The J&J Podcast: Peer Review Week 2020

  Happy Peer Review Week! We are thrilled to announce a special episode of the J&J Podcast featuring J&J’s Systems Support Services Coordinator, Emily Babcock. The theme for this year’s Peer Review Week is Trust in Peer Review, and we all know that reviewers (and the databases that we use to manage them) are a […]


Diversity, Inclusion, and J&J – An Interview with Brit Stamey

Diversity and inclusion are top of mind everywhere. National news stories have brought issues of race, gender, and other social categorizations to light and have forced institutions to reckon with the various ways they discriminate against people. Increasingly diverse workforces coupled with evolving cultural attitudes provide an open door for initiatives that seek to correct […]


Passing the Torch: Managing an Editor-in-Chief Transition

Change is hard. Actively helping to bring about that change is even harder. Few journal transitions require a more hands-on editorial office involvement than when a new editor-in-chief takes over. In addition to the challenges of teaching someone a new system—while implementing changes on that system—there also exists the potential for personality clashes whenever new […]