Biology Open: The story so far…
2015; The Company of Biologists; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1242/bio.201511643
ISSN2046-6390
AutoresJordan W. Raff, Rachel Hackett,
Tópico(s)Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
ResumoIt is hard to believe that, with the arrival of 2015, Biology Open (BiO) begins its fourth year of publication. We'd like to take this moment to look back on what we have learned since the first issue was published by The Company of Biologists in January 2012.BiO was launched with the aim of reducing the ‘pain to publish’ that many authors experience. By publishing all papers that address a valid scientific question, are technically sound, and where the conclusions are adequately supported by the data, BiO provides a welcoming home for solid, well-executed research papers. We have helped authors to avoid additional rounds of submission and review for papers described as “interesting, but no new mechanistic insight” or “interesting, but an insufficient advance” and saved them countless hours of additional experiments thought up by reviewers simply to increase the ever-elusive “impact” of the work. Since its launch, BiO has published more than 450 freely accessible articles.One of the foremost objectives of BiO was to address the speed and quality of review. Review procedures at BiO are fast and simple, but also rigorous. We ask reviewers to complete their reviews within seven working days, and our average time for completing peer review in 2014 was nine days. Almost no articles are accepted without some changes being requested, but new experiments are only insisted upon if these are essential to support the key conclusions of the paper; we do not ask our reviewers to suggest experiments that would simply increase the impact of the work. Articles are published online on average 25 working days after acceptance.The multiple rounds of review, revision and resubmission often required before a paper is finally accepted has led to substantial reviewer fatigue, with large numbers of reviewers often involved with the peer review process for a single article. BiO accepts articles and any accompanying reviews from the other Company of Biologists' journals. In addition, we have an agreement in place with eLife, the journal published by the Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Max Planck Society, whereby their rejected authors are given the opportunity to transfer to BiO. We are negotiating similar deals with other journals. We will also consider peer review reports from other journals. Such transfer of reviews and articles speeds up editorial decisions and reduces the number of rounds of review.Publishers have an increasing array of tools to help identify possible unethical practices, such as the iThenticate software, which detects plagiarism, and processes that reveal potential figure manipulation. Recently, the increasing number of reports of ‘fake’ reviews, whereby authors manipulate the review process to enable them to review their own work (http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1.16400), has led us to review our own procedures. We will ensure that any author-suggested reviewers with a non-institutional e-mail address (such as Gmail or Yahoo) are indeed valid and associated with a ‘real’ scientist. Would publishing peer reviews eradicate weak or non-existent peer review practices adopted by so-called predatory publishers (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/), who seem to publish anything for a fee? We continue to be actively involved in this debate with other reputable publishers.Many publishers are wrangling with the issue of reviewer support, reward and incentive. Increasing numbers of articles are being published and the demand for peer review has never been greater. How is the quality of peer review to be maintained in such an environment? Are senior investigators able to dedicate their valuable time to mentoring early career scientists in the art of peer review? BiO encourages the involvement of postdocs and other early career scientists in the peer review process. We simply ask that: the name of the co-reviewer is reported to the Editor; the same rules of confidentiality and conflict of interest be applied; there is a genuine mentoring process; and the senior invited reviewer takes responsibility for the report delivered to the journal. Taking on the role of reviewer is usually not acknowledged by institutes and funders as a research output, but it is a cornerstone of the publication process. We continue to campaign with other publishers for this vital service to be properly recognized as an important academic contribution. Should reviewers be paid or is there in effect a payment in kind, an altruistic understanding that acting as a peer reviewer supports the community? This conversation will continue, with journals undertaking experiments to improve or refine the peer review process, and investigating ways to reward peer reviewers. Today, as we do every year, we take a small step in this direction by publishing the names of all those who completed a review for BiO during 2014, with our sincere thanks for their expertise and time. We hope the community will join us in thanking these people properly for their considerable effort.Alejandro Aballay, Duke University, USAPeter Aerts, University of Antwerp, BelgiumKami Ahmad, Harvard