Editorial for ‘Issue focus on 2nd Costa Rica biophysics symposium — March 11th–12th, 2021’

Abstract

This Editorial describes both the motivation for, and the five articles appearing in, the Issue Focus dedicated to the 2nd Costa Rica Biophysics Symposium which was held in March 2021. Some recent history about both the symposium and developments in science occurring within Costa Rica is described.

Biophysical Reviews: Turning the page from 2022 to 2023

“…The current issue is a "Regular Issue featuring an Issue Focus" which is a relatively new format first adopted by the journal in 2022 (Chaves et al 2022;Hall 2022a). Meant to provide small groups with an avenue for publishing a limited collection of articles on a single theme (that does not require the typical 20-30 articles associated with a full Special Issue), the Issue Focus is a set of five or more articles published as a contiguous block within a regular issue, with the articles of the Issue Focus carrying their own unique letterhead and introduced by their own editorial.…”

“…As a regular Issue featuring an Issue Focus on "Costa Rican biophysics," this Issue contained two editorials (Hall et al 2022a;Chaves et al 2022) which respectively introduced the contents of the regular and Issue Focus aspects. The regular Issue presented the first in the Editors' Roundup series (Shearwin et al 2022) a journal commentary feature in which members of various biophysical journals' editorial boards provide a short personal recommendation of up to five articles appearing within their journal.…”