Journal Guide

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety focuses on integrated mechanistic research related to short- and long-term pathways and interactions of substances and chemical mixtures in environmental systems and subsystems on their bioavailability, and assimilation in organisms, as well as biological responses of these organisms, and damage mechanisms (endocrine disruption, genotoxicity); and on their subsequent fate in the environment, food chain, including humans. Novel technologies, techniques, and methods such as biomarkers, biosensors and bioanalytical systems, bioremediation methods, QSARs and QSPRs, advanced high performance computational methods, models, and their applications in obtaining and processing interdisciplinary ecotoxicological information are also addressed in the journal. We welcome the applied outcome of complex ecotoxicological research such as developing the science-based Environmental Quality Criteria (EQC), standard toxicity tests, techniques, and methods for ecotoxicological evaluation of the environment, as well as developing ecotoxicologically proven methods and technologies for prevention, interception, and remediation of human-induced damage to ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on ecological animal models rather than laboratory based rodent studies; The above scope of the journal is aimed at providing science-based tools for sustainably managing the environment through risk assessment, risk characterization, risk prediction, and risk management. The journal publishes regular research articles, and review articles.

The journal Educación Médica (Medical Education, http://www.elsevier.es/edumedwww.elsevier.es/edumed) is a scientific journal that is published 4 times a year, with articles in Spanish and in English, and will consider for publication those works related to education in the Health Sciences in all its aspects: teaching planning, and development of teaching; educational resources; teaching methodology; educational techniques; teaching accreditation; learning styles results; evaluation; etc. Works may be submitted on the initiative of the author, or at the request or commission of the journal Editorial Committee.

La revista Educación Médica (http://www.elsevier.es/edumedwww.elsevier.es/edumed) es una revista científica de periodicidad trimestral, que publica artículos en español y en inglés, y que considerará para su publicación aquellos trabajos relacionados con la educación en las Ciencias de la Salud en todos sus aspectos: la planificación docente y el desarrollo de la docencia; los recursos educativos; la metodología docente; las técnicas educativas; la acreditación docente; los estilos de aprendizaje; los resultados; la evaluación; etc. Los trabajos podrán ser presentados por iniciativa del autor, o bien a demanda o petición del Comité Editorial de la revista.

Education for Chemical Engineers is IChemE's new online journal, launched in May 2006 at ACHEMA.With a remit to publish education research papers, resource reviews and teaching and learning notes, ECE is targeted at chemical engineering academics and educators, discussing the ongoing changes and development in chemical engineering education.This international title publishes papers from around the world, creating a global network of chemical engineering academics. Papers demonstrating how educational research results can be applied to chemical engineering education are particularly welcome, as are the accounts of research work that brings new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating direction for future research.Core topic areas:AssessmentAccreditationCurriculum development and transformationDesignDiversityDistance educationE-learningEntrepreneurship programsIndustry-academic linkagesBenchmarkingLifelong learningMultidisciplinary programsOutreach from kindergarten to high school programsStudent recruitment and retention and transition programsNew technologyProblem-based learningSocial responsibility and professionalismTeamworkWeb-based learning

Educational Research Review is a new international journal aimed at researchers and various agencies interested to review studies in education and instruction at any level. The journal will accept meta-analytic reviews, narrative reviews and best-evidence syntheses.Diverse types of reviews can be accepted:• Research reviews: Reviews aimed at comparing research on similar or related topics.• Theoretical reviews: Reviews able to critically describe the evolution of theories and the way they are understood in different contexts.• Methodological reviews: Reviews devoted to methods and methodologies used in education.• Thematic reviews: Reviews based on description of particular areas of the literature, or particular educational approaches or learning models.• Theoretical contributions - state-of-the-art papers relating issues, comparisons, and analyses to the application of methods and models to the educational process.• Research critiques - reviews on selected educational topics reflecting implications for the field of education.• Forum Papers - shorter articles presenting new ideas, or responses to published material stimulating debate, but well founded in the existing literature.• Instructional techniques - reports on instructional techniques when the use of adequate controls demonstrates the validity of the findings.Membership Benefits:Members of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) receive online access to Educational Research Review for free as a member benefit.

