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The Perverted Labors in Online Journalism: A Case Study on the Online Newspapers' Editors in Korea (온라인 저널리즘에서 나타나는 왜곡된 노동: 우리나라 언론사닷컴 편집기자의 사례)

  • Kim, Wi-Geun
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.57
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    • pp.7-32
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the perverted labors of online newspapers' editors in Korea. Online newspaper editors' works were be influenced directly and indirectly by the printed newspaper, the parent company of online newspaper. Their labor conditions were poorer than online newspaper editors'. And online newspapers' editors didn't have status as professionals. They set a premium on Internet traffics on their works. For online newspaper editors' normal labor conditions, the most practical measure was to normalize the editorial system of online newspapers. How to raise the status of online newspaper editors was to secure the online newspapers' editorial right. And to conclude, to improve the quality of online journalism in Korea, the most urgent issue is to improve online newspaper editors' professionalism.

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Impacts of the Journal Evaluation Program of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) on the Quality of the Member Journals

  • Yang, Hee-Jin;Oh, Se Jeong;Hong, Sung-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Medical Science
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    • v.33 no.48
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    • pp.305.1-305.5
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    • 2018
  • Background: In 1997 the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) instituted a program to evaluate member journals. Journals that passed the initial evaluation were indexed in the KoreaMed. Here, we report changes in measures of quality of the KAMJE member journals during the last 20 years. Methods: Quality measures used in the study comprised 3 assessment categories; self-assessment by journal editors, assessment of the journals by KAMJE reviewers, and by Korean health science librarians. Each used detailed criteria to score the journals on a scale of 0 to 5 or 6 in multiple dimensions. We compared scores at baseline evaluation and those after 7 years for 129 journals and compared improvements in journals indexed vs. not-indexed by the Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded; SCIE). Results: Among 251 KAMJE member journals at the end of 2015, 227 passed evaluation criteria and 129 (56%) had both baseline and 7-year follow-up assessment data. The journals showed improvement overall (increase in median [interquartile range; IQR] score from baseline, 0.47 [0.64]; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.44-0.61; P < 0.001) and within each category (median [IQR] increase by editor's assessment, 0.17 [0.83]; 95% CI, 0.04-0.26; P = 0.007; by reviewer's, 0.45 [1.00]; 95% CI, 0.29-0.57; P < 0.001; by librarian's, 1.75 [1.08]; 95% CI, 1.77-2.18, P < 0.001). Before the foundation of KAMJE in 1996, there were only 5 Korean medical journals indexed in the MEDLINE and none in SCIE, but 24 journals in the MEDLINE and 34 journals in SCIE were indexed by 2016. Conclusion: The KAMJE journal evaluation program successfully contributes improving the quality of the member journals.

Appropriate Roles for the Subscriber, Publisher, Editor, Author, and Reviewer in the Archives of Plastic Surgery

  • Hwang, Kun
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.663-665
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    • 2013
  • Authors, editors and reviewers, publishers, and subscribers all play their role in scientific journals. These 5 stakeholders are essential to journals. In this paper, firstly, I briefly summarize the role of each journal stakeholder and their respective goals. Secondly, the status of each participant in the Archives of Plastic Surgery is described. Finally, I propose an appropriate role and plan for each of them. Specific roles and responsibilities include the following: subscribers should welcome and submit the critiques of published papers in letters to the editor. Publishers should trust editors and provide them with adequate financial support for ongoing quality improvement of the journal. The editor-in-chief should be given a sufficient period of time-several years-to build up journal quality and train the incoming editor. The editors, including section editors, are also responsible for increasing the author pool. One editor might be designated a 'devil's referee', that is, a kind of devil's advocate with the responsibility of examining the originality of the manuscript, taking a skeptical view of the manuscript, and looking for holes in the methods and results of reported experiments. Authors' responsibilities include submitting manuscripts with scientific integrity and being ready to take responsibility for their articles even long after publication. Finally, reviewers' responsibilities include identifying similar articles not cited. Reviewers are also welcome to write a discussion on the article they review.

Current status of CRISPR/Cas9 base editor technologies and their applications in crop precision breeding

  • Kim, Rigyeong;Song, Jaeeun;Ga, Eunji;Min, Myung Ki;Lee, Jong-Yeol;Lim, Sun-Hyung;Kim, Beom-Gi
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.885-895
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    • 2019
  • Plant biotechnologists have long dreamed of technologies to manipulate genes in plants at will. This dream has come true partly through the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 technology, which now has been used to edit genes in several important crops. However, there are many restrictions in editing a gene precisely using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology because CRISPR/Cas9 may cause deletions or additions in some regions of the target gene. Several other technologies have been developed for gene targeting and precision editing. Among these, base editors might be the most practically and efficiently used compared to others. Base editors are tools which are able to cause a transition from cytosine into thymine, or from adenine into guanine very precisely on specific sequences. Cytosine base editors basically consist of nCas9, cytosine deaminase, and uracil DNA glycosylase inhibitor (UGI). Adenine base editors consist of nCas9 and adenine deaminase. These were first developed for human cells and have since also been applied successfully to crops. Base editors have been successfully applied for productivity improvement, fortification and herbicide resistance of crops. Thus, base editor technologies start to open a new era for precision gene editing or breeding in crops and might result in revolutionary changes in crop breeding and biotechnology.

