Hikmet Budak, Montana State University's first Montana Plant Sciences Endowed Chair, has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, an online open-access journal from the publishers of Nature.
Scientific Reports publishes primary research – research in which the data is collected by the researchers who authored the paper – from all areas of the natural and clinical sciences. The journal is fifth among all multidisciplinary science primary research journals in terms of its scientific impact, according to the 2014 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition, which evaluates the world's leading journals based on citation data.
A leading geneticist and genomicist, Budak's editorial duties will be in Scientific Reports' Genetics and Genomics section, where he will manage the peer review process – a review by experts in the same field to ensure the scholarly work meets standards for publication - and make final decisions on whether a paper should be accepted for publication in the journal.
Budak also serves as editor-in-chief of Functional and Integrative Genomics, a journal devoted to large-scale studies of genomes and their functions; associate editor of BMC Genomics, an open-access peer-reviewed journal for the genomics field; and he is a member of the editorial board for PLOS ONE, a multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal.
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