Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Proteomics Insights on SCOPUS

We're pleased to announce that Proteomics Insights is now indexed by SCOPUS and journal content will be available there soon.

This enhances the visibility of articles in Proteomics Insights, which is also indexed in:

  • DOAJ

  • Open J-Gate

  • OAlster

Visit the Proteomics Insights homepage and view the Editor in Chief's call for papers

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine call for papers

The Editor in Chief, Dr Hussein D Foda, is pleased to announce a new call for papers for Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine. Submissions are being accepted now.

All published articles appear in Pubmed and gain high visibility on the journal's website. Since 2007 articles have been viewed more than 58,570 times. Articles are also indexed in leading EBSCO and SCOPUS indexes.

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Friday, August 26, 2011

New Biochemistry Insights call for papers

The Editor in Chief, Dr Gabor Mocz, is pleased to announce a new call for papers for Biochemistry Insights. Submissions are being accepted now.

All published articles appear in Chemical Abstracts Service, OAlster and EBSCO databases and gain high visibility on the journal's website. Since 2007 articles have been viewed more than 71,696 times.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Clinical Medicine Insights: Dermatology Reader Profile: Dr Pramod Kumar

Tell us about where you work. What do you do there, and who do you work with?

I have worked at the Saham hospital in Oman for over 7 years. It is a multispecialty hospital (Ministry of Health) dealing in primary and secondary care with in-patient facilities.

What are your primary areas of research? What do you aim to achieve in these areas?

My primary areas of research are diaper rash: focusing on barrier creams (on-going work). Tropical diseases: primarily on Leishmania and Leprosy and hair loss: reducing hair loss and inducing hair growth.

What contributions have you made to these areas so far? What is the broader importance of your contributions?

Published papers on Leprosy, Leishmaniasis, highlighting their association with other conditions hitherto unreported.

What directions do you expect your research in these areas to take in the future?

My work is on-going and is experimental in nature.

What do you consider to be the most important recent developments in your areas of research?

Development of conditioners and cream shampoos.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Lipid Insights on SCOPUS

We're pleased to announce that Lipid Insights is now indexed by SCOPUS and journal content will be available there soon.

This enhances the visibility of articles in Lipid Insights, which is also indexed in:

  • Chemical Abstracts Service

  • Open J-Gate

  • EBSCO

Visit the Lipid Insights homepage and view the Editor in Chief's call for papers

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

New Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research Call for Papers

The Editor in Chief, Dr Goberdhan P. Dimri, is pleased to announce a new call for papers for Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research. Submissions are being accepted now.

All published articles appear in Pubmed and gain high visibility on the journal's website. Since 2007 articles have been viewed more than 103,851 times. Articles are also indexed in leading EBSCO and SCOPUS indexes.

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Friday, August 19, 2011

New International Journal of Tryptophan Research call for papers


The Editor in Chief, Dr Gilles Guillemin, is pleased to announce a new call for papers for International Journal of Tryptophan Research.  Submissions are being accepted now.
All published articles appear in Chemical Abstracts Service, DOAJ, EBSCO Academic Search Complete, OAIster and Socolar databases and gain high visibility on the journal's website.  Since 2007 articles have been viewed more than 98,000 times.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Analytical Chemistry Insights Reader Profile: Professor Ryszard Jankowiak

Tell us about where you work. What do you do there, and who do you work with?

I work at the Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.

What are your primary areas of research? What do you aim to achieve in these areas?

Photosynthesis research. We use various low-temperature laser-based spectroscopies to study excitation energy transfer (EET) and electron transfer (ET) processes in complex biological systems.

What contributions have you made to these areas so far? What is the broader importance of your contributions?

Our research provided better insight into the electronic/excitonic structure of many photosynthetic reaction centers and various antenna pigment complexes. Our high-resolution techniques provide selective probes for low-energy states—which are of most interest from an energy transfer perspective—in addition to insight into the excitonic interactions between high and low energy states. Better understanding of the natural photosynthesis will allow constructing more efficient artificial photosynthetic systems for future photovoltaic devices.

What directions do you expect your research in these areas to take in the future?

We are developing better theoretical models to describe various optical spectra, with emphasis on transient and persistent hole-burned (HB) spectra obtained for complex biological systems. The HB spectra have to be described with the explicit consideration of EET and excitonic interactions.

What do you consider to be the most important recent developments in your areas of research?

X-ray structures of many complex photosynthetic systems and 2-D electronic spectroscopy that have considerable impact on the photosynthesis field.