The Egyptian Informatics Journal is published by the Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University. This Journal provides a forum for the state-of-the-art research and development in the fields of computing, including computer sciences, information technologies, information systems, operations research and decision support. Innovative and not-previously-published work in subjects covered by the Journal is encouraged to be submitted, whether from academic, research or commercial sources.

The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research is published by the National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. The Journal is devoted to the publication of original papers and reviews in all branches of aquatic sciences (Oceanography, Limnology, Fisheries, Aquaculture and environmental sciences).

The Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis aims to publish and inform readers and all chest physicians of the progress in medical research concerning all aspect of chest diseases. Publications include original articles review articles, editorials, case studies and reports which are relevant to chest diseases. The Journal also aims to highlight recent updates in chest medicine.

Egyptian Journal of Petroleum is addressed to the fields of crude oil, natural gas, energy and related subjects. Its objective is to serve as a forum for research and development covering the following areas:
• Sedimentation and petroleum exploration.

• Production.

• Analysis and testing.

• Chemistry and technology of petroleum and natural gas.

• Refining and processing.

• Catalysis.

• Applications and petrochemicals.

It also publishes original research papers and reviews in areas relating to synthetic fuels and lubricants - pollution - corrosion - alternate sources of energy - gasification, liquefaction and geology of coal - tar sands and oil shale - biomass as a source of renewable energy.

To meet with these requirements the Egyptian Journal of Petroleum welcomes manuscripts and review papers reporting on the state-of-the-art in the aforementioned topics. The Egyptian Journal of Petroleum is also willing to publish the proceedings of petroleum and energy related conferences in a single volume form.

Peer Review under the responsibility of the Egyptian Society for Joint Diseases and ArthritisThe Egyptian Rheumatologist is the official journal of the Egyptian Society for Joint Diseases and Arthritis. The journal is published quarterly. It publishes original papers within the various fields of rheumatology. Articles in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation will be accepted on condition that they are related to rheumatic and connective tissue diseases.Editor-in-Chief Contact the EditorB El-Zorkany.

Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping, interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences. Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse approaches. It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians' reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses; the formal and behavioural properties of electoral systems; and work in game theory, political economy, or social choice relevant to elections. The recent emergence of new democracies in many parts of the world provides a wealth of new information, and scope for testing hypotheses. Electoral Studies also provides comprehensive descriptive coverage of national elections and referendums in the democratic world in its 'Notes on Recent Elections' and 'National Elections: the cycle of elections' features.Months of publication: March, June, September and December.Index bound in last issue of calendar year.The editors of Electoral Studies maintain a home page for the journal at the University of Texas at Dallas, with information about developments on the journal, details of forthcoming articles and links to other key information resources for political scientists.

Electric Power Systems Research is an international medium for the publication of original papers concerned with the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electrical energy. The journal aims at presenting important results of work in this field, whether in the form of applied research, development of new procedures or components, orginal application of existing knowledge or new designapproaches. The scope of Electric Power Systems Research is broad, encompassing all aspects of electric power systems. The following list of topics is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to indicate topics that fall within the journal purview.• Generation techniques ranging from advances in conventional electromechanical methods, through nuclear power generation, to renewable energy generation.• Transmission, spanning the broad area from UHV (ac and dc) to network operation and protection, line routing and design.• Substation work: equipment design, protection and control systems.• Distribution techniques, equipment development, and smart grids.• The utilization area from energy efficiency to distributed load levelling techniques.• Systems studies including control techniques, planning, optimization methods, stability, security assessment and insulation coordination.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Online Manuscript SubmissionAims and Scope:The ground-breaking concept of online publishing is developed by Elsevier through Electrochemistry Communications.Electrochemistry Communications is a letters journal providing fast dissemination of short communications covering the whole field of electrochemistry. Electrochemistry Communications seeks to provide rapid publication of important and urgent communications and short papers across the broad spectrum of electrochemical research.We aim to be the fastest journal in electrochemistry - see the Journal Insights below for data.Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:• Fundamental electrochemistry• Electrode reaction mechanisms• Computational and theoretical electrochemistry• Properties of interfaces• Electrochemical surface science• Batteries and power sources• Organic and organometallic electrochemistry• Bioelectrochemistry• Spectroelectrochemistry and sonoelectrochemistry.The journal welcomes papers of general or specialist importance which merit rapid publication to a wide audience. All papers should be submitted via the journal's online submission system which can be accessed at http://ees.elsevier.com/elecom. Accepted papers will appear in electronic form on ScienceDirect within six to eight weeks of their receipt by the editor.Please note that International Society of Electrochemistry members have now the option to purchase a personal printed or electronic subscription to Electrochemistry Communications.

