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:::: <big><big>'''Bioenergetics Communications''' is the Oroboros journal for publishing and sharing scientific and technical advances in the O2k-technology</big></big>


[[File:Bioenergetics_Comm.png|right|400px|link=Bioenergetics Communications]]
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== About Bioenergetics Communications ==
== About Bioenergetics Communications ==


=== Open Science ===
::Β  '''<big><big>https://www.bioenergetics-communications.org</big></big>'''
::::* '''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'.
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:::: The world of humankind is and will be different during and after the COVID-19 crisis – a fact beyond our competence. ''How different the world will be – depends on our ability to learn and communicate.'' '''Bioenergetics Communications''' is an initiative of the Oroboros team in collaboration with the MitoEAGLE network. As innovators, we seek solutions to current challenges in the pandemic COVID-19 crisis, the present economic crisis, and the more persistent reproducibility crisis. Our main expertise is in the field of biomedical research. But our responsibility extends to addressing the climate crisis and international communication.
::::* Our presently funded H2020 NextGen-O2k project supports the launch of '''Bioenergetics Communications'''.
::::* Responsible research and its communication are required now more than ever. In response to the global economic crisis, research will be forced to focus on saving resources and increasing efficiency. Irreproducibility represents a terrible waste of resources and inefficiency at large. Oroboros Instruments has a long-term commitment towards reproducibility and economy.
::::* The noncommunicable epidemic of diabesity and mitObesity is enhanced during COVID-19 induced quarantine and restricted mobility. Not only more high-quality research is needed to learn more about mitObesity, but what we know has to be communicated more effectively and generally.
::::* Quality control of instrumental performance ensures accuracy of measurements and reproducibility across laboratories. '''Bioenergetics Communications''' provides a platform to harmonize and share interlaboratory results as Open Science communication - Gentle Science.
Β 
:::: COVID-19 accelerated the acute need for unrestricted Open Access and fast publication by using preprints for rapid communication ([https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/completely-new-culture-doing-research-coronavirus-outbreak-changes-how-scientists Kupferschmidt 2020]). The '''pre-print''' culture addresses several key elements of the present challenges, yet remains incomplete without a novel '''re-print''' culture of scientific communication adapted to the current research opportunities and resources of the global ecosystem. Many valuable studies are prevented from timely publication in traditional journals. '''Bioenergetics Communications''' is the new journal that fills the gap in today's niche of scientific communication.
::::* Many research teams and PhD students are blocked and face experimental programs lacking statistical completion. - These studies can be shared now as a preprint and immediately be submitted for peer-review and publication in '''Bioenerg Commun''' (footnote 1). We consider Bayesian statistics and the concept, that few findings reported by many independent groups are statistically more powerful than findings repeated many times by one group only.
::::* Many scientists store experimental data that are methodologically sound - as judged by consistent technical repeats - but lack sufficient numbers of independent replica for conventional publication, or which are dismissed as negative results. - These data can be shared now in a preprint and immediately be submitted for peer-review and publication in '''Bioenerg Commun''' (footnote 2).
::::* Many reviewers and editors ask for additional experiments or entirely new studies, without which a manuscript is flatly rejected. - '''Bioenerg Commun''' does not accept peer reviews that demand additional experiments; reviewers are asked to comment exclusively on the content of a manuscript submitted for publication. Cooperative reviewers may offer to contribute their own additional results and join as coauthors.
::::* Many journals request excessive publication fees for Open Access and page charges. Publication in Bioenerg Commun is free of charge at this time of restricted financial resources, such that corresponding funds will not be diverted away from productive research. Today the scientific community has sufficiently sophisticated opportunities to disseminate on-line publications effectively and free of charge. This allows authors to play key roles as conductors of research instead of playing a role as actors confined to the journal playwright's script.
::::: Footnotes
:::::# ".. real management is mostly about managing coalitions, maintaining support for a project so it doesn’t evaporate". - ([[Silver 2012 Penguin Press |Silver 2012]])
:::::# ".. the negative findings are probably kept in a file drawer rather than being published (about 90 percent of the papers published in academic journals today document positive findings rather than negative ones.) However, that does not mask the problem of false positives in the findings that do make it to publication". - ([[Silver 2012 Penguin Press |Silver 2012]])
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| width="100" align="center" |[[Image:ManifestoEUCovid19Research endorsers Banner.png|100px|link=https://wiki.oroboros.at/images/e/e6/Manifesto_for_EU_COVID-19_Research.pdf |Manifesto for EU COVID-19 Research]]
|On September 29, 2020, as a Horizon 2020 beneficiary, Oroboros signed the '''[https://wiki.oroboros.at/images/e/e6/Manifesto_for_EU_COVID-19_Research.pdf Manifesto for EU COVID-19 Research]''', showing our support for the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19.<br>
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|}
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=== Living Communications ===
Β 
[[Image:MitoFit Preprint Arch.png|left|100px|link=MitoFit Preprint Arch]]
::::* '''Bioenergetics Communications''' (BEC) is a [[BEC_authors#From_preprint_to_publication |preprint-linked journal]]: Rapid dissemination is possible before peer-review in MitoFit Preprint Archives. This is followed by Open Peer Review, such that BEC provides a platform for publishing and sharing high-quality data.
Β 
[[File:BEC-logo.png|left|100px|link=Bioenergetics Communications|Bioenergetics Communications]]
::::* With '''Living Communications''' BEC takes the next step from pre-print to re-print. Living Communications allow additions and corrections of a publication with Open Peer Review, such that the publication can evolve with full traceability, instead of remaining a static outdated paper. Living Communications reduce the inflationary explosion in the numbers of daily published papers.
::::Β» Further details - '''[[Living Communications]]'''
::::Β» '''BEC2020.1: Mitochondrial physiology - [[BEC2020.1 doi10.26124bec2020-0001.v1 |Open Access]]'''
Β 
=== Gentle Science ===
::::* '''Bioenergetics Communications''' is the Oroboros Ecosystem journal primarily intended to publish and disseminate rapidly technical reports on optimization and standardization of methods and protocols, to foster interlaboratory collaborations, and to combine and compare interlaboratory results. This rapid communication is part of the quality of science transfer, yet considering precautions against irreproducible 'waste 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.
::::* 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.
::::* It is particularly important to publish protocols that do not (yet) work. 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.
::::* 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


