Journal of Cell Identity papers will appear online, will be distributed quarterly in .pdf-format as a single periodical or as individual papers, and will occasionally appear in print.
ARTICLE TYPES
Research Articles are original research reports and undergo peer review. An article should not exceed 8,000 words (references not included). The number of figures and tables is not limited online, but electronic and printed versions shall include no more than eight. Please indicate your choice, otherwise it shall remain at the discretion of the editor and reviewers. Data for supplemental material is not limited. For more information on how to prepare a Research Article, please see the MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION PAGE.
Short Communication are high-impact reports and undergo peer review. The communication should not exceed 3,000 words (references not included), and may have up to four figures or tables. A Short Communication follows the style of a Research Article with the Results and Discussion sections combined into a single one.
Reviews are ~10,000-word peer-reviewed papers that provide a judicious and accessible overview of a particular aspect of cell distinctiveness. Reviews should provide the background while emphasizing recent developments.
Opinions and Essays are 3,000-5,000-words long papers that suggest or comment a new interpretation of published data.
Open-access
This journal has no fee for processing and publishing papers. Articles are available to both subscribers and the wider public with no charge.
Language
All article should be written in English (either American or British is accepted). Authors are encouraged to use English language Editing services to eliminate grammatical or spelling errors, especially if English is not your first language.
Peer review
All manuscripts will be assessed by the Editor to be appropriate for the journal aims, scope and requirements. Then, the manuscript will be sent to a minimum of two independent anonymous expert referees for the scientific assessment. The Editor is responsible for the final decision, based on reviewer recommendations.
Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships with people or organizations that could bias their work.
Submission declaration and verification
The research results have not been published previously and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere, in English or any other language (abstract or published lecture or academic thesis are excluded). All authors and responsible authorities approved the publication. Originality will be checked using plagiarism-detection software.
Cover letter
Please include a Cover Letter of less than 1000 characters. This should be a brief Summary Statement for use in emailed and online alerts and press releases. You should explain matter-of-factly why your article deserves being read. Just repeating the title won’t do. Preferably avoid technical terms and abbreviations, as the text should be comprehensible to non-experts. We reserve the right to edit your text.
Ethics in publishing
Editorial staff of Journal of Cell Identity considers ethics in scientific research and publishing as a challenging issue belonging to the academic ethics in general. According to the current standards, scientific misconduct and infringe of publishing ethics can be diverse, even though they are committed consciously or unconsciously.
Examples of very sensitive misconduct and breaches in publishing ethics are (but not only):
- Authorship disputes – defined mainly as deliberately misrepresenting a scientist’s relationship with published work.
- Competing interests – mean not disclosing in a paper that you have a direct or indirect conflict which impede you from being unbiased.
- Plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Plagiarism is passing off another’s works or ideas as your own, doesn’t matter how you learned about or accessed tem; self-plagiarism means mainly publishing the same sets of data or texts in more than one paper.
- Simultaneous submission – meaning submitting a paper to more than one publication concomitantly.
- Research fraud – mainly as data fabrication (making up research data) and data falsification (manipulating research data, tables or images).
We strongly advise our authors, reviewers and any other collaborators to follow the ethical rules and norms that Editorial Staff of the Journal of Cell Identity completely agrees and follows, such as: the COPE rules (see at: https://publicationethics.org/ and https://publicationethics.org/files/Sharing%20_of_Information_Among_EiCs_guidelines_web_version_0.pdf), the norms stipulated by ICMJE (see at: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/, or directly at: http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf), as well as recommendations of CIOMS (https://cioms.ch/).
Copyright
The Journal of Cell Identity does not claim any copyright for the published articles. We recommend to the authors to protect their results by a Creative Commons license and this will be stated into the Publishing Agreement form signed by the corresponding author.