Bioenergetics Communications

Bioenergetics Communications is the Oroboros journal for publishing and sharing scientific and technical advances in the O2k-technology

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About Bioenergetics Communications

Open Science

• Bioenergetics Communications is the Oroboros journal primarily intended to publish and disseminate rapidly short technical reports on the O2k-technology, to foster interlaboratory collaborations to optimize and standardize methods and protocols, and to combine and compare interlaboratory results. This rapid communication is part of the quality of science transfer, yet considering precautions against 'bad science'.

• Protocols have to be shared rapidly, thus enabling research groups to quickly test, harmonize and implement standardized procedures to obtain more reproducible and comparable results.

• It is particularly important to publish protocols that do not (yet) work, such as application of the Q-module in living cells. This saves a lot of time for all who work along the same lines of research and may encourage collaborations to solve the issue.

• Contributions are invited on very specific methodological details with preliminary examples of applications, sharing information rapidly rather than adding it much later to the supplementary material of extended research papers.

• Format: manuscripts in English

Communication categories

Work in progress

Short communications

• Short communications - have the format of extended abstracts, without belonging to a specific conference. Compare: Extended_abstracts
• Comments - provide critical discussions of publications, includig summaries of journal clubs.

Communications

• Technical communications - contain instrumental and methodological details on HRR particularly focussed on quality control.
• Innovations - introduce tests of new instrumental developments or novel applications.
• SUIT protocols - present the concept of a specific SUIT protocol, exceeding the MitoPedia description and containing more detail than typical methods sections in other publications.
• Negative results - discuss findings on methodological difficulties that failed to lead to a relevant innovation.

From preprint to publication

• The distinction between preprint and publication is used in a stepwise process:

1. 'MitoFit Preprint Archives' is the fast lane of Open Access communication without peer review. Authors should indicate, if the preprint is considered for 'Bioenergetics Communications' or not.
2. 'MitoFit Preprint Archives' and 'Bioenergetics Communications' accept a variety of formats of the communications, such that the authors can focus on the quality of their work.
3. Preprints posted by the authors as potential publications in 'Bioenergetics Communications' are immediately delegated to our section editors for
   1. direct communication with the authors to plan the Open Peer review process (non-anonymous);
   2. external review which should lead quickly to publication in 'Bioenergetics Communications' (Version 1) including the correspondence with the reviewer(s) as an appended discussion - without the option for reviewers to insist on additional experiments, but strict focus on the quality of the presently provided information;
   3. encourage follow-up interlaboratory collaborations, when contributions by reviewers may be integrated and reviewers are listed as coauthors and declared as such in the section 'Author contributions', or additional information is added by the original authors (Version 2);
   4. manuscripts may be updated and extended - particularly with added information and coauthors from other laboratories (Versions 3, 4, ..)
4. All versions have a specific DOI version number, such that each version remains Open Access and the discussion is added to the article page.

The Digital Object Identifier

• Contributions to "Bioenergetics Communications" are citable publications with a DOI number in the format:

doi:10.26124/bec:YY####

• For more information on the DOI assignment, see: MitoFit Preprint Archives

Editorial board

Editor: Cardoso Luiza HD

Co-editor: Gnaiger Erich

Managing editor: Tindle-Solomon Lisa

Section editors

Antunes Diana - O2k-Open Support - technical communications

Cardoso Luiza HD - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Magnesium Green; NextGen-O2k - Q-redox

Cecatto Cristiane - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Calcium Green

Di Marcello Marco - O2k-Open Support - technical communications

Doerrier Carolina - SUIT protocols; NextGen-O2k - NAD(P)H

Garcia-Souza Luiz F - O2k-FluoRespirometry - blood cells

Huete-Ortega Maria - NextGen-O2k - photosynthesis, algal bioenergetics

Komlodi Timea - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Amplex UltraRed; NextGen-O2k - Q-redox

Bioenergetics Communications is part of the H2020 NextGen-O2k project