Eleven years ago, when Barry Everitt assumed the editorship of EJN, he received a huge box of index cards and discovered a backlog of manuscripts worth an entire year of issues. When he and the co-editor-in-Chief, Chris Henderson, stepped down in July, we found a journal that is strongly supported by its co-owners, the Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the publisher, ...

The intent, therefore, is to provide a metric for the number of times an article is cited, on average, in the first 1 to 2 years after it appears. However, close scrutiny of the formula reveals that the factor might be artificially inflated in journals that routinely publish abstracts. Citations to abstracts are counted in the numerator, but not in the denominator. Our journal has not published...

A large and growing body of empirical research shows that social relationships and the networks these relationships constitute are influential in explaining the processes of knowledge creation, diffusion, absorption, and use. The authors refer to such networks as " knowledge networks. " They advance an understanding of knowledge networks at multiple levels by conducting a systematic review and ...

This paper addresses the subject of the use of selected toxicology information resources in assessing relationships between chemical structure and specific biological end points. To assist the researcher in how to access the primary literature of genetic toxicology, teratogenesis, and carcinogenesis, three specific specialized information centers are discussed--Environmental Mutagen Information...

“With great power there must also come—great responsibility!” (Lee 1962). I have kept this in mind during my editorship of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (PBZ), and I have tried to shepherd the journal into the beginning decades of the twenty-first century by increasing online supplements, adding new sections that will expand our readership, and selecting only the best and most fitting p...

Emeritus Professor Alan Mercer of Lancaster University died on July 9, following a stroke, a month short of his 83rd birthday. Alan, Bernhard Tilanus and Hans-Jurgen Zimmermann, were founding editors of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) in 1975, and continued as editors together until they resigned in 1998. It was expected that the tripartite editorship would only last a year ...

J. David Singer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. A pioneer in the effort to render the study of international politics more scientific, his many important works include authorship of Deterrence, Arms Control, and Disarmament (1962) and editorship of Human Behavior and International Politics (1965) and Quantitative International Politics (1968). As can be seen in ...

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The brief publication [1] in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) entitled "Enzymic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid", submitted May 2, 1956, was the first such report of DNA synthesis, aside from an abstract which appeared in Federation Proceedings in March of that year [2]. In the BBA paper, we (see photograph, p. 55) showed that the incorporation of [a4C]thymidine into an acid-soluble, DNas...

Seniors Hold Last Banquet O'Connor's Restaurant at 6 p.m. will be the scene of the Senior Clasps banquet, announces John Orser. President. Walter Knotts, Associate Professor of English, will he guest speaker and faculty guest will be Violet Larney, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Mr. Larney. Turkey and roast beef dinners will be served. Donna Hughes is General Chairman; Mary Eileen Doarv...