The official journal of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)Electrochimica Acta is an international journal. It is intended for the publication of both original work and reviews in the field of electrochemistry. Electrochemistry should be interpreted to mean any of the research fields covered by the Divisions of the International Society of Electrochemistry listed below, as well as emerging scientific domains covered by ISE New Topics Committee.ISE Divisions:(1) Analytical Electrochemistry(2) Bioelectrochemistry(3) Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage (4) Electrochemical Materials Science(5) Electrochemical Process Engineering and Technology (6) Molecular Electrochemistry(7) Physical ElectrochemistryElectrochimica Acta is the official journal of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). The ISE was founded in 1949 by leading European and American electrochemists to serve the growing needs of electrochemistry. Since then the ISE has evolved to comprise more than 2000 individual members, from more than 60 countries. Visit their homepage at http://www.ise-online.org.

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications aims to create and disseminate enduring knowledge for the fast-changing e-commerce environment. A major dilemma in e-commerce research is how to achieve a balance between the currency and the life span of knowledge.Electronic Commerce Research and Applications will contribute to the establishment of a research community to create the knowledge, technology, theory, and applications for the development of electronic commerce. This is targeted at the intersection of technological potential and business aims.E-commerce is a multi-disciplinary area, which should be developed in co-operation with existing fields such as Information Systems and Technology; Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain Management; Business Strategy and Management; Public Policy; Computer Science and Telecommunications; and Legal Studies. We will solicit papers on current technologies from these areas, as well as publish papers on completely new topics. We also seek proposals for special issues on new topics in e-commerce that will create new directions for research.Electronic Commerce Research and Applications is inviting submission of articles in the following fields:Agent-based commerce; electronic auctions; e-business models; B2C and B2B EC; consumer behaviour; customer relationship management and data mining; pricing and marketing; digital economy; e-government, public policy and digital divide issues; electronic payment systems; IT and e-services; exchanges and electronic marketplaces; e-commerce in supply chain and inventory management; legal issues in e-commerce; industry studies and case analysis; economic and management science modelling; organizational and theory-building research; empirical studies of e-commerce problems; behavioral studies of e-commerce issues; recommender systems; protocols, technology and process standards for e-commerce; transformation of industries; security and trust; credit card and smart card applications; mobile-commerce and ubiquitous computing; inter-organizational systems in e-commerce; emerging technologies and technological innovation.We also encourage Methodological studies: these should be complete and ready for implementation, rather than papers that propose new frameworks.

The journal provides an effective way to publish research and review articles, short communications and technical notes, Video material, animation sequences and 3D are also accepted to support and enhance articles. The articles will be examined by a scientific committee and anonymous evaluators and published every two months in HTML and PDF formats (January 15th , March 15th, May 15th, July 15th, September 15th, November 15th).

The following areas are covered in the Journal:
• Animal Biotechnology
• Bioethics
• Biofilms
• Bioinformatics
• Biopolicies of International Cooperation
• Biosafety
• Biotechnology Industry
• Biotechnology of Human Disorders
• Chemical Engineering
• Environmental Biotechnology
• Food Biotechnology
• Marine Biotechnology
• Medical Biotechnology
• Microbial Biotechnology
• Molecular Biology and Genetics
• Plant Biotechnology
• Process Biotechnology
• Process Chemistry and Technology

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is a http://publicationethics.org/members/peerjfull Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publicationethics.org/COPE).

Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics is a venue for the rapid electronic publication of the proceedings of conferences, of lecture notes, monographs and other similar material for which quick publication is appropriate. Organizers of conferences whose proceedings appear inElectronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, and authors of other material appearing as a volume in the series are allowed to make hard copies of the relevant volume for limited distribution. For example, conference proceedings may be distributed to participants at the meeting, and lecture notes can be distributed to those taking a course based on the material in the volume.

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