期刊名称:SCIENCE SIGNALING
ISSN: | 1945-0877
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出版频率: | Weekly
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出版社: | AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, 1200 NEW YORK AVE, NW, WASHINGTON, USA, DC, 20005
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出版社网址: | http://www.sciencemag.org/
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期刊网址: | http://stke.sciencemag.org/
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影响因子: | 8.218 |
主题范畴: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; CELL BIOLOGY |
变更情况: | Newly Added by 2013, |
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Science Signaling. ISSN 1937-9145 (online), 1945-0877 (print). Pre-2008: Science's STKE. ISSN 1525-8882
Science Signaling: Journal and Knowledge Environment
Science Signaling is a weekly journal, publishing 51 issues a year, as well as an online resource and information management tool that enables experts and novices in cell signaling to find, organize, and utilize information relevant to processes of cellular regulation. The overarching goal of Science Signaling is publish key findings of broad relevance in the field of cell signaling and to provide articles, community features, tools, and online resources that enable readers to gain insight into cellular regulatory processes. An additional goal of the site is to provide an authoritative database of cell signaling information that is accessible to readers and useful for computer-based analysis.
More detailed information about the articles and resources of Science Signaling can be found in the corresponding Help and the Information for Authors page. Brief descriptions are provided below.
Science Signaling: Original Articles
Science Signaling publishes original Research Articles and Research Resources. Research published in Science Signaling represents major advances in cell signaling, including key research papers in the rapidly expanding areas of signaling networks, systems biology, synthetic biology, computation and modeling of regulatory pathways, and drug discovery. Research Articles generally report hypothesis-driven research; whereas Research Resources may describe nonhypothesis-driven research, including the presentation of new validated tools or techniques or validated databases or data sets relevant to cellular regulation. Papers are selected for publication in Science Signaling on the basis of their importance and broad interest to scientists engaged in the general area of cellular regulation as determined by the editors in consultation with a Board of Reviewing Editors and in-depth reviewers of papers. Acceptable papers should substantially refine current understanding of important signaling processes with priority given to those papers that the reviewers and editors determine to provide new concepts and new understanding of biological signal transduction and that are likely to find application multiple biological systems or in a diverse range of investigations. See the Information for Authors for more details.
Science Signaling publishes original Perspectives, Reviews, and Protocols, most of which are solicited by the editors. Perspectives present the opinion of the author focused on one main issue, often a new development from a published paper or group of papers. Meeting Reports and Book Reviews also appear in the Perspectives section. Reviews are more complete analyses of topics of broad interest and are critically peer reviewed for scholarship, clarity, and accuracy. Protocols are presented in detail with background information for interested readers who may not intend to actually use the protocol and with detailed instructions and troubleshooting guides for readers who do wish to apply the technique. See the Information for Authors for more details.
Science Signaling: Resources for Education
The Teaching Resources, Glossary, and Journal Club sections of Science Signaling provide information, materials, and articles that enable students and educators to better understand and teach the complex topic of cell signaling. The Teaching Resources include diverse materials that aid in teaching topics or courses in cell signaling, such as lecture notes and slides, syllabi, research projects, experiments, animations, discussions, and online tutorials. These resources are intended to facilitate in the instruction of complicated biological mechanisms and theories, as well as to encourage active student discussion and participation. The Glossary provides definitions for acronyms, abbreviations, and other cell signaling terms commonly found in Science Signaling articles and resources. The definitions are provided by the editors based on the usage of the terms in Science Signaling articles; when available, terms have links to more detailed information in the Database of Cell Signaling. Journal Club articles are brief pieces that highlight recent exciting developments in cell signaling research and are written by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows with little or no input from a senior author. These articles allow the new generation of signaling researchers to gain experience in critical analysis of the recent literature and in the process of scientific communication, while providing the readers a fresh view of cell signaling research.
Science Signaling: The Virtual Journal
Nineteen publishers have agreed to include full-text access to signal transduction articles from their journals in the Science Signaling Virtual Journal. Daily, semantic indexing software analyzes the contents of the latest issues of participating journals, identifies the signal transduction-related articles, and adds these to the Virtual Journal. The automatic indexing process is supplemented by editorial oversight to add articles missed by the algorithm or to remove articles that are not relevant to the field of cell signaling.
