AJP-Lung 2015 Accomplishments

Nominations being accepted for the International Graduate Programme in Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung

PUBLISH AN OUTSTANDING ARTICLE IN AJP-LUNG:

WIN A SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PULMONARY MEETINGS IN THE WORLD

One of the Deputy Editors of AJP-Lung (Dr. Rory Morty) is in charge of the International Graduate Programme in Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung at the Universities  of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Germany.  This program sponsors a yearly retreat, which in the opinion of the Editor is one of the best pulmonary meetings in the world

(https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb11/forschung/graduierte/mbml/files/retreat_2012.pdf).

We feel that trainees and junior faculty will benefit greatly by attending this meeting to be  held in Rauischholzhausen, Germany August 6-8, 2012.  The American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology and the International Graduate Programme Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung are co-sponsoring two fellowships this year to allow one trainee (graduate student, post-doctoral fellow or clinical Fellow) and one junior faculty (instructor or Assistant Professor) to travel to Giessen and participate in this glorious event.  A travel allowance of up to $1200 to cover transportation will be paid by AJP-Lung while local transportation, food and lodging will be provide the ICPMBM).  Candidates should have published an outstanding paper in AJP-Lung during the last two years as first author while either a trainee or an Assistant Professor.  Those that receive an award from AJP-Lung will be given priority.  Nominations or self-nominations should be sent to the Managing Editor (Ms. Amy McEver at amcever@emory.edu).  Winners will be expected to write a short review on a topic of a lecture by an invited speaker to be considered for publication in AJP-Lung.

Rory Morty, PhD                                                      Sadis Matalon, PhD

Deputy Editor                                                           Editor in Chief

2015 Hermann Rahn Award Winners

AJP-Lung would like to the congratulate the following winners of the 2015 Hermann Rahn Awards, in honor of the 36th APS President (1963-1964), a leader in the field of respiration physiology.

Nektarios Barabutis - Old Dominion University

Alicia Rizzo- University of Illinois

Karthik Suresh- Johns Hopkins University

These outstanding scientists will receive a $250 award and will be recognized during the Respiration Dinner at Experimental Biology 2016.

 

2015 Publication Satistics

According to the 2015 statistics, AJP-Lung has continued to demonstrate that we publish the best research papers in the lung community. 

Monthly, The American Physiological Society recognizes the “best of the best” articles among all of it’s peer-reviewed journals.  Each month’s 10 selections can be viewed online  (http://apsselect.physiology.org/).  AJP-Lung is proud to have had their articles selected 13 times in 2015.  Considering that we are one of the smaller APS journals, this is a  huge honor for us and proves that we are indeed attracting and publishing the very best articles.  See below.

We have also learned that our journal has 3 of the most highly cited APS manuscripts for 2015.  We would like to congratulate all the authors below for this achievement. 

Thank you for always submitting your best work to AJP-Lung!

Reflection on the editorial process

The engine of high quality peer review fuels authors’ careers and prestige, successful applications for future research support, and ultimately moves forward the field. The associate editor (AED) of a scientific journal is therefore entrusted with the important responsibility of ensuring high quality peer review of manuscripts submitted to the respective journal. There is an expectation that the AEDs will carefully choose the reviewers that will provide accurate technical appraisal of the work. This is especially important when faced with increasing multidisciplinary scientific reports. The AEDs should themselves appraise the manuscript while balancing reviewers’ comments and communicate clearly and timely what additional work is reasonably necessary to elevate the report to be accepted for publication, or why the work may not be suited for the respective journal. In this age of juggling multiple responsibilities during an ever-diminishing available time, there is a risk of erosion of the quality of work that the AED is expected to do. All too often, as authors or reviewers of manuscripts, we note that AED decisions are the rubberstamp of increasingly frustrated or hurried reviewers, or they follow the path of least resistance to a quick and not necessarily fair decision. Such habits erode the trust in the effectiveness of the current peer review processes and threaten the engine of the scientific progress. Our editorial team at AJP-Lung is striving to abide by the important principles of high quality peer review. We believe that this purposeful work is linked to the increase in the number of manuscripts we are receiving for peer review and will translate in the progress of our field.

Irina Petrache, MD

Associate Editor, AJP Lung

The APS AuthorChoice Program

The APS AuthorChoice program was developed to allow researcher authors the ability to provide immediate, open and free access to their work without the standard 12-month embargo that applies to subscription access.

The fee for research articles is $2,000 (plus color fees, if applicable) and for review articles, $3,000. Articles published with the AuthorChoice option for open and free access are covered by the Creative Commons Attributions license (CC BY) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/), under which all are eligible for reuse and distribution under the condition that the original work published by APS must be cited.

Additional information can be found here:   FAQ

APSselect February 2016

AJP-Lung would like to congratulation Dr. Olave and colleagues on being selected as a APSselect article for February 2016.  You can read this outstanding article by clicking here:  Regulation of Alveolar Septation by MicroRNA-489.