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Open science and peer review
07 Sep 2015
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – September 04, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week
Life sciences
07 Sep 2015
Researching the problems right in front of us
Frontiers Science Hero: Alex Hansen from Frontiers on Vimeo. Prof. Alex Hansen has always been fascinated with problems. “As you get older you begin to find out that problems are wonderful,” he said. “You do not have to look into the galaxy to look for problems; you can see them right in front of you. I feel, quite literally, down to earth with my field of research.” Prof. Hansen earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1986. He has been professor of physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway from 1994. Hansen is member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. h. c.) by the University of Rennes in 2009. Hansen has chaired the Commission on Computational Physics (C20, of IUPAP) and acts as a vice president for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. He is also the Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Physics. Without his curiosity Hansen would not be where he is now. Without curiosity the world would be, in his words, “terrible”. His research and need […]
Frontiers news
06 Sep 2015
Most viewed Psychology articles in August 2015
Building metamemorial knowledge over time: insights from eye tracking about the bases of feeling-of-knowing and confidence judgments Elizabeth F. Chua* and Lisa A. Solinger Infant manual performance during reaching and grasping for objects moving in depth Erik Domellöf*, Marianne Barbu-Roth, Louise Rönnqvist, Anne-Yvonne Jacquet and Jacqueline Fagard Examining age-related shared variance between face cognition, vision, and self-reported physical health: a test of the common cause hypothesis for social cognition Sally Olderbak*, Andrea Hildebrandt and Oliver Wilhelm Grounding grammatical categories: attention bias in hand space influences grammatical congruency judgment of Chinese nominal classifiers Marit Lobben* and Stefania D’Ascenzo Auditory stream segregation using amplitude modulated bandpass noise Yingjiu Nie* and Peggy B. Nelson Developmental differences in relations between parent-reported executive function and unitized and non-unitized memory representations during childhood Sarah L. Blankenship and Tracy Riggins* Improving spatial-simultaneous working memory in Down syndrome: effect of a training program led by parents instead of an expert Francesca Pulina, Barbara Carretti, Silvia Lanfranchi* and Irene C. Mammarella Default mode network alterations during implicit emotional faces processing in first-episode, treatment-naive major depression patients Huqing Shi, Xiang Wang, Jinyao Yi, Xiongzhao Zhu, Xiaocui Zhang, Juan Yang and Shuqiao Yao* Associations between musical abilities and precursors of reading in preschool aged children Franziska Degé*, Claudia Kubicek and Gudrun Schwarzer Feel like you […]
Frontiers news
06 Sep 2015
Most viewed Plant Science articles in August 2015
Leaf d15N as a physiological indicator of the responsiveness of N2-fixing alfalfa plants to elevated [CO2], temperature and low water availability Idoia Ariz, Cristina Cruz, Tome Neves, Juan J. Irigoyen, Carmen García, Salvador Nogués, Pedro M Aparicio-Tejo and Iker Aranjuelo* Combined endophytic inoculants enhance nickel phytoextraction from serpentine soil in the hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens Giovanna Visioli*, Teofilo Vamerali, Monica Mattarozzi, Lucia Dramis and Anna Maria Sanangelantoni Structural characterization of a mixed-linkage glucan deficient mutant reveals alteration in cellulose microfibril orientation in rice coleoptile mesophyll cell walls Andreia Michelle Smith-Moritz, Zhao Hao, Susana González Fernández-Niño, Jonatan Ulrik Fangel, Yves Verhertbruggen, Hoi-Ying N Holman, William G.T. Willats, Pamela C Ronald*, Henrik Scheller, Joshua