Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Ali Shilatifard
In the summer of 2014, I received a phone call from Marcia McNutt, then the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals. Marcia described a new effort that she and the AAAS Board had committed to embark upon: to start a new journal— Science Advances —to propel the Science family of journals, including the emblematic flagship journal Science , into the future. Science Advances would cover all topics, strive to publish rigorous, transformative science, and, like all the Science family journals, be anchored in the mission of AAAS. However, Science Advances would be different in several critical ways. First, it would be led by an editorial board of leading scientists. Second, it would publish only research articles and reviews and allow longer, flexible formats to foster publication of impactful broad, interdisciplinary, and discipline-specific science. Third, Science Advances would be open access to promote wide global readership. Science Advances would be built to grow to accommodate the quickly expanding assortment of …
Source: Science Advances
Author: Ali Shilatifard
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $4,500
OpenAlex ID: W2809804008