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::::: - Post acceptance “reviews” can be viewed as a conflict of interest and be frustrating for authors. Additionally not a sustainable workload. | ::::: - Post acceptance “reviews” can be viewed as a conflict of interest and be frustrating for authors. Additionally not a sustainable workload. | ||
::::: - Pre-review edits for SI Units, IUPAC and MitoEAGLE terminology done by BEC editorial staff and sent to authors for acceptance. | ::::: - Pre-review edits for SI Units, IUPAC and MitoEAGLE terminology done by BEC editorial staff and sent to authors for acceptance. | ||
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::::: - High quality editors should in turn pick high quality reviewers that will catch scientific errors | ::::: - High quality editors should in turn pick high quality reviewers that will catch scientific errors | ||
::::: - Unrealistic to expect every error or ambiguous terminology to be caught | ::::: - Unrealistic to expect every error or ambiguous terminology to be caught |
Revision as of 16:23, 19 January 2023
- Bioenergetics Communications is the Open Science journal on bioenergetics and mitochondrial physiology with Living Communications - ISSN 2791-4690
BEC editors
- Visit the the Bioenergetics Communications website for » BEC editorial team
Executive editor meeting minutes
- 2022-11-22, 16:00 (CET)
Cardoso Luiza HD, Chinopoulos Christos, Cocco Paolo, Garcia-Roves Pablo Miguel, Gnaiger Erich, Kowaltowski Alicia J, Tindle-Solomon Lisa
- 2022-11-22, 16:00 (CET)
- Meeting Minutes:
- Editorial board participation guidelines - https://www.bioblast.at/index.php/Editorial_board_participation
- - Rejected multiple editor positions as a conflict of interest
- Meeting Minutes:
- Agreed:
- - Number of reviews expected: No more than 3 declined or unanswered requests/year.
- - Appointment length: 3 years, renew if meets the above criteria. Appointment can be ended earlier if non-responsive/decline to act as editor twice without explanation.
- - Executive editors may invite associate editors without discussion and inform the other members. Once journal more established executives can look at the board member composition and create a strategy to target areas where there is not an editor.
- Conflict of interest policy for editors and reviewers - https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Conflict_of_interest
- Agreed:
- - For editors and reviewers, conflicts should be taken into account before accepting an assignment. Conflicts of interest include joint publications or collaborations within the past 5 years. Publications with a consortium are an exception.
- Peer review process and quality of reviews - https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Peer_review
- - Post acceptance “reviews” can be viewed as a conflict of interest and be frustrating for authors. Additionally not a sustainable workload.
- - Pre-review edits for SI Units, IUPAC and MitoEAGLE terminology done by BEC editorial staff and sent to authors for acceptance.
- · Language should not be edited
- - High quality editors should in turn pick high quality reviewers that will catch scientific errors
- - Unrealistic to expect every error or ambiguous terminology to be caught
- - Stronger signposting to author checklist on what the journal requirements are
- - Editors should desk reject manuscripts that do not talk about bioenergetics
- Published open peer reviews - Based on below feedback (figure), we will now provide 3 options (to be selected by reviewer in the reviewer form)
- (1) Published open peer review with name (2) Published open peer review without name (3) No published open peer review.
- Agreed on above.
- Next meeting – frequency and date?
- Agreed:
- - Every 6 months or upon need.
- Anything else?
- - Look into tracking citations
MitoPedia topics:
BEC