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−165 Synthesiology Vo.1 No.2(2008)can be understood by researchers who are not specialists, but the content should be of quality that is acceptable to fellow researchers.Research and development are not limited to those for which the products had already been introduced into the society, but research and development conducted for the purpose of future delivery to the society shall also be included. For those that had been introduced to the society, they do not have to be successful businesswise. Yet there shall be description of the process of how the technologies are integrated considering the introduction to society, rather than describing merely the practical realization process.Peer reviewThere shall be a peer review process for Synthesiology, as in other conventional academic journals. However, peer review of Synthesiology is different from the others. While conventional academic journals emphasize evidential matters such as correctness of the evidence or reproducibility of results, this journal emphasizes the rationality of integration of elemental technologies, clarity of criteria for selecting elemental technologies, and their efficacy and adequacy (peer review criteria is described in the Table).In general, the quality of papers published in academic journals is determined by the peer review process. The peer review of this journal evaluates whether the process and rationale necessary for introducing the product of research and development to the society are described just enough. In other words, the role of peer reviewers is to see whether things necessary to know the process of introducing the research finding to the society are written out, and peer reviewers judge the adequacy of the description of what readers want to know as reader representatives.In ordinary academic journals, peer reviewers are anonymous for reason of fairness and the process is kept secret. That is because fairness is considered important in maintaining quality in established academic journals that describes evidential knowledge. On the other hand, paper, the format, yet content, manner of text, and criteria are not established for papers that describe knowledge of “what ought to be done.” Therefore, the peer review process for this journal will not be kept secret but will be open. Important discussions pertaining to the content of paper, may arise in the process of exchanges with peer reviewers and they will also be published. Moreover, the wish or desire of author that cannot be included in the main text will be presented in the exchanges. Quality of the journal will be guaranteed by making the peer review process transparent and by disclosing the review process that leads to publication. Also disclosure of peer review process is expected to indicate to what points authors should pay attention when they contribute to this journal. The names of peer reviewers will be published since the papers are completed by joint effort of authors and reviewers to establish the new paper format for Synthesiology.ReferencesAs mentioned before, description of individual elemental technology shall be presented as citation of papers published in other academic journals. Also, for elemental technologies that are comprehensively combined, papers that describe advantages and disadvantages of each elemental technology can be used as references. After many papers are accumulated through this journal, authors are recommended to cite papers published in this journal that present similar procedure about selection of elemental technologies and introduction to society. This will contribute in establishing the general principle of methodology.(84)−

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