L Heazlewood and Miguel Vega-Sanchez* Identification of B6T173 (ZmPrx35) as the prevailing peroxidase in highly insect-resistant maize (Zea mays, p84C3) kernels by activity-directed purification Laura Margarita López-Castillo, Janet Ana Isabel López-Arciniega, Armando Guerrero-Rangel, Silvia Valdés-Rodríguez, Luis Gabriel Brieba, Silverio García-Lara and Robert Winkler* Mineral accumulation in vegetative and reproductive tissues during seed development in Medicago truncatula Christina B. Garcia and Michael A. Grusak* Wheat genotypic variation in dynamic fluxes of WSC components in different stem segments under drought during grain filling Jingjuan Zhang, Wei Chen, Bernard Dell, Rudy Vergauwen, Xinmin Zhang, Jorge E. Mayer […]
Frontiers news
05 Sep 2015
Most viewed Physiology articles in August 2015
Functional aortic stiffness: role of CD4+ T lymphocytes Beenish A. Majeed, Lance S. Eberson, Supannikar Tawinwung, Nicolas Larmonier, Timothy W. Secomb and Douglas F. Larson* High-order finite element methods for cardiac monodomain simulations Kevin P. Vincent, Matthew J. Gonzales, Andrew K. Gillette, Christopher T. Villongco, Simone Pezzuto, Jeffrey H. Omens, Michael J. Holst and Andrew D. McCulloch* Dentin phosphophoryn in the matrix activates AKT and mTOR signaling pathway to promote preodontoblast survival and differentiation Anne George* and Asha Eapen Xylooligosaccharide supplementation alters gut bacteria in both healthy and prediabetic adults: a pilot study Jieping Yang*, Paula H. Summanen, Susanne M. Henning, Mark Hsu, Heiman Lam, Jianjun Huang, Chi-Hong Tseng, Scot E. Dowd, Sydney M. Finegold, David Heber and Zhaoping Li* Muscular coordination of biceps brachii and brachioradialis in elbow flexion with respect to hand position Tim Kleiber*, Leo Kunz and Catherine Disselhorst-Klug Towards the modeling of mucus draining from human lung: role of airways deformation on air-mucus interaction. Benjamin Mauroy*, Patrice Flaud, Dominique Pelca, Christian Fausser, Jacques Merckx and Barrett R. Mitchell Increment of body mass index is positively correlated with worsening of endothelium-dependent and independent changes in forearm blood flow Luiz G. Kraemer-Aguiar, Marcos L. De Miranda*, Daniel A. Bottino, Ronald de A. Lima, Maria das […]
Frontiers news
05 Sep 2015
Most viewed Oncology articles in August 2015
Immunotherapy of childhood Sarcomas Stephen S. Roberts*, Alexander J. Chou and Nai-Kong V. Cheung Epithelioid sarcoma: opportunities for biology-driven targeted therapy Jonathan Noujaim*, Khin Thway, Zia Bajwa, Ayeza Bajwa, Robert G. Maki, Robin L. Jones and Charles Keller* Key roles of hyaluronan and its CD44 receptor in the stemness and survival of cancer stem cells Theerawut Chanmee, Pawared Ontong, Koji Kimata and Naoki Itano* Multiple molecular pathways in melanomagenesis: characterization of therapeutic targets Giuseppe Palmieri*, MariaNeve Ombra, Maria Colombino, Milena Casula, MariaCristina Sini, Antonella Manca, Panagiotis Paliogiannis, Paolo Antonio Ascierto and Antonio Cossu Sunitinib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review of UK real world data Miriam Argyropulo-Palmer, Aaron Jenkins, Davinder Singh Theti*, James Larkin and David Montgomery A retrospective review of CyberKnife stereotactic body radiotherapy for adrenal tumors (primary and metastatic): Winthrop University Hospital experience Amishi Desai*, Hema Rai, Jonathan Haas, Matthew Witten, Seth Blacksburg and Jeffrey G. Schneider Possible Role of Aurora-C in Meiosis Kuo-Tai Yang, Chieh-Ju C. Tang and Tang K. Tang* Disseminated medulloblastoma in a child with germline BRCA2 6174delT mutation and without Fanconi anemia Jingying Xu, Ashley Sloane Margol, Anju Shukla, Xiuhai Ren, Jonathan L. Finlay, Mark D. Krieger, Floyd H. Gilles, Fergus J. Couch, Meraj Aziz, Eric T. […]
Frontiers news
04 Sep 2015
Most viewed Neuroscience articles in August 2015