Medical School, USATakahiko Akematsu, York University, Toronto, CanadaScott Alper, National Jewish Health, USAJeffrey Amack, SUNY Upstate Medical University, USAEnrique Amaya, University of Manchester, UKJack Arbiser, Emory University, USAMaria Eugenia Arnone, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, ItalyDamien Arnoult, INSERM U542, FranceKristin Artinger, University of Colorado, USAJerome Artus, Pasteur Institut, FranceSophie Astrof, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USALiliana Attisano, University of Toronto, CanadaPeter Baas, Drexel University College of Medicine, USALuis-Alberto Baena-Lopez, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, UKMohan Balasubramanian, University of Warwick, UKBrian Ballios, University of Toronto, CanadaAllan Balmain, University of California San Francisco, USAGeorge Banting, University of Bristol, UKJeffrey Barminko, Rutgers University, USAMark Bass, University of Bristol, UKAndrew Bassett, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford, UKAaron Baumann, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USARenaud Beauwens, Université libre de Bruxelles, BelgiumCatherina Becker, University of Edinburgh, UKFrederic Becq, University of Poitiers, FranceChristine Bedore, Duke University, USATracy Bedrosian, Ohio State University, USAFrank Beier, University of Western Ontario, CanadaJoseph Bell, Harvard Medical School, USAIgal Berenshtein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelAndreas Bergmann, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USAAnne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UKDavid Bilder, University of California Berkeley, USAJoyce Bischoff, Boston Children's Hospital, USAJorge Blanco, Institute of Population Genetics, Vienna, AustriaBruce Blumberg, University of California Irvine, USARachel Bowden, Illinois State University, USADouglas Bowles, University of Missouri, USAAndre Brandli, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, GermanyBeate Brand-Saberi, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, GermanyBjörn Brembs, Universität Regensburg, GermanyJosh Brickman, University of Edinburgh, UKSteven Britt, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, USAWilliam Brownell, Baylor College of Medicine, USANia Bryant, University of York, UKBradley Buckley, Portland State University, USAMarina Campione, CNR Institute of Neurosciences, ItalyDana Carroll, University of Utah, USATamara Caspary, Emory University, USAKevin Chalut, University of Cambridge, UKLuke Chamberlain, Strathclyde University, UKYu Chen, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USALinxi Chen, University of South China, ChinaXie Jie Chen, SUNY Upstate Medical University, USADanian Chen, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, CanadaLionel Christiaen, New York University, USAChristopher Ciarleglio, Brown University, USALionel Clement, University of Alabama School of Medicine, USADavid Clynes, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UKThomas Coate, Georgetown University, USARaymond Cohen, CSIRO, AustraliaPaola Costantini, University of Padova, ItalyIta Costello, University of Oxford, UKMatthew Cottee, University of Oxford, UKEvelyne Coudrier, Institut Curie, FranceFraser Coxon, Bone Research Society, UKJulie Crockett, University of Aberdeen, UKRobyn Crook, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USAVincent Croset, University of Oxford, UKColin Crump, University of Cambridge, UKAndrew Dacks, West Virginia University, USARichard Dahl, Indiana University, USAKaveh Daneshvar, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USAPeter Daniel, Hofstra University, USAKristiaan D'Aout, University of Liverpool, UKStefano De Renzis, EMBL Heidelberg, GermanyJohan De Rooij, Hubrecht Institute, The NetherlandsPascal de Santa Barbara, INSERM U1046, Montpellier, FranceJean-Luc Desseyn, Université de Lille, FranceJulie Donaldson, NIH, Bethesda, USAMary Donohoe, Cornell University, USACynthia Downs, University of Nevada Reno, USADennis Drescher, Wayne State University, USAJeoffrey Eales, University of Manitoba, CanadaJohn Eggenschwiler, University of Georgia, USAPeter Falkingham, Royal Veterinary College, UKAlan Fanning, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USADavid Fay, University of Wyoming, USABrock Fenton, University of Western Ontario, CanadaRafael Fissore, University of Massachusetts, USAAnn Foley, Clemson University College of Engineering, USAEric Folker, Boston College, USACaroline Formstone, Kings College London, UKAmelie Fradet-Turcotte, The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, CanadaDiego Franco, University of Jaén, SpainAlison Frand, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USAVanessa Franssens, KU Leuven, BelgiumMariella Freitas, University of Viçosa, BrazilThomas Friedman, NIDCD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USAMark Frye, University of California, Los Angeles, USAChristopher Fulton, Australian National University, AustraliaAntonella Galli, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UKBrigitte Galliot, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandDeborah Galson, University of Pittsburgh, USAMichael Garcia, University of Missouri-Columbia, USAAlexis Gautreau, École Polytechnique, FranceElizabeth Gavis, Princeton University, USACharles Gerday, University of Liege, BelgiumTroy Ghashghaei, North Carolina