== Open Access and BEC perspectives ==
:::: [[File:Open Access logo.png| 20px| Left]] All communications in BEC are '''[[Open Access]]''' (OA) - www.bioenergetics-communications.org
::::* BEC will migrate from the wiki platform to the [[Open Journal System]] platform for inclusion in PMC (to be listed in PubMed) and MEDLINE, with registered ISSN


=== Bioenergetics Communications is part of the H2020 NextGen-O2k project ===
:::* '''Budget'''
{{NextGen-O2k H2020-support}}
:::::# Initially supported by the H2020 NextGen-O2k project. How can BEC be sustainably financed, when neither author fees (page charges) nor user fees (Open Access) add to be budget? Financial aspects are not disclosed during the review process, to guarantee an unbiased review.
:::::# If financial support by grants is cited, a grant dissemination fee is charged.
:::::# If institutional support is available and cited, an institutional dissemination fee is charged.
:::::# If author affiliations include for-profit companies, a company dissemination fee is charged.
:::::# Support by conferences publishing their abstracts or proceedings.
:::::# Charged announcements (conferences; companies).
:::::# General institutional financial support (?).


:::* '''MiP''society'''''
:::::* The consortium of the COST Action MitoEAGLE is immediately involved in establishing BEC. However, COST does not finance salaries.
:::::* Beyond MitoEAGLE, which is in its final fourth year, the Mitochondrial Physiology Society should discuss, if BEC may be supported as the official journal of the MiP''sociey''.


=== The Digital Object Identifier ===
::::* Contributions to "Bioenergetics Communications" are citable publications with a [[Digital Object Identifier| DOI number]] in the format:
:::::::: '''doi:10.26124/bec:YY####'''


== The Digital Object Identifier ==
::::* Contributions to '''Bioenergetics Communications''' are publications with a [[Digital Object Identifier| DOI number]] in the format:
:::::::: '''doi:10.26124/bec:YYYY-####.v#'''
::::* After Open Peer Review, the publication will be made readily available online, with a DOI. The publications will be later grouped into BEC issues.
::::* All versions have a specific DOI version number, such that each version remains Open Access and the discussion is added to the article page.
:::::::: DOI for different versions: doi10.26124/bec:2020-0001.v1 | doi10.26124/bec:2020-0001.v2
:::::::: File names: BEC_2020.1_doi10.26124bec2020-0001.v1.pdf | BEC_2021.24_doi10.26124bec2020-0001.v2.pdf
::::* For more information on the DOI assignment, see: [[MitoFit_Preprint_Archives#The_MitoFit_Digital_Object_Identifier|MitoFit Preprint Archives]]
::::* For more information on the DOI assignment, see: [[MitoFit_Preprint_Archives#The_MitoFit_Digital_Object_Identifier|MitoFit Preprint Archives]]


