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Science Editing (Sci Ed) is the official journal of the Korean Council of Science Editors (https://kcse.org) and the Council of Asian Science Editors (https://asianeditor.org). It aims to improve human health and culture by promoting the quality of editing and publishing of scientific, technical, and medical journals. Its expected readers are editors, publishers, reviewers, and authors of journals around the world, although it has a particular focus on journals in Asia. Since scholarly journals in Asia are mostly published by academic societies, universities, or non-profit organizations, Sci Ed seeks to play a role in journal development. The number of publications from Asia is increasing rapidly and has surpassed that of other continents; meanwhile, the number of international journals and highly recognized journals has yet to advance commensurately. It is the task of Asian editors to dedicate themselves to journal quality and broaden their journals’ visibility and accessibility. Therefore, the scope of Sci Ed includes the following in the field of science, technology, and medicine.
• Policy of journal editing • Data mining on the editing and publishing • Systematic reviews on medical journal publishing and editing • Research ethics and medical ethics, including clinical registration, statements of human and animal health protection, and conflicts of interest • Publication ethics: fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, and authorship • CrossCheck • Legal issues in journal publishing • Peer review process • Reporting guidelines for medical journals • Medical and scientific literature databases • Advanced information technology applicable to journal editing and publishing, including PubMed Central schemas, journal article tag suite schemas, Digital Object Identifiers, CrossMark, FundRef, ORCID, DataCite, QR codes, and apps.
• International standards of journal editing and publishing, including the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ recommendations • Reference styles including Vancouver (NLM) style, APA style, IEEE style, and ACS style • Digital publishing on the web and in apps • Education and training of editors, reviewers, and authors • Manuscript editing • Journal evaluation • Bibliometrics and scientometrics in the context of journal editing and publishing • Finances of journal publishing • History of scholarly journals • Copyright and Creative Commons Licenses • Open access and public access approaches
Its publication types include original articles, reviews, case studies, essays, editorials, meeting reports, book reviews, announcements, correspondence, and video clips. Other types are also negotiable with the editorial board. All unsolicited articles are subject to peer review. Commissioned articles are reviewed by the Editorial Board.
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