Preservation of the optic radiations based on comparative analysis of diffusion tensor imaging tractography and anatomical dissection Roland P. Nooij*, Eelco W. Hoving, Arjen L. J. van Hulzen, Frans W. Cornelissen and Remco J. Renken Change in the coding of interaural time difference along the tonotopic axis of the chicken nucleus laminaris Nicolás Palanca-Castán* and Christine Köppl Lipidome of midbody released from neural stem and progenitor cells during mammalian cortical neurogenesis Yoko Arai, Julio L. Sampaio, Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger, Andreas W. Ettinger, Christiane Haffner and Wieland B. Huttner* Myosin X regulates neuronal radial migration through interacting with N-cadherin Mingming Lai, Ye Guo, Jun Ma, Huali Yu, Dongdong Zhao, Wenqiang Fan, Xingda Ju, Muhammad A. Sheikh, Yousra S. Malik, Wencheng Xiong, Weixiang Guo* and Xiaojuan Zhu* The neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) alters hippocampal excitatory synaptic transmission by modulation of the GABAergic system YuYing Huang, JunFang Chen, Ying Chen, YingHan Zhuang, Mu Sun* and Thomas Behnisch* Characterization of auditory synaptic inputs to gerbil perirhinal cortex Vibhakar C. Kotak*, Todd M. Mowery and Dan H. Sanes Early adversity disrupts the adult use of aversive prediction errors to reduce fear in uncertainty Kristina M. Wright, Alyssa DiLeo and Michael A. McDannald* Differential myelinated and unmyelinated sensory and autonomic skin nerve fiber involvement in patients with ophthalmic […]
Frontiers news
04 Sep 2015
Most viewed Neurology articles in August 2015
A prospective pilot trial for pallidal deep brain stimulation in Huntington´s disease Lars Wojtecki*, Stefan J. Groiss, Stefano Ferrea, Saskia Elben, Christian J. Hartmann, Stephen B. Dunnett, Anne Rosser, Carsten Saft, Martin Südmeyer, Christian Ohmann, Alfons Schnitzler and Jan Vesper for the Surgical Approaches Working Group of the European Huntington’s Disease Network (EHDN) Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the recognition of bodily emotions from point-light displays Sharona Vonck, Stephan Patrick Swinnen, Nicole Wenderoth and Kaat Alaerts* Force variability during dexterous manipulation in individuals with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease Na-hyeon Ko, Christopher M. Laine, Beth E. Fisher and Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas* Deficits in the activation of human oculomotor nuclei in chronic traumatic brain injury Christopher W. Tyler*, Lora T. Likova, Kristyo N. Mineff and Spero C. Nicholas Central nervous system and peripheral inflammatory processes in Alzheimer’s disease: biomarker profiling approach Constance Delaby*, Audrey Gabelle, David Blum, Susanna Schraen-Maschke, Amandine Moulinier, Justine Boulangien, Dany Severac, Luc Buee, Thierry Reme and Sylvain Lehmann Aberrant brain network efficiency in Parkinson’s disease patients with tremor: a multi-modality study Delong Zhang, Jinhui Wang, Xian Liu, Jun Chen and Bo Liu* Alteration of basal ganglia and right frontoparietal network in early drug-naïve Parkinson’s disease during heat pain stimuli and resting state […]
Frontiers news
03 Sep 2015
Most viewed Immunology articles in August 2015
Immune tolerance maintained by cooperative interactions between T cells and antigen presenting cells shapes a diverse TCR repertoire Katharine Best, Benny Chain* and Chris Watkins A microbial feed additive abates intestinal inflammation in Atlantic salmon Ghana Vasanth, Viswanath Kiron*, Amod Kulkarni, Dalia Dahle, Jep Lokesh and Yoichiro Kitani Differential expression of microRNAs in thymic epithelial cells from Trypanosoma cruzi acutely-infected mice: putative role in thymic atrophy Leandra Linhares-Lacerda*, Cintia Cristina Palu, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Bruno Diaz Paredes, Alexandre Morrot, Maria Rosa Garcia-Silva, Alfonso Cayota and Wilson Savino An in silico approach reveals associations between genetic and epigenetic factors within regulatory elements in B cells from primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients Orsia D. Konsta, Christelle