=== From preprint to publication ===


::::* The distinction between preprint and publication is used in a stepwise process:
[[File:BEC-exlibris.png|left|200px|Bioenergetics Communications]]
::::# '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.
== Bioenergetics Communications is part of the H2020 NextGen-O2k project ==
::::# '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.
{{NextGen-O2k H2020-support}}
::::# Preprints posted by the authors as potential publications in 'Bioenergetics Communications' are immediately delegated to our section editors for
[[File:CA15203MitoEAGLE.png|right|280px|link=http://www.mitoeagle.org/index.php/MitoEAGLE|CA15203 MitoEAGLE]]
::::## direct communication with the authors to plan the Open Peer review process (non-anonymous);
{{MitoPedia topics
::::## 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;
|mitopedia topic=BEC
::::## 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);
}}
::::## manuscripts may be updated and extended - particularly with added information and coauthors from other laboratories (Versions 3, 4, ..)
[[Category:Mitochondrial Global Network]]
::::# All versions have a specific DOI version number, such that each version remains Open Access and the discussion is added to the article page.
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== Editorial board ==
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:::: 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

Revision as of 13:58, 5 October 2020


Bioenergetics Communications        
Gnaiger 2020 BEC MitoPathways
       
Gnaiger Erich et al ― MitoEAGLE Task Group (2020) Mitochondrial physiology. Bioenerg Commun 2020.1.
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Bioenergetics Communications is the Open Science journal on bioenergetics and mitochondrial physiology with Living Communications Open Access logo.png - ISSN 2791-4690

Bioenergetics Communications

Bioenergetics Communications

About Bioenergetics Communications

https://www.bioenergetics-communications.org
The world of humankind is and will be different during and after the COVID-19 crisis – a fact beyond our competence. How different the world will be – depends on our ability to learn and communicate. Bioenergetics Communications is an initiative of the Oroboros team in collaboration with the MitoEAGLE network. As innovators, we seek solutions to current challenges in the pandemic COVID-19 crisis, the present economic crisis, and the more persistent reproducibility crisis. Our main expertise is in the field of biomedical research. But our responsibility extends to addressing the climate crisis and international communication.
  • Our presently funded H2020 NextGen-O2k project supports the launch of Bioenergetics Communications.
  • Responsible research and its communication are required now more than ever. In response to the global economic crisis, research will be forced to focus on saving resources and increasing efficiency. Irreproducibility represents a terrible waste of resources and inefficiency at large. Oroboros Instruments has a long-term commitment towards reproducibility and economy.
  • The noncommunicable epidemic of diabesity and mitObesity is enhanced during COVID-19 induced quarantine and restricted mobility. Not only more high-quality research is needed to learn more about mitObesity, but what we know has to be communicated more effectively and generally.
  • Quality control of instrumental performance ensures accuracy of measurements and reproducibility across laboratories. Bioenergetics Communications provides a platform to harmonize and share interlaboratory results as Open Science communication - Gentle Science.
COVID-19 accelerated the acute need for unrestricted Open Access and fast publication by using preprints for rapid communication (Kupferschmidt 2020). The pre-print culture addresses several key elements of the present challenges, yet remains incomplete without a novel re-print culture of scientific communication adapted to the current research opportunities and resources of the global ecosystem. Many valuable studies are prevented from timely publication in traditional journals. Bioenergetics Communications is the new journal that fills the gap in today's niche of scientific communication.
  • Many research teams and PhD students are blocked and face experimental programs lacking statistical completion. - These studies can be shared now as a preprint and immediately be submitted for peer-review and publication in Bioenerg Commun (footnote 1). We consider Bayesian statistics and the concept, that few findings reported by many independent groups are statistically more powerful than findings repeated many times by one group only.
  • Many scientists store experimental data that are methodologically sound - as judged by consistent technical repeats - but lack sufficient numbers of independent replica for conventional publication, or which are dismissed as negative results. - These data can be shared now in a preprint and immediately be submitted for peer-review and publication in Bioenerg Commun (footnote 2).
  • Many reviewers and editors ask for additional experiments or entirely new studies, without which a manuscript is flatly rejected. - Bioenerg Commun does not accept peer reviews that demand additional experiments; reviewers are asked to comment exclusively on the content of a manuscript submitted for publication. Cooperative reviewers may offer to contribute their own additional results and join as coauthors.
  • Many journals request excessive publication fees for Open Access and page charges. Publication in Bioenerg Commun is free of charge at this time of restricted financial resources, such that corresponding funds will not be diverted away from productive research. Today the scientific community has sufficiently sophisticated opportunities to disseminate on-line publications effectively and free of charge. This allows authors to play key roles as conductors of research instead of playing a role as actors confined to the journal playwright's script.
Footnotes
  1. ".. real management is mostly about managing coalitions, maintaining support for a project so it doesn’t evaporate". - (Silver 2012)
  2. ".. the negative findings are probably kept in a file drawer rather than being published (about 90 percent of the papers published in academic journals today document positive findings rather than negative ones.) However, that does not mask the problem of false positives in the findings that do make it to publication". - (Silver 2012)
Manifesto for EU COVID-19 Research On September 29, 2020, as a Horizon 2020 beneficiary, Oroboros signed the Manifesto for EU COVID-19 Research, showing our support for the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19.