State University, USAMarta Giacomello, Dulbecco-Telethon Institute, ItalyAllen Gibbs, University of Nevada, USAGary Gillis, Mount Holyoke College, USAFernando Giraldez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainMary Goll, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USASonia González-Braojos, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, SpainAndrew Grierson, University of Sheffield, UKAtan Gross, Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelFrancois Guillemot, National Institute for Medical Research, UKMonika Gullerova, University of Oxford, UKUfuk Günesdogan, University of Cambridge, UKMarina Guvakova, University of Pennsylvania, USARandal Halfmann, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USAChrissy Hammond, University of Bristol, UKSteven Hann, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, USAJeffrey Harrison, University of Florida, USAVolker Hartenstein, UCLA, USASimon Harvey, Canterbury Christ Church University, UKAdrian Harwood, UCL, UKPhilip Hastings, Baylor College of Medicine, USAHarry Heijnen, University Medical Center Utrecht, The NetherlandsIan Henderson, University of Cambridge, UKBrian Hendrich, University of Cambridge, UKClarissa Henry, University of Maine, USAIan Hickson, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkHelfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex, UKPeter Hohenstein, MRC Human Genetics Unit, UKGeorg Hollander, University of Oxford, UKEdmund Hollis, UCSD, USAPamela Hoodless, BC Cancer Agency, CanadaSevan Hopyan, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, CanadaDan Hultmark, Umeå University, SwedenPeter Hurd, University of Alberta, CanadaRichard Hynes, HHMI/MIT, USAHiroshi Imai, Kyoto University, JapanLuisa Iruela-Arispe, UCLA, USAJohn Isanhart, US Department of the Interior, USAShoko Ishibashi, University of Manchester, UKYoshifumi Itoh, University of Oxford, UKAymelt Itzen, Technische Universität München, GermanyJuan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Salk Institute, USACatherine Jackson, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, FranceAbhinav Jain, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USAJorgen Jensen, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, NorwayRenjie Jiao, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaMats Johansson, University of Wisconsin, USAReid Johnson, University of California, USAMarko Kaksonen, EMBL Heidelberg, GermanyDavid Kang, USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, USALaurent Keller, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandSteven Kelly, University of Oxford, UKAnna-Marie Kenney, Emory University, USAYoshiaki Kikkawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, JapanDennis Kim, MIT, USAChungho Kim, Korea University, Republic of KoreaJames Konopka, Stony Brook University, USAEdward Korn, NHLBI, NIH, USAVladimir Korzh, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, SingaporeHelmut Kramer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USAScott Kreher, Dominican University, USATorsten Kristensen, Aalborg University, DenmarkRonald Kroger, Lund University, SwedenPaul Kulesa, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USADiana Laird, UCSF, USAPavithra Lakshminarasimhan, University of Cambridge, UKFredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institutet, SwedenMichael Lanzer, Heidelberg University Hospital, GermanyMiguel Leal, Universidade de Aveiro, PortugalJae Lee, University of Miami, USAHeon-Jin Lee, Kyungpook National University, Republic of KoreaEmilie Legue, Yale University, USAJinxing Lin, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaJi-Long Liu, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford, UKNa Liu, Nankai University, ChinaYing Liu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USAAimin Liu, Penn State University, USACatherine Lohmann, University of North Carolina, USAMartin Lowe, University of Manchester, UKSally Lowell, University of Edinburgh, UKLaura Machesky, CRUK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UKYusuke Maeda, Osaka University, JapanEamonn Mallon, University of Leicester, UKMarcos Malumbres, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, SpainIvan Manzini, University of Göttingen, GermanyGiancarlo Marra, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandJennifer Mather, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, CanadaIvan Matic, U1001 INSERM, FranceMichiyuki Matsuda, Kyoto University, JapanTakeshi Matsuzawa, Osaka Prefecture University, JapanHeidi McBride, McGill University, CanadaDavid McClay, Duke University, USAMark McNiven, Mayo Clinic, USAIrene Miguel-Aliaga, Imperial College London, UKThomas Millard, University of Manchester, UKLaura Miller, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USALucile Miquerol, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS UMR 7288, FranceToshihiro Mitaka, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, JapanChristian Mitri, Institut Pasteur, FranceMiguel Moreno-Garcia, Colorado State University, USACiaran Morrison, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandScott Moye-Rowley, University of Iowa, USAHans-Arno Muller, University of Dundee, UKDaniel Mulvihill, University of Kent, UKJan Munch, Ulm University Hospital, GermanySilvia Munoz-Descalzo, University of Bath, UKSean Munro, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UKNagy