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FOREWORD
The scope of this publication is limited: it covers only journal articles - not conference
papers, not book chapters, not newsletters, not theses, not CIMMYT imprints. Thus it represents
only part of CIMMYT's published output. And the search for material went back only to 1966,
the date of the official establishment of the Center; so the compilation omits the very important
work done by CIMMYT's antecedent organizations.
To avoid inconsistencies, we have adopted tight rules of admissibility and apply them
rigorously:
-Only articles resulting from CIMMYT's research program
-Only articles that were subject to an independent peer review
Part A lists articles resulting from research carried out within CIMMYT or in cooperation with
advanced research institutions. Typically, there is an author who is a member of CIMMYT's staff;
often, however, the Center's involvement is represented by a visiting scientist or graduate student
who reports work carried out while on assignment at CIMMYT. In a few cases, the whole work
has been done by other scientists in other institutions but, if it was partly or wholly financed by
CIMMYT, or if it was identified as part of a collaborative project with CIMMYT, then the
resulting article is included as a product of the Center's overall program.
Excluded are those articles that were written after the authors joined CIMMYT's staff but
to report work carried out in their previous employments (not, therefore, part of CIMMYT's
program): the exclusion remains even when 'CIMMYT' is given as the author's affiliation. To
balance this, we have tried to find and include those articles describing CIMMYT work that were
written after the authors had moved elsewhere.
CIMMYT's mission stresses its cooperation with NARS: resulting papers are listed
separately in Part B. Typically, there is an explicit statement that the article describes cooperative
work, but this fact can also be inferred when CIMMYT and NARS staff are named as co-authors.
However, even when CIMMYT, or one of its staff, is named in a paper that reports work
at a cooperating institution, the paper is excluded from either Part of the present list (a) when the
Center's only contribution has been to provide seed, or (b) when the staff member's role is limited
to that of a post facto reviewer (or asesor intelectual). Also, articles announcing the release or
registration of germplasm or new cultivars are not listed here but in a separate compilation.
By applying the rule requiring independent peer review, we are able to include the
refereed 'articles' that have been published, starting 1994, in Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter
as well as the 'research articles', starting 1990, in Wheat Information Service; on the other hand,
we omit articles from journals that did not use external reviewers, such as Development Policy
Review, Plant Disease Reporter (before 1975) and Rachis. More importantly, the rule requires the
exclusion of the conference papers that journals publish in special sections for which the editors
waive the usual peer reviews _ for example, the annual "proceedings" issue (No. 5) of the
American Journal of Agricultural Economics. However, a conference paper is included if there is
evidence that it has been subject to independent review, as when there are separate dates for
'received' and 'accepted'.
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