Science Signaling: Current Awareness and Personalization
My Science Signaling provides customization features to tailor the site to the user's needs and interests (these features require personal subscription or registration and access through an institutional site license). Science Signaling offers eTOC alerts (alerting users when a new issue of Science Signaling is published), as well as three types of CiteTrack research alerts: (i) keyword alerts, alerting users when new original Science Signaling articles or articles in the Virtual Journal are published, or resources in the Community and Resources sections of the site are added that contain the specified keywords; (ii) author alerts, alerting users when articles by the specified authors are added to Science Signaling; and (iii) citation alerts, alerting users when a specified article is referenced by another article published in a journal hosted by HighWire Press.
In addition to these user-specified current awareness tools, each week the editors of Science Signaling scan the literature for newly published papers of particularly broad interest. Brief summaries of the selected papers are presented in Editors' Choice.
Users can organize information found at the site into Folders. My Display Settings provide personalized filters for searches that allow individual users to view only material that is new since their last visit to the site or limit search results to only those journals they have selected from the Virtual Journal. My Saved Searches allows users to save personalized searches to execute on demand without requiring the parameters to be re-entered each time.
Science Signaling: The Database of Cell Signaling
The Database of Cell Signaling contains information on signaling components and their relations. The data are organized into signaling pathways called Connections Maps and are provided by leading authorities in the field. The database organizes information and provides previously unavailable information, such as short lists of selected key references and the authorities' evaluations of the strength of existing evidence for relations in the database. The Connections Maps themselves are dynamically generated pathway diagrams that instantly reflect new information provided by the authorities.
Science Signaling: A Community
The electronic format of Science Signaling allows users to interact easily with authors, researchers, experts, and colleagues. Forums provide users the opportunity to exchange views and information in topically organized threaded discussions. E-Letters allow readers to add their opinion to, point out new research about, or address the author of any specific original article in Science Signaling. Interactions among the cell signaling community are facilitated by the Directory, which includes contact information and descriptions about the interests of researchers, students, and others interested in cell signaling.
Science Signaling: A Portal to Online Resources
Science Signaling provides access to various online resources, including a search interface for Science Careers; an Events calendar of meetings, conferences, and workshops of interest to the signal transduction community; and ST NetWatch, which includes editorially reviewed descriptions and links to useful Web sites and online tools relevant to signaling research and education.
Journal Information
Science Signaling was originally published as Science's STKE [signal transduction knowledge environment (ISSN: 1525-8882)], a web site and online review journal devoted to the topic of cell signaling with the first issue in September 1999. The name changed to Science Signaling (ISSN: 1937-9145) in January 2008 and original research articles were added in September 2008. More information about cataloging the journal, as well as details about the differences in the catalog records for Science's STKE and Science Signaling are available on the Fact Sheet.
Science Signaling is published weekly online 51 issues a year on Tuesdays.
Science Signaling should be abbreviated as Sci. Signal. (see the How to Cite page for additional details and examples.)
AAAS, the nonprofit publisher of Science Signaling, provides free access to the research content through the journal's web site one year after publication and authors are allowed to deposit the accepted, but not final published, versions of Research Articles, Resource Resources, Reviews, and Protocols in public repositories, such as PubMed Central, 6 months after publication in Science Signaling. See the journal's policies for details.
Science Signaling is indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, Chemical Abstracts, Elsevier (EMBASE, Geobase, Elsevier BIOBASE, EMBiology, EMCare, and Scopus), ISI Web of Science, Google, and Google Scholar.
According to ISI Web of Science and Google Scholar (July 2011), top cited research papers have received more than 50 citations. Examples include "Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveals Widespread Full Phosphorylation Site Occupancy During Mitosis" by Olsen et al. published in the 12 January 2010 issue and "Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p110β Activity: Key Role in Metabolism and Mammary Gland Cancer But Not Development by Ciraolo et al. published in the 9 September 2008 issue.
More than 20% of Science Signaling research papers have been evaluated by Faculty of 1000.
