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Editorial: Introducing the New AEs

T the beginning of last year, the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) had a sizable backlog of accepted papers. I am pleased to inform our readers that we have received approval from the IEEE Computer Society for an additional 368 pages this year. This represents a 35 percent increase from the regular page budget of 1,048 pages. The page increase will clear out most of th...

Editorial: Introducing Registered Reports

The way we do science is rather stereotyped. We have hypotheses to test, and we plan the experiments, sometimes a long time ahead, to test these hypotheses. Writing a grant proposal is a typical example: we give a detailed plan of what we are going to do in the coming years. Of course, we never know how a project will evolve, and deviations from the original plan are commonplace, as milestones ...

Introducing editorial changes.

With the arrival of 2015, Nature Materials wishes to announce a few editorial changes. First, we will offer the option of a double-blind peer-review route — that is, the authors’ identities are not made available to the anonymous (from the authors’ point of view) reviewers. Until now, the peer-review process at Nature Materials has been singleblind, which means that the reviewers’ identities ar...

Introducing JOSA A tutorials: editorial.

We describe the new tutorial article type in detail and give some background on the reasons for its introduction.

Introducing our new Editorial Board.