Living Communications

MitoFit Preprints.png
  • Bioenergetics Communications (BEC) is a preprint-linked journal: Rapid dissemination is possible before peer-review in MitoFit Preprint Archives. This is followed by Open Peer Review, such that BEC provides a platform for publishing and sharing high-quality data.
Bioenergetics Communications
  • With Living Communications BEC takes the next step from pre-print to re-print. Living Communications allow additions and corrections of a publication with Open Peer Review, such that the publication can evolve with full traceability, instead of remaining a static outdated paper. Living Communications reduce the inflationary explosion in the numbers of daily published papers.
Β» Further details - Living Communications
Β» BEC2020.1: Mitochondrial physiology - Open Access

Gentle Science

  • Bioenergetics Communications is the Oroboros Ecosystem journal primarily intended to publish and disseminate rapidly technical reports on optimization and standardization of methods and protocols, to foster interlaboratory collaborations, and to combine and compare interlaboratory results. This rapid communication is part of the quality of science transfer, yet considering precautions against irreproducible 'waste 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. 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.


Open Access and BEC perspectives

Left All communications in BEC are Open Access (OA) - www.bioenergetics-communications.org
  • BEC will migrate from the wiki platform to the Open Journal System platform for inclusion in PMC (to be listed in PubMed) and MEDLINE, with registered ISSN
  • Budget
  1. Initially supported by the H2020 NextGen-O2k project. How can BEC be sustainably financed, when neither author fees (page charges) nor user fees (Open Access) add to be budget? Financial aspects are not disclosed during the review process, to guarantee an unbiased review.
  2. If financial support by grants is cited, a grant dissemination fee is charged.
  3. If institutional support is available and cited, an institutional dissemination fee is charged.
  4. If author affiliations include for-profit companies, a company dissemination fee is charged.
  5. Support by conferences publishing their abstracts or proceedings.
  6. Charged announcements (conferences; companies).
  7. General institutional financial support (?).
  • MiPsociety
  • The consortium of the COST Action MitoEAGLE is immediately involved in establishing BEC. However, COST does not finance salaries.
  • Beyond MitoEAGLE, which is in its final fourth year, the Mitochondrial Physiology Society should discuss, if BEC may be supported as the official journal of the MiPsociey.


The Digital Object Identifier

  • Contributions to Bioenergetics Communications are publications with a DOI number in the format:
doi:10.26124/bec:YYYY-####.v#
  • After Open Peer Review, the publication will be made readily available online, with a DOI. The publications will be later grouped into BEC issues.
  • All versions have a specific DOI version number, such that each version remains Open Access and the discussion is added to the article page.
DOI for different versions: doi10.26124/bec:2020-0001.v1 | doi10.26124/bec:2020-0001.v2
File names: BEC_2020.1_doi10.26124bec2020-0001.v1.pdf | BEC_2021.24_doi10.26124bec2020-0001.v2.pdf


Bioenergetics Communications

Bioenergetics Communications is part of the H2020 NextGen-O2k project

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