Science Signaling's second impact factor was released in June 2012 and is 7.5. This second impact factor was calculated from citations in 2011 to content published in Science Signaling in 2009 and 2010. There is a lag period after publication before citations can start accumulating; therefore, recently published papers are likely to have a lower number of citations than older papers. This means that, especially for new titles like Science Signaling, impact factor is likely to increase as articles with citations to papers accumulate in the literature.
Instructions to Authors
Science Signaling: Information for Authors
Categories of Manuscripts
Science Signaling is a weekly journal that publishes original material pertaining to the broad field of cell signaling. Science Signaling publishes original Research Articles, Research Resources, Perspectives, Reviews, Protocols, and Letters. Of these, most Perspectives and Reviews are solicited by the editors, but we welcome your suggestions of potential topics and authors. Detailed instructions are available as PDFs below the general overview of each type of manuscript.
Research Articles are expected to present a major advance in regulatory biology. Study may be at the level of intracellular signaling, intercellular signaling, organismal signaling and regulation, or systems level analysis of regulatory biology. They should include an abstract and be structured as follows: Introduction, Results, Discussion, and Materials and Methods. Supplementary Material is permitted but should be limited to information that is not essential to the understanding and evaluation of the research presented in the paper. Details about the scope, review process, instructions for authors, and online submission are available.
Research Resources are selected from the Research Article submissions and describe nonhypothesis-driven research, including the presentation of new validated tools or techniques or validated databases or data sets relevant to cellular or organismal regulatory biology. See the Research Resource help page for more information.
Perspectives emphasize the opinions or viewpoints of their authors. More limited in scope than Reviews, they may focus on recently published papers or on methods, books, or policy matters.
Reviews address timely topics of broad interest and of relevance to signal transduction or regulatory biology. Unlike conventional reviews, they may be updated by their authors as developments warrant. Reviews are accompanied by 'glosses' -- textbook-level summaries for readers who seek a brief introduction to the topic. Reviews should provide new insights as well as summarize the information currently available. The best reviews reflect the unique viewpoint of the author and show how new findings alter current thinking about major issues in a particular field. Reviews are evaluated by peer review for scholarship, accuracy, clarity, and effectiveness of presentation. Reviews may provide comprehensive coverage of a topic or may be more tightly focused in the form of a mini-review.
Protocols provide step-by-step instructions and notes on the techniques of signal transduction research - information often only hinted at in 'Materials and Methods' sections. Protocols should provide the unique viewpoint and experiences of the author.
Detailed Instructions for Authors
General Information Regarding Manuscript Preparation
Symbols, abbreviations, and acronyms should be defined the first time they are used.
Units of measure should be given in SI units. If measurements were made in English units, give metric equivalents.
References and notes are numbered in the order in which they are cited, first through the text and the references, then through the table and figure legends. List a reference only one time. Any references to in-press manuscripts or personal communications should be given a number in the text and placed, in correct sequence, in the references and notes. Such references should not, however, be used to support claims or conclusions. Do not use op. cit., ibid., or et al. (in place of the complete list of authors' names). Journal article references should be complete, including the complete list of authors, the full titles, and the inclusive pagination. Detailed information is provided in the detailed instructions for authors for each type of manuscript.
Figures and tables may be included with any type of manuscript. All figures must be called out within the text. Figures should be numbered in the order of their citation in the text. Details about figure and table preparation are included in the detailed instructions for authors, as they vary by manuscript type.
Figure Legends should be included in the text file immediately after the body of the text and preceding the references. Nomenclature, abbreviations, symbols, and units used in a figure should match those used in the text. The figure title should be given as the first line of the legend.
Tables should supplement, not duplicate, the text. They should be numbered in the order of their citation in the text. The first sentence of the legend should be a brief descriptive title. Each vertical column of a table should have a heading and if appropriate include the unit of measure in parentheses. Units should not change within a column. Centered headings of the body of the table can be used to break the entries into groups. Footnotes should contain information relevant to specific entries or parts of the table.
Supplementary Materials may include digital resources, large data sets, or video or audio files. These should be restricted to information that either is not essential to understanding and evaluating the article or is not presentable in a printable format. All supplementary materials should be accompanied by a brief text description, similar to a caption. Details about preferred file formats and file sizes are included in the detailed instructions for authors.
