With an international Editorial Board and a fast track submission scheme, the JIDM effort produced very good results in terms of the quality of the accepted papers, but considerably reduced the number of submissions to SBBD, particularly those by younger authors.
Referees' services are donated free to virtually all scientific journals, but there is a real cost to implementing the refereeing procedures, which include archiving submitted papers on a website; selecting appropriate referees; tracking submissions through rounds of review and author revision; making editorial judgments, and so on.
InCoB2010 provided multi-track submissions, with the inclusion of late breaking abstracts from recent publications and for showcasing technology developments.
InCoB2009 also provided multi-track submissions, with the inclusion of research highlights from recent publications and for showcasing technology developments along with posters.
Analysis techniques such as tracking submission year on year by the username of a contributor who frequently uploaded photographs of rare species would greatly increase the power of the analysis, essentially allowing a 'repeated measures' type of analysis to be performed.
Readers can track recent submissions' progress through editorial review, with comments from editors and reasons for rejection or inclusion.
Of the 3133 papers published by PNAS in 2009, around 390 came in via Track One submissions.
Besides more established types of resources, the track solicited submissions of new types of resources such as ontology design patterns, crowdsourcing task designs, workflows, methodologies, and protocols and measures.
The modENCODE submission pipeline handles the management and tracking of submissions in four automated stages: data upload and expansion, QC, populating the DCC database and browser track generation.
Several groups have been tracking the submissions.
