Journal Guide

The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JCC) is a leading interdisciplinary forum for psychologists, sociologists and educators who study how cultural differences in developmental, social and educational experiences affect individual behavior. (JCCP) focuses on today's important cross-cultural issues, including individualism, self-enhancement, acculturation, changing family values, ethnic group comparisons, gender differences, and personality.

The journal publishes papers covering all areas of environmental sciences, environmental pollution and related disciplines. Other areas are toxicology in relation to plants, animals and men including general toxicology, reproduction toxicology, metabolism and mechanism of action, safety assessment, clinical and veterinary toxicology, ecophusiology, biodiversity, risk assessment, risk management, cleaner technology, behavioral toxicology, experimental toxicology of pharmaceutical, surgical, food, agricultural and industrial products, impact assessment of pollution, responses to toxic agents and community.

The Journal of Histotechnology publishes original articles dealing with vertebrate histology or cytology, histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, marine histology, nuclear histology, veterinary histology, fluorescence and electron microscopy, molecular biology, and case studies describing the use of stains in the analysis of disease in human or animal tissue. Articles dealing with quality control, tricks of the trade, and educational or administrative techniques directly related to these disciplines are also published.

The relationship between human rights and the environment is fascinating, uneasy and increasingly urgent. This international journal provides a strategic academic forum for an extended interdisciplinary and multi-layered conversation that explores emergent possibilities, existing tensions, and multiple implications of entanglements between human and non-human forms of liveliness. We invite critical engagements on these themes, especially as refracted through human rights and environmental law, politics, policy-making and community level activisms.

In a world moving rapidly online, and becoming more and more computer-dependent, the Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) focuses on networking, communication, content distribution, security, scalability, and management. Coverage includes security and privacy: middleware: mobile, ubiquitous, pervasive, and context-aware computing: and applications. Topics include: Networking protocols and architectures: web protocols, standards, and development: security and privacy: middleware: mobile, ubiquitous, pervasive, and context-aware computing and applications.

The Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM) provides high-quality comprehensive coverage of medical, dental and veterinary microbiology and infectious diseases, including bacteriology, virology, mycology and parasitology. Papers are published in the following areas: Pathogenicity and virulence; Host response; Diagnostics, typing and identification; Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy; Epidemiology; Clinical microbiology and virology; Veterinary microbiology; Oral microbiology; Models of infection; and Human and animal microbial ecology. JMM also publishes Editorials, Reviews, Case reports and Correspondence articles.

The journal, which is published nine times a year, encompasses the entire range of metamorphic studies, from the scale of the individual crystal to that of lithospheric plates, including regional studies of metamorphic terranes, modelling of metamorphic processes, microstructural and deformation studies in relation to metamorphism, geochronology and geochemistry in metamorphic systems, the experimental study of metamorphic reactions, properties of metamorphic minerals and rocks and the economic aspects of metamorphic terranes.

The Journal of Neuroendocrinology provides the principal international focus for the newest ideas in classical neuroendocrinology and its expanding interface with the regulation of behavioural, cognitive, developmental, degenerative and metabolic processes. Through the rapid publication of original manuscripts and provocative review articles, it provides essential reading for basic scientists and clinicians researching in this rapidly expanding field.

The Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus is a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication for the pediatric ophthalmologist that publishes original articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of eye disorders in the pediatric age group and the treatment of strabismus in all age groups. Each issue includes an "Eye-to-Eye" roundtable discussion on current topics, the popular "What's Your Diagnosis?" column, and a quiz for CME credits. Subscribers can also benefit from online advanced release of articles before they appear in print.

The Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology (JPOG) as founded in 1982 in order to provide a scientific forum for obstetricians, gynecologists, psychiatrists and psychologists, academic health professionals as well as for all those who are interested in the psychosocial and psychosomatic aspects of women’s health. Another of its aims is to stimulate obstetricians and gynecologists to pay more attention to this very important facet of their profession.

The Journal of Public Health is an interdisciplinary publication for the discussion and debate of international public health issues, with a focus on European affairs. It describes the social and individual factors determining the basic conditions of public health, analyzing causal interrelations, and offering a scientifically sound rationale for personal, social and political measures of intervention. Coverage includes contributions from epidemiology, health economics, environmental health, management, social sciences, ethics, and law.

The Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) was formerly edited by Prof. Dr. Raymond Cox and published by Prof. Dr. Alan Wong in print (ISSN 1911-8066 for print edition) and online (ISSN 1911-8074 for electronic edition) in one yearly volume from 2008 until end 2012. MDPI has taken over the publication of this title on 1 October 2013. Articles published prior to 1 October 2013 on www.jrfm.us have been transferred onto the MDPI platform and left unchanged. MDPI will continue to publish the online edition only.

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (JSTAT) covers all aspects of statistical physics, including experimental work that impacts on the subject.

Focusing exclusively on the chemistry of wood, wood components, and wood products, the Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology covers the latest advances in areas such as lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose, and extractives chemistry; wood and bark chemicals; wood-based biomaterials synthesis and characterization; and biomass conversion or utilization. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

The Journal provides a forum for integrating theoretical and experimental findings in computational neuroscience across relevant interdisciplinary boundaries. Rapidly accumulating empirical data in the neurobiological, psychological and cognitive domains provide important constraints for new theoretical models. The Journal aims to present such theoretical results, and make them accessible to neurobiologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists. Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/page/net/Description.

Malacologia is published by the Institute of Malacology (IM). The IM is a not-for-profit organization, incorporated in the state of Michigan, the directors of which are listed under the masthead (see Masthead). The IM meets once each year for the purpose of business and governance of the journal, to select new members to the editorial board and to evaluate journal policies and performance.

Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on important current political, economic and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Each issue contains approximately five new articles and 40-50 book reviews. Published continuously as a quarterly since 1928 under the same name, it is the oldest English-language journal with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. It enjoys an international reputation based on the high quality of articles, and its extensive book reviews section.

Philosophical Investigations is a quarterly journal which contains articles, discussions, critical notices and reviews covering every branch of philosophy. Its aim is to publish works of merit which deal with those topics that are of interest not simply to professional philosophers but also to the wider educated public. In recent years, for example, it has produced special issues dealing with the nature of consciousness and with the relation between ethics and religion. The journal is international both in its contributors and its readership.

Quaerendo is a leading peer-reviewed journal on the history of books and manuscripts in Europe, especially the Low Countries and its neighbours. Particular emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of book history and the dissemination of books and manuscripts. Since 1971 Quaerendo has established itself as a major forum for contributions concerning the history of the book. Each volume contains, besides full articles on all aspects of the history of the book, a special section for Book Reviews and Notes in order to announce recent discoveries, new publications and relevant events.

La Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología (Speech and Language Therapy and Audiology) is the official journal of the Spanish Association of Speech and Language Therapy and Audiology (Asociación Española de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología (AELFA). It is a multidisciplinary journal which publishes articles associated with the fields of Speech and Language Therapy and Audiology and complies with APA guidelines. Director: Enrique Salesa Batlle.