Journal Guide

Current Applied Physics is an international journal which covers all the fields of applied science investigating the physics of the advanced materials for future applications.Other areas covered: Experimental and theoretical aspects of advanced materials and devices dealing with synthesis or structural chemistry, physical and electronic properties, photonics, engineering application and uniquely pertinent measurement or analytical techniques. Current Applied Physics covers physics, chemistry and materials science, including bio-materials, with their engineering aspects. This journal is a truly interdisciplinary journal opening a forum for the scientists of all related fields, a unique point of the journal discriminating it from other worldwide and/or Pacific Rim applied physics journals.Regular research papers, letters and review articles with contents meeting the scope of the journal will be considered for publication after peer review.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Founded in 1857 as Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, the journal Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift is an international journal of systematic entomology. It publishes original research papers in English on the systematics, taxonomy, phylogeny, comparative morphology, and biogeography of insects. Other arthropods are also considered where of relevance to the biology of insects. The geographical scope of the journal is worldwide. Priority is given to revisional work and comprehensive studies of phylogenetic, biological or zoogeographical relevance. We also invite review articles pertaining to the systematics and biology of insects. Impact Factor 0.400* * Thomson Reuters Citation Report 2009 Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift is dedicated to provide a high-quality forum to contribute to the documentation of insect species, their distribution, their properties, and their phylogenetic relationships. All submitted manuscripts are subject to peer-review by the leading specialists for the respective topic. Distinguished authorities form the international advisory board which guarantees the high scientific profile of the journal. This reflected by an outstanding print quality which is adept in conveying the valuable information contained in the often detailed line drawings and photographs of scientific illustrations. Authors are provided - without any page charge - 25 reprints and a high-resolution pdf of their article. For detailed information readers and authors are asked to refer to the following URL for the journal at Wiley Interscience and the Museum fur Naturkunde, respectively:.

Information and communication technology are integral to all areas of health care, from organisational management to the delivery of patient care and health promotion. In this fast-moving arena, Health Informatics Journal provides an international forum for the exchange of practice, innovation and research. Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, the journal publishes peer reviewed contributions from the fields of informatics and telematics, the health professions, computer science, engineering and management.A free subscription to Health Informatics Journal is included as part of the membership to The British Medical Informatics Society. For further details about the society and how to become a member go to www.bmis.org.The Editor is keen to discuss papers on any subject relevant to healthcare informatics, but especially welcomes contributions on e-health, electronic patient records, e-learning in healthcare, web-based information services; support for clinical decision-making, knowledge management, quality control, evidence-based practice, modeling of healthcare service usage; healthcare applications of mobile and pervasive technologies, assistive technology; evaluation and use of healthcare IT, design and development methodologies for healthcare IT, security and confidentiality; future developments in technologies and applications.For more information on contributing to Health Informatics Journal, please email the Editor, Rob Procter: rnp@inf.ed.ac.uk.

The Journal of Risk and Insurance is the flagship journal for the American Risk and Insurance Association. The JRI is the most well recognized academic risk management and insurance journal in the world and is currently indexed by the American Economic Association's Economic Literature Index, the Finance Literature Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, ABI/Inform, Business and Company ASAP, Lexis-Nexis, Dow Jones Interactive, and others. All back issues, i.e., 1933-2001, are now available on JSTOR. The Journal of Risk and Insurance publishes rigorous, original research in insurance and risk management. This includes the following areas of specialization: 1. Industrial organization of insurance markets; 2. Management of risks in the private and public sectors; 3. Insurance finance, financial pricing, financial management; 4. Economics of employee benefits, pension plans, and social insurance; 5. Utility theory and demand for insurance; 6. Asymmetric information, moral hazard, and adverse selection; 7. Insurance regulation; 8. Econometric, actuarial, and statistical methodology; 9. Economics of insurance institutions; 10. Insurance cycles and economic cycles of insurance markets; Both theoretical and empirical submissions are encouraged. Empirical work must provide tests of hypotheses based on sound theoretical foundations.

The Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, published by the American Chemical Society on behalf of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, is a monthly, peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of mass spectrometry, including fields of scientific inquiry in which mass spectrometry can play a role, including both applications and fundamentals. These fields include chemical, biological, health, environmental, physical, geological, and forensic sciences, as well as omics sciences, such as proteomics and metabolomics.

The journal publishes papers on both fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry, in addition to new instrumentation and methods development. Papers that report on applications should have a principal focus on the use of a new mass spectrometry tool or approach to solve a qualitative or quantitative problem.

