Alice Ellingham - responding to Matt

Reducing selectivity means an increase in volume of noise for readers to sift through

Big moves to stop chasing Ifs have not stopped it being the prominent measurement.

Reviewer fatigue is very real.

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Based on before-and-after polls, the opposition swung the audience by a single vote! #EASEevents #OpenAccess

@mattjhodgkinson responds to @pippasmart

Hodgkinson arguing against the motion:

Selectivity, chasing impact factors have meant scholars have distorted the scientific literature

The fetishization of Quality does not give genuine quality

References Budapest Initiative for the fundamental principle of Open Access - free and unrestricted access

OA is not a financial model
OA is not 'author pays'
OA is not glamour publishing

#EASEevents #OpenAccess

Our final session of the event! @pippasmart and
@mattjhodgkinson went head to head, with seconders, Alice Ellingham and Jadranka Stojanovski in the controversially framed debate on "open access will reduce quality in scientific publishing"

Smart - arguing for the motion:

The principle of open access is putting too much strain on academic publishing.

Approach to accessibility favors only the wealthy at the expense of quality and reliability of articles.

#OpenAccess #EASEevents #Quality 🧵

Tracy Chen explains the Scopus evaluation process, which includes assessing journal applicants against the COPE/WAME/DOAJ/OASPA Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12

#EASEevents #Scopus #Indexing

Congratulations to the EASE conference poster winners!
#EASEevents

Guardingo previewed the changes to JCR and IFs coming at the end of this month.

Big change is incorporating all AHCI and ESCI titles into the JCR and quartile rankings.

#EASEevents #Clarivate

Mireia Guardingo Melian from @clarivate on quality metrics and their significance in the indexing process.

Read more on recent changes to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR):
* https://clarivate.com/blog/mapping-the-path-to-future-changes-in-the-journal-citation-reports/
* https://clarivate.com/blog/building-trust-through-transparency-our-pledge-to-provide-more-clarity-around-web-of-science-journal-coverage/

#QualityMetrics #indexing #EASEevents #ImpactFactor #Citations #Bibliometrics #ScholComm

RT MetaResearchSplit @MetaSplit on 🐦
Congratulations to Shelly Pranić @spranic and her team for a great poster at #EASEeditors conference in Instabul.

#EASEevents

Special thanks to Ayhan and the camera crew for seamlessly maintaining the connection between Istanbul and the world during the conference. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

#EASEevents #Conferencebackstage #Conference2023

Konstantina Falida of the International Journal of Cancer presents her winning poster on misidentified and contaminated cell lines. #EASEevents #ResearchIntegrity #CancerResearch

RT @pippasmart on 🐦
Tayfun Basal from Elsevier
Reporting over 43,000 journals in SCOPUS of which c.27,000 are still live. Lots of detail about selection criteria - key is academic contribution to the field #EASEevents #Scopus

Behind the scenes at #EASEevents 👀

L to R: Past President Joan Marsh, Secretary Mary Hodgson, and assistant Lucy Hampshire at our conference in #Istanbul.

Patient and public partnership is integral to The BMJ, says Juliet Dobson. Patients are involved as reviewers, authors, and commentators.

The "What your patient is thinking" series aims to influence doctors' approach to healthcare.

#EASEevents #Participation #CoProduction #BMJ

Understand patient's view and how to change clinical viewpoints accordingly, notes Juliet dobson from the BMJ @EASE
#EASEEvents #scholarlypublishing

Scientific journals have a responsibility on raising awareness on #ClimateCrisis despite all the problems they face notes Juliet Dobson at @EASE
conference #EASEEvents #Sciencepolicy #scholarlypublishing #BMJ

The #ClimateCrisis has been covered by The BMJ since the 1990s due to its inextricable link to health, says Juliet Dobson. Co-founded the UK Health Alliance.

Policy initiatives help influence society, through editorials, article collections, and themed issues for events, e.g., COP26.

Climate coverage attracts criticism from deniers on social media.

#EASEevents #SciencePolicy #SciPol #BMJ

Ask yourself what are your journal's core values and how you support them, suggests James Butcher of Journalology at @EASE #EASEEvents #JournalEditing #scholarlypublishing

Homework for journal editors from James Butcher:

How does your journal deliver on its values?

#EASEevents #JournalEditing

What is the future of journals, asks James Butcher.

The demise of journals has been long predicted, but funders such as the Wellcome Trust are now disintermediating publishers using online platforms to directly post research.

What will be lost if journals disappear?

#EASEevents #JournalEditing

What are the core functions of journals, asks James Butcher:
1. Filter (rejection)
2. Enhance (revisions, copyediting)
3. Amplify (brand, press releases)

Leadership and advocacy also matter for many influential journals, such as #TheLancet where James worked. They have "convening power" to gather stakeholders and cross-pollinate ideas between disciplines.

Early signals of advances can be highlighted to readers, and authors can get recognition and visibility.

#EASEevents #JournalEditing