the two prestigious journals of the AAEA; the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.

RSC are pleased to announce the transfer of the journal Toxicology Research from our journals portfolio to Oxford University Press (OUP).

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has begun a new, multi-faceted publishing partnership with John Wiley and Sons Inc. Wiley, a global leader in research and education, will be the official copublisher and distributor of the ASM Press references, textbooks, and non-journal publications.

Academic Studies Press (ASP) and De Gruyter have formed a commercial partnership to distribute ASP’s 360 frontlist and backlist e-books. ASP publishes between 50 and 60 new English-language titles every year, primarily in the areas of Jewish Studies and Slavic Studies. ASP also publishes three journals. Sixty of its book titles are open access books.

A two-year randomised controlled trial in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology will be the largest of its kind to date to assess whether hiding author details during peer review reduces bias against underrepresented groups in the science publishing process.

Performance by John Wiley and Sons Inc.(NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B) in the 2019 release of Clarivate Analytics’ Journal Citation Reports (JCR) holds strong, maintaining its position as a top publisher in terms of the number of titles indexed, articles published, and citations received.

A new open access journal from Cambridge University Press will explore the transformative effect of data science on engineering.

The Harvard Data Science Initiative and The MIT Press launch the HARVARD DATA SCIENCE REVIEW to publicly promote the latest research, educational resources, and commentary from the leading minds in data science.

PLOS today announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more than five years, PLOS authors have used ORCID to make their professional lives easier. Now reviewers at PLOS can take advantage of the same benefits to track their contributions, claim credit, and build up their research profiles.