Introducing iScience, Cell Press's First Interdisciplinary Journal

(MENAFNEditorial) CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, December 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and its imprint Cell Press, home of the flagship journals Cell, Chem, and Joule, today announced a new addition for basic and applied research across life, physical, and earth science. iScience), an interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal, will publish on a continuous basis starting early 2018. The journal promises fast and fair decisions and will promote rigorous research that advances a field and reporting with transparent methods, replication studies, and negative results. Articles can now be submitted at . Sign up for alerts at .

"My main hope for iScience is that it will coalesce around a community of like-minded scientists who deeply value research that builds bridges and stimulates interdisciplinary thinking," says Lead Editor Stefano Tonzani, who holds a PhD in physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and has helped launch several open-access titles. "What the scientific world needs isn't for scientists to dig deeper in their burrows, but to go out and cross-pollinate ideas. Our grand societal challenges can be solved only if chemists are collaborating with economists, biologists are speaking to nanofabrication engineers, and so on."

With more than 40 years of experience publishing high-quality, high-impact journals, Cell Press's launch of iScience marks the brand's ongoing expansion into disciplines beyond the life sciences that began with Chem in 2016, followed by the energy journal Joule earlier this year. As with any other respected and recognized Cell Press publication, iScience will have a team of in-house professional editors giving each paper their personal attention and platforms that get articles to relevant audiences.

"This is an exciting new chapter for Cell Press," says CEO Emilie Marcus. "As science itself evolves, so too does the need for new ways to communicate it. With iScience, we can cater to more researchers in more disciplines and work with them to get the experience of Cell Press, which prides itself on author hospitality, large readerships, ethics, and research integrity."

iScience's editorial board harnesses experts across many different fields, a majority of whom are dynamic, early-career researchers. Current members include:

Emanuele Biondi, CNRS-Marseille, cell biology and bacteriology

Pedro Camargo, University of Sao Paulo, materials science

Stuart Casson, University of Sheffield, plant biology

Wenlong Cheng, Monash University, chemical engineering

Heather Christofk, University of California, Los Angeles, metabolism

Elisabetta Collini, University of Padova, chemistry

Corinna Dawid, TU Munich, plant and fungal metabolism

Suzanne Devkota, University of California, Los Angeles, gastroenterology and immunobiology

Paula Diaconescu, University of California, Los Angeles, chemistry

Kathryn Ferguson, Yale University, biophysics and structural biology

Luisa Figueiredo, IMM, parasitology

Lorenzo Galluzzi, Cornell University, cell biology

Bonnie Hurwitz, University of Arizona, biosystems engineering

Dooseok Jeong, KIST, materials science

Hawoong Jeong, KAIST, statistical physics

Ahmad Khalil, Boston University, synthetic biology

Hyun Wook Lee, UNIST, energy storage and electron microscopy

Chaoyang Lu, University of Science and Technology of China, quantum physics

Emma Lundberg, KTH Stockholm, bioimaging and proteomics

Arianna Maffei, Stony Brook University, neurobiology and behavior

Bettina Malnic, University of Sao Paulo, biochemistry

Qixi Mi, Shanghai Tech, materials science and renewable energy

Tudor Moldoveanu, St. Jude's Hospital, structural biology

Ki-Tae Nam, Seoul National University, materials science and engineering

James Olzmann, University of California, Berkeley, nutritional sciences and toxicology

Satish Patil, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, organic electronics

Sai Reddy, ETH Zurich, biomolecular engineering

Paola Scaffidi, The Francis Crick Institute, cancer epigenetics

Jaswinder Sethi, University of Southampton, immunometabolism

Savas Tasoglu, University of Connecticut, materials science

Hiroki Ueda, Riken, synthetic biology

Miriam Unterlass, University of Vienna, polymer science

Ophelia Venturelli, University of Wisconsin, biochemistry

Zuankai Wang, City University of Hong Kong, biomedical engineering

Xi Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, materials science

Wilson Wong, Boston University, biomedical engineering

Fei Xu, ShanghaiTech University, developmental biology

Kwang Wei (Joel) Yang, Singapore University of Technology & Design, optics, photonics, and electrical engineering

Li Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, computational biology

Hyun Youk, Delft University of Technology, physics of cellular systems

Hani Zaher, Washington University St. Louis, molecular cell biology

Jinxing Zhang, Beijing Normal University, condensed matter physics

Wenjun Zhang, University of California Berkeley, chemical and biomolecular engineering

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