Beech Tree Publishing
Research Evaluation is peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary. It is about the methods, experiences and lessons for ex ante and ex post evaluation of single proposals through to national performances. Readers are in universities, public agencies, research councils, consultancies, industry, etc.
Papers
Papers can be up to 8,000 words or more. Remove author details, any acknowledgements and any other author identifiers and put them in a separate file. Email either to Dr Anton J Nederhof at nederhof@cwts.leidenuniv.nl (he is at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, University of Leiden, PO Box 905, 2300 AX Leiden, The Netherlands); or instead to Dr Gretchen B Jordan at gbjorda@sandia.gov (she is at the Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0351, USA); or to the publisher, William Page in Guildford (page@scipol.co.uk).
Editorial decision
We acknowledge receipt of papers. We aim to obtain refereeing reports within eight weeks (when possible). Neither you nor the referee will be told who the other is (unless you clearly refer to your previous papers, say).
Style
We accept any standard spelling (UK, US, Canadian, Indian, etc). Explain acronyms and other such details for readers who do not know your specific topic or country well. Tables should be mentioned in the text, and numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. Figures and equations should also be referred to in the text, with their own 1, 2, 3, etc sequence.
Notes and references
Notes should be used sparingly and be indicated with raised numbers like this,1 and then be given at the end of the paper, between the end of the text and the list of references.
References should be done thus: ‘Smith (2007) claims that …’ or ‘One survey (Smith, 1996a; 2007b) …’ or ‘Smith et al (2007: 23)’. Put anonymous periodical articles thus: ‘(Time, 3 April 2008)’. Avoid ambiguous dates like 3/4/05; list full citations at the end, with same dates and name spelling as in text (they often differ). Use this style:
Akroyd, Alan 2007. Experience of peer review of proposals in wine-making research. Journal of Policy and Restaurant Anecdotes, 5(3), September, 23–69.
Baarmont, Alan 2005. Policy Impact of Indicators of Brewing R&D. Santiago, Chile: Booze University Press.
O’Patelson, Patrick and Abdul Hwang 1997. Measuring inputs in my own R&D. In R&D Policy and Back-Packing, eds. I H Weissbaum and J Doe, pp. 19–22. Potosi, Bolivia: Bolivian Press.
After acceptance
We try to publish papers within six months of acceptance (even if subject to revisions). You will be given a publication date. All papers are copy-edited. Authors receive proofs before publication.
We prefer author’s computer files for typesetting. Our ideal is Word. We prefer figures and diagrams which are compatible with Word (such as, say, Excel or bit-mapped files). Avoid colour because we print in black-and-white. Check all shading is necessary, and is quite different from any other shading used. Avoid graphics from websites: redraw them or get detailed originals. If no file is available for a figure, we can scan it in if given a suitable, high-quality, black-and-white original.
Special free-copies service
You will receive up to 50 free offprints of your paper, with two copies of the whole issue for each author. We will gladly mail out copies of your paper to people you specify — up to a few hundred or more, if you like — and all at no charge to you or them.
Online publication
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech/rev hosts the online version. All items become open access 24 months after publication. Research Evaluation is covered by the Social Science Citation Index, Google Scholar, SCOPUS, etc. It uses CrossRef.
It is in the interests of both you and the journal that your paper be widely publicised, so we will welcome other suggestions on how to draw attention to it.