Policies: Submission Requirements and Conditions of Acceptance
To meet its responsibility to readers and to the public to provide clear and unbiased scientific results and analyses, AAAS requires that all manuscripts published in Science, Science Signaling, and Science Translational Medicine are accompanied by clear disclosures from all authors of the nature and level of their contribution to the article, their understanding regarding the obligation to share data and materials, and any affiliations, funding sources, or financial holdings that might raise questions about possible sources of bias. Before manuscript acceptance, therefore, authors will be asked to sign an authorship and conflict of interest form. Science Signaling Authorship and Conflict of Interest Form
The policies for publication of original research in Science Signaling follows those for publication of research in Science (see the Submission Requirement and Conditions of Acceptance on the Science instructions for authors). These are briefly described here with reference to the appropriate pages on the Science instructions for authors.
Authorship All authors must agree to be so listed and must have seen and approved the manuscript, its content, and its submission to Science Signaling. Any changes in authorship must be approved in writing by all of the original authors. Submission of a paper that has not been approved by all authors will result in immediate rejection without appeal.
Prior publication Science Signaling will not consider any paper or component of a paper that has been published or is under consideration elsewhere. Distribution on the Internet may be considered prior publication and may compromise the originality of the paper. Please contact the editors with questions regarding this policy.
Human studies Informed consent must have been obtained for studies on humans after the nature and possible consequences of the studies were explained. All research on humans must have approval from the author's Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent body.
Animal care Care of experimental animals must be in accordance with the authors' institutional guidelines.
Related papers Copies of papers submitted to other journals by any of the authors that relate to a research article submitted to Science Signaling must be included with the submission.
Unpublished data and personal communications Citations to unpublished data and personal communications cannot be used to support claims in the paper.
Funding and conflict of interest Authors must agree to disclose all affiliations, funding sources, and financial or management relationships, including those that could be perceived as potential sources of bias. Science Signaling follows the same policy as that of Science (see http://www.sciencemag.org/about/authors/prep/coi.dtl).
Data deposition Before publication, large data sets, including microarray data, protein or DNA sequences, and atomic coordinates and structure factors for macromolecular or chemical structures must be deposited in an approved database, an accession number must be included in the published paper, and the deposited information must be released at the time of publication. Electron micrograph maps must also be deposited. Science Signaling follows the same guidelines as those for Science (see Data deposition).
License Authors retain copyright but must agree to grant to Science Signaling an exclusive license to publish the paper in print and online.
Data availability After publication, all data necessary to understand and assess the conclusions of the manuscript must be available to any reader of Science Signaling. Science Signaling follows the same guidelines as those for Science (see Data availability).
Access policies Immediately after publication, authors may post the accepted version of the paper on the author's personal or institutional archival Web site and are provided one referrer link that can be posted on a personal or institutional Web page, through which users can freely access the final, published paper on the Science Signaling site. Science Signaling follows Science policies and allows deposition of the "accepted version" of peer-reviewed content (Research Articles, Research Resources, Reviews, and Protocols) into the NIH PubMed Central or other PMC International repository no sooner than 6 months after publication, in accord with the requirements of the funders NIH, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Wellcome Trust, provided that a link to the final version published in Science Signaling is included. The "accepted version" is the version of the paper accepted for publication after changes resulting from peer review, but before editing by Science Signaling editorial and copyediting staff, image quality control, and production of the final PDF. No other types of content may be submitted. Research Articles and Research Resources will be freely accessible with registration at Science Signaling 12 months after publication.
Materials sharing After publication, all reasonable requests for materials must be fulfilled. Before acceptance, Science Signaling must be informed of any restrictions on sharing of materials [Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs), for example]. Unreasonable restrictions may preclude publication.
Embargo policy The paper will remain a privileged document and will not be released to the press or the public before publication. Questions should be referred to the AAAS Office of Public Programs (202-326-6440).
Electronic Submission
Authors of invited submissions will be sent information about online submission by the Science Signaling editor. If you wish to contribute an article that has not been invited by the editors, please contact the editors for information about online submission.
Primary research articles may be submitted online www.submit2SciSignal.org.
Detailed information about filenaming conventions, file sizes, and acceptable file formats is included in the detailed instructions for authors of each type of manuscript.
