World Association of Young Scientists

In my last blog, I pointed out how LinkedIn and Facebook were used to create falsified profiles of key opinion leaders in the pharma world. Now, this article  in The Scientist points out that Merck created a journal to promote its product in a way that makes readers of articles cautious about the source of the material they read. Indeed, marketing companies may be entitled to support the efforts of Merck and the readership needs to pay close attention to their not always transparent conflicts of interest.

Note this highlight:
"George Jelinek, an Australian physician and long-time member of the
World Association of Medical Editors, reviewed four issues of the
journal that were published from 2003-2004. An "average reader"
(presumably a doctor) could easily mistake the publication for a
"genuine" peer reviewed medical journal, he said in his testimony. 'Only close inspection of the journals, along with knowledge of medical
journals and publishing conventions, enabled me to determine that the
Journal was not, in fact, a peer reviewed medical journal, but instead
a marketing publication for MSD[A].'
"

One certainly needs to heed caution when reading papers and know if the manuscript has been through peer-review.

This is a interesting journal to whom are interested in published papers about agriculture and agronomy on different subjects

SCIENTIA AGRICOLA is a Journal of the University of São Paulo, Campus "Luiz de Queiroz" - Piracicaba, SP, Brazil that publishes original articles contributing to the scientific development of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

The Journal has a broad spectrum, including Crop and Animal Production, Agricultural Engineering, Economics and Sociology, Agroindustrial Technology, Forestry, Environmental and Soil Sciences, and Applications of Basic Sciences in Agriculture.

It is indexed in Current Contents®/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®), CAB Abstracts, SciELO, AGRIS, AGROBASE, Chemical Abstracts, INIS and Tropag & Rural. The articles submitted to the Journal must be original, with no simultaneous submission to other periodicals. Notes, Point of View and Letters to the Editor may also be submitted for publication. Reproductions are permitted only with indication of the source.

See our informations in the SciELO's site
http://www.esalq.usp.br/scientia/

To whom are interested in publish papers on Genetics and related matter. This is a traditional scientific journal published by Brazilian Genetic Society - SBG

BASIC INFORMATION

Genetics and Molecular Biology ISSN 1415-4757 (formerly named Revista Brasileira de Genética/Brazilian Journal of Genetics - ISSN 0100-8455) is published quarterly by the Sociedade Brasileira de Genética (Brazilian Society of Genetics).

The Journal considers contributions that present the results of original research in genetics, evolution and related scientific disciplines.

Genetics and Molecular Biology begins with vol. 21, issue 1, of March 1998, following the sequence of numbering of its predecessor, which was published from 1978 to 1997, V. 1 to V. 20.

http://www.gmb.org.br/

To whom are interested to published results in Plant Breeding - this is a good option!
CBAB - CROP BREEDING AND APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGY

General policy and scope of the journal

The CBAB – CROP BREEDING AND APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGY (ISSN 1518-7853) – is the official quarterly journal of the Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding (www.sbmp.org.br/), abbreviated CROP BREED APPL BIOTECHNOL.
It is indexed in AGRIS of FAO, CAB International Abstracts, Periódica, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts Service, Agrobase and Acervo Documental of Embrapa. It publishes original scientific articles which contribute to the scientific and technological development of plant breeding and agriculture. Articles should be to do with basic and applied research on improvement of perennial and annual plants, within the fields of genetics, conservation of germplasm, biotechnology, genomics, cytogenetics, experimental statistics, seeds, food quality, biotic and abiotic stress, and correlated areas. The CBAB publishes, besides articles, other text forms, equally subjected to the discretion of ad hoc reviewers, such as Review, Notes, Plant breeding programs, Release of cultivars, Book review, Viewpoint and, Letters, all of them in English language.
Authors of articles in the journal CBAB - CROP BREEDING AND APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGY profit from the following benefits:

Digital submission and revision of articles

Expeditious publication: average time of 4 months

Articles available in pdf on the WEB
Send your article to http://www.sbmp.org.br/cbab/index.htm clicking on menu Submission

Thank you for choosing the CBAB.

Contact us:
http://www.sbmp.org.br/cbab/index.htm or cbab@ufv.br