Journal Guide

Decision Support Systems welcomes contributions on the concepts and operational basis for DSSs, techniques for implementing and evaluating DSSs, DSS experiences, and related studies. In treating DSS topics, manuscripts may delve into, draw-on, or expand such diverse areas as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer supported cooperative work, data base management, decision theory, economics, linguistics, management science, mathematical modeling, operations management psychology, user interface management systems, and others. The common thread of articles published in the journal will be their relevance to theoretical, technical DSS issues.Authors planning to submit papers to the journal should ensure that their work is relevant to the topics normally considered to be part of the field of decision support systems.The Journal's research papers tend to fall into the following six topic departments:1. DSS Foundations e.g. DSS principles, concepts, and theories; frameworks, formal languages, and methods for DSS research; tutorials about the nature of DSS; assessments of the DSS field.2. DSS Development-Functionality e.g. methods, tools, and techniques for developing the underlying functional aspects of a DSS; solver/model management; data management in DSSs; rule management and AI in DSSs; coordinating a DSS's functionality within its user interface.3. DSS Development-Interfaces e.g. methods, tools, and techniques for developing the overt user interface of a DSS; managing linguistic, presentation, and user knowledge in a DSS; DSS help facilities; coordinating a DSS's interface events with its functionality events.4. DSS Impacts and Evaluation e.g. DSS economics; DSS measurement; DSS impacts on individual users, multiparticipant users, organizations, and societies; evaluating/justifying DSSs.5. DSS Reference Studies e.g. reference discipline tutorials for DSS researchers; emerging technologies relevant to DSS characteristics or DSS development; related studies on such topics as communication support systems, computer supported cooperative work, negotiation support systems, research support systems, task support systems.6. DSS Experiences, Management, and Education e.g. experiences in developing or operating DSSs; systems solutions to specific decision support needs; approaches to managing DSSs; DSS instruction/training approaches.

Elsevier is delighted to announce, that a new journal - Global Food Security- has launched in 2012.Motivation for Global Food Security arose from concern about the difficulty scientists and policy makers have in keeping up with the expanding volume of information about the challenge of meeting human food and nutritional needs while protecting environmental services. Hence, the Journal aims to provide readers with:1. Strategic views of experts from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on prospects for ensuring food security, based on the best available science, in a clear and readable form for a wide audience, bridging the gap between biological, social and environmental sciences.2. Reviews, opinions and debates that synthesize, extend and critique research approaches and findings from the rapidly growing body of original publications on global food security.Global Food Security aims to publish papers that contribute to better understanding of economic, social, biophysical, technological, and institutional drivers of current and future global food security.Global Food Security aims to stimulate debate that is rooted in strong science, has strong interdisciplinary connections, and recognizes tradeoffs that occur in reconciling competing objectives and outcomes that may differ depending on spatial and temporal scale.While integration across academic disciplines is encouraged, papers on components of Global Food Security will also be considered if they address important constraints and have a broad inference space. The goal is to publish concise and timely reviews and synthesis articles about research on following elements of food security:• Availability (sufficient quantity and quality)• Access (affordability, functioning markets and policies)• Nutrition, Safety and Sanitation• Stability and Environment (resilience and ecosystem services)Distinguishing features of Global Food Security content are: (a)issues that contain several papers that address specific, timely topics of importance to food security, (b) authors who are recognized authorities in their field, (c) a focus on food security challenges in an interdisciplinary manner and at national to global scales, and (d) a focus on challenging current paradigms, seeking to provide out-of-the box thinking on global issues.Given this focus, Global Food Security will be an invaluable source of information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, students, professionals, policy makers and the international media.

The official journal of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry is dedicated to informing public policy and professional practice and to the expansion of knowledge relating to mental health and human development from a multidisciplinary and interprofessional perspective. This journal is a critical resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, educators, and professionals in a broad range of allied disciplines.

The Arabian Journal of Chemistry is an English language, peer-reviewed scholarly publication in the area of chemistry. The Arabian Journal of Chemistry publishes original papers, reviews and short reports on, but not limited to: inorganic, physical, organic, analytical and biochemistry.The Arabian Journal of Chemistry is issued by the Arab Union of Chemists and is published by King Saud University together with the Saudi Chemical Society in collaboration with Elsevier and is edited by an international group of eminent researchers.

The Australian Journal of French Studies is an international, fully refereed journal devoted to French literature, culture, society and history. The journal encourages new theoretical engagements and particularly welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. Articles are published in English and French. The majority of numbers are focussed on a specific theme, but numbers on miscellaneous topics will usually be published annually.

