Aims & Scope
Nutrition and Healthy Aging is an international forum for research on nutrition as a means of promoting healthy aging. It is particularly concerned with the impact of nutritional interventions on the metabolic and molecular mechanisms which modulate aging and age-associated diseases, including both biological responses on the part of the organism itself and its micro biome. Results emanating from both model organisms and clinical trials will be considered. With regards to the latter, the journal will be rigorous in only accepting for publication well controlled, randomized human intervention trials that conform broadly with the current EFSA and US FDA guidelines for nutritional clinical studies. The journal will publish research articles, short communications, critical reviews and conference summaries, whilst open peer commentaries will be welcomed.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Luigi Fontana, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Nutrition
Leonard P Ullmann Chair in Translational Metabolic Health
The University of Sydney
Australia
Email: editorial@iospress.nl
Prof. Dr. Jeremy P.E. Spencer
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics
University of Reading
Berkshire, UK
Email: j.p.e.spencer@reading.ac.uk
Britt Burton-Freeman, PhD, MS
Director, Center for Nutrition Research
Institute for Food Safety and Health
Illinois Institute of Technology
6502 South Archer Rd.
Bedford Park, IL 60501-1957, USA
Email: bburton@iit.edu
and
Associate Research Nutritionist
Department of Nutrition
University of California
Davis, CA, USA
Email: bbfreeman@ucdavis.edu
Associate Editors
Bahram Arjmandi, PhD, RD
Department of Nutrition, Food & Exercise Sciences, Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA
Michael Fenech, PhD
Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia
Chris Gill, PhD (Reviews Editor)
Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health / School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Rozalyn Anderson, PhD
Institute on Aging, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
Holly M. Brown-Borg, PhD
Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics, University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND, USA
Sean P. Curran, PhD
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, USA
Sarah A. Johnson, PhD, RDN
Functional Foods & Human Health Laboratory, College of Health and Human Sciences, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Dudley Lamming, PhD (Reviews Editor)
Lamming Laboratory for the Molecular Physiology of Aging, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
Dan Lamport, PhD
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
Reading, UK
Anis Larbı, PhD
Aging Program, Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Singapore
Mary Ann Lila, PhD
Food Bioprocessing & Nutrition Sciences, Plants for Human Health Institute, North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
James Mitchell, PhD
Department of Molecular Metabolism, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA
Catarina Rendeiro
Nutritional Sciences, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Federico E. Rey
Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD
USDA, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
Boston, MA, USA
Sandrine Thuret, PhD
Adult Neurogenesis & Mental Health Laboratory, King’s College London
London, UK
David Vauzour, PhD
Molecular Nutrition, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
Meng Wang, PhD
Huffington Center On Aging, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
Editor Clinical Trials Corner
Leonie K. Heilbronn, PhD
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
Editorial Board
Andrzej Bartke, PhD
Internal Medicine and Physiology, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University
Springfield, IL, USA
Nir Barzilai, MD
Institute for Aging Research / Department of Medicine (Endocrinology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Maurizio Battino, PhD
Department of Odontostomatologic and Specialized Clinical Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University
Ancona, Italy
Maria Blasco, PhD
Telomeres and Telomerase Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Center
Madrid, Spain
Anne Brunet, PhD
The Burnet Lab, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University
San Francisco, CA, USA
Rafael de Cabo, PhD
Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute On Aging
Bethesda, MD, USA
Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD
Immunobiology, Yale Center for Research on Aging, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
David Gems, PhD
Institute of Healthy Ageing, Division of Biosciences, University College London
London, UK
Malene Hansen, PhD
Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research, Sanford Burnham Prebys
San Diego, CA, USA
Tamas L. Horvath, DVM, PhD
Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Donald K. Ingram, PhD
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Matt Kaeberlein, PhD
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Cynthia Kenyon, PhD
UCSF, Clinical and Translational Science Institute / Calico Life Sciences
San Francisco, CA, USA
Samuel Klein, MD
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
John J. Kopchick, PhD
Molecular Biology, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University
Athens, OH, USA
Bruce S. Kristal, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Catalyst
Boston, MA, USA
Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, PhD
Department Of Physiology And Aging, University of Florida
Gainsville, FL, USA
Valter D. Longo, PhD
USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hildegard Mack
Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
Frank Madeo, PhD
Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz
Graz, Austria
William Mair, PhD
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA
Mark Mattson, PhD
NIH Intramural Research Program
Baltimore, USA
Dragan Milenkovic, PhD
University of California, Davis