Editorial Board
Chief Scientific Editor
Michael B. Yaffe David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, The Broad Institute, and the Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
Editorial Board, Board of Reviewing Editors, and Bioinformatics Committee
The Editorial Board(*) advises the Chief Scientific Editor on long-term goals, content, and the mission of the site and journal. Members of the Board of Reviewing Editors(#) evaluate submitted manuscripts for appropriateness and recommend which manuscripts should be sent for in-depth peer review. The Bioinformatics Committee(^) provides guidance for the development and population of the Database of Cell Signaling.
K. Mark Ansel# Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
Jiri Bartek# Center for Genotoxic Stress Research Danish Cancer Society Copenhagen, Denmark
Greg Barton# Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
Thomas Benzing# Department II of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine University of Cologne Cologne, Germany
John Blenis# Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
Lewis C. Cantley*^ Weill Cornell Cancer Center Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY, USA
Kermit Carraway# Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine UC Davis School of Medicine Sacramento, CA, USA
George P. Chrousos# First Department of Pediatrics University of Athens Medical School Athens, Greece
Lena Claesson-Welsh# Deparment of Immunology, Genetics, and Pathology The Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden
Ivan Dikic# Institute of Biochemistry II Goethe University Medical System D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Henrik Dohlman*# Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA
George Dubyak# Department of Physiology and Biophysics Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA
Suzanne Eaton# Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden, Germany
Lee E. Eiden*#^ Section on Molecular Neuroscience, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation National Institute of Mental Health Bethesda, MD, USA
Ronald M. Evans# Molecular and Developmental Biology Laboratory Salk Institute La Jolla, CA, USA
James Faeder# Department of Computational and Systems Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ernest Fraenkel*# Department of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
Anne-Claude Gavin# Structural and Computational Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany
Sankar Ghosh# Department of Microbiology and Immunology Columbia University New York, NY, USA
Toby Gibson# Structural and Computational Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany
Donald L. Gill*# Department of Biochemistry Temple University School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA, USA
J. Silvio Gutkind# Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
J. Wade Harper# Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
Antonio Iavarone# Department of Neurology and Pathology Columbia University New York, NY, USA
Ravi Iyengar*#^ The Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY, USA
Stephen P. Jackson# Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK
Lily Jan# Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
Guido Kroemer# Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Tomohiro Kurosaki# Laboratory of Lymphocyte Differentiation, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center Osaka University Osaka, Japan
Andre Levchenko# Signal Transduction and Cell-Cell Communication Lab The Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering Baltimore, MD, USA
Beth Levine# Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA
Rune Linding# Department of Systems Biology The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Lyngby, Denmark
Terry Magnuson# Department of Genetics University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC, USA
James Malter# Department of Pathology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dalla, TX, USA
Seamus J. Martin# Smurfit Institute of Genetics Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Tobias Meyer# Chemical and Systems Biology Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA, USA
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba*# Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology RIKEN Brain Science Institute Tokyo, Japan
Randall T. Moon*#^ Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pharmacology University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Aristidis Moustakas# Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University Ludwig Institue for Cancer Research Uppsala, Sweden
Gabriel Nuñez# Department of Pathology University of Michigan Health System Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Klaus Okkenhaug# Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development Babraham Institute Cambridge, UK
Michele Pagano# Department of Pathology and NYU Cancer Institute New York University School of Medicine New York, NY, USA
Carole Parent*#^ Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
Norbert Perrimon# Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
Anne Ridley# Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics King's College London London, UK
David Root# Genome Biology and Cell Circuits Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
Joseph Schlessinger*#^ Department of Pharmacology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
Stephen J. Smerdon# Division of Molecular Structure MRC National Institute for Medical Research London, UK
Solomon Snyder*# Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA
Marius Sudol# Weis Center for Research at Geisinger Clinic Danville, PA, USA Department of Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY, USA
J. David Sweatt# Department of Neurobiology McKnight Brain Institute University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL, USA
Jean-Paul Vincent# MRC National Institute for Medical Research London, UK
Eric Vivier*# Centre d`Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy INSERM-CNRS-Université Mediterranee France
John C. Walker# Interdisciplinary Plant Group University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO
Kenneth Walsh*# Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA, USA
Arthur Weiss# Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
Gary Yellen# Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
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