Le Dantec, Amandine Charras, Wesley H. Brooks, Marina I. Arleevskaya, Anne Bordron and Yves Renaudineau* Dietary mannan oligosaccharides: counteracting the side effects of soybean oil inclusion on European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut health? Silvia Torrecillas*, Daniel Montero, Maria José Caballero, Karin A. Pittman, , Marco Custodio, Aurora Campo, John Sweetman and Marisol Izquierdo HIV-1 structural proteins serve as PAMPs for TLR2 heterodimers significantly increasing infection and innate immune activation Bethany M. Henrick, Xiao-Dan Yao, Kenneth Lee Rosenthal* and the INFANT study team Evidence for infection and inflammation in infant deaths in a country with […]
Frontiers news
30 Aug 2015
Most viewed Genetics articles in August 2015
Correcting for the study bias associated with protein-protein interaction measurements reveals differences between protein degree distributions from different cancer types Martin H. Schaefer*, Luis Serrano and Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro A porcine model system of BRCA1 driven breast cancer Howard Donninger, Katherine Hobbing, M. Lee Schmidt, Eric Walters, Laurie Rund, Lawrence Schook and Geoff Clark* Changes in expression of the long noncoding RNA FMR4 associate with altered gene expression during differentiation of human neural precursor cells Veronica J. Peschansky, Chiara Pastori, Zane Zeier, Dario Motti, Katya Wentzel, Dmitry Velmeshev, Marco Magistri, John L. Bixby, Vance P. Lemmon, José P. Silva and Claes Wahlestedt* Detecting modules in biological networks by edge weight clustering and entropy significance Paola Lecca* and Angela Re Evaluating the ability of the pairwise joint site frequency spectrum to co-estimate selection and demography Lisha A. Mathew and Jeffrey D. Jensen* mRNA fragments in in-vitro culture media are associated with bovine preimplantation embryonic development Jenna Kropp and Hasan Khatib* Risk prediction models for oral clefts allowing for phenotypic heterogeneity Yalu Wen and Qing Lu* Characterization of circulating transfer RNA-derived RNA fragments in cattle Eduardo Casas*, Guohong Cai and John D. Neill Evidence for the multiple hits genetic theory for inherited language impairment: a case study Tracy M. Centanni, Jordan R. Green, […]
Frontiers news
29 Aug 2015
Most viewed Microbiology articles in August 2015
The allosteric behavior of Fur mediates oxidative stress signal transduction in Helicobacter pylori Simone Pelliciari, Andrea Vannini, Davide Roncarati and Alberto Danielli* Genome-guided insight into the methylotrophy of Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686 Lukasz Dziewit*, Jakub Czarnecki, Emilia Prochwicz, Daniel Wibberg, Andreas Schlüter, Alfred Pühler and Dariusz Bartosik Antibodies against invasive phenotype-specific antigens increase Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis translocation across a polarized epithelial cell model and enhance killing by bovine macrophages Jamie L. Everman, and Luiz E. Bermudez* Paracoccidioides spp. ferrous and ferric iron assimilation pathways Elisa Flávia L. C. Bailão, Patrícia de Sousa Lima, Mirelle G. Silva-Bailão, Alexandre M. Bailão, Gabriel da Rocha Fernandes, Daniel J. Kosman and Célia Maria de Almeida Soares* Response of leaf endophytic bacterial community to elevated CO2 at different growth stages of rice plant Gaidi Ren, Huayong Zhang, Xiangui Lin, Jianguo Zhu and Zhongjun Jia* Defects in polynucleotide phosphorylase impairs virulence in Escherichia coli O157:H7 Jia Hu and Mei-Jun Zhu* Metabolomics reveals differences of metal toxicity in cultures of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 grown on different carbon sources Sean C. Booth, Aalim M. Weljie and Raymond J. Turner* Intrinsic plasmids influence MicF-mediated translational repression of ompF in Yersinia pestis Zizhong Liu, Haili Wang, Hongduo Wang, Jing Wang, Yujing Bi, Xiaoyi Wang, Ruifu Yang* and Yanping Han* […]
Open science and peer review
28 Aug 2015
