eLife
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| Discipline | Biomedicine, life sciences |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Randy Schekman |
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| Publisher |
eLife Sciences Publications |
Publication history | 2012–present |
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| License | CC-BY 3.0, CC-BY 4.0 and CC0 |
| 9.322 | |
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| ISSN |
2050-084X |
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eLife is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences, It was launched at the end of 2012.[1] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society, and Wellcome Trust established the journal following a workshop held in 2010 at the Janelia Farm Research Campus, and these organizations have been the journal's primary source of funding.[2]
The editor-in-chief is Randy Schekman (University of California, Berkeley); deputy editors are Fiona Watt (King's College London), Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) and Eve Marder (Brandeis University).[3][4] Editorial decisions are made largely by senior editors and members of eLife's board of reviewing editors; all of whom are active scientists working in fields ranging from human genetics and neuroscience to biophysics and epidemiology.[5]
Impact factor
eLife's first impact factor, for 2013, was 8.519. The journal's impact factor for 2014 is 9.322. However, eLife claims that it will not promote its impact factor.[6] In an interview, HHMI President Robert Tijan reflected on eLife and noted, "The other big thing is, we want to kill the journal impact factor. We tried to prevent people who do the impact factors from giving us one. They gave us one anyway a year earlier than they should have. Don't ask me what it is because I truly don't want to know and don't care."[7]
Publication volume
The following shows the volume of articles published in eLife from 2012 through 2015:[8]
| Article type | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| no. | no. | Change from prev. year | no. | Change from prev. year | no. | Change from prev. year | |
| Article | 43 | 345 | 802% | 483 | 140% | 735 | 152% |
| Note | 1 | 24 | 2400% | 32 | 133% | 15 | 47% |
| Erratum | 11 | 18 | 164% | 24 | 133% | ||
| Editorial | 2 | 4 | 200% | 3 | 75% | 2 | 67% |
| Letter | 6 | ||||||
| Review | 1 | ||||||
eLife Podcast
The eLife Podcast is produced by BBC Radio presenter and Cambridge University consultant virologist Dr Chris Smith, who also leads and founded the popular science radio programme, website and podcast The Naked Scientists.
eLife digests
All research articles published in the journal include an "eLife digest", a non-technical summary of the research findings aimed at a lay audience. Since December 2014, eLife has been sharing a selection of the digests on the blog publishing platform Medium.[9] As of July 2015, more than 100 eLife digests have been shared on Medium.[10]
References
- ↑ "eLife", a new open access journal, Wellcome Trust, retrieved 10 April 2012
- ↑ Matt McGrath (10 April 2012), Trust pushes for open access to research, BBC
- ↑ Freya Boardman-Pretty (5 November 2011), "Open-access science journal leaves editing to the experts", Times Higher Education
- ↑ eLife welcomes new Deputy Editor, 1 May 2015
- ↑ Communicating the latest advances in life science and biomedicine, eLife, retrieved 6 October 2015
- ↑ Communicating the latest advances in life science and biomedicine, eLife, retrieved 26 October 2015
- ↑ http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2015/08/qa-outgoing-hhmi-chief-reflects-leading-18-billion-biomedical-charity
- ↑ Data from Scopus, accessed January 11, 2016.
- ↑ eLife is now on Medium, retrieved 2 March 2015
- ↑ One hundred eLife digests shared on Medium, retrieved 21 September 2015
External links
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