Science had rejected an earlier version of the papers.
He also asked Nature to make public all the editorial correspondence (redacted to protect privacy) and every version of the papers so outsiders could judge if publishing the papers was appropriate.
For each review cycle, guest editors checked the new version of the papers produced after the review to establish whether the authors carefully and adequately addressed the reviewers comments.
Today, all these efforts have reached a tipping point; the IEC International Electrotechnical Commissionn. Tired of acronyms yet?) has announced that it has published their first version of the papers outlining microUSB as a standard, and some mighty big players have jumped on board.
The five papers for this special issue were selected from among all the accepted papers by the special issue guest editors Lei Chen and Xiaochun Yang, based on the relevance to the journal and the reviews of the conference version of the papers.
The five papers for this special issue were selected from among all the accepted papers by the special issue guest editors X. Sean Wang, Xiaoyong Du and Hui Xiong, based on the relevance to the journal and the reviews of the conference version of the papers.
