About Us
What is the Journal of Diabetes Forum?
Journal of Diabetes Forum is a collaborative educational resource to help researchers develop their study designs with the support of the Editorial team of Journal of Diabetes.
How does it work?
Researchers submit study designs for our editorial feedback, using a submission form. Similar to traditional peer review of manuscripts in journals, our feedback aims to increase the quality of research, but in difference to the traditional peer review, the Journal of Diabetes Forum is an opportunity for you to get feedback from an editorial team before even submitting it to a journal, or getting help designing your study before even doing the study. In other words, Journal of Diabetes Forum is a not a journal. The Forum is an additional editorial service provided by the Journal of Diabetes.
How long will the reviewing process take?
The Editors will try to complete reviewing your submitted study designs within two weeks.
Why is that an advantage?
Receiving feedback even before submitting to a journal is a great advantage to researchers. How many times have you or will you submit a manuscript to a journal and receive requests for major revisions or rejection that are both surprising and delay your work several weeks or months? Quality journals increasingly need to reject growing manuscript submission to protect their Impact Factors as well as the focus of their readers. Journal of Diabetes Forum is an opportunity for you to get early feedback that could prove critical for your final manuscript to qualify for timely acceptance in journal peer review.
Do I have to publish in Journal of Diabetes if I use Journal of Diabetes Forum?
We always welcome submission, but submission to the Journal of Diabetes Forum does not condition and does not guarantee subsequent publication in the Journal of Diabetes. Instead, the Journal of Diabetes Forum is a free service to researchers who wish to receive early quality editorial feedback on their research ideas. Researchers are free to publish their final manuscripts in any journal.
Does Journal of Diabetes Forum constitute publication?
No, Journal of Diabetes Forum does not constitute scientific publication, and Journal of Diabetes Forum does not invite, review or make any results sections public. If you would like to submit a final manuscript that includes your results, please consider submitting to Journal of Diabetes or another journal.
What happens if I submit my final paper to Journal of Diabetes?
Your paper will be processed through the Express Publication channel with a shorter decision-making time and faster publication speed if accepted. All submissions to Journal of Diabetes are peer-reviewed by Editors and Reviewers.
Why is the team behind Journal of Diabetes offering this?
At the time of submission to the Journal of Diabetes Forum, or at the time of feedback from this free service, researchers will be given the choice of having their submissions published on the Journal of Diabetes Forum with reviewers’ feedback, or to receive feedback directly from the editorial team without any public online posting. If public posting is granted by authors, submissions will be posted online with reviewers’ feedback to encourage debate and interest amongst peers and colleagues. In other words, in the spirit of the free collaboration and feedback we offer you, we would like you to consider the benefit to others. The Journal of Diabetes Forum aims to be an educational resource focused on improving research through collaboration.
Can readers comment?
It is the purpose of the Journal of Diabetes Forum to help researchers improve their study designs. We advocate that some researchers allow us to post their study design with our feedback in order for us to also help others who may be in a similar situation. Mostly, we will select good educational examples that readers of the Journal of Diabetes Forum can learn from. To comment, users will have to register (registration is free), and we reserve the right not to post comments we deem inappropriate.
Can readers rank research?
No, Journal of Diabetes Forum is not a popularity contest.
Is Journal of Diabetes Forum a new journal?
No, Journal of Diabetes Forum is not a journal, but a resource for all researchers in the field of diabetes to discuss their research with an editorial team prior to writing or submitting manuscripts to journals. Journal of Diabetes on the other hand is a journal and once you have finalized your research, we welcome the submission of your manuscript to the journal.
Is Journal of Diabetes Forum a preprint server?
No, submissions to the Journal of Diabetes Forum must adhere to a submission form. As you will notice, the template does not include any results. Submission to this service will not constitute prior publication. Instead it focuses on improving the design of your study, e.g. your hypothesis, methods, and discussion.
In contrast to other preceding type web sites, which either do not screen, or only screen submissions for general acceptability before publication, the Journal of Diabetes Forum editorial team will actively engage in review, feedback and discussion with authors to help improve the design of their research. It is important for us that this is not perceived as a publication or a preprint server, but as a peer-to-peer feedback collaboration to improve study designs.
Who has copyright?
Copyright for all submissions to Journal of Diabetes Forum remain with the author(s). For submissions that are posted online together with editorial feedback, anyone may make use of it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 or 3.0 License. (Please check the relevant document information page for the license information.). Simply put, this means that the content may be quoted, copied and disseminated for any purpose, but ONLY if the original source is correctly cited.
How do I cite Journal of Diabetes Forum?
We do not recommend citing submissions because these do not contain results, and constitute neither preprint nor final publication. Rather, you should cite the final publication if the researchers get their final manuscripts published. If you do wish to cite something in the Journal of Diabetes Forum, maybe for education or discussion purposes, we recommend that you use the APA Style Guide to Electronic References: Online Communities.
Chalmers, D. (2008, July 7). An example title [Msg 1].
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• If the author’s full name is available, list the last name first followed by initials. If only a screen name is available, use the screen name.
• Provide the exact date of the posting.
• Follow the date with the subject line of the message (also referred to as the “thread”); do not italicize it. Provide any identifier for the message in brackets after the title.
• Provide the address for the archived version of the message.