[3dem] advice about SciRep followng the 3dem discussion

Thu Feb 4 02:39:19 PST 2016

No, I’m sorry. I hope I didn’t trouble or upset you. I just thought it would be good to set the record positively straight on SREP to the entire list and I thought your email was an appropriate example to use.
Best,
A.
Ariel J. Blocker, PhD, FRSB
Reader in Microbiology 
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> On 4 Feb 2016, at 10:33, Irina GUTSCHE <gutsche at embl.fr> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Ariel,
> 
> I am awfully sorry, I was writing to your personnal address, I could not imagine that my email was going to be sent to the whole 3dem list!!!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Irina
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-02-04 11:23, Ariel Blocker wrote:
>> Dear Irina,
>> SREP is a solid journal and (when I am not am writing vulgar emails to
>> the 3dem mailing list on Sundays!) I am working hard to improve it in
>> the structural microbiology area. For instance, I just had the honour
>> of editing a lovely paper by Steven Matthews’ lab on curli for it
>> and I do hope many more like that will come. So, watch this IF space
>> and do, please, leave your paper with us, asking for me specifically
>> as editor, if you so wish. The problem right now is that we have so
>> many submissions, the initial checking phase is a bit slow (ie, they
>> really need to hire more staff there asap!!). I submitted a paper of
>> mine to SREP in the autunm and that phase was far to slow for me too
>> but once it went off for review it was fast and constructive and we
>> are preparing to resubmit it now.
>> In summary SREP is a IF 5-6 and improving journal that will publish
>> with little fuss and the NPG services authors are right to expect any
>> paper we feel is sound and useful to a field. So, very much my type of
>> journal! ;)
>> I hope that answers your queries.
>> Best,
>> Ariel.
>> 
>> Ariel J. Blocker, PhD, FRSB
>> Reader in Microbiology
>> Wellcome Trust Investigator
>> Schools of Cellular & Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry
>> Biomedical Sciences Building
>> University of Bristol
>> University Walk
>> Bristol BS8 1TD
>> United Kingdom
>> 
>> Email: ariel.blocker at bristol.ac.uk [2]
>> Tel office (D39a): +44 117 33 12063
>> Tel wetlab (D57/D59): +44 117 33 12404
>> Tel wetlab office (D53): +44 117 33 12059
>> Tel drylab (D51): +44 117 33 12097
>> Tel Tecnai20: +44 117 33 12357
>> Dept. fax: +44 117 3312091
>> Room: D39a
>> Personal webpage:
>> http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker.html
>> [3]
>> Group page:
>> http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker/
>> [4]
>> Postgraduate students searching for a PhD please look here:
>> http://www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/gradschool/ [5]
>> Twitter: @T3Secreton
>> 
>>> On 4 Feb 2016, at 20:06, Irina Gutsche <irina.gutsche at ibs.fr [1]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Ariel,
>>> 
>>> you cannot remember me, I am Irina Gutsche, an electron microscopist
>>> from IBS Grenoble where you gave a seminar a couple of years ago. I
>>> am sorry to bother you but after the discussion in 3dem about
>>> Scienfific Reports I am getting anxious and I would really need an
>>> advice from somebody who knows this journal.
>>> 
>>> In fact, we did a very solid work that included 3 cryoEM structures
>>> between 5.5 and 6.2 A resolution. I actually wrote that paper for
>>> eLife as an "advances" for our previous work published there in
>>> 2014. However, this time it was rejected because the data was not
>>> collected on a direct detector but on film and they suggested us to
>>> recollect everything (which we actually found very unfair because
>>> such a resolution for film is quite good, and we didn't have acces
>>> to a direct detector at the time of the data collection). So I was
>>> wondering what to do with this paper because my postdoc who is the
>>> first author is finishing her contract at the end of February, she
>>> needs to publish rapidly and we don't want to shoot too low. Some
>>> colleagues suggested me SciRep which I didn't know before. I looked
>>> through it, found a couple of nice EM papers, and thought that it
>>> was not a bad choice. Thus, last Friday I submitted the paper to
>>> SciRep, and two days after the submission Ed Egelman, you and Maren
>>> started that discussion in 3dem from which I got an impression that
>>> this journal is not seen well by the community. Since a week, my
>>> paper is still in "Quality Check Started" status, nothing happens,
>>> and I'm wondering if I should retract it and try to submit
>>> elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> Would you mind telling me honestly what you think about this
>>> journal?
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much in advance for your answer and excuse me again
>>> for this "non scientific" question,
>>> 
>>> Irina Gutsche
>>> 
>>> Methods and Electron Microscopy group
>>> IBS Grenoble
>>> France
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] mailto:irina.gutsche at ibs.fr
>> [2] mailto:ariel.blocker at bristol.ac.uk
>> [3] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker.html
>> [4] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker/
>> [5] http://www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/gradschool/
> 

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