CA, USA
Christine Morand, PhD
Diet, Plant food bioactives & Vascular Health research group (NutriVasc), INRAE
Paris, France
James F. Nelson, PhD
Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX, USA
Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD
Department of Immunobiology, Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Susan Ozanne, PhD
MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Linda Partridge, D.Phil
UCL Division of Biosciences, Division of Biosciences
London, UK
Graham Pawelec, PhD
Department of Immunology, University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany
Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, MD, PhD
Research and Technology, Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare
Milan, Italy
Matthew Piper
Nutritional Physiology and Ageing Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Rando, MD, PhD
Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Stanford University
San Francisco, CA, USA
Eric Ravussin, PhD
Nutrition Obesity, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Holly van Remmen, PhD
Aging & Metabolism Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation,
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Lothar Rink, PhD
Institute of Immunology, RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany
Ana Rodriguez-Mateos, PhD
Department of Nutritional Sciences, King's College London
London, UK
Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD
Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Augustin Scalbert, PhD
Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer
Lyon, France
Douglas R. Seals, PhD
Integrative Physiology of Aging Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO, USA
Stephen Simpson, PhD
Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
David Sinclair, PhD
Department of Genetics, Center for Biology of Aging Research, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Eline Slagboom, PhD
Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
John R. Speakman, PhD, DSc
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Yousin Suh, PhD
Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Nektarios Tavernarakis, PhD
Molecular Systems Biology at the Medical School, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Crete
Heraklion, Greece
Junji Terao, PhD
Department of Nutrition, University of Tokushima
Tokushima, Japan
Takanori Tsuda, PhD
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, College of Bioscience and Technology Chubu University
Kasugai, Japan
Krista A. Varady, PhD
Kinesiology and Nutrition, Cancer Center, University of Illinois
Chicago, IL, USA
Eric Verdin, MD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease/Department of Medicine, UCSF Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
San Francisco, CA, USA
Nicola Veronese, MD
Italian National Research Council/ Institute of Neuroscience IN
Venice, Italy
Richard Weindruch, PhD
Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Craig Willcox, PhD
Public Health and Gerontology, Okinawa International University
Okinawa, Japan
Robert J. Williams, PhD
Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath
Bath, UK
Lin Yang, PhD
Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Alberta Health Services
Edmonton, Canada
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Organization and style of presentation
Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are recommended to seek the advice of a native English speaker, if possible, before submitting their manuscripts.
Manuscripts should be double spaced throughout with wide margins (2.5cm or 1in), including the abstract and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should include a page number centered at the bottom.
Manuscripts should be organized in the following order with headings and subheadings typed on a separate line, without indentation.
Title Page
- Title (should be clear, descriptive and concise).
- Full name(s) of author(s).
All authors should meet the following 4 criteria: (a) have made substantial contributions to the work, (conception, performance or interpretation of data); (b) writing the article; (c) approve the final version to be published; (d) agreed to be accountable for the accuracy and integrity of the work. Authors are encouraged to include their ORCID identifiers. - Full affiliation(s). Delineate affiliations with lowercase letters.
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- Running title (45 characters or less, including spaces).
- Complete correspondence address, including telephone number and email address.
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Abstract and Keywords
The abstract for research papers should follow the “structured abstract” format:
BACKGROUND:
OBJECTIVE:
METHODS:
RESULTS:
CONCLUSIONS:
The abstract should try to be no longer than 250 words.
For other papers such as Reviews, the abstract should be clear, descriptive, and self-explanatory, and no longer than 250 words.
Include a list of 4-10 keywords. These keywords should be terms from the MeSH database.
The abstract should make clear the context and aims for the study. It should also state how it was conducted, the main findings and conclusions drawn. Clinical trials should list the NCT number, and include in the abstract items deemed essential by the CONSORT group.
Introduction
This should outline the context for and purpose of the study.
Materials and Methods
There is no word limit to the materials and methods section, as the journal’s policy is that methodological rigor and reproducibility is of great importance. This section should aim to be sufficiently detailed to enable others with access to the data to reproduce the results.
Informed consent
For research involving human subjects, including registry reviews and retrospective cohort studies for example, authors must state that informed signed consent has been obtained from all subjects or provide an explanation as to why consent was waived. However, because of the legacy pipeline after introduction of this policy.
