The American Urological Association (AUA) has announced the appointment of Dr. John W. Davis as the inaugural editor of JU Open Plus, AUA's newest peer-reviewed journal. Dr. Davis will serve a three-year term as Editor.
Launching in early 2023, JU Open Plus will join AUA's world-class family of journals as a fully Gold Open Access online-one, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. As editor of JU Open Plus, Dr. Davis will be responsible for making recommendations pertaining to Editorial Board structure, nominations, and assignments; establishing the peer review process and transfer mechanism from the AUA's other scholarly journals, The Journal of Urology® (JU) and Urology Practice® (UPJ); sharing input on article types and the creation of the table of contents for JU Open Plus and growing the impact and reach of the journal's content.
An active member of the urologic community, Dr. Davis is currently a professor of urology and director of the Urosurgical Prostate Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He brings extensive editorial expertise to JU Open Plus, having served as an associate editor for Oncology and an associate editor for initial triage for the British Journal of Urology International and an online content editor for both JU and UPJ. Dr. Davis also served as editor of BJUI Compass. Additionally, Dr. Davis has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, editorials and book chapters.
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