Journal submissions, review and editorial decision patterns during initial COVID-19 restrictions

The manuscript processing timeline, a necessary facet of the publishing process, varies from journal to journal, and its influence on the journal impact needs to be studied. The current research looks into the correlation between the ‘Peer Review Metrics’ (submission to first editorial decision; submission to first post-review decision and submission to accept) and the ‘Journal Impact Data’ (2-year Impact Factor; 5-year Impact Factor; Immediacy Index; Eigenfactor Score and Article Influence Score). The data related to ‘Peer Review Metrics’ (submission to first editorial decision; submission to first post-review decision and submission to accept) and ‘Journal Impact Data’ (2-year Impact Factor; 5-year Impact Factor; Immediacy Index; Eigenfactor Score and Article Influence Score) were downloaded from the ‘Nature Research’ journals website https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/about/journal-metrics . Accordingly, correlations were drawn between the ‘Peer Review Metrics’ and the ‘Journal Impact Data’. If the time from ‘submission to first editorial decision’ decreases, the ‘Journal Impact Data’ increases and vice versa. However, an increase or decrease in the time from ‘submission to first editorial decision’ does not affect the ‘Eigenfactor Score’ of the journal and vice versa. An increase or decrease in the time from ‘submission to first post-review decision’ does not affect any ‘Journal Impact Data’ and vice versa. If the time from ‘submission to acceptance’ increases, the ‘Journal Impact Data’ (2-year Impact Factor, 5-year Impact Factor, Immediacy Index and Article Influence Score) also increases, and if the time from ‘submission to acceptance’ decreases, so will the ‘Journal Impact Data’. However, an increase or decrease in the time from ‘submission to acceptance’ does not affect the ‘Eigenfactor Score’ of the journal and vice versa. The study will act as a ready reference tool for the scholars to select the most appropriate submitting platforms for their scholarly endeavours. Furthermore, the performance and evaluative indicators responsible for a journal’s overall research performance can also be understood from a micro-analytical view, which will help the researchers select appropriate journals for their future scholarly submissions. Lengthy publication timelines are a big problem for the researchers because they are not able to get the credit for their research on time. Since the study validates a relationship between the ‘Peer Review Metrics’ and ‘Journal Impact Data’, the findings will be of great help in making an appropriate journal’s choice. The study can be an eye opener for the journal administrators who vocalise a speed-up publication process by enhancing certain areas of publication timeline. The study is the first of its kind that correlates the ‘Peer Review Metrics’ of the journals and the ‘Journal Impact Data’. The study’s findings are limited to the data retrieved from the ‘Nature Research’ journals and cannot be generalised to the full score of journals. The study can be extended across other publishers to generalise the findings. Even the articles’ early access availability concerning ‘Peer Review Metrics’ of the journals and the ‘Journal Impact Data’ can be studied.

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Multinational Banks and Supranational Supervision

Review of Financial Studies ◽

10.1093/rfs/hhy116 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (8) ◽

pp. 2997-3035 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Giacomo Calzolari ◽

Jean-Edouard Colliard ◽

Gyongyi Lóránth

Keyword(s):

Organizational Structure ◽

Organizational Structures ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Coordination Failures ◽

The Public ◽

Oxford University ◽

Multinational Banks ◽

Editorial Decision ◽

Public Costs ◽

Published Paper

Abstract Supervision of multinational banks (MNBs) by national supervisors suffers from coordination failures. We show that supranational supervision solves this problem and decreases the public costs of an MNB’s failure, taking its organizational structure as given. However, the MNB strategically adjusts its structure to supranational supervision. It converts its subsidiary into a branch (or vice versa) to reduce supervisory monitoring. We identify the cases in which this endogenous reaction leads to unintended consequences, such as higher public costs and lower welfare. Current reforms should consider that MNBs adapt their organizational structures to changes in supervision. Received January 9, 2017; editorial decision September 15, 2018 by Editor Philip Strahan. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