Fundamental and application-based subjects welcomed by the journal include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals

• Instrumentation principles, design, and demonstration
• Structures and chemical properties of gas-phase ions
• Thermodynamic properties
• Ion spectroscopy
• Chemical kinetics
• Mechanisms of ionization
• Theories of ion fragmentation
• Cluster Ions
• Potential energy surfaces

Applications

• Development or validation of new methodology
• Omics related research (e.g., proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, multi-omics systems)
• Structural elucidation
• Biopolymer sequencing
• Automation/implementation of high throughput methods
• Environmental and forensic measurements
• Computer applications, new algorithms and software

The International Journal of Management Education provides a forum for scholarly reporting and discussion of developments in all aspects of teaching and learning in business and management. The Journal seeks reflective papers which bring together pedagogy and theories of management learning; descriptions of innovative teaching which include critical reflection on implementation and outcomes will also be considered.The editors particularly welcome submissions on:• Critical perspectives on education and its institutional development in all the business and management disciplines;• Changes in the structure of business and management education and the changing roles of management educators;• Relationships of business and management programmes to employers' needs;• Globalisation of business and management education.Reports on emerging technologies and independent reviews of software and major new texts will be published as appropriate.By promoting critical discussion on current innovations within these areas, the journal represents an excellent forum for highlighting the profile of management education on both a national and international level.The International Journal of Management Education is the outlet for educational research and developments within business, management, accountancy and finance.Professor Neil Marriott Deputy Vice ChancellorDean, Faculty of Business, Law and Sport Director, Winchester Business School

The Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve provides a forum for the presentation of pure and applied research results, discussion of best practices and review of literature regarding all aspects of library resource sharing. While other journals in reference services and academic librarianship occasionally publish articles on interlibrary loan or electronic reserve, this unique journal publishes more than half of all articles on these topics. In addition to traditional resource sharing topics of interlibrary loan and electronic reserves, the journal encourages submission of scholarly papers regarding document delivery, cooperative collection development, shared virtual library services and digitization projects, library consortia, networks and cooperatives as well as other multi-library collaborative efforts.Of particular interest are articles regarding new models and emerging technologies for resource sharing, cooperative training ventures, and shared storage facilities. Solutions for special problems found in medical, music, law, government and other unique types of libraries are also relevant to the journal's readers. Peer Review Policy: All articles in Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, & Electronic Reserve have undergone editorial screening and peer review.Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Topics of interest to the journal include:
• Applications of algebras, co-algebra and categories to programming
• Applications of proof theory and model theory to programming
• Constraint programming
• Foundations of Programming Paradigms
• Logic programming
• Logical Foundations of Program Security
• Models and Analytical Models for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Process Calculi
• Programming Models
• Quantitative Methods for System Analysis
• Specification and verification of systems

The Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming complements Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming and Theoretical Computer Science by its focus on the foundations and the application of logical, algebraic and categorical methods to programming and to the development of trustworthy computing systems.

Journal of Proteomics is an official journal of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA) and is aimed at both European and international protein scientists and analytical chemists in the field of proteomics, biomarker discovery, protein analytics, plant proteomics, microbial and animal proteomics, human studies, tissue imaging by mass spectrometry, non-conventional and non-model organism proteomics, and protein bioinformatics. The journal welcomes papers in new and upcoming areas such as metabolomics, genomics, systems biology, toxicogenomics, pharmacoproteomics.Journal of Proteomics unifies both fundamental scientists and clinicians, and includes translational research. Suggestions for reviews, webinars and thematic issues are welcome. All manuscripts are strictly peer reviewed and conform the highest ethical standards. Journal of Proteomics also publishes official EuPA reports and participates in the International Proteomics Tutorial Programme with HUPO and other partners.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery provides a cross-disciplinary platform for presenting the latest developments in robotics and computer assisted technologies for medical applications. The journal publishes cutting-edge papers and expert reviews, complemented by commentaries, correspondence and conference highlights that stimulate discussion and exchange of ideas. Areas of interest include robotic surgery aids and systems, operative planning tools, medical imaging and visualisation, simulation and navigation, virtual reality, intuitive command and control systems, haptics and sensor technologies. In addition to research and surgical planning studies, the journal welcomes papers detailing clinical trials and applications of computer-assisted workflows and robotic systems in neurosurgery, urology, paediatric, orthopaedic, craniofacial, cardiovascular, thoraco-abdominal, musculoskeletal and visceral surgery. Articles providing critical analysis of clinical trials, assessment of the benefits and risks of the application of these technologies, commenting on ease of use, or addressing surgical education and training issues are also encouraged. The journal aims to foster a community that encompasses medical practitioners, researchers, and engineers and computer scientists developing robotic systems and computational tools in academic and commercial environments, with the intention of promoting and developing these exciting areas of medical technology.

