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With the increasing fascination of sport in society and the increasing availability of sport-related data, there are great opportunities to carry out sports analytics research. In this article, we discuss some of the issues that are relevant to publishing in the field of sports analytics. Potential publication outlets are identified, some summary statistics are given, and some experiences and opinions are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elaborates on the factors affecting the process of publishing a research paper. Quality and importance of the data, analysis, implications and writing; Marketing; Costs of publishing.

Experts have described ways to improve peer review quality. Perspectives from expert reviewers are largely absent in the health professions education literature. To gather guidance from expert reviewers, to aid authors striving to publish and reviewers aiming to perform their task effectively. This study surveyed the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) 'Top Reviewers' from 2017, 2018, and 2019. 'Top Reviewers' perform four or more reviews per year, with high average ratings. Top reviewers were sent an 11-item survey in February 2020. The survey included three demographic questions and eight open-ended, free-text questions about the concepts reviewers most often target in their reviews. We calculated descriptive statistics and performed a thematic analysis of open-ended responses. Of 62 eligible top reviewers, 44 (71%) responded to the survey. Only eight (18.2%) and seven (15.9%) respondents reported having 'stock phrases' or a reviewer template used for reviewer feedback to authors, respectively. The what (research question, methods), how (presentation, writing), and why (relevance, impact) were the resulting themes summarizing how reviewers categorized and responded to common problems. For 'really good papers' reviewers found the what acceptable and focused on how and why. For 'really bad' papers, reviewers focused on big picture feedback, such as the value of the study. Top reviewers from a single health professions education journal appear to have similar approaches to conducting reviews. While most do not use stock phrases or templates, they share similar strategies to differentiate 'good' vs. 'bad' papers through the what, why, and how of a manuscript. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents comments of the author on the article, "Regional Differences in the World Atmospheric Circulation," by John R. Borchert, published recently in a issue of "Annals of the Association of American Geographers." Nonetheless there is considerable question concerning the significance of the five maps that are the core of Borcherts presentation. These remarks are directed to a brief consideration of the significance and interpretation of his maps. It is only proper to think that in the body and foothotes of his paper professor Borchert indicated some of the limitations of his study, that the scale of the maps did not permit the delineation of zones and regions in detail.

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This article looks into the institutional inequality in the publishing of journals related to economics, in the U.S. Most frequently, institutional affiliation of authors has been discussed in light of faculty ratings, with limited concern expressed for the overall institutional concentration of authors. Rankings of institutions in the sample of specialty journals exhibited great instability. Four of the top seven institutions on the 1960s list do not even appear on the 1970-74 tally. The number of new entrants to the list is similarly striking. The instability is to be expected because of the sampling procedure. The equivalent of one volume of each issue of thirteen journals made up the sample. From time to time concern is expressed over the relative concentration of articles written by individuals affiliated with a relatively few institutions. During 1960-69 to 1970-74, the share of the top four contributing institutions declined for each journal except the "Quarterly Journal of Economics." A possible reason for this change in the distribution of contributors is the slackening labor market for academic economist.

Even senior clinicians may not read academic research. Yet when making a career shift from clinical practice to higher education, a confident and experienced health practitioner can soon be facing an academic contract that contains challenging publication targets. This article reflects on one clinician's experience of trying to get a paper published in an academic journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There have been a couple of times when we have reviewed papers that are essentially publishable as initially submitted; the "criticisms" were more along the lines of constructive suggestions that the authors might want to consider when they submitted a revised version of the paper, but those changes were not required. However, a much more common experience is for the authors to receive a series of comments from multiple reviewers. Most of those comments are critical for the authors to address, to ensure that the data in the paper are of sufficient quality and rigor, with adequate controls, to support the stated conclusions. That said, reviewers sometimes make requests, with the best of intentions, which might be reasonably considered as "beyond the scope of the present study". Thus, there needs to be a balance between addressing each and every comment of a review and completing a story even though there are additional avenues and questions that remain unexplored. Sometimes, even after a repeated round(s) of review, such questions linger and may impede acceptance of a worthy study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gives advice on preparing papers for publication in professional journals. Habits that a scholar needs to develop; Presentation of the paper to other scholars before presenting it at a national or regional conference; Submission of the paper to a specific journal.