Ethical considerations, compliance and protocol approval
Compliance with guidelines on human experimentation as well as protocol approval by a local Institutional Review Board should be stated and the approval number should be provided.
Compliance with guidelines on animal experimentation as well as protocol approval by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee should be stated and the approval number should be provided.
Clinical trials should include the full protocol as a supplement. Studies involving human subjects that are exempt from approval by an Institutional Review Board and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee should mention this in an Ethical Considerations Statement.
Guidelines
Where applicable, include a statement of compliance with guidelines, and a flow chart, for respectively
- randomized trials: CONSORT (www.consort-statement.org);
- observational studies: STROBE (http://strobe-statement.org/);
- studies of diagnostic accuracy: STARD (www.stard-statement.org/);
- systematic reviews and meta-analyses: PRISMA (http://prisma-statement.org/).
Cell line identity
In keeping with scientific consensus guidelines, Nutrition and Healthy Aging considers it to be good practice for cultured cell lines to be authenticated. For each cell line, authors should include in the Methods section a statement that specifies:
- Source of the cell lines
- Are any cell lines used in this paper listed in the database of commonly misidentified cell lines maintained by the International Cell Line Authentication Committee (ICLAC)? If yes, include in the Methods section a scientific justification of their use
- If the cell lines been authenticated and by which method
- If the cell lines been tested for mycoplasma contamination and if so, date last tested.
Microarray Data
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Results
These should be presented in a logical order and summarize the salient findings.
Discussion
This should link the conclusions with the aims of the study but avoid conclusions not adequately supported by the data.
Acknowledgments
If there are none, do still include this section and insert "The authors have no acknowledgments".
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Funding
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References
- Place citations as numbers in square brackets in the text. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. Only articles published or accepted for publication should be listed in the reference list. Submitted articles can be listed in the text as (author(s), unpublished data).
- All authors should be listed in the reference list.
- References must be listed in Vancouver style:
[1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, Kochanek PM, Graham SH. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002; 935(12): 406.
[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.
[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93113.
[5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on the Internet]. Toronto: The Society; 2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006 Oct 17]. Available from: https://www.cancer.ca/.
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Figure Legends
Figures
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Supplementary Data.
We encourage authors to make their data publicly available. Supplementary data can be submitted with the manuscript, included within the manuscript after the Figures and Tables (or otherwise after the References). Each supplementary item should have a legend and should not exceed the file size of 10 MB. Supplemental videos can be submitted separately (see top of page for submission guidelines of videos). A short description of the supplementary items should be included under the header of “Supplementary Material” within the manuscript before the “References”. Large datasets should be hosted on the author’s own or institute’s website or in an appropriate database, and should be properly cited within the manuscript.
Reviews
Reviews should be authoritative and topical and provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of a timely and/or controversial issue. Reviews should be prepared as detailed above for a Research Report, omitting Introduction through Discussion, and include a conclusion. When possible, systematic reviews are strongly encouraged and will be given stronger consideration for publication. For systematic reviews, authors should consult PRISMA and prepare their reviews as per the "PRISMA 2009 Checklist document" at this site and this compliance stated in the manuscript. Title of the review should be in the following format "SYSTEMATIC REVIEW: full article title.
Short Communications
A short communication is an article of original scholarship of unusual interest of less than 1500 words (not including references). An abstract of 100 words or less should be included with no subdivison of text into sections. References should be formatted as above. A total of two tables and/or figures are allowed. Submissions that exceed the word or figure/table limits will be considered a Research Report and billed accordingly.
Hypotheses
A hypothesis article should be a balanced and insightful consideration of a topic with novel hypotheses well presented and supported. The article should be prepared as a Research Report but without Methods or Results sections.
Book Reviews
Book reviews should be 750 words or less and without sections. While most reviews are commissioned, suggestions can be proposed to the Editor-in-Chief.
Letters to the Editor
Authors can submit comments of 1000 words or less to the Editor-in-Chief.
Commentaries
Commentaries are usually commissioned and of at least 1000 words with an abstract and no other subdivisions.
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In cover letter:
- Name, postal address, phone number, fax number and email address of the corresponding author.
- Name of an Associate Editor with expertise in the area of the study (if no Associate Editor is suitable, the Editorial Office will handle the submission).
- Statement that all authors have contributed to the work, agree with the presented findings, and that the work has not been published before nor is being considered for publication in another journal.