The Japanese Political Economy approaches the study of Japan and its international and domestic relations through interdisciplinary, comparative, and interactive modes of inquiry. The journal is a resource for scholars, policymakers and practitioners who seek to better understand the contemporary and historical, transnational and internal processes of change in Japanese society, politics and economics. It publishes a broad range of scholarship that draws from multiple theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives. 

The Japanese Political Economy has covered political and economic topics unique to the country such as: the green tourism industry, consumption patterns in the wake of natural disasters, incentives for rigging sumo wrestling, and Japan’s high public debt/low bond-yields economy (maybe also give an example of something international/transnational). The journal welcomes submissions from political scientists, economists, economic historians, sociologists, and policy-makers.  

The  Japanese Political Economy continues Japanese Economic Studies, a leading journal published continuously since 1972. From 1997 to 2013, the journal was known as Japanese Economy.  

Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal are original and have undergone double-blind peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by one anonymous referee.

Established in 1942 by the American Society for Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and timely book reviews in aesthetics and the arts. The term aesthetics, in this connection, is understood to include all studies of the arts and related types of experience from a philosophic, scientific, or other theoretical standpoint. The arts are taken to include not only the traditional forms such as music, literature, landscape architecture, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and other visual arts, but also more recent additions such as photography, film, earthworks, performance and conceptual art, the crafts and decorative arts, contemporary digital innovations, and other cultural practices, including work and activities in the field of popular culture. The Journal takes a theoretical and interdisciplinary approach to the arts and aesthetic matters. Its authors include artists, writers, and academics in the fields of philosophy, English literature, comparative literature, art, music, theater and drama, art history, psychology, law, and related disciplines. The Journal and the American Society for Aesthetics also sponsor the biannual John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics in honor of John Fisher, editor of the Journal from 1973-1988. The Prize is offered to foster the development of new voices and talent in the field of aesthetics.

Expanded Routledge Psychoanalysis Coverage in PEPThe Journal of Child Psychotherapy is the official journal of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, first published in 1963. It is an essential publication for all those with an interest in the theory and practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and work with infants, children, adolescents and their parents where there are emotional and psychological problems. The journal also deals with the applications of such theory and practice in other settings or fieldsThe Journal is concerned with a wide spectrum of emotional and behavioural disorders. These range from the more severe conditions of autism, anorexia, depression and the traumas of emotional, physical and sexual abuse to problems such as bed wetting and soiling, eating difficulties and sleep disturbance.ReadershipThis journal is an essential publication for all those with an interest in the theory and practice of work with children, adolescents and their parents where there are emotional and psychological problems.Peer Review IntegrityAll research articles and submitted reflective papers in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections, or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent reviewers.All review, commissioned/invited and opinion papers in this journal have undergone initial editor screening and rigorous editorial review.Disclaimer The Association of Child Psychotherapists and Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 8220;Content8221;) contained in its publications. However, the Society and Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether expressed or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of the Society and Taylor & Francis.

Clinical & Experimental Immunology is a top ranking, international journal publishing biologically significant studies that have clinical relevance. The Journal is focused on Translational Immunology and is amongst the foremost journals in this field, attracting high-quality papers from all parts of the world. Translation is viewed as a process of applying ideas, insights and discoveries generated through basic scientific studies to the treatment, prevention or diagnosis of human disease. Journal articles cover clinical studies in patients receiving immune-based therapies, in relation to autoimmunity, primary and secondary immunodeficiencies, complement disorders and allergies. The Journal also reports investigations on the pathogenesis of rheumatic, renal and endocrine disorders, as well as infectious diseases, malignancy and transplantation. Basic immunology studies that inform clinical practice or understanding of disease mechanisms are also welcomed, as are studies in non-human model systems and reports on the physiological mechanisms of immunity. In addition to research reports, the Journal publishes highly cited review, perspective and hypothesis articles. These are usually commissioned and published as Translational Mini-Review series, but suggestions to the Editor-in-Chief of topics for such series, or titles for one-off review articles are welcome. The Journal encourages submission of articles that represent position papers on the classification, diagnosis or treatment of immunological disease.Articles deemed to be of potentially high impact may be drawn to the attention of the Editorial Team for allocation to our Fast-Track category, enabling papers of immediate interest to reach their audience as quickly as possible.Free Access in the Developing WorldFree online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).Online OpenAuthors of articles in this journal can now choose to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee.

