Editorial pubs.acs.org/jpr
Cite This: J. Proteome Res. XXXX, XXX, XXX−XXX
The Speed of Publication
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In order to add or delete authors after a paper is submitted, such as a resubmission, you will need to obtain permission of the Editor. We will require written agreement from all authors and coauthors being added or deleted before approval is given. Consequently, securing these agreements in advance of requesting permission to make changes in authorship can speed up the process. Only in rare circumstances will you be allowed to add or delete authors after a paper is accepted. As of January 1, 2018, the Journal of Proteome Research will require SUBMISSION OF RAW DATA to a public repository such as a ProteomeXchange (PRIDE or MASSIVE), or CHORUS, or an equivalent repository when the paper is submitted. Full information to access the data (accession number, User ID, and password), which will be kept confidential until the manuscript is published, must be provided in the manuscript to enable reviewer access. Due to this change in policy, it will no longer be necessary to include raw mass spectrometry data in the SI. However, if there are critical parts of the data used in your conclusions that might include important sequences or post-translational modifications, then those annotated mass spectra should still be included in the SI. A URL link to the data should be included in the paper. In the Instructions to Authors, we have provided guidelines for the information that should be included for peptide and protein identifications, and we will now also have guidelines for mass spectrometry data. These guidelines are meant to help remind authors of what information is necessary for others to reproduce their studies. Given that experiments and technology have become more complex, it is vital that sufficient and accurate information be provided to ensure the reproducibility of experiments. On a final note, another potential impediment to quick publication is the return of a revised paper. We have learned that people will use all of the time allowed to revise a paper; consequently, we enforce a short timeline to motivate authors to return a paper quickly. We want to get your paper “off our desks” as quickly as you do! Our goal is to proceed through the publication process as quickly and as smoothly as possible, and authors can help expedite the process by following the guidelines provided and double-checking manuscripts before submission.
t the Journal of Proteome Research, we believe that innovation moves at the speed of publication, and thus we want papers to move through the process as quickly as possible while maintaining a rigorous and fair review and editing process. There are specific potential bottlenecks we do not have much control over, such as how fast reviews are performed, but there are actions authors can take to help ensure that the process moves along as quickly as possible. When a paper is submitted to the journal, the journal administrator goes through the paper to make sure it is ready for review. If there are missing components or corrections needed, authors are contacted to make the changes. How quickly that is done impacts how soon the paper can be assigned to an Associate Editor and sent for review. Double-checking a paper right before submission can minimize the chance that simple issues like missing figures or tables or misnumbered figures or tables will delay publication. It is also important to embed figures within the manuscript text, near their first mention. Figures should be sequentially numbered and have captions. File names are not retained when the submitted files are assembled into both HTML and PDF documents. Thus if figures and their legends are not embedded within the manuscript text, the figures will appear unlabeled in the paper. This situation can be confusing to reviewers, and their requests for clarification to the editorial office can slow the review process. All author names and e-mail addresses need to be input into Paragon Plus under Authors and Af f iliations when uploading the paper. All too often we find only the submitting or corresponding author’s name is entered into the system, compelling the journal administrator to request correction before the paper can be moved forward in the process. Another common mistake is that authors’ names are presented differently in Paragon Plus than on the title page of the paper. Author names must appear identically in Paragon Plus and in the paper and must be written in the sequence of first name, middle name or initial, last name. (Using an initial in lieu of the first name is not acceptable.) Noninstitutional e-mail addresses for authors such as Gmail and Yahoo are strongly discouraged. We are also concerned when “suggested” reviewer names are provided with noninstitutional (nonacademic or noncommercial) e-mail addresses. It is too difficult to verify the identity of the person at the other end of the e-mail address. Research has become so data-intensive that authors are now taking greater advantage of the Supporting Information (SI) section to avoid excessively long papers that overwhelm readers and reviewers. As a result, we require that SI is indexed in the paper, providing a list of each supporting component by name and caption. In conjunction, we require submission of an SI cover page, including a full table of contents as an introduction to the SI files. It is important to note that while we do check to make sure citations for supplemental tables and figures in the paper correspond to what is in the SI, ultimately this section of the paper is not copyedited by the journal. If we find mistakes you will be asked to correct them, and any mistakes we do not find in the SI will be published. © XXXX American Chemical Society
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John R. Yates, III, Editor-in-Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00044 J. Proteome Res. XXXX, XXX, XXX−XXX
