<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class="">Best,<br class=""><div class="">A.<br class=""><div class="">
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Blocker, PhD, FRSB</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Reader in Microbiology </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Wellcome Trust Investigator</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Schools of Cellular & Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Biomedical Sciences Building</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">University of Bristol</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">University Walk</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Bristol BS8 1TD</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">United Kingdom</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Email: <a href="mailto:ariel.blocker@bristol.ac.uk" class="">ariel.blocker@bristol.ac.uk</a></span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Tel office (D39a): +44 117 33 12063</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Tel wetlab (D57/D59): +44 117 33 12404</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Tel wetlab office (D53): +44 117 33 12059</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Tel drylab (D51): +44 117 33 12097</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Tel Tecnai20: +44 117 33 12357</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Dept. fax: +44 117 3312091</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Room: D39a</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Personal webpage: </span><a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker.html" class="">http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker.html</a><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Group page: </span><a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker/" class="">http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker/</a><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Postgraduate students searching for a PhD please look here:</span><br style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/gradschool/" class="">http://www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/gradschool/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Twitter: @T3Secreton</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Feb 2016, at 10:33, Irina GUTSCHE <<a href="mailto:gutsche@embl.fr" class="">gutsche@embl.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Thank you Ariel,<br class=""><br class="">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!!!<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class=""><br class="">Irina<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 2016-02-04 11:23, Ariel Blocker wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear Irina,<br class="">SREP is a solid journal and (when I am not am writing vulgar emails to<br class="">the 3dem mailing list on Sundays!) I am working hard to improve it in<br class="">the structural microbiology area. For instance, I just had the honour<br class="">of editing a lovely paper by Steven Matthews’ lab on curli for it<br class="">and I do hope many more like that will come. So, watch this IF space<br class="">and do, please, leave your paper with us, asking for me specifically<br class="">as editor, if you so wish. The problem right now is that we have so<br class="">many submissions, the initial checking phase is a bit slow (ie, they<br class="">really need to hire more staff there asap!!). I submitted a paper of<br class="">mine to SREP in the autunm and that phase was far to slow for me too<br class="">but once it went off for review it was fast and constructive and we<br class="">are preparing to resubmit it now.<br class="">In summary SREP is a IF 5-6 and improving journal that will publish<br class="">with little fuss and the NPG services authors are right to expect any<br class="">paper we feel is sound and useful to a field. So, very much my type of<br class="">journal! ;)<br class="">I hope that answers your queries.<br class="">Best,<br class="">Ariel.<br class=""><br class="">Ariel J. Blocker, PhD, FRSB<br class="">Reader in Microbiology<br class="">Wellcome Trust Investigator<br class="">Schools of Cellular & Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry<br class="">Biomedical Sciences Building<br class="">University of Bristol<br class="">University Walk<br class="">Bristol BS8 1TD<br class="">United Kingdom<br class=""><br class="">Email: <a href="mailto:ariel.blocker@bristol.ac.uk" class="">ariel.blocker@bristol.ac.uk</a> [2]<br class="">Tel office (D39a): +44 117 33 12063<br class="">Tel wetlab (D57/D59): +44 117 33 12404<br class="">Tel wetlab office (D53): +44 117 33 12059<br class="">Tel drylab (D51): +44 117 33 12097<br class="">Tel Tecnai20: +44 117 33 12357<br class="">Dept. fax: +44 117 3312091<br class="">Room: D39a<br class="">Personal webpage:<br class=""><a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker.html" class="">http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker.html</a><br class="">[3]<br class="">Group page:<br class="">http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker/<br class="">[4]<br class="">Postgraduate students searching for a PhD please look here:<br class="">http://www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/gradschool/ [5]<br class="">Twitter: @T3Secreton<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 4 Feb 2016, at 20:06, Irina Gutsche <irina.gutsche@ibs.fr [1]><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear Ariel,<br class=""><br class="">you cannot remember me, I am Irina Gutsche, an electron microscopist<br class="">from IBS Grenoble where you gave a seminar a couple of years ago. I<br class="">am sorry to bother you but after the discussion in 3dem about<br class="">Scienfific Reports I am getting anxious and I would really need an<br class="">advice from somebody who knows this journal.<br class=""><br class="">In fact, we did a very solid work that included 3 cryoEM structures<br class="">between 5.5 and 6.2 A resolution. I actually wrote that paper for<br class="">eLife as an "advances" for our previous work published there in<br class="">2014. However, this time it was rejected because the data was not<br class="">collected on a direct detector but on film and they suggested us to<br class="">recollect everything (which we actually found very unfair because<br class="">such a resolution for film is quite good, and we didn't have acces<br class="">to a direct detector at the time of the data collection). So I was<br class="">wondering what to do with this paper because my postdoc who is the<br class="">first author is finishing her contract at the end of February, she<br class="">needs to publish rapidly and we don't want to shoot too low. Some<br class="">colleagues suggested me SciRep which I didn't know before. I looked<br class="">through it, found a couple of nice EM papers, and thought that it<br class="">was not a bad choice. Thus, last Friday I submitted the paper to<br class="">SciRep, and two days after the submission Ed Egelman, you and Maren<br class="">started that discussion in 3dem from which I got an impression that<br class="">this journal is not seen well by the community. Since a week, my<br class="">paper is still in "Quality Check Started" status, nothing happens,<br class="">and I'm wondering if I should retract it and try to submit<br class="">elsewhere.<br class=""><br class="">Would you mind telling me honestly what you think about this<br class="">journal?<br class=""><br class="">Thank you very much in advance for your answer and excuse me again<br class="">for this "non scientific" question,<br class=""><br class="">Irina Gutsche<br class=""><br class="">Methods and Electron Microscopy group<br class="">IBS Grenoble<br class="">France<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Links:<br class="">------<br class="">[1] mailto:irina.gutsche@ibs.fr<br class="">[2] mailto:ariel.blocker@bristol.ac.uk<br class="">[3] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker.html<br class="">[4] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/research/infect-immune/blocker/<br class="">[5] http://www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/gradschool/<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>