Editorial Independence

Editorial Independence for EHP

Over the years, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) has emerged as one of the leading journals in the environmental health sciences. It can be argued that one reason for EHP's standing in the field of environmental health is its credibility as an unbiased source of news and research. With the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)—the journal's parent agency—under new d...

Editorial independence: painful lessons.

Editorial independence and ethics of research publication.

Editorial independence is built on trust and communication.

In January of that year George D Lundberg, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], was sacked by the American Medical Association (Anderson 1999). Some five months later, Jerome P Kassirer, Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, left the Journal when his contract with the Massachusetts Medical Society, the journal’s owners, was not renewed (Smith 1999). At the ...

Girth, minimum degree, independence, and broadcast independence

An independent broadcast on a connected graph $G$is a function $f:V(G)to mathbb{N}_0$such that, for every vertex $x$ of $G$, the value $f(x)$ is at most the eccentricity of $x$ in $G$,and $f(x)>0$ implies that $f(y)=0$ for every vertex $y$ of $G$ within distance at most $f(x)$ from $x$.The broadcast independence number $alpha_b(G)$ of $G$is the largest weight $sumlimits_{xin V(G)}f(x)$of an ind...