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The Effects of Losing a Business Group Affiliation

Review of Financial Studies ◽

10.1093/rfs/hhy120 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (8) ◽

pp. 3036-3074 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Borja Larrain ◽

Giorgo Sertsios ◽

Francisco Urzúa I

Keyword(s):

Business Group ◽

The Other ◽

Group Affiliation ◽

Oxford University ◽

Capital Misallocation ◽

Editorial Decision ◽

Business Group Affiliation ◽

Industry Peers ◽

Published Paper ◽

Identification Strategy

Abstract We propose a novel identification strategy for estimating the effects of business group affiliation. We study two-firm business groups, some of which split up during the sample period, leaving some firms as stand-alone firms. We instrument for stand-alone status using shocks to the industry of the other group firm. We find that firms that become stand-alone reduce leverage and investment. Consistent with collateral cross-pledging, the effects are more pronounced when the other firm had high tangibility. Consistent with capital misallocation in groups, the reduction in leverage is stronger in firms that had low (high) profitability (leverage) relative to industry peers. Received July 3, 2017; editorial decision April 7, 2018 by Editor Wei Jiang. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

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“[P]lain and passive fortitude”: Stoicism and Spaces of Dissent in Sejanus

Ben Jonson Journal ◽

10.3366/bjj.2018.0209 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 32-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Burdick Smith

Keyword(s):

Moral Responsibility ◽

Early Modern ◽

Public Engagement ◽

First Year ◽

Editorial Decision ◽

Critical Interpretation ◽

Politically Active ◽

Public Critique

In Ben Jonson's Sejanus, performed at court in the first year of King James’ reign in 1603, Arruntius seemingly figures as “Jonson's spokesperson.” While lauding the moral responsibility of Arruntius, some critics have portrayed the Senator as a passive Stoic whose “only outlet is speech.” For a poet who emphasizes the moral and didactic responsibility of authorship, why, then, does his spokesman inhabit a peripheral space in criticism? Critical interpretation of Arruntius depends on the editorial decision to render many of Arruntius’ lines as asides or as public critique, and this editorial crux is examined vis-à-vis early modern attitudes toward public engagement. I argue that the play negotiates the tensions between the patient Neostoicism of Justus Lipsius and politically active Senecan Stoicism. Arruntius navigates those tensions through Ciceronian ideals of friendship, which provide an alternative to the rampant flattery and tyranny at Tiberius’ court. I show that the play responds to larger political anxieties concerning James I's recent ascension to the throne, and that interpreting early modern Stoicism as entirely passive disregards the complex discourse of friendship that permeates the period.

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Test - Can Section Editor CC or BCC in editorial decision email?

Pathogens and Immunity ◽

10.20411/pai.v2i1.117 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Robert Lucas

Keyword(s):

Section Editor ◽

Editorial Decision

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No time for that now! Qualitative changes in manuscript peer review during the Covid-19 pandemic

Research Evaluation ◽

10.1093/reseval/rvaa037 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Serge P J M Horbach

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Quality Criteria ◽

Scientific Enterprise ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

Editorial Decision ◽

Evaluation Mechanism ◽

Reader Comments ◽

Review Reports ◽

Review Model ◽

Editorial Decisions

Abstract The global Covid-19 pandemic has had considerable impact on the scientific enterprise, including scholarly publication and peer review practices. Several studies have assessed these impacts, showing among others that medical journals have strongly accelerated their review processes for Covid-19 related content. This has raised questions and concerns regarding the quality of the review process and the standards to which manuscripts are held for publication. To address these questions, this study sets out to assess qualitative differences in review reports and editorial decision letters for Covid-19 related, articles not related to Covid-19 published during the 2020 pandemic, and articles published before the pandemic. It employs the open peer review model at the British Medical Journal and eLife to study the content of review reports, editorial decisions, author responses, and open reader comments. It finds no clear differences between review processes of articles not related to Covid-19 published during or before the pandemic. However, it does find notable diversity between Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 related articles, including fewer requests for additional experiments, more cooperative comments, and different suggestions to address too strong claims. In general, the findings suggest that both reviewers and journal editors implicitly and explicitly use different quality criteria to assess Covid-19 related manuscripts, hence transforming science’s main evaluation mechanism for their underlying studies and potentially affecting their public dissemination.