Recognition of Picture Book Makers(Editors/Writers) and Consumers(Parents of Young Children/Preschool Teachers) about Picture Books (그림책에 대한 생산자와 소비자의 인식 차이 연구)

  • Park, Hye-Won;Kim, Jung-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.43-56
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the recognition differences between picture book makers(editors/writers) and picture book consumers(parents of young children/preschool teachers) about picture books. The study subjects were 69 children's book-editors(editors, designers), 72 children's book-writers, 78 parents of young children, and 79 preschool teachers. The results of this study were as follows. First, they differently recognized the effects of good picture books on children's development, and the contents and components of picture books. However, both groups preferred creative stories to traditional stories and agreed on the children's preferences of the book genre and characteristics. Second, picture book makers and consumers were differently aware of the quality of Korean picture books published in Korea but they agreed on the quality of foreign picture books. They thought that more picture books with better contents and formality on the imaginary, artistic, and real-life related themes needed to be published in Korea. Third, the book makers and consumers obtained information on the picture books in the book stores and libraries in most cases. The book makers were more interested than the consumer in the picture, writer, cover design, and publishing company of the books, whereas the consumers placed a higher priority in the purchase process. Both groups pointed out the non-professional editing and sales policy as the problems in the Korean publishing company.

The Present State and Perception of Worksheets for Young Children (유아용 학습지의 현황 및 학습지에 대한 인식도)

  • Hyun, On Kang;Kong, In Sook;Kim, Young Joo;Lee, Wan Jeong
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.213-228
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was (l) to explore the present state of worksheets for home use with young children, and (2) to examine perceptions of young children's mothers and editors about these worksheets. 40 kinds of worksheets delivered to children's homes were analyzed. 106 mothers and 131 editors were surveyed by use of questionnaires which had been developed by the researchers. The results showed that (1) even though there are many types of worksheets delivered to the homes of young children, there are few worksheets which meet their teaching goals; (2) young children's mothers are well informed about the state of worksheets, and they would like to supplement the worksheets with visits by teachers who majored in child related studies; (3) the editors of worksheets have mostly majored in Korean language, English, and Math-related studies but not in child related studies.

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A Study on the Determinant Factors of Newspaper Headlines : Focused on News Influence Variables, Editor's Role Orientation and Professionalism (신문기사 제목의 결정요인에 관한 연구 : 뉴스 영향변인.편집자의 역할지향성과 전문직업관을 중심으로)

  • Kang, Hyun-Jig
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.347-365
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    • 2012
  • This study was carried out to enlighten on the factors by which newspaper headlines are determined and to empirically explore how news influence variables, editor's role orientation and professionalism have impact on deciding headlines. It turned out from the survey of 345 journalists working in the editorial departments of 17 major national daily and economic newspapers that 7 determinant factors have impact on editors deciding headlines: creativity, standardized expression, fairness, consideration for a readers, reflection of company policy, summarization and intriguer. In addition, the determinant factors of headlines were analyzed to have correlation with news influence variables such as the government-sponsors, readers and colleagues, and company policy and the management. In the awareness of role, also, it was shown that the editors who considered social integration as important place weighted on the reflection of company policy, fairness and creativity; those editors who placed power monitoring on priority took fairness and creativity seriously; and the editors who believed that delivering information was important thought of fairness, consideration for a readers and summarization as important. In addition, the organization-oriented editors turned out compliant to a system, positive on the governmental policies and sought for social stability; those editors who put a premium on a sense of objective balance and neutrality showed a strong aspect of a professional in social reform, check against government and the social governance by the privileged.

An Analysis of Nationality Diversity by Journal Editors and Authors Using Diversity Index: Focusing on International Journals of Library and Information Science (다양성 지수를 활용한 학술지 편집위원과 저자의 국적 다양성 분석 - 문헌정보학 분야 국제학술지를 중심으로 -)

  • Jane Cho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.58 no.2
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    • pp.81-100
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    • 2024
  • This study analyzed the national diversity of journal editors and authors, focusing on international journals in library and information science, and quantified it through Simpson's Diversity Index. In addition, LIS journals were clustered according to diversity indicators and their characteristics were analyzed, and it was also confirmed whether nationality diversity of editorial members could induce nationality diversity of authors. As a result of the analysis, first, the diversity index of the editors of the LIS (Library & Information Science) international journal was found to be 0.64, which is less than the diversity of the authors, which is 0.76. It was confirmed that as the diversity of nationalities among editorial committee members increases, it is possible to attract authors of various nationalities (r = .79). Second, journals in the IS (Information Science) field showed a high index before or after 0.8 for both editorial members and author contributing countries, but those in the LS (Library Science) field showed relatively low scores, especially among the editorial members, with a very low index of 0.48. Third, the United States has the highest share of both authors and editors, and in particular, it has been confirmed that the LS field has an overwhelming share of 53.39% of editors. On the other hand, in Asian countries, including Korea, the ratio of contributions as editors compared to contributions as authors was found to be lower than in the United States and European countries.

Publish or Perish (출판하여 살아남기)

  • Choe, Won-Sick
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.263-268
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: This editorial deals with the basic structures of medical papers in general and emphasizes the ethics of authors and reviewers. A majority of the content originated from educational material issued at the 2002 Annual Meeting for the Korean Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Current issues from the publication of the Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine were also included.