Editorial standards

Who answers for each essay

Protein Networks publishes every essay in this journal and answers for it.

An essay names a person only for work that person did. “Written by” means they wrote it. “Reviewed by” means they read that version and approved it, signed in as themselves. “Field notes by” means the essay quotes their own notes. Every person named agreed to be named.

An essay with no writer named is credited to Protein Networks.

Sourcing

Sources appear at the end of an essay, each with a link to the page it came from.

Links in an essay lead only to secure web pages or to other pages of this journal.

Checks before an essay appears

Every essay passes the journal's publishing checks before it appears. The same checks run again each time someone opens it, so an essay that fails them is withdrawn from view.

The checks refuse product promotion, sponsored and affiliate content, and stock phrases that are common in machine-written text.

The journal carries no advertising and does not give financial or legal advice.

Its essays give general health information, not personal medical advice. Read the health disclaimer.

Review or automated checks before an essay appears

An essay appears in one of two ways. A qualified reviewer may approve that exact version, and the essay then shows the reviewer, their qualification and the day of the review. Otherwise the journal's automated checks of its content and sources must pass, and the essay then shows no reviewer, only the day the checks passed. Any change to an essay is checked again before readers see it.

The journal names the reviewers who approved its essays, with their qualifications. It checked each qualification before the reviewer joined, and each reviewer agreed to be named.

Corrections and updates

When an essay is wrong, the editors correct it. The corrected version replaces the old one only after a reviewer approves it or the journal's automated checks of its content and sources pass again.

A corrected essay then shows the day of that approval or of those checks, and, when its text changed, the day it was updated.

To report a mistake, write to editors@protein-networks.com.

To make a complaint, write to the grievance officer.

Withdrawing an essay

The editors can withdraw an essay at any time. It then leaves the journal, its feed and its sitemap at once.