This article presents titles and abstracts of various articles published in the January 1, 1917 issue of the journal Annals of the Association of American Geographers . The article titled "Geographic Provinces of the U.S.," indicates that the gravimetric survey of the U.S. may be considered to have been begun in 1890. Previous to that date, 13 states had been established in the U.S. The article titled "Shriharikota and the Yanadis," indicates that Tahiti, the largest of the Society Islands is a volcanic doublet, submaturely disserted in radial consequent valleys, the larger cone being 17 nautical miles in diameter and 7,381 feet in height.

The article focuses on Jack Tanner, the person adored and immortalized by Bernard Shaw in his play. Few people realize that Jack Tanner was a real person. Most recognize him as the hero of Bernard Shaw's play, "Man and Superman." They therefore assume that Tanner is a fictitious character. Not at all. He is a real life person. The author says he knows this to be so because Tanner's grandson was a classmate of the authir at Swarthmore College and through him he came to know the elder Tanner. Jack and his wife Ann, whom Shaw adored and immortalized in his play, emigrated to the United States in 1910 and settled in Philadelphia. All this is by way of preliminary to introduce the subject of Jack Tanner's lost papers. You will recall that Shaw appended a screed to Alan and Superman entitled the "Revolutionist's Handbook," allegedly written by Jack Tanner. Allegedly is what the public thought. But Tanner actually wrote it. Not only that, he wrote a sequel to it. That was many years later. He instructed his grandson to deposit the manuscript in the Swarthrnore College Library, which was duly done. When the author learned of this several years later, he was able to prevail upon Tanner to allow his work to be published. But in the meantime, a new library had been built on the campus, and when the contents were transferred from the old to the new, the manuscript was lost.

In 2008 nine African Universities and four African research institutions, in partnership with non-African institutions started the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) to strengthen doctoral training and research capacity on health in Africa. This study describes particular aspects of the CARTA program that promotes collaboration between the PhD fellows in the program, and determines the patterns of collaborative publications that resulted from the intervention. We reviewed program monitoring and evaluation documents and conducted a bibliometric analysis of 806 peer-reviewed publications by CARTA fellows published between 2011 and 2018. Results indicate that recruiting multidisciplinary fellows from various institutions, encouraging registration of doctoral-level fellows outside home institutions, and organizing joint research seminars stimulated collaborative research on health-related topics. Fellows collaborated among themselves and with non-CARTA researchers. Fellows co-authored 75 papers (10%) between themselves, of which 53 (71%) and 42 (56%) included fellows of different cohorts and different disciplines respectively, and 19 (25%) involved fellows of different institutions. CARTA graduates continued to publish with each other after graduating – 11% of the collaborative publications occurred post-graduation – indicating that the collaborative approach was maintained after exiting from the program. However, not all fellows contributed to publishing collaborative papers. The study recommends concerted effort towards enhancing collaborative publications among the CARTA fellows, both doctoral and post-doctoral, which can include holding research exchange forums and collaborative grant-writing workshops. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Research and PhDs are relatively rare in family medicine and primary care. To promote research, regular one-year research courses for primary care professionals with a focus on clinical epidemiology were started. This study explores the academic outcomes of the first four cohorts of research courses and surveys the participants' perspectives on the research course. Design: An electronic survey was sent to the research course participants. All peer-reviewed scientific papers published by these students were retrieved by literature searches in PubMed. Setting: Primary care in Finland. Subjects: A total of 46 research course participants who had finished the research courses between 2007 and 2012. Results: Of the 46 participants 29 were physicians, eight nurses, three dentists, four physiotherapists, and two nutritionists. By the end of 2014, 28 of the 46 participants (61%) had published 79 papers indexed in PubMed and seven students (15%) had completed a PhD. The participants stated that the course taught them critical thinking, and provided basic research knowledge, inspiration, and fruitful networks for research. Conclusion: A one-year, multi-professional, clinical epidemiology based research course appeared to be successful in encouraging primary care research as measured by research publications and networking. Activating teaching methods, encouraging focus on own research planning, and support from peers and tutors helped the participants to embark on research projects that resulted in PhDs for 15% of the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates global health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the 'two regimes of global health' framework. This framework juxtaposes global health security, which contains the threat of emerging diseases to wealthy states, with humanitarian biomedicine, which emphasises neglected diseases and equitable access to treatments. To what extent did the security/access divide characterise the response to COVID-19? Did global health frames evolve during the pandemic? Analysis focused on public statements from the World Health Organization (WHO), the humanitarian nonprofit Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Following a content analysis of 486 documents released in the first two years of the pandemic, the research yielded three findings. First, the CDC and MSF affirmed the framework; they exemplified the security/access divide, with the CDC containing threats to Americans and MSF addressing the plight of vulnerable populations. Second, surprisingly, despite its reputation as a central actor in global health security, the WHO articulated both regime priorities and, third, after the initial outbreak, it began to favour humanitarianism. For the WHO, security remained, but was reconfigured: instead of traditional security, global human health security was emphasised – collective wellbeing was rooted in access and equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the `World Bank Discussion Papers Nos 82-91 and No. 95.'

