王应宽

2010-10-29

UTC-6 CST

UMN, St Paul

MN, USA

 

 

CIGR Journal 期刊政策委员会会议第一次会议纪要

 

 

MINUTES

CIGR Journal Policy Board Meeting

CIGR International Conference

Wednesday 16^th of June，2010

Room 202 Conference Center

Quebec City, Quebec

 

 

In attendance: Fedro Zazueta, Bill Stout, Yingkuan Wang, Da-wen Sun, Daniel Berckmans, Thomas Banhasi, Neal McLaughlin, John Schueller, Remigio Berruto, Pietro Piccarolo, Shujun Li, Zhang Lanfang, Zhao Xiaopeng, Yukari Tanaka, Toshinori Kimura, Susana Sepulveda, Antonio Saraiva, Zhongli Pan

 

Meeting was called to order at 5:30 PM by Chair Zazueta..

Transition of Editor’s Office to China:

A report on the transition of the Editors Office to China was given by Zazueta.  Since the 2008 CIGR Congress in Brazil an effort was made to move the CIGR Journal content from the Texas A&M web site into an outsourced Open Journal Management System (OJS). All content was successfully converted and over the past two years OJS was used to manage the manuscript review process. Statistics on the journal were published in the CIGR Newsletter. The need for professional journal management became apparent to achieve the stated goal of making the CIGR Journal a flagship journal for the Agricultural and Biosystems profession.  Along these lines the Chinese associations stepped forward and committed resources to establish an Editorial Office in China for a period of 4 years.  Parallel to this, this Journal Governance Board was established.  The purpose of the Journal Governance Board is to provide strategic direction, actionable item approval, remove barriers and eliminate threats to make the Editorial Office more efficient. The Editorial Office is charged as an executive to manage the CIGR Journal and implement CIGR Journal related strategies.

 

Progress on Editorial Office in China 

A report was given by Yingkuan Wang on the progress made by the Editor in Chief move to China. And an OJS training session was presented by Dr. Yingkuan Wang. The attached powerpoint summarizes the report.

 

Strategic Directions and Discussion

Principles. 

The following principles for the Journal were discussed:

The Journal is the CIGR Journal, all decisions related to the Journal, strategic and operational, ultimately lie within the responsibility of the CIGR Presidium.

The journal is an online journal.

All aspects of the journal are free to all users, including authors (.e.g, there are no page charges for publication)

 

Goals

 

The Journal Governance Committee and the Editor in Chief’s office should pursue improvements in the following:

 

Quality improvement

Appropriate number of Section Editors

Ensure actions that lead to Journal listings (ISI and others)

Create and Editorial Board that reflects the international diversity and composition of CIGR

Clearly define the name of the Journal

Discussion:

The following specific suggestions for improvement were made:

·   Formally recognize student paper and reviewers.

·   Ask section chairs for 5 good reviewers.

·   Clean up reviewer database.  Ask individuals to include their expertise.

·   Ensure that publications can interface with a reference manager.

·   Ensure that the key point for ISI listing is quality and its rigorous control.

·   Editor should prescreen and reject unsuitable papers to reduce workload on section editors and reviewers.

·   To improve future sustainability of the journal use the CIGRProceedings.org to finance the journal.

·   Harmonize procedures across sections.

·   Target new authors, increase number of links and references to papers in the journal.

 

 

Meeting adjourned at 6:45 PM.

 

 

 

 

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