- A list of at least 4-6 potential reviewers knowledgeable in the area of the study and potential reviewer conflicts.
- Statement that procedures involving experiments on human subjects are done in accord with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experimentation of the institution in which the experiments were done or in accord with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975.
- Statement that procedures involving experimentation on animal subjects are done in accord with either the guide of the institution in which the experiments were done, or with the National Research Council's guide for the care and use of laboratory animals.
- Statement of all financial and material support for this research and any potential conflicts.
In manuscript:
- Compliance with guidelines on human experimentation as well as protocol approval by a local Institutional Review Board should be specified.
- Compliance with guidelines of animal experimentation as well as protocol approval by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee should be specified.
- Statement of all financial and material support for this research and any potential conflicts should also be clearly identified in the acknowledgement section.
- Manuscripts should be double spaced with 1" margins on all sides, including the abstract and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should include a page number centered at the bottom.
- Manuscripts must have an abstract (250 words or less) and 4-10 keywords.
- References should be cited in order of appearance with numbers between square brackets. All publications cited in the text should be presented in order of appearance in a list of references following the acknowledgments section of the manuscript and before the tables and/or figure legends.
Resubmissions
Resubmissions should include the manuscript number and a point-by-point response to the previous reviews in the cover letter. The point-by-point response can also be included at the beginning of the manuscript to maintain formatting.
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Nutrition and Healthy Aging is committed to the highest ethical standards and best practices in publishing and follows the code of conduct for Committee on Publication Ethics/DOAJ and the ICMJE. Any possible conflict of interest, financial or otherwise, of perceived relevance to the submitted work must be clearly indicated in the manuscript (for further details see http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf).
Nutrition and Healthy Aging affirms that misconduct, in the form of fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism, jeopardizes the success of the entire scientific endeavor. However, the primary responsibility for considering and resolving allegations of scientific misconduct must be pursued within the individual academic communities and institutions where the scientific work is carried out. Every author of articles or abstracts submitted for publication assumes full responsibility, within the limits of his or her professional competence, for the accuracy of the report. In the case of multiple-authored papers, each author should have made a significant intellectual or practical contribution to the scientific work. Authors submit articles with the understanding that reports must not have been submitted elsewhere.
Questions raised about the conduct of experiments or their presentation will be evaluated preliminarily by the Editors-in-Chief and, if appropriate, in consultation with the Associate Editor handling the review of the manuscript. If deemed appropriate, the matter will be referred to the institution where the scientific work in question was performed. The Journal expects that the matter would be reviewed in accordance with institutional procedures for handling allegations of misconduct. At all stages, every effort should be made to ensure that the process is fair and just, both for those who are accused of misconduct and for those who have raised the issue of scientific misconduct.
In the event that a published article or abstract is to be retracted, a statement of retraction will be published in Nutrition and Healthy Aging.
Policy on Use of Animals
Nutrition and Healthy Aging supports the appropriate and responsible use of animals as experimental subjects.
The U.S. Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (PHS Policy) and the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NIH Guide) should guide all animal research. Compliance with guidelines on animal experimentation as well as protocol approval by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee should be stated and the approval number must be provided in the Methods section of the article.
We recommend following the ARRIVE reporting guidelines when documenting animal studies (PLoS Bio 8(6), e1000412, 2010).
- Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 2015 (revised March 2015) (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/olaw.htm)
- Kilkenny C, Browne WJ, Cuthill IC, Emerson M, Altman DG (2010) Improving Bioscience Research Reporting: The ARRIVE Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research. PLoS Biol 8(6): e1000412. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000412.
Further guidance on animal research ethics is available from the International Association of Veterinary Editors’ Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare (http://veteditors.org/consensus-author-guidelines-on-animal-ethics-and-welfare-for-editors).
Policy on Use of Human Subjects
Experiments involving human subjects must conform with the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (United States Office of Science and Technology Policy) and in the Declaration of Helsinki and be approved by a local Institutional Review Board. Compliance with the former and approval by the latter must be stated in the cover letter and the approval number must be provided in the Methods section of the article.
Informed consent
For research involving human subjects, including registry reviews and retrospective cohort studies for example, authors must state that informed signed consent has been obtained from all subjects or provide an explanation as to why consent was waived.
- Helsinki Declaration as revised in 2013 (http://wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-princip...).
- Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects; Notices and Rules. Federal Register. Vol. 56. No. 117 (June 18, 1991), pp 28002-28007.
- Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) Human Subject Protections (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/).
Policy on Conflicts of Interest
For Authors
Nutrition and Healthy Aging requires authors to declare all conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, of relevance to the particular manuscript. All authors must separately be named in the Conflicts of Interest statement. If an author has no conflict of interest to declare, include this section with the statement “(Name) has no conflict of interest to report”.
We require that authors use the Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Form from the ICMJE is included in the submission (download it from the ICMJE website at: icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest) and that a section mentioning Conflicts of Interest per individual author is included in the submitted manuscript.
For Referees
Nutrition and Healthy Aging requires that referees with conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, declare them when submitting their report and recuse themselves when there is a conflict that may impact a fair and impartial review.
Examples
Financial conflicts of interest:
These can include any financial relationship between the authors and any organization that may have a financial interest in their research or financial interests on the part of the authors themselves. This can include, but is not limited to, employment, stocks or shares, patents, research funding, travel or other expenses, lecture fees, or goods or services. Authors should disclose any such relationships: past 3 years, present or anticipated along with any role these organizations may have had in the design, execution or presentation of the study. These can also include financial interests on the part of the authors themselves, such as stocks or shares, patents, or other forms of financial gain.
Non-financial conflicts of interest:
These can include any relationship between the authors and any person or organization that could reasonably be seen to compromise (or impact) the impartiality of the authors of an article. This can include, but is not limited to benefits to relatives, close friends or associates, or organizations that the author has an unpaid relationship with (such as consulting or advisory roles, or providing administrative assistance).
Ethical considerations, compliance and protocol approval
Compliance with guidelines on human experimentation as well as protocol approval by a local Institutional Review Board should be stated and the approval number should be provided.
Clinical trials should include the full protocol as a supplement. Studies involving human subjects that are exempt from approval by an Institutional Review Board should mention this in an Ethical Considerations Statement.
Policy on Data Sharing
We encourage authors to make their data publicly available. Supplementary data can be submitted with the manuscript, included within the manuscript after the Figures and Tables (or otherwise after the References). Each supplementary item should have a legend and should not exceed the file size of 10 MB. Supplemental videos can be submitted separately (see top of this page for submission guidelines of videos). A short description of the supplementary items should be included under the header of “Supplementary Material” within the manuscript before the “References”. Large datasets should be hosted on the author’s own or institute’s website or in an appropriate database, and should be properly cited within the manuscript.
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Peer Review
Peer Review Process and Process for Appeals
Nutrition and Healthy Aging operates a rigorous, timely, blinded peer review process (with an option for double-blind if requested) by experts in the field. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.
After automatic plagiarism screening through iThenticate, all submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial appraisal by the Editors-in-Chief. Manuscripts that are deemed unsuitable may be rejected without peer review by the Editors-in-Chief and/or the Associate Editors, and the author will be informed as soon as possible. Manuscripts that are deemed suitable for peer review are forwarded to an Associate Editor with expertise in that area who then recruits appropriate anonymous referees (a minimum of two) for confidential review.
Editors and reviewers are asked to excuse themselves from reviewing a submission if a conflict makes them unable to make an impartial scientific judgment or evaluation. Conflicts of interest include but are not limited to: collaboration with the authors in the past three years; any professional or financial affiliations that may be perceived as a conflict of interest; a history of personal differences with the author(s). Where an Editorial Board Member is on the author list they must declare this in the competing interests section on the submitted manuscript.
If they are an author, another editor will be assigned for overseeing peer review. These submissions are subject to the exact same review process as any other manuscript. Referee reports are then assessed by the Associate Editor, who makes a decision which is then subject to approval of the Editors-in-Chief. Once approved this decision is then conveyed to the author along with the referee’s anonymized reports. The initial decision will be one of the following: rejection, acceptance without revision, or potentially acceptable after minor or major revisions. Revised manuscripts will be appraised by the Associate Editor, who may seek the opinion of referees (prior or new) before making a decision, which again is subject to approval of the Editors-in-Chief. Once approved, this decision is then conveyed to the author along with the anonymized referee’s reports.
Once accepted, manuscripts are normally published on-line without delay and appear in the next available print issue (published quarterly). The Editors-in-Chief have ultimate responsibility for what is published in the journal. Authors may appeal decisions by contacting the Editors-in-Chief (at editorial@iospress.com). Authors will be informed in writing of the result of their appeal.
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