The Croatian Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed journal with a primary focus on original philosophical work in analytic philosophy in Central Europe. It was established in 2001 and has a particular strength in the philosophy of linguisitcs. Articles and reviews from Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, and other countries are published along with with contributions from Western Europe and the US. The journal is published three times per year in Croatia by KruZak, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

The European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2009 ISI 5-year Impact Factor 3.101) publishes Full Papers, Short Communications, and Microreviews from the entire spectrum of inorganic, organometallic, bioinorganic, and solid-state chemistry. The following journals have been merged to form the two leading journals, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and European Journal of Organic Chemistry:

Haematologica/The Hematology Journal (pISSN: 0390-6078, eISSN: 1592-8721, NLM ID: 0417435) publishes peer-reviewed papers across all areas of experimental and clinical hematology. The journal is owned by a non-profit organization, the Ferrata Storti Foundation, and serves the scientific community strictly following the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, www.icmje.org) recommendations on publication ethics policies for medical journals.Haematologica was founded in 1920 by Adolfo Ferrata, and in 2005 merged with The Hematology Journal. Haematologica is the Official Organ of the following scientific societies.

The International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, IJCIA, is a refereed journal dedicated to the theory and applications of computational intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems). The main goal of this journal is to provide the scientific community and industry with a vehicle whereby ideas using two or more conventional and computational intelligence based techniques could be discussed.

The International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing is a multidisciplinary journal uniquely covering the areas related to extreme manufacturing. The journal is devoted to publishing original articles and reviews of the highest quality and impact in the areas related to extreme manufacturing, ranging from fundamentals to process, measurement, and systems, as well as materials, structures, and devices with extreme functionalities.

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health (IJOMEH) is an English-language quarterly founded in 1988, initiated by the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine and The Polish Association of Occupational Medicine. The journal has a distinguished Editorial Board of outstanding experts in the field of a wide-grasp occupational and environmental  health, ensuring that the journal maintains high academic standards and has a broad international coverage. The submitted scientific articles are subjected to a rigorous peer-review.

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IJOP is now accepting submission of cover art for each cover of the journal, to be published starting in 2014.  Please send your suggestions to the editor.The International Journal of Primatology is currently seeking authoritative reviews of current topics in primatology. Please contact the editor.

Die Verwaltung is a quarterly »Journal for Administrative Law and Administrative Science« in German (with English abstracts). It was founded in 1968 by Ernst Forsthoff who edited the journal until 1974. The journal publishes long and in-depth articles on the whole range of its subject matters. One issue per year is devoted to a particular topic. In regular periods, the jurisprudence of a particular field of administrative law (e.g. police and security law or administrative procedural law) is reported by a selected team of authors. The main publications in the field of administrative law and administrative science are reviewed.

The Journal of Anesthesia is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists. This journal publishes original articles, review articles, special articles, clinical reports, short communications, letters to the editor, and book and multimedia reviews. The editors welcome the submission of manuscripts devoted to anesthesia and related topics from any country of the world. Membership in the Society is not a prerequisite.

The Journal of Clinical Immunology is an international journal that helps researchers and academic clinicians keep current on investigative basic immunology and diseases related to the immune system. This well-established journal publishes articles on basic, translational, and clinical studies in all aspects of immunology, including animal models of human diseases.

Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports - Innovations in Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology is a companion to the Journal of Neurological Surgery (JNLS) and a multidisciplinary publication with a special focus on detailing the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of clinical cases. The Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports is an invaluable resource for all neurosurgeons and skull base surgeons, including those specializing in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, maxillo-facial surgery, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-radiology, and plastic surgery.

The offical journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology keeps pace with important advances in all spheres of the neurologic and ophthalmologic sciences. Clinicians and researchers worldwide report on recent developments in diagnosing and treating ophthalmologic, neurologic, endocrine, inflammatory, and neoplastic conditions affecting the oculomotor and visual systems.Website: www.jneuro-ophthalmology.com.

The Journal of Religious History is an international, fully refereed journal which publishes articles and reviews current work in the history of religions and their relationship with all aspects of human experience. With high quality international contributors, the journal explores religion and its related subjects, along with debates on comparative method and theory in religious history.

Journal of Semantics aims to be the premier journal in semantics. It covers all areas in the study of meaning, with a focus on formal and experimental methods. The Journal welcomes submissions on semantics, pragmatics, the syntax/semantics interface, cross-linguistic semantics, experimental studies of meaning (processing, acquisition, neurolinguistics), and semantically informed philosophy of language.

Founded in response to a motion passed by the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in December 1957 approving "the establishment of a journal devoted to the history of philosophy," the Journal of the History of Philosophy is an international journal that publishes articles, notes, discussions, and reviews about the history of Western philosophy, broadly conceived. Each issue includes four or five refereed articles on topics ranging from Ancient and Medieval to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy. Issues also contain approximately fifteen reviews of the most important recent books on the history of philosophy.