Land and people

Our relationship with the landscape has developed through time and more and more the environment is responding to human-driven changes. Now is the time to steer this relationship towards a sustainable future, suggest our Editorial Board Members. Our relationship with the landscape has developed through time and more and more the environment is responding to human-driven changes. Now is the time to steer this relationship towards a sustainable future, suggest our Editorial Board Members

Editors\u27 Note

The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is continuing to undergo changes. Phase I of updating the Editorial Board has been completed. Members of the Editorial Board can be found on our website at http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/editorialboard.html. We are thankful for those who were willing to continue their service on the board. If you notice any errors in the new listing, please contact us at [email protected]. We are now entering into phase II of the project by adding new members to the editorial board. Nominations or self-nominations for the Editorial Board can be sent to [email protected]. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers have been enabled for our journal. We will begin assigning DOIs to the first issue in February and move through back issues over the next several months. We aim to have this project competed before the July 2016 issue is published. This continues to be an exciting time for us and we continue to welcome any feedback or suggestions that you may have concerning the journal. We also encourage everyone to submit research articles or reflective SoTL essays

The Gatekeeper Project: Crowdsourced Examination of the Gender Composition of Anthropology Journals

The editorial boards of academic journals act as gatekeepers to maintain the scientific integrity and standards of journals while identifying emerging and innovative research. We introduce The Gatekeeper Project (Bruna 2017, http://brunalab.org/gatekeepers/) as an attempt to crowdsource data collection on the composition of the boards. We seek to understand how and why board composition varies within and across disciplines and use these data to help scholars, academic societies, editors, and publishers in their efforts to make the boards of our journals more inclusive and diverse. In this presentation we address findings from an examination of 40 years of anthropology journals. Data on Editorial Board composition was collected in two databases. Role based analysis included individuals serving multi-year terms in one editorial role, however, each individual was only counted once. Time based analysis included all board members for each year, and individuals were counted independently each year. All data was analyzed and graphed with R version 3.3.2 with the gplots and corrplot packages. Although the trend was towards improvement over time, particularly following the formation of the AA Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology (CoGEA) in 1995, there was surprising variation between journals, including those with similar subdisciplinary foci. We also address correlation between editorial roles and gender, where female Editors in Chief are drivers for female Editorial Boards. While demographic changes in academia may reduce these disparities over time, we argue journals should proactively strive for gender parity on their editorial boards

Agricultural economics at 50: scholarship of the global agricultural economics community

Last year, Agricultural Economics reached its 50th volume, after 34 years. In this article, we reflect on the evolution of the journal during this period. We describe the evolving editorial structure of the journal and the composition of the editorial board from only editorial advisory board to both associate editors and editorial advisory board. We also employ bibliometric analysis to showcase the evolution of the average number of pages per article, number of articles per volume, authorship patterns that reflect the steady rise in collaborative research, article content, research coverage, as well as the journal's impact as chronicled by its citations over the period under consideration. We conclude by briefly defining some goals and providing perspectives for the future of the journal in the face of the evolving publishing landscape. We found that although articles published in the journal remain predominantly on agricultural topics, significant changes in topical coverage has occurred in the last two decades. While 20 years ago, only very few articles were classified under environmental issues and mathematical and quantitative methods, the share of articles published in these areas increased by 19% and 45%, respectively, over this time period

Introducing our new Editorial Board Members

The Chimica Techno Acta (CTA) journal was established in 2014. Since then, CTA has grown into a recognized platform for reporting recent advances in engineering chemistry. We would like to express our deep appreciation to all our authors, reviewers and readers, whose valuable participation has contributed greatly to the current level of CTA.One year ago, in a desire to further enhance the journal’s visibility and impact, a number of important changes were initiated, such as visual redesigning of the journal’s website, updating editorial policies and clarifying the Aims Scope. More importantly, we undertook a step towards expanding our Editorial Board team. As a result of this initiative, we are glad to welcome Prof. Ekaterina Kozlova from the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis and Dr. Farid Orudzhev from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University as our new Editorial Board Members

Introduction

With the passing of the editorial baton, this seems a good moment to reiterate the aims of the journal and review some of the changes. First of all, however, may I thank the editorial committee of Lydia Wevers, Richard Hill and Brad Patterson, and the journal administrator Deborah Levy, who collectively provided invaluable assistance in the process of transition to a new editor; and welcome the members of our new multidisciplinary and national/international journal board

Two New Changes to the Reviewing Process

[Excerpt] I am using this issue\u27s editorial to describe some of the changes I have made to the review process for the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly. I have come to the decision to make these changes based on feedback I have received from my editorial board, comments from authors, letters and phone calls from readers, and remarks made by my colleagues here at the Hotel School at Cornell. While, like any editor, I constantly reevaluate the way articles go through the submission process, the nature of the changes I am making do merit some particular mention. All of these changes went into effect in the beginning of 2004

Three Years as Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the Association for Information Systems

This editorial presents an overview of the three years at Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) during the term of its second editor-in-chief. Highlights of the three years include an ever-increasing submissions rate, fast turnaround times from submission to publication, and an increase in the proportion of authors preferring peer review to editorial board review. Statistics for submission and disposal for 2006-2008 are included in the editorial, as is commentary on three major changes at CAIS that occurred during those years: 1) the move to a new electronic submissions system; 2) the introduction of a new article format; and 3) the migration to a new e-library system

The value of the Wallacea Region: Considerations behind the changing scope of JPK Wallacea

The Editorial Board has issued this editorial note in the form of a review to inform contributors about changes to the scope of the Journal of Wallacea Forestry Research (JPK Wallacea) following the transfer of management from Balai Penerapan Instrumen Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Makassar to Hasanuddin University's Forest Conservation Study Program in 2023. JPK Wallacea is no longer limiting its scope to forestry and is expanded to cover biodiversity in general by incorporating the term Wallaceae, which is a biogeographical area located between the continents of Asia and Australia. This area is well known for its unique biodiversity both on land and in water. The Wallacea region's biodiversity is famed for its distinctiveness yet, it is on the verge of extinction. Thus, the Editorial Board chose to focus on the scope of JPK Wallacea on scientific, technological, and policy conservation features. This scientific publication is expected to make a substantial contribution to the biodiversity conservation effort in the Wallacea region and its surroundings