Special Issues
Themed collections in the Journal of Proteomics and Genomics Research: what the journal has published, how a new collection is proposed, and the safeguards that apply to every manuscript in one.
- ISSN 2326-0793
- Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302
- Open access · CC BY 4.0
Where things stand
Open calls
The journal is running no open call for a special issue at present. Proposals for new collections are welcome at any time and are considered as they arrive.
A proposal goes to the editorial office, which acknowledges it and puts it to the editors. What a proposal should contain is set out further down this page.
Published
Collections the journal has published
Two themed collections have appeared in the journal. Both are complete, and both sit in the archive alongside the ordinary issues, where they remain freely readable.
Volume 2 · Issue 2
Biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer
Every article in both collections is listed with its authors, pages and identifier on the Archives page.
Assessment
The same review as any other submission
A manuscript submitted to a special issue is handled under the journal’s ordinary process, and it is held to the same standard as a manuscript submitted outside one.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. An invitation to contribute, a guest editor’s interest in a manuscript, a membership arrangement and the article processing charge each carry no weight in that decision. The charge for an article in a special issue is USD 2,100, the same as for any other accepted article, and it is raised after acceptance only.
The ethics, data, authorship and competing-interest requirements are the journal’s ordinary ones, described in the Editorial Policies and the Instructions for Authors.
Proposing
What a proposal contains
A proposal is assessed on how well the theme fits the journal’s remit, whether the proposers can attract and handle the submissions, and whether the collection would add something the literature does not already have.
- A theme statement saying what the collection would cover and why it matters now
- The proposed guest editors, with their affiliations and their standing in the subject
- A draft list of topics, and the article types the collection would accept
- An estimate of how many manuscripts the proposers expect, and where from
- A proposed schedule, which the editorial office settles with the guest editors
Themes that have fitted the journal’s remit include proteogenomics and integrated multi-omics workflows, biomarker validation, single-cell proteomics and spatial genomics, machine learning applied to molecular data, clinical proteomics, and the standardization of data pipelines and reporting. The Aims and Scope governs what belongs in the journal, and a collection stays within it.
Guest editors
What a guest editor does
A guest editor shapes the call, invites contributions, advises on reviewers and reads the reports for the manuscripts in the collection. The editorial responsibilities themselves remain with the journal’s editors, who take the decisions and answer for them.
- Scope. Refining the call so that authors can tell whether their work belongs, and advising the editorial office where a submission sits at the edge of it.
- Reviewers. Suggesting people with the right command of the methods, and saying where a suggested reviewer is a collaborator or a competitor.
- Competing interests. A guest editor with a financial, institutional or personal interest in a manuscript stands aside, and a journal editor handles it instead. A guest editor’s own submission to the collection is handled by a journal editor and the authorship is disclosed on the published article.
- Confidentiality. Manuscripts in the collection are confidential on the same terms as any other submission.
These are the journal’s ordinary editorial obligations, described in full for editors and for reviewers.
Next
Getting in touch
Proposals, and questions about whether a theme would fit, go to the editorial office. Authors with a manuscript ready should start with the Aims and Scope and the Instructions for Authors.