Background: Human Resources for Health are a core building block of a health system, playing a crucial role in improving health outcomes. While the existing literature has examined various forms of corruption that affect the health sector, few articles have examined the role and impact of corruption in the recruitment and promotion of health-workers. Objectives: This study reviews the role of corrupt practices such as nepotism, bribery and sextortion in health-worker recruitment and promotion and their implications for health systems. Methods: The study is based on an interdisciplinary non-systematic review of peer-reviewed journal articles in the public health/medicine and political science literature, complemented with the 'grey' literature such as technical reports and working papers. Results: Political and personal ties, rather than merit are often factors in the recruitment and promotion of health-workers in many countries. This results in the employment or promotion of poorly qualified or unsuitable workers, with negative implications for health outcomes. Conclusion: Corrupt practices in health-worker recruitment and promotion 'set the tone' for other forms of corruption such as absenteeism, embezzlement, theft and bid-rigging to flourish, as those recruited corruptly can collude for nefarious purposes. On the other hand, merit-based recruitment is important for curbing corruption. Corrupt recruitment practices have deleterious effects on health-worker motivation and retention, quality and competency, citizens' trust in health services and health outcomes. Whereas international law and policy such as the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and the WHO Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation of Human Resources for Health state that recruitment of public officers and health workers respectively should be done in a transparent and accountable manner, more research is needed to inform policies on merit-based recruitment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the content and operation of the periodical "The American Statistician," (TAS) for 2004. In the year 2004, TAS published 41 articles and 7 software reviews. Of the 41 articles, 7 were in the Statistical Practice Section, 14 were in the General Section, 6 were in the Teacher's Corner, 2 were in the Statistical Computing and Graphics Section, 8 were in the History Corner, and 4 articles were in special sections on Teaching Computational Statistics, and Statistics and the Bowl Championship Series in the February and August issues, respectively. The distribution of articles in the different sections does not reflect editorial policy but rather reflects the distribution of the submitted manuscripts.

Focuses on measuring the quality of academic economic journals. Reasons why citations need not measure quality; Selection of academic economic journals; Journal acceptance criteria.

Attempts to fund a JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING began in the early 1960s, largely through the efforts of C.H. Sandage. Although not successful in getting foundation funds, Sandage was instrumental in publishing Occasional Papers in Advertising as a forerunner of a journal. Other individuals became involved with the quest for a journal, eventually securing sufficient funds to start, and Volume 1, Number 1 of the Journal of Advertising appeared in 1972. Governance of the Journal was in the hands of a self-perpetuating Board of Directors, with loose ties to the American Academy of Advertising. This arrangement was due to philosophical differences between those desirous of establishing a journal and the then Executive Committee of the Academy. Monetary problems and differences in viewpoint of journal content plagued those responsible for the Journal in its earlier years. By 1979, efforts were underway to merge the autonomous Journal Board of Directors into a Publications Committee within the Academy proper. The consolidation occurred in 1981 through the re-writing of Academy Bylaws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the "Impact Factor" it publishes to indicate to publishers the extent to which their publications influence social sciences-based research. The Impact Factors published by the SSCI for 2004 shows that the "Journal of Advertising" has had its highest impact on social sciences research in five years. The impact factor indicates that papers being published in the "Journal of Advertising" are being cited more often than in previous years. The author goes on to say that it seems that the publication is having an impact on researchers in the social sciences.

