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| :::: <big><big>'''Bioenergetics Communications''' is the Oroboros Ecosystem journal for publishing and sharing scientific and technical advances in bioenergetics, mitochondrial physiology, and particularly high-resolution respirometry</big></big>
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| :::::::: '''<big>»[[Bioenerg Commun]]«</big>'''
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| == About Bioenergetics Communications ==
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| :::: During and after the COVID-19 crisis, the world of humankind is and will be different. As innovators, the team of the Oroboros Ecosystem seeks solutions to current challenges. We initiate '''Bioenergetics Communications''' (Bioenerg Commun).
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| :::: 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.
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| ::::* 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.
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| ::::* 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).
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| ::::* 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.
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| ::::* 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.
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| ::::: Footnotes
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| :::::# ".. real management is mostly about managing coalitions, maintaining support for a project so it doesn’t evaporate". - ([[Silver 2012 Penguin Press |Silver 2012]])
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| :::::# ".. 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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| === Open Science ===
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| ::::* '''Bioenergetics Communications''' is the Oroboros Ecosystem journal primarily intended to publish and disseminate rapidly 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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| ::::* 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.
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| ::::* 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.
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| ::::* 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.
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| ::::* '''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.
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| == Information for authors ==
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| ''Work in progress''
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| === Format ===
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| ::::* Manuscripts in English
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| ::::* Publications in '''Bioenergetics Communications''' include a title, authors and affiliations, author contributions, an introduction (presenting the purpose of the publication), materials and methods, results, a discussion or conclusions, references, and acknowledgements. However, it is not necessary to follow a fixed format, ''e.g.'', the authors may choose to place the materials and methods section before the results or at the end before the references, and the discussion section can be separated from the results, or both sections can be merged. Thus authors can focus on the quality of their work instead of following the stereotype of a journal format.
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| ::::* The publications are accompanied by a folder with the original data (''e.g.'' DLD files with the raw data).
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| === Short communications ===
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| ::::* '''Short communications''' - have the format of extended abstracts, without belonging to a specific conference. ''Compare'': [[Extended_abstracts]]. Extended abstracts posted in '''MitoFit Preprint Archives''' in the context of any conference may be submitted to '''Bioenergetics Communications''', if the contents is suitable.
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| ::::* '''Comments''' - provide critical discussions of publications, includig summaries of journal clubs.
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| === Communications ===
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| ::::* '''Technical communications''' - contain instrumental and methodological details on HRR particularly focused on quality control.
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| ::::* '''Innovations''' - introduce tests of new instrumental developments or novel applications.
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| ::::* '''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.
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| ::::* '''Negative results''' - discuss findings on methodological difficulties that failed to lead to a relevant innovation.
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| ::::* '''Monographs''' - reviews and textbooks.
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| ==== Possibilities ====
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| :::: It is possible to publish data without statistical relevance ''per se''. If follow-up experiments are done later in other laboratories, it may be possible to compare the previously published data with the new data. Several small data sets made available from many laboratories in a methodologically consistent and reproducible way result in large data sets that are statistically more relevant.
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| === From preprint to publication ===
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| [[Image:MitoFit Preprint Arch.png|100px|link=MitoFit Preprint Arch]] [[File:BEC-logo.png|100px|Bioenergetics Communications]]
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| ::::* The formats of preprint and publication are used in a stepwise process:
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| ::::# '''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'''.
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| ::::# '''MitoFit preprints''' posted by the authors as potential publications in '''Bioenergetics Communications''' are immediately delegated to our section editors:
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| ::::## Communication with the authors to plan the non-anonymous '''Open Peer Review''' process. Up to three reviewers should be suggested by the authors.
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| ::::## '''Version 1''': External review should lead quickly to publication in '''Bioenergetics Communications''' including the correspondence with the reviewer(s) as an appended discussion and reference to the preprint - without the option for reviewers to insist on additional experiments, but strict focus on the quality of the presently provided information.
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| ::::## '''Version 2''': Reviewers and editors may encourage follow-up interlaboratory collaborations, with extended information added by the original authors or new collaborators; contributions by reviewers may be integrated and reviewers listed as coauthors and declared as such in the section 'Author contributions' upon mutual agreement between original authors and reviewers;
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| ::::## '''Folow-up Versions''': Manuscripts may be updated and extended - particularly with added information and coauthors from other laboratories.
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| == The Digital Object Identifier ==
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| ::::* Contributions to "Bioenergetics Communications" are citable publications with a [[Digital Object Identifier| DOI number]] in the format:
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| :::::::: '''doi:10.26124/bec:YY####'''
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| ::::* After the peer-review process, the publication will be made readily available online, with a DOI. The publications will be later grouped into BEC issues.
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| ::::* 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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| ::::* For more information on the DOI assignment, see: [[MitoFit_Preprint_Archives#The_MitoFit_Digital_Object_Identifier|MitoFit Preprint Archives]]
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| == Editorial board ==
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| :::: Editor: [[Cardoso Luiza HD]]
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| :::: Co-editor: [[Gnaiger Erich]]
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| :::: Managing editor: [[Tindle-Solomon Lisa]]
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| :::: Graphics editor: [[Cocco Paolo]]
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| ::: '''Section editors'''
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| :::: [[Antunes Diana]] - O2k-Open Support - technical communications
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| :::: [[Cardoso Luiza HD]] - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Magnesium Green; NextGen-O2k - Q-redox
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| :::: [[Cecatto Cristiane]] - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Calcium Green
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| :::: [[Di Marcello Marco]] - O2k-Open Support - technical communications
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| :::: [[Doerrier Carolina]] - SUIT protocols; NextGen-O2k - NAD(P)H
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| :::: [[Garcia-Souza Luiz F]] - O2k-FluoRespirometry - blood cells
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| :::: [[Huete-Ortega Maria]] - NextGen-O2k - photosynthesis, algal bioenergetics
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| :::: [[Komlodi Timea]] - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Amplex UltraRed; NextGen-O2k - Q-redox
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| [[File:BEC-exlibris.png|left|200px|Bioenergetics Communications]]
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| == Bioenergetics Communications is part of the H2020 NextGen-O2k project ==
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| {{NextGen-O2k H2020-support}}
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| [[Category:Mitochondrial Global Network]]
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