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Editorial Policy“Synthesiology” Editorial Board Objective of the journalThe objective of Synthesiology is to publish papers that address the integration of scientific knowledge or how to combine individual elemental technologies and scientific findings to enable utilization of the product of research and development in the society. The authors of the papers are researchers and engineers of science and technology, and papers are documents that describe, using “scientific words”, the process and the product of research which tries to introduce the results of research to the society. In conventional academic journals, papers describe scientific findings and technological results as facts (i.e. factual knowledge), but in Synthesiology, papers are the description of “knowledge of what ought to be done” to make use of the findings and results for the society. Our aim is to establish methodology for utilizing scientific research result and to seek general principle for this activity by accumulating this knowledge in the journal. Also, we hope that the readers of Synthesiology will obtain ways and directions to transfer their research results for society.Content of paperThe content of the research paper shall be the description of result and process of research and development aimed to be delivered to the society. The paper shall state the goal of research, and what values the goal will create for the society (Items 1 and 2, described in the Table). Then, the process (the scenario) of how to select the elemental technologies, necessary to achieve the goal, how to integrate them, shall be described. There shall also be description of what new elemental technologies −164 Synthesiology Vol.1 No.2(2008)are required to solve a certain social issue, and how these technologies are selected and integrated (Item 3). We expect that the contents will reveal specific knowledge only available to researchers actually involved in the researches. That is, rather than describing the combination of elemental technologies as consequence, the description shall include the reasons the elemental technologies are selected, and the reasons why new methods are introduced (Item 4). For example, the reasons may be: because manufacturing method in laboratory was not sufficient for industrial application; because user demand was not wider applicability rather than improved accuracy; or because there were limits due to current regulations. The academic details of individual elemental technology shall be provided by citing published papers, and only important points can be described. There shall be description of how these elemental technologies are related to each other, what are the problems that had to be resolved in the integration process, and how they are solved (Item 5). Finally, there shall be description of how closely the goal is achieved by products and results obtained in the research and development, and what subjects are left to be accomplished in the future (Item 6).Subject of research and developmentSince the journal aims to seek methodology for utilizing the product of research and development, there is no limitation on the field of research and development. Rather, the aim is to discover general principle regardless of the field, by gathering papers on wide-ranging fields of science and technology. Therefore, it is necessary for authors to offer description that (83)−

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