Journal Guide

Journal of Financial Services Research has been accepted for Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences and will first appear with an Impact Factor in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published in June 2011. The Journal of Financial Services Research publishes high quality empirical and theoretical research on the demand, supply, regulation, and pricing of financial services. Financial services are broadly defined to include banking, risk management, capital markets, mutual funds, insurance, venture capital, consumer and corporate finance, and the technologies used to produce, distribute, and regulate these services. Macro-financial policy issues, including comparative financial systems, the globalization of financial services, and the impact of these phenomena on economic growth and financial stability, are also within the JFSR’s scope of interest. The Journal seeks to promote research that enriches the profession’s understanding of financial services industries, to elevate industry and product efficiencies, as well as to inform the debate and promote the formulation of sound public policies. Officially cited as: J Financ Serv Res

The Journal of Financial Stability provides an international forum for rigorous theoretical and empirical macro and micro economic and financial analysis of the causes, management, resolution and preventions of financial crises, including banking, securities market, payments and currency crises. The primary focus is on applied research that would be useful in affecting public policy with respect to financial stability. Thus, the Journal seeks to promote interaction among researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to identify potential risks to financial stability and develop means for preventing, mitigating or managing these risks both within and across countries.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

The Journal of Fire Protection Engineering is a rigorously peer-reviewed international journal that is unique in fire engineering by virtue of articles being of immediate use to its readership.To accomplish this, the Journal provides fire protection engineers, fire safety engineers and other engineering professionals with clear descriptions both of state-of-the-art engineering methods and new data obtained from modern measurement or survey techniques.Examples and detailed case studies demonstrate how these advanced methods and valuable data can be applied to the fire safety design and evaluation of buildings and other structures (e.g., bridges, tunnels, etc.) and transportation vehicles (e.g. rail, ship and aircraft).Each issue contains in-depth articles by both researchers and practitioners on advances in the following key engineering areas:·Fire behavior modeling (calculating the behavior of flames and smoke in enclosed spaces and in the open)·Fire impact modeling (calculating the impact of flames and smoke both on occupants and on the built environment, including structural effects)·Fire detection modeling (calculating the response and reliability of detection devices)·Fire protection modeling (evaluating the effectiveness of flame/smoke control with various engineering strategies, including techniques to predict how area flooding, sprinkler activation, smoke venting and compartmentation control a fire)·Reliability of fixed fire protection, including corrosion control and maintenance strategies·Approximate or simplified engineering calculations of fire behavior, fire impact, fire detection and fire protection.·Occupant behavior modeling (predicting the behavior of occupants during a fire, including evacuation response time and occupant response to visual and audio alarms and signage).·Characterization of fire and occupant scenarios for engineering analysis·Engineering risk analysis and risk evaluation of fire scenarios in terms of life safety, property cost, business interruption and environmental damage·Case studies of performance-based fire safety design and assessment·Procedures for obtaining engineering data from test methods (e.g., fire behavior data from tests on combustible materials; fire impact data from tests on structural elements; fire protection data from tests of fire interactions with control measures, occupant behavior data from occupant surveys or evacuation drills)·Interpretation of data from realistic or full-scale fire tests or post-fire surveys·Literature surveys and book reviews covering the preceding topicsInformation provided in articles generally is based on documented research or design activity, and when appropriate, well illustrated by photographs, diagrams and charts. New developments from around the world are published in a form that allows for immediate application to engineering problem solving.

The Journal of Fire Sciences is a leading, peer-reviewed international journal for the reporting of new and significant applied research within the fire safety science community. Its overall content is generally aimed toward the prevention and mitigation of the adverse effects of fires involving combustible materials. Contributors and subscribers alike represent countries from around the world.Published bimonthly, the Journal of Fire Sciences addresses essentially all scientific aspects and disciplines involved with fires whose consequences are considered detrimental to life and property.Topics, generally involving experimental or theoretical studies of fire initiation and growth, fire containment, fire threat to people and the environment and fire safety engineering, frequently include the following:· Measurement of fire properties of materials and products, including ignitability, heat release, smoke and combustion product generation.

The Journal of Fish Biology is a leading international journal for scientists engaged in all aspects of fish and fisheries research, both freshwater and marine. The journal publishes high-quality papers relevant to the central theme of fish biology and aims to bring together under one cover an overall picture of the research in progress and to provide international communication among researchers in many disciplines with a common interest in the biology of fish. Research Areas Include: Aquaculture; Behaviour; Biochemistry; Diseases; Distribution; Ecology; Genetics; Growth; Immunology; Migration; Morphology; Parasitology; Physiology; Pollution; Population studies; Reproduction; Taxonomy; Toxicology.

Journal of Fish Diseases enjoys an international reputation as the medium for the exchange of information on original research into all aspects of disease in both wild and cultured fish and shellfish. Areas of interest regularly covered by the journal include:

Aims and Scope Journal of Flood Risk Managementprovides an international platform for knowledge sharing in all areas related to flood risk. Its explicit aim is to disseminate ideas across the range of disciplines where flood related research is carried out and it provides content ranging from leading edge academic papers to applied content with the practitioner in mind. Readers and authors come from a wide background and include hydrologists. meteorologists. geographers. geomorphologists. conservationists. civil engineers. social scientists. policy makers. insurers and practitioners. They share an interest in managing the complex interactions between the many skills and disciplines that underpin the management of flood risk across the world.