Fishing for research
FROM the outside, John and Hilary Craig’s home on a hillside near the tiny village of Dunscore, looks like any other rural farmhouse.
So passers-by would never suspect it to be the hub of an internationally acclaimed network of writers.
Because John is the editor of the Journal of Fish Biology – a respected learned society journal which has been running since 1969.
And firing contributions into his home are 22 assistant editors based around the globe in Europe, America, Canada, Asia, Australia and even Alaska.
Now, thanks to their hard work along with Hilary who is the technical editor, the publication has been voted into the top 100 journals which have made the most influential contribution in the last 100 years to biomedical and life sciences.
A delighted John, aged 64, has been invited to attend a ceremony in Washington DC in June when the order of the top 100 will be revealed.
He told the Standard: “The society is very pleased to be in the top 100.
“We receive manuscripts from all over the world and we reject about 60 per cent of these.
“My job is to make the final decision on which ones go in and then edit it. I have been a research scientist all my life and have worked all over the world.
“I finished that in late 1999 and decided to settle down.”
That’s when the husband and wife team took up their roles with the journal which is the official publication of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles.
Research into fish biology is distributed through the journal which has around 20 issues a year and can be found in universities and research institutes around the world.
The final content goes from Dunscore to publishers Wiley Blackwell in Edinburgh before going on its final international journey to India where it is typeset.
John admits only the wonders of technology has made it possible for his house at Whiteside to become the journal’s nerve centre.
He added: “We used to do it through the postal system but it is certainly a lot easier now.”
FROM the outside, John and Hilary Craig’s home on a hillside near the tiny village of Dunscore, looks like any other rural farmhouse.
So passers-by would never suspect it to be the hub of an internationally acclaimed network of writers.
Because John is the editor of the Journal of Fish Biology – a respected learned society journal which has been running since 1969.
And firing contributions into his home are 22 assistant editors based around the globe in Europe, America, Canada, Asia, Australia and even Alaska.
Now, thanks to their hard work along with Hilary who is the technical editor, the publication has been voted into the top 100 journals which have made the most influential contribution in the last 100 years to biomedical and life sciences.
A delighted John, aged 64, has been invited to attend a ceremony in Washington DC in June when the order of the top 100 will be revealed.
He told the Standard: “The society is very pleased to be in the top 100.
“We receive manuscripts from all over the world and we reject about 60 per cent of these.
“My job is to make the final decision on which ones go in and then edit it. I have been a research scientist all my life and have worked all over the world.
“I finished that in late 1999 and decided to settle down.”
That’s when the husband and wife team took up their roles with the journal which is the official publication of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles.
Research into fish biology is distributed through the journal which has around 20 issues a year and can be found in universities and research institutes around the world.
The final content goes from Dunscore to publishers Wiley Blackwell in Edinburgh before going on its final international journey to India where it is typeset.
John admits only the wonders of technology has made it possible for his house at Whiteside to become the journal’s nerve centre.
He added: “We used to do it through the postal system but it is certainly a lot easier now.”
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