Top Picks and Welcoming New Editorial Board Members

Doing what we do best, only better

As current editor-in-chief and executive editor for the Journal of Cell Biology, we are writing to describe our shared vision for the journal: To enable the swift and painless publication of advances and thought-provoking ideas in a range of fields that inform cell biology, and to promote this high-quality work as broadly as possible in our community. Throughout 2015, we celebrated the 60th ann...

The relationship between the number of editorial board members and the scientific output of universities in the chemistry field

Editorial board members, who are considered the gatekeepers of scientific journals, play an important role in academia, and may directly or indirectly affect the scientific output of a university. In this article, we used the quantile regression method among a sample of 1,387 university in chemistry to characterize the correlation between the number of editorial board members and the scientific...

New editorial board members

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 211 No. 4 723–727 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201511023 723 Members of the editorial board play a critical role at JCB. Our board members help authors navigate the editorial process by actively engaging with peer reviewers, offering guidance during revision, and ultimately determining the work that ends up in the pages of the journa...

The Viewpoint of IJMS New Editorial Board

New editorial board members

As JCB approaches its 60th anniversary, we believe that one of the secrets to our longevity and success has been our commitment to regularly assess and refresh our editorial board. This ensures that our board members bring to the journal the expertise and commitment required to provide the cell biology community with the fair and expeditious review process they deserve. We would like to take th...