Nandor, Semmelweis University, Budapest, HungaryAnthony Nicholas, University of Alabama School of Medicine, USAJennifer Nichols, University of Cambridge, UKBen Nichols, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UKRoland Nitschke, Life Imaging Center, Freiburg, GermanyRyusuke Niwa, University of Tsukuba, JapanWataru Nomura, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, JapanAkinao Nose, University of Tokyo, JapanScott Nowak, Kennesaw State University, USASonja Nowotschin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USANiels Ortenblad, University of Southern Denmark, DenmarkJames Palis, University of Rochester Medical Center, USAYale Passamaneck, University of Hawaii, USAAndrew Peden, University of Sheffield, UKGiuseppa Pennetta, University of Edinburgh, UKJonathan Pettitt, University of Aberdeen, UKCathie Pfleger, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USAAnna Philpott, University of Cambridge, UKJonathon Pines, University of Cambridge, UKNicolas Pollet, ISSB, CR1 CNRS, FranceYekaterina Poloz, University of Toronto, CanadaHerman Pontzer, Hunter College, USAJean Potvin, Saint Louis University, USARytis Prekeris, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USAJohn Presley, University of Montreal, CanadaVictoria Prince, University of Chicago, USARuben Quintana-Cabrera, University of Padova, ItalyR Raijmakers, University of Utrecht, The NetherlandsAmy Ralston, Michigan State University, USAV Krishnan Ramanujan, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USAMary Ramsey, University of Texas, USARoberto Refinetti, University of South Carolina, USAEvan Reid, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UKHeinrich Reinchert, University of Basel, SwitzerlandVictor Rizzo, Temple University School of Medicine, USAHugh Robertson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATristan Rodriguez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, UKShai Sabbah, Brown University, USAAlvaro Sagasti, UCLA, USAAki Salo, University of Bath, UKEmilio Salo, Universitat de Barcelona, SpainRamkumar Sambasivan, inStem, IndiaLisa Sandell, University of Louisville, USAPauline Schaap, University of Dundee, UKMichael Schaller, West Virginia University, USAAndreas Schedl, Institute of Biology Valrose, FranceRichard Sherwood, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USAYun-Bo Shi, NICHD/NIH, Bethesda, USAThierry Soldati, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandMaria Eugenia Soriano, Dulbecco Telethon Institute, ItalyShankar Srinivas, University of Oxford, UKMichelle Starz-Gaiano, University of Maryland, USAMichelle Staudinger, University of Massachusetts, USAJared Sterneckert, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, GermanyAngelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary University of London, UKWenjing Su, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USAChristine Suetterlin, University of California-Irvine, USAMelanie Sutton-McDowall, University of Adelaide, AustraliaTohru Suzuki, Tohoku University, JapanMarkus Tamas, University of Gothenburg, SwedenKayoko Tanaka, University of Leicester, UKAndrea Tedeschi, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, GermanyWilliam Theurkauf, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USAUlrich Thomas, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, GermanyRyan Thummel, Wayne State University, USAAndrzej Tkacz, University of Oxford, UKSokol Todi, Wayne State University, USAStan Tomavo, Université Lille Nord de France, FranceMark Tomishima, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USAMichael Tomlinson, University of Birmingham, UKPranav Ullal, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandTeresa Valencak, Veterinary University Vienna, AustriaMark van Breugel, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UKAnne Marijn van der Graaf, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsChris van der Poel, La Trobe University, AustraliaFrans van Roy, Ghent University, BelgiumAlexander Venn, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, MonacoMonica Vetter, University of Utah, USAAndrea Vortkamp, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, GermanyStephen Voss, University of Kentucky, USAJames Wakefield, University of Exeter, UKYibin Wang, UCLA, USAXiaoxi Wang, Vanderbilt University, USAHongyan Wang, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, SingaporeSteven Wasserman, UCSD, USAThomas Wassmer, Aston University, UKThomas Wellems, NIAID, NIH, USAMichael White, University of South Florida, USAJill Wildonger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USABodo Wilts, University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandRichard Wingate, King's College London, UKThomas Woolley, University of Oxford, UKChristopher Wright, Vanderbilt University, USAWei-Feng Xue, University of Kent, UKZhe Yang, Wayne State University, USASeda Yerlikaya, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandHebao Yuan, University of Michigan, USATroy Zars, University of Missouri-Columbia, USABing Zhang, University of Missouri, USAHong-Bo Zhao, University of Kentucky Medical Center, USAHui Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongIrene Zohn, Children's National Medical Center, USAOlivier Zugasti, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, France
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