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Antimicrobial activity of Satureja hortensis L. essential oil against pathogenic microbial strains

Archives of Biological Sciences ◽

10.2298/abs1001159m ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 159-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Tatjana Mihajilov-Krstev ◽

Dragan Radnovic ◽

Dusanka Kitic ◽

Zorica Stojanovic-Radic ◽

Bojan Zlatkovic

Keyword(s):

Antimicrobial Activity ◽

Essential Oil ◽

Wide Spectrum ◽

Significant Activity ◽

Fungal Strains ◽

Satureja Hortensis ◽

Conservation Treatment ◽

Microbial Strains ◽

Editorial Decision ◽

Font Color

A hydro-distilled oil of Satureja hortensis L. was investigated for its antimicrobial activity against a panel of 11 bacterial and three fungal strains. The antimicrobial activity was determined using the disk-diffusion and broth microdilution methods. The essential oil of S. hortensis L. showed significant activity against a wide spectrum of Gram (-) bacteria (MIC/MBC=0.025-0.78/0.05-0.78 ?l/ml) and Gram (+) bacteria (MIC/MBC=0.05-0.39/0.05-0.78 ?l/ml), as well as against fungal strains (MIC/MBC=0.20/0.78 ?l/ml). The results indicate that this oil can be used in food conservation, treatment of different diseases of humans, and also for the treatment of plants infected by phytopathogens. Detected autoplagiarism. Link to the Editorial Decision <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/ABS1004251U">10.2298/ABS1004251U</a>

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A successful use of a new shuttle cloning vector pA13 for the cloning of the bacteriocins BacSJ and acidocin 8912

Archives of Biological Sciences ◽

10.2298/abs1002231k ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

pp. 231-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Milan Kojic ◽

Jelena Lozo ◽

B. Jovcic ◽

Ivana Strahinic ◽

D. Fira ◽

...

Keyword(s):

In Silico Analysis ◽

Functional Expression ◽

Open Reading Frames ◽

Cloning Vector ◽

The Novel ◽

Genetic Manipulations ◽

Genes Encoding ◽

Editorial Decision ◽

Terminal Amino

The aim of this paper was to research the molecular cloning of genes encoding the novel bacteriocin BacSJ from Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei BGSJ2-8 by using a newly constructed shuttle cloning vector pA13. A new shuttle-cloning vector, pA13, was constructed and successfully introduced into Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus and Lactococcus strains, showing a high segregational and structural stability in all three hosts. The natural plasmid pSJ2-8 from L. paracasei subsp. paracasei BGSJ2-8 was cloned in the pA13 using BamHI, obtaining the construct pB5. Sequencing and in silico analysis of the pB5 revealed 15 open reading frames (ORF). Plasmid pSJ2-8 harbors the genes encoding the production of two bacteriocins, BacSJ and acidocin 8912. The combined N-terminal amino acid sequencing of BacSJ in combination with DNA sequencing of the bacSJ2-8 gene enabled the determination of the primary structure of a bacteriocin BacSJ. The production and functional expression of BacSJ in homologous and heterologous hosts suggest that bacSJ2-8 and bacSJ2-8i together with the genes encoding the ABC transporter and accessory protein are the minimal requirement for the production of BacSJ. Biochemical and genetic analyses showed that BacSJ belongs to the class II bacteriocins. The shuttle cloning vector pA13 could be used as a tool for genetic manipulations in lactobacilli and lactococci. withdrawn; due to a printing error. Link to the Editorial Decision <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/ABS1004251U">10.2298/ABS1004251U</a>

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