The Journal of Social Work Practice publishes high quality refereed articles devoted to the exploration and analysis of practice in social welfare and allied health professions from psychodynamic and systemic perspectives. This includes counselling, social care planning, education and training, research, institutional life, management and organisation or policy-making. Articles are also welcome that critically examine the psychodynamic tradition in the light of other theoretical orientations or explanatory systems. The Journal of Social Work Practice is committed to a policy of equal opportunities and actively strives to foster all forms of intercultural dialogue and debate. The journal thus aims to:provide a unique forum for the application of current understandings of unconscious processes to social work practice with individuals, couples, families and communities;relate these ideas to institutional life and social policy formationlink the psychodynamic tradition with other theoretical orientationsfoster intercultural dialogue and debate. In future the journal will publish a broader scope of material, to include shorter commentaries, conference reports, items addressing professional debates and material which reflects on the social and political context of practice. The core of the journal will continue to be high-quality refereed articles devoted to the exploration and analysis of social work practice themes from psychodynamic and systemic perspectives.The new Editors would like to to encourage shorter items for publication as well as longer articles conforming to the existing style and would be pleased to discuss proposals or 'early ideas' with potential contributors.Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy in Social Work (GAPS), the owner of Journal of Social Work Practice, exists to promote good practice in all social work agencies. GAPS runs conferences, seminars and local groups and is run on a voluntary basis.For further details and membership enquiries, please contact: Pamela Trevithick, GAPS, 18 Greenway Road, Bristol, BS6 6SG Peer Review IntegrityAll research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections, or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, this generally involves initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent reviewers. Disclaimer The GAPS and Taylor & Francis make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the "Content") contained in their publications. However, the Society and Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether expressed or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the author and not the Society and Taylor & Francis.

The Journal of Teaching in International Business instructs international business educators in universities and corporations, curriculum developers, and institutions of higher education worldwide on methods and techniques for better teaching to ensure optimum, cost-effective learning on the part of students of international business. The Journal provides a source for ideas and techniques useful in inculcating a global mindset and for developing measures to assess progress in developing such a global mindset. It is generally assumed that the teaching of international business is universal, but that the application of teaching methods, processes, and techniques in varying socioeconomic and cultural environments is unique. The Journal offers insights and perspectives to international business educators and practitioners to share concerns, problems, opportunities, and solutions to the teaching and learning of international business.The Journal of Teaching in International Business provides a strong forum for scholarly and practical learning on this topic. The scholarly goal of the journal is to advance our understanding of how best to impart a more effective global mindset to all students. The practical articles show teachers of international business how to teach effectively with given resources. The Journal enables the interested individuals to acquire knowledge for developing successful courses in international business for different cultural milieu, areas, or regions of the world. The Journal caters to international business academicians and researchers, public policymakers in higher education, curriculum developers, educational consultants, and students of international business. In particular, persons working within the following fields will find the Journal very useful:international business departments/programs of higher educationtraining and education departments/sections of international companies, banks, and other financial institutionsgovernment departments, international organizations, and institutions concerned with international business education and teachingprofessional and commercial organizations, firms, and publicly owned international corporationsThe Journal contains original, significant, and applied articles that:say something new and meaningful to international business teachers and curriculum developersuse empirical data and analysis to show the effectiveness of various curricula and approaches to teaching international businessenrich and make more effective the classroom presentations of teachers of international businessfacilitate research endeavors of international business consultants, researchers, business education foundations, and institutions of higher learningPeer Review Policy: All articles published in Journal of Teaching in International Business have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees who are subject experts.

