| RAA Calls for papers |
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are pleased and proud to announce that a new peer-reviewed, international journal, ‘Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA)’ will be launched in the coming International Year of Astronomy, 2009. It is established by transforming an earlier bi-monthly journal, Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ChJAA) into a monthly journal, involving scientific co-operation with several neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
RAA will be a journal of excellence and be representative to the rapidly growing research in astronomy and astrophysics, not only in China, but the whole Asia-Pacific region and beyond. The journal has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring high academic standards and a broad international coverage. RAA will be a non-commercial journal with no page charges for all the authors. New papers published for the first month in RAA will be free of downloading for all the readers. It aims to provide a forum for the rapid dissemination and communication of original research as well as reviews in astronomy and astrophysics.
As scientific editors, we sincerely invite you to submit papers. The journal is now accepting letters, invited reviews and original research papers. Topics covered by RAA include all the research areas in astronomy and astrophysics. The website of the journal (http://raa-journal.org) and the web-based peer review system for manuscripts will be opened in the early September. All the information that includes submission guidelines and editorial board membership will appear in our website. Before the formal opening of the journal website, you can submit your manuscripts electronically via email address of chjaa@bao.ac.cn or through ChJAA website (http://chjaa.org), where the instruction for authors and the LaTex style file can be found.
We will make all the efforts to ensure the refereeing and publication process very fast. It would be still possible to publish papers submitted till the end of September in the "historic" first issue if the referee readily recommends publication or asks for minor changes only. Your kind offer of manuscripts will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Weiqun Gan (SE)
on behalf of
J. X. Wang & Y. P. Jing (Editors in Chief)
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