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Genomics Insights on SCOPUS

We're pleased to announce that Genomics Insights is now indexed by SCOPUS and journal content will be available there soon.

This enhances the visibility of articles in Genomics Insights, which is also indexed in:

  • Chemical Abstracts Service

  • OAlster

  • Open J-Gate

Visit the Genomics Insights homepage and view the Editor in Chief's call for papers

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Evolutionary Bioinformatics Reader Profile: Professor Indira Ghosh

Tell us about where you work. What do you do there, and who do you work with?

I work at the Jawaharalal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. I have worked as Professor and Dean of the school of Computational & Integrative Sciences for the last 4 years, it has 10 faculties, 20 Ph.D research fellows and Mtech course on Computational & systems Biology.

What are your primary areas of research? What do you aim to achieve in these areas?

Computational Biology, Biophysics, Bioinformatics, pathogenesis of disease, design of chemicals & systems biology approach to disease.

What contributions have you made to these areas so far? What is the broader importance of your contributions?

The first contribution was during my PhD to develop a new method for inhibitor docking at the active site of a metallo protease published in 1982, the next method was to calculate free energy perturbation in protein in solvent published in 1984 and many papers on molecular simulations. In bioinformatics ANN method to predict promoters in 1994, molecular modelling of plasmodium drug targets proteins in 2005, anti-tuberculosis chemical design in 2006, identification of pathway for tuberculosis metabolism using kinetic modelling in 2007 and recently mapping the protein using fractal dimension in 2010.

What directions do you expect your research in these areas to take in the future?

Presently I am interested and working in systems approach to simulation and modelling in cellular environment.

What do you consider to be the most important recent developments in your areas of research?

I consider target mapping using systems biology, cellular functioning, dynamics at the macromolecular level and probing biology using small molecules the most important recent developments in my area of research.

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Friday, August 12, 2011

New Air, Soil and Water Research call for papers

The Editor in Chief, Dr Carlos Alberto Martinez-Huitle, is pleased to announce a new call for papers for Air, Soil and Water Research. Submissions are being accepted now.

All published articles appear in Scopus, OAlster and EBSCO databases and gain high visibility on the journal's website. Since 2007 articles have been viewed more than 59,327 times.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

New Bioinformatics and Biology Insights call for papers


The Editor in Chief, Dr Erich Bornburg-Bauer, is pleased to announce a new call for papers for Bioinformatics and Biology Insights.  Submissions are being accepted now.
All published articles appear in Pubmed and gain high visibility on the journal's website.  Since 2007 articles have been viewed more than 170,100 times.  Articles are also indexed in leading EBSCO and Elsevier indexes.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Biomarker Insights Reader Profile: Dr Dina Schreinemachers

Tell us about where you work.  What do you do there, and who do you work with?
I work at the U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), Environmental Public Health Division (EPHD), Epidemiology Branch (EB).
I have worked at the EPA since 1987.  I have been mostly involved with the analyses of epidemiological data.  I am a biostatistician (DrPH), and work a lot with existing data bases.
What are your primary areas of research?  What do you aim to achieve in these areas?
My aims are to obtain information on how environmental pollution contributes to disease.
I initially used mortality databases looking at underlying cause of death among subjects living in regions with high use of chlorophenoxy herbicides. These studies were followed by a biomarker study involving subjects exposed to 2,4-D, one of the common chlorophenoxy herbicides.  I am now expanding my scope by looking at pollutants that are known thyroid hormone disruptors.
What contributions have you made to these areas so far?  What is the broader importance of your contributions?
I showed that there is an association between being a resident of an area with high chlorophenoxy herbicide use and increased risk of mortality from cancer, heart disease, type-2 diabetes.  Also rates of birth defects were increased in the same regions.  A biomarker study showed that presence of urinary 2,4-D is associated with changes in lipids and glucose metabolism.  I am now involved in biomarker work associated with other pollutants that are thyroid hormone disruptors.
What directions do you expect your research in these areas to take in the future?
I have been considering for a while whether all these adverse effects start with thyroid hormone disruption.  It would be interesting to find out if pollutants that are known to be thyroid hormone disruptors, but have very different chemical structures, are associated with similar diseases?
What do you consider to be the most important recent developments in your areas of research?
The growing interest in biomarkers is in my opinion a development of major importance.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What Peer Reviewers Said About Reviewing for Libertas Journals

Recently Libertas asked peer reviewers to complete a survey, which asked them to rate their experience in five areas.  It was designed to give us a complete understanding of reviewers' opinions on each main aspect of the process.  
In every metric reviewers rated their experience above 90%.
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