As Editor-in-Chief, he grew this journal very rapidly, transforming it, from a non-indexed journal into a world-class scientific journal (2014 Impact Factor 4.014).
A new kind of genetically modified rice with a higher starch content could produce more food while at the same time reducing the methane, a greenhouse gas, that's emitted when it grows, the journal Nature reported.
The number of metabolomics knowledge bases and peer-reviewed publications are rising steadily every year and there is a great need to share and disseminate metabolomics data, as the support and requirement grows from journal publishers, funding bodies and research community organisations.
In 2000, publisher BioMed Central started publishing the names of reviewers for the articles in their medical series of journals, and since then, a growing number of journals have made reviewers and/or referee reports public.
Again, the growing importance of journal publications within this field is made visible.
Given the growing importance of journal rankings in academic performance management, it is relevant to researchers and managers alike whether there are certain characteristics of publications that are more prevalent the higher a journal is ranked.
As this global archive grows, the journals could then find their subscription revenue starts to dry up, and would be forced to switch to the service-bureau model.A more direct challenge to journals with high subscription charges is being mounted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition SPARCC), an initiative set up by the ARL in 1997.
Journals' growing insistence that at least some raw data be made available seems to count for little: a recent review by Dr Ioannidis which showed that only 143 of 351 randomly selected papers published in the world's 50 leading journals and covered by some data-sharing policy actually complied.And then there are the data behind unpublished research.
However, other factors also intensified the revolutionary cause: the introduction of social Darwinist ideas by Yen Fu after the Sino-Japanese War countered the reformists' theory of change based on the Chinese Classics; and Western and revolutionary thoughts came to be easily and widely diffused through a growing number of journals and pamphlets published in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
For the past 30 years, there have been a growing number of journals, conferences and text blending theory and practice.
