Publication of Academic Collaborations for Sick Children (ACSC)
For example, companies value making more "profitable" products and selling them more. Academic researchers are evaluated with the quality and quantity of papers published in science journals. So, researchers work on their studies night and day, but not all of their research results are presented as an article because of the problems such as time, budget, technology or uncertainty in research. Additionaly, most clinicians would have researched if they could have got unique ideas on clinical practice, since they are often too busy with their clinical works in Japan. Thus, we consider that there are unknown unique ideas of research which is not accepted in most science journals.
We make ready to publish the first issue of a new and unique international science journal (with Japanese translation edition) which reports articles with such interesting research ideas of those researchers.
■ First volume of <Academic Collaborations for Sick Children> was published !!
First volume of our science journal, <Academic Collaborations for Sick Children> was published on August 2009. It focuses on the academic collaboration and diseases in children.
This journal is characterized by accepting research papers based just an idea, not considering of author affiliation and focusing on researches by the cross-field collaboration. The authors are not only limited to medical researchers but can be scientific, agricultural, technological, information scientific or artistic. We disregard their discipline as long as their research concerns diseases in children. However, articles published in the journal shall be on researches by the cross-field collaboration as our project for Fertility preservation in children and young women with cancer, which is a collaborative research with medicine, information science and technology, engineering.
■ Disclosure on J-STAGE
ACSC is selected as one of the science journals appeared on J-STAGE。
In order to support the information transmission function of user organizations, the "Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic" (J-STAGE), developed by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). The objective of J-STAGE is to strive for acceleration and internationalization of science and technology information transmission and circulation by building on the Internet a uniform flow - from the submission to release of science and technology information.
- * Support computerizing of bulletins of academic societies.
- * Promote computerizing of Japanese science and technology information.
- * Transmission of science and technology information that harnesses electronic journal features
- * Improvement in research evaluation both domestic and outside Japan by immediate transmission and circulation of a research results
- * Promotion of research and development by immediate transmission and circulation of research results
- * Efficient use of the research information by linking cited information
Research articles appeared through J-STAGE can be linked to the bibliografic databases such as ChemPort, PubMed, CrossRef and JOIS. Especially, Pubmed (MEDLINE) is world's most heavily used medical database and current usage typically exceeds 70 million searches per day. A meeting in JST was held on 23 July 2009 to select research journals which should be computerized preferentially because a number of societies or associates wish to disclosure articles on J-STAGE. As a result of meeting, ACSC was selected as one of the science journals appeared on J-STAGE although we have not had the experience of publishing journals yet.
Online version of ACSC is prepared at JST now. Please wait for a few months.
Research results must be retured to society.
It is said that a quality of basic research by japanese researchers is relative high. Neverthless, it is pointed out that people receive less of medicines or medical devices which should be produced by researches since clinicians or the pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing industries do not know the clinical benefit of the achivements studied by basic researchers well. Our goverment already grasp this problem and start to work above-mentioned various activities through JST in order to break a wall between basic and clinical. We aim to return our research achievements to patients and society within short-term and to promote researches by tranmission of science and technology information from ACSC. We regard collaboration from different fields as important and believe that a lot of studies on ACSC can rouse worldwid research works via internet.
■ Submission to ACSC
Here we provide links to and information about submission to ACSC
[From editorial board]
[Instructions for authors]
[Editorial policy/Peer-review]
[Submission]
■ACSC back number
Most of researches or joint researches are conducted by researchers in a same field. A group of people with similar background tend to produce only similar ideas. They are still possible to proceed such studies because the level of basic research is high in Japan. We think, however, that the cross-field collaboration is just keyword for <innovation> in researchers.
- ① Fertility preservation in children and young women with cancer
- ② Cryopreservation of organ and blood
- ③ Countermeasures for terrorism, emergency or disasters
- ④ Integration of science and wisdom
- ⑤ Publication of Academic Collaborations for Sick Children(ACSC)
- ▶ From editorial board
- ▶ Instructions for author
- ▶ Editorial policy/Peer-review
- ▶ Submission