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – August 28, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week
Frontiers news
26 Aug 2015
Frontiers articles now integrated with FundRef and CrossMark
At Frontiers, we are always looking for new ways to enhance our published articles to make them useful for researchers and scientists. This goes beyond simply publishing the latest research in our 54 journals that span across over 400 disciplines. Each year thousands of research papers are published in the many journals from publishers around the world. Keeping up with the most recent information available is challenging, which is why we have been working with CrossRef to integrate two of their services into our platform. Beginning this month, Frontiers articles will now include CrossMark and FundRef data when applicable. CrossMark lets people know whether or not they are reading the most recent version of a document. You’ll find the CrossMark logo appearing on all Frontiers articles published after August 24. By clicking on the CrossMark logo located at the top of the article, you’ll discover if there is an update to the article you are reading or if you are reading the most recent version. FundRef also will be integrated into Frontiers articles on August 24, and it will tell you who has funded the research if the funding institution is recognized by FundRef. The logo will appear only on […]
Frontiers news
24 Aug 2015
Early Career Insights: Academic space travel
Geo-political and socio-economic factors allowing, research labs are commonly inhabited by scientists from different cultures — often worlds apart. My personal journey through the multicultural academic space revealed cultural exchange not only makes us better people, but also seems essential for making good scientists. The first landing As many trainees seeking Mars for their first research experience, I was out to discover the scientist being, in a foreign land filled with foreigners. I already spoke Martian quite well, or so I thought at the time, and I was enthusiastic to take part in the great quest for the Truth. Rather soon, I noticed that first contact was more of an orbiting approach, with many losses in translation. I vividly recall the intern from Mercury who refused to “burn his data” on a backup disk, thinking I was asking him to do something, at the least, fire hazardous, and for sure unethical. During initial approach, we academic space travellers, often miss those hints that the information did not get through; it follows that the vacuum between our worlds becomes evident after a series of data is down the hole. With time though, language misunderstandings become less frequent. In the daily exercise […]
Frontiers news
20 Aug 2015
Advantages of being a Frontiers Editor
Last updated October 1, 2018 Combining all its journals, Frontiers supports one of the largest groups of editors in the world of academic publishing, with more than 63,000 board members, enabling them to facilitate the publication of most recent advances in knowledge and research methods in their fields. But why do top scientists and scholars join a Frontiers’ editorial board? BUILDING A JOURNAL BASED ON YOUR BELIEFS One of the many reasons members of the research community have joined Frontiers is because they agree with our vision that oversight and quality control of the scholarly literature should be vested squarely in the research community itself and, in particular, involve active scientists and scholars at all levels. The final decision on what is and what is not published will be exclusively made by the academic handling editor of the manuscript based on the expert advice of their fellow editorial board members. Our publishing model is explained in more detail here. “I’ve been with Frontiers since 2008. The most rewarding aspect has been seeing how the journal has taken off as it has. There is a big community around Frontiers in Psychology now and it is very active. Personally, to be part […]