Sister journal

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In academic publishing, a sister journal, mirror journal or companion journal is a newer academic journal that is affiliated with an older, better-established journal in the same field.[1][2][3]

Examples

  • JAAD Case Reports is a sister journal to the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, both published by Elsevier.[1]
  • Translational Psychiatry is a sister journal to Molecular Psychiatry.[4]
  • In 2001, BMJ Publishing Group launched BMJ USA and the Western Journal of Medicine as sister journals to the BMJ.[5]
  • Science Translational Medicine is a sister journal to Science.[6]
  • As of 1995, Nature's sister journals included Nature Medicine, Nature Structural Biology and Nature Genetics.[7]
  • Oncogenesis is a sister journal to Oncogene.[8]
  • Stem Cells Translational Medicine is a sister journal to the Wiley-Blackwell journal Stem Cells.[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Akers, Katherine G. (2016-11-21). "New journals for publishing medical case reports" (in en). Journal of the Medical Library Association 104 (2): 146–149. doi:10.5195/jmla.2016.62. ISSN 1558-9439. PMID 27076803. 
  2. Bates, Susan E. (2017-02-01). "Too Many Journals" (in en). The Oncologist 22 (2): 126–128. doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0012. ISSN 1083-7159. PMID 28188259. 
  3. "Warning on 'Mirror Journals'". https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/24/european-commission-envoy-warns-about-mirror-journals-way-around-open-access. Retrieved 31 December 2019. 
  4. Licinio, J (April 2011). "Translational Psychiatry: leading the transition from the cesspool of devastation to a place where the grass is really greener" (in En). Translational Psychiatry 1 (4): e1. doi:10.1038/tp.2011.3. ISSN 2158-3188. PMID 22832389. 
  5. Davis, Ronald M.; Smith, Richard; Wilkes, Michael (2001-02-17). "The US sisters of the BMJ: The BMJ is becoming more active in the US" (in en). BMJ 322 (7283): 380. doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7283.380. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 11179144. 
  6. McNutt, Marcia (2014-01-17). "Reproducibility" (in en). Science 343 (6168): 229. doi:10.1126/science.1250475. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24436391. 
  7. "Nature's sister journals in review" (in En). Nature 374 (6522): 577–578. April 1995. doi:10.1038/374577a0. ISSN 0028-0836. 
  8. "For Authors" (in en). https://www.nature.com/oncsis/authors-and-referees/authors. 
  9. Lappin, T. R.; Editors of the Sister Journals (2015-01-22). "Editorial: Sibling Synergy" (in en). Stem Cells 33 (2): 316–317. doi:10.1002/stem.1912. ISSN 1066-5099. PMID 25504305.