The article presents notes for contributors in the submission of manuscripts and its style. Three complete copies of the authors' paper should by submitted, with author name omitted for double-blind review to the journal editor John B. Davis. Typed in double spacing on one side only of the paper, submission should be in English. Submission of a paper to a journal will be taken to entail that it presents original, unpublished, work not under condition for publication in or to another place. In addition, an abstract of the paper is required, of up to 150 words that should precede the article. Other guidelines related to the matter are presented.

The article presents notes for contributors in the submission of manuscripts. Three complete copies of the authors' paper should by submitted, with author name omitted for double-blind review to the journal editor John B. Davis. Typed in double spacing on one side only of the paper, submission should be in English. Submission of a paper to a journal will be taken to entail that it presents original, unpublished, work not under condition for publication in or to another place. In addition, an abstract of the paper is required, of up to 150 words that should precede the article. Other guidelines related to the matter are presented.

The article focuses on publishing of social work literature. There are so many journals and so many articles that even the most ambitious reader cannot keep up. According to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which produces indexes of scientific papers, a very substantial portion of published articles never are cited subsequently. ISI staff counted how often papers published between 1981 and 1985 in the "top" 4,500 (out of 74,000) science journals had been cited in later papers. The shocking results of ISI's systematic study were that "45 percent of these supposedly top-quality papers received not a single citation in the five years afterward. The implication is that nearly half the scientific work in this country is basically worthless. It certainly is sobering to learn that so much published scientific work has such a short shelf life. The pressures on faculty to publish have become so great that it may be too threatening to publicly question whether the printed fruits of the written labor make any real difference. Too often, what seems to matter is whether the manuscript sees the light of day cast by a journal. What happens afterward may not seem like a burning concern.

The article provides information about "Global Health Action (GHA)," an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal affiliated to the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research (CGH) at Umeå University in Sweden. All the articles published in GHA will be accessible online after these articles are accepted for publication and they can also be linked, downloaded and stored by anybody with a computer and access to the internet. The journal is inclined to establish what is needed to be implemented in order to address the public health challenges. In addition, it also envisions to provide a more concrete and practical approach to global health challenges.

This paper draws on questionnaire responses received (via e-mail) during the period 2002-2003 from senior commissioning editors located within seven of the major UK publishing outlets. Drawing on the analytical framework of an earlier study by Nixon (1999) , it focuses on the mediation of educational studies by market forces operating within and upon the educational publishing industry. More specifically it explores issues relating to the construction of readership, authorship and editorship within that force field of market pressures. Central to the argument is the claim that, in its increasing exposure to market forces, the public space afforded by educational publishing is now highly restrictive. The paper concludes with a call for a sustained debate on the future of academic publishing in general, and educational publishing in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws on questionnaire responses from senior commissioning editors located within nine of the major UK education publishing outlets. It explores changing priorities in educational publishing with reference to authorship, readership and the changing policy context within which publishing 'lists' are conceived, developed and marketed. The shift of orientation within educational publishing from a 'general' to a 'professionalised' public is central to the argument of the paper. That argument is pursued through an analysis of how the changing priorities of educational publishing are impacting upon academics and practitioners. Central to that analysis, however, is a recognition that publishing houses, schools and institutions of further and higher education are subject to social and economic pressures that not only shape the educational agenda, but help determine what groups, individuals, institutional interests, etc. constitute the 'public' debate around that agenda. Through a specialist focus on educational publishing, the paper is able to identify some of the key issues that need to be addressed in order to revivify the public sphere and reintegrate it into what is becoming an increasingly 'professionalised' debate on education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the ethics of simultaneous processing of manuscripts that are submitted to scholarly journals. The practice of simultaneous submission of articles to periodicals may not be rare, but informing the editor that an author is doing so is unusual. The arguments against such activity are multiple yet intertwined. The problems in large measure subsume the various facets of scientific priority. To be able to "break" a paper, a research, a new theory, a classic discourse is part of an implicit contract between the journal and the article author. The journal gives the author service, support and the considerable costs of publication. Journals copyright the articles they publish, thus it is here that the legal dimensions of publishing enter. On the other side of the argument, some scientists are yearning for their results to be published quickly in order for the benefit of the scientific community.

Examines the distribution of elapsed time between published economics research papers and literature references. Approximation by the generalized gamma distribution.