In debates about scientific publishing over recent years it has been noted many times that the authors of articles for peer-reviewed journals write primarily for ‘research impact’. Unfortunately, established practices, which involve transferring copyright to journal publishers, often achieve precisely the opposite of impact. Many worthy papers appear in small-circulation journals where they languish unnoticed by all but a few who could profit from the ideas they contain. Many specialist journals have fewer than 1000 subscribers, and even very popular journals fewer than 5000. For those interested in evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior the situation is particularly difficult in that our universities are divided into traditional disciplines that have little coherence when the questions under consideration concern fields as diverse as biology, philosophy, economics, neuroscience, history, and psychology. Our professional bodies also reflect arbitrary divisions of inquiry, with the added impediment that they are often concerned more with local (national) political and legal matters than with the dissemination of knowledge.Of course, since the advent of the Internet, and especially the world wide web, access to information has been transformed, but many of the old barriers remain in place. Although many newspapers make their content freely available, the cost of a journal article published online by a traditional publisher can be more than the price of a textbook, and some publishers do not allow access to individual papers without a full subscription to the print journal. Stevan Harnad notes that, There are currently at least 20,000 refereed journals across all fields of scholarship, publishing more than 2 million refereed articles each year. The amount collectively paid by those of the world’s institutions which can afford the tolls for just one of those refereed papers averages $2,000 per paper. In exchange for that fee, that particular paper is accessible to readers at those, and only those, paying institutions.The internet provides an international readership larger than even the largest circulation journals such as Nature, Science, Scientific American, and New Scientist. The journal has distinguished participants and readers in over 160 countries, and at most major universities and research institutes worldwide.As Evolutionary Psychology has a broad scope covering empirical, philosophical, historical, and socio-political perspectives it has a large and diverse editorial board composed of distinguished and enthusiastic individuals who wish to encourage appropriate submissions across all relevant fields, including original research papers, subject reviews, topic reviews, and book reviews. Each item is published as it is available, with appropriate links being posted to all of our groups and websites. Each item is published in PDF format. This allows articles to be cited as easily as a paper in a hardcopy journal, and also allows for dissemination of material via email to colleagues and interested parties worldwide. This mode of operation will afford authors unparalleled exposure and hence maximum research impact. Contributors are also be encouraged to deposit their work in appropriate eprint archives. To quote Steve Harnad again, Learned inquiry, always communal and cumulative, will not only be immeasurably better informed, new findings percolating through minds and media almost instantaneously, but it will also become incomparably more interactive.In his article ‘Is your journal really necessary?’ Declan Butler of Nature writes: The possibilities of sophisticated matching of personalized editorial selections across large swathes of the literature, and the need to lower barriers to access, should in themselves be sufficient to convince scientists tempted to create low-circulation print journals to consider web-only options. Arguments that electronic-only will hinder access of developing countries to science is nonsense. The reality is that a library in Kinshasa would be lucky if it could afford to subscribe to a handful of print journals; the web promises developing countries access to scientific information they could previously only have dreamed of. But the essential function of a journal is to serve a particular community. The next web revolution will be a plethora of next-generation communities linking papers, people and data. So next time you think about launching a print journal, unless you have sufficient readership to survive in a free competitive market, do your colleagues and science a favour by considering instead what your community needs, and launch the answer online. I predict that this change will occur in under five years; if I am wrong, I will eat my journal.We cordially invite you to join our international community of dedicated research scientists, scholars, and clinicians.

Atlantic Studies provides an international forum for research and debate on historical, cultural and literary issues arising within the new disciplinary matrix of the circumatlantic world. In particular, it seeks to foster a transcultural dialogue between the two hemispheres and, specifically, among the nations of Europe, the Americas and Africa.The Journal aims to study the cartographic space of the Atlantic as it emerged in the early modern period, up to the present day: a highly critical space, centered not on a single nation or land mass but on a new cosmopolitan interchange of land and sea, ships and peoples, cultures and texts, ideas and tools.Published on behalf of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the Journal aims to be an important site for scholarship on the intercultural and transcultural perspective study of multi-ethnic cultures and societies. It challenges nationalist histories and literatures by focusing on the Atlantic as an arena of cultural change and exchange, translation and interference, communication and passage.Atlantic Studies accordingly invites submissions in the areas of history, cultural studies, critical theory, and literature from academics, public intellectuals, contemporary commentators, and activists whose focus of interest lies in circumatlantic perspectives. It also invites special guest-edited issues featuring essays on a single Atlantic theme. The Journal will also publish work based on such visual materials as photography, film, and information media. Each volume will also include book reviews.Atlantic Studies encourages both scholarly research and timely critical debate on current issues within its chosen paradigm. In as much as they develop a circumatlantic, transatlantic, or cisatlantic perspective, essays on race, class, gender, ethnicity and on human rights, citizenship and identity politics will also be welcomed.Peer Review Policy All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by our editorial board and followed by a further critical reading by two anonymous referees.DisclaimerTaylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 8220;Content8221;) contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.