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Authors frequently ask the journal to help them get properly listed in PubMed, which we do. However, representing detailed international contributor attribution is no job for a national public library's index.
It's the year of Charles Darwin, with a variety of celebrations of his life and work ongoing. Educational outreach should emphasize the power of molecular and quantitative genetics to flesh out and build on Darwin's insights.
High-throughput datasets and analysis protocols are intrinsically difficult to referee. Community standards enforced by journals may be less effective than is widely appreciated. Greater awareness of the needs and value of secondary data users can result in higher-impact papers.
An increasing number of research papers are the products of research consortia. How is the journal coping with the effects of team knowledge production on publication? What can you do to expedite the publication of your work?