The author has previously proposed results blind manuscript evaluation (RBME) as a method of ameliorating often cited problems of statistical inference and scientific publication, notably publication bias, overuse/misuse of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), and irreproducibility of reported scientific results. In RBME, manuscripts submitted to scientific journals are assessed for suitability for publication without regard to their reported results. Criteria for publication are based exclusively on the substantive importance of the research question addressed in the study, conveyed in the Introduction section of the manuscript, and the quality of the methodology, as reported in the Methods section. Practically, this policy is implemented by a two stage process whereby the editor initially distributes only the Introduction and Methods sections of a submitted manuscript to reviewers and a provisional decision regarding acceptance is made, followed by a second stage in which the complete manuscript is distributed for review but only if the decision of the first stage is for acceptance. The present paper expands upon this recommendation by addressing implications of this proposed policy with respect to statistical consultation and collaboration in research. It is suggested that under RBME, statisticians will become more integrated into research endeavors and called upon sooner for their input. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) is a successful model of integrated operational research and capacity building with about 90% of participants completing the training and publishing in scientific journals. Objective: The study aims at assessing the influence of research papers from six SORT IT courses conducted between April 2014 and January 2015 on policy and/or practice. Methods: This was a cross-sectional mixed-method study involving e-mail based, self-administered questionnaires sent to course participants coupled with telephone/Skype/in-person responses from participants, senior facilitators and local co-authors of course papers. A descriptive content analysis was performed to generate themes. Results: Of 71 participants, 67 (94%) completed the course. A total of 67 papers (original research) were submitted for publication, of which 61 (91%) were published or were in press at the censor date (31 December 2016). Among the 67 eligible participants, 65 (97%) responded to the questionnaire. Of the latter, 43 (66%) research papers were self-reported to have contributed to a change in policy and/or practice by the course participants: 38 to a change in government policy or practice (26 at the national level, six at the subnational level and six at the local/hospital level); four to a change in organisational policy or practice; and one study fostered global policy development. Conclusion: Nearly two-thirds of SORT IT course papers contributed to a change in policy and/or practice as reported by the participants. Identifying the actual linkage of research to policy/practice change requires more robust methodology, in-depth assessment and independent validation of the reported change with all concerned stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article looks at the progress of the "Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy" (JMPEE). During 2007, JMPEE published 5 full issues and part of the sixth issue online. In addition to the routine editorial and publication activity, the most significant development has been the establishment of the www.jmpee.org website, which provides the basic needs of its readers. It presents the preprints of new papers to be published in the next printed issue. For 2008, the journal is planning two special issues dedicated to the AMPERE-11 Conference held in summer 2007 in Oradea, Romania.

How did incumbents in Japanese publishing maintain resale price maintenance (RPM)? This article sheds light on the inter- and intra- industrial structure that enabled the protection of RPM, or the fixed price system, amid the country-wide liberalisation in the 1990s. By analysing textual data including governmental reports, trade papers in publishing and leaflets adopted for lobbying, the critical decade was reconstructed. It addresses a scarcity of business history literature about the link between RPM and business organisations, particularly concerning lobbying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about the June 1970 issue of the journal "Sociological Focus." The summer issue of Sociological Focus traditionally features the winner of the Student Paper Competition. The journal publishes the top graduate and undergraduate papers, by sociologist Michael R. McKee and Gary Allan Gereffi. All award winners are listed elsewhere in this issue. Norman F. Washburne is Guest Editor of the Spring, 1971 issue, which will deal with the topic of attitudes. In addition to the student papers, the journal has published in this issue sociologist Dwight Dean's presidential address and contributed papers.

In a previous British Journal of Sociology of Education article (Nixon & Wellington, 2005) we examined current trends in book publishing and how these have influenced and will influence the construction of the field of educational studies. (The latter study was a follow-up to an earlier study reported in Nixon [1999].) The present article focuses on journals and their editors and, to a lesser extent, the role that the peer review process plays in shaping the field of educational studies. We use (critically rather than deferentially) notions drawn from the work of Bourdieu (1996)—the ‘field of power’, defining boundaries, systems of dispositions, right of entry and the ‘illusio’—to consider and conceptualise data from interviews with 12 journal editors. Our own position in writing this article is as academic practitioners involved in reading, peer-reviewing and editing academic journals within the field of educational studies. The plea is to recognise that the pen is a mighty sword. We are of course embedded in practices and constrained by them. But these practices owe their dominance in part to the power of a normative language to hold them in place, and it is always open to us to employ the resources of our language to undermine as well as to underpin the practices. We may be freer than we sometimes suppose. (Skinner, 2002, p. 7) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the publishing policy of the jornal "Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science." The papers published previously will continue to be freely available to read and download online and will be converted to the CC-BY Open Access license retrospectively. The Article Publishing Charges (APC) will be introduced from the beginning of 2017.

At Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), statistical scientists develop solutions for a variety of national security challenges through scientific excellence, typically as members of interdisciplinary teams. At LANL, mentoring is actively encouraged and practiced to develop statistical skills and positive career-building behaviors. Mentoring activities targeted at different career phases from student to junior staff are an important catalyst for both short and long term career development. This article discusses mentoring strategies for undergraduate and graduate students through internships as well as for postdoctoral research associates and junior staff. Topics addressed include project selection, progress, and outcome; intellectual and social activities that complement the student internship experience; key skills/knowledge not typically obtained in academic training; and the impact of such internships on students’ careers. Experiences and strategies from a number of successful mentorships are presented. Feedback from former mentees obtained via a questionnaire is incorporated. These responses address some of the benefits the respondents received from mentoring, helpful contributions and advice from their mentors, key skills learned, and how mentoring impacted their later careers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a reply to David I. Blumenstock for his comments on the author's article, "Regional Differences in the World Atmospheric Circulation," which was published in the March 1953, issue of "Annals of the Association of American Geographers." According to him Blumenstock's remarks correctly note some of the weak points of the paper. They deserve attention and discussion. For example, some of the percentage figures which are indicative rather than conclusive, were obtained through counting the air mass frequencies as shown on the Northern Hemisphere Surface Maps issued by the U.S. Weather Bureau for the years 1919, 20, 21, 24, 25, 35. 36, 37, 38, and 1939.

The article discusses the characteristics and some aspects of a useless publication. Publication is useless when it neither informs nor entertains, when it solves no old problems or stimulates no new research, when it serves no reference function because the theme is trivial or the information is already present and accessible in the literature. However, the prime cause of useless publication depends on the authors. Also, the administrator contributes to useless publication because he measures the value of his employee not by his true worth as a teacher or as a researcher but through the number of titles published in a certain period.

The author comments on the science-versus-press controversy whereby scientists are conceived to be bad copy, inaccessible, unintelligible and uncooperative, or the press being thought to inaccurately sensationalize scientists and misinterpret their discoveries in the interest of a good story. He states that there are not supporting statistics for the accusation that the press is too often inaccurate and sensational. He says that publishers and editors agree that the press is not perfect, committing errors over and over again. Science writing is getting better and better every day in every way and the reporting of scientific discoveries is no longer the easy task as it was some years ago.

The article offers information on the manuscript submission report of the "Journal of Business & Economics Statistics," (JBES) in 2009. It says that total number of submissions was over 390 which shows the stability of its publication backlog. Meanwhile, more than half of new submissions were declined due to insufficient contribution or unfit to be published. Furthermore, JBES deals with topics related to statistics as well as econometrics and publishes invited paper specifically research topic.

The common history and development of Nordic family medicine is important and interesting. This paper looks back on the aspects and factors influencing academic family medicine in the Nordic countries and especially the central position of the Nordic Congresses and the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. The importance of pioneers and bringing people together is emphasized. More than 30 years of Nordic academic family medicine has indeed had an incredible impact and has initiated development from only a few people to become world leading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section offers information on the "Journal of Advertising", including manuscripts received, and the editors assigned for the issue of the periodical.

This section announces the publication of the Research on Economic Inequality, a research annual that will publish theoretical and empirical papers concerned with the measurement and analysis of economic inequality.

The article presents a reply by professor Earney to the questions that were raised by professor W. Douglas Harrison on the paper titled "New Ores for Old Furnaces: Pelletized Iron." The researcher's statement that the he confronts difficulties in analyzing certain trends in production, consumption, and transportation of specific iron ore commodities because of nondisclosure rules and collective grouping of data by government agencies such as the U. S. Bureau of Mines . Because of these difficulties, perhaps as many as 100 letters of the more than 700 needed to acquire data and other information for the paper were concerned with the domestic iron ore industry.

Asserts that the author did not give Steven Rosefielde the permission to cite unpublished conference papers. Why the author consider Rosefielde's action in the issue particularly annoying; How Rosefielde misuses and misunderstands the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs materials.