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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Suchith,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I for one dearly appreciate the sentiment and intent of your carefully expressed concerns. This issue needs to be identified and described as you are doing so well! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We need this discussion to be qualitative, yet examples of the good, the bad and the ugly will certainly help to guide that discussion. And I too feel that we are losing ground by putting an open source veneer around enormous profit-machines’ products. This certainly doesn’t get us any closer to the sustainable world we need. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If humanity is to have a brighter future, technology must operate with a more collective spirit. Progress in this area will be rather difficult, given the entrenched nature of the profit machine and its gate-keeper mentality. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for initiating this discussion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Patrick Hogan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Discuss <discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suchith Anand<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo-Discuss] Journal editors - please share summary statistics<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><div><div><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><p><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black'>Dear colleagues,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black'>It has come to my attention that there is rapid increase in low quality and dubious submissions send to all journals. This is a global problem that needs a coordinated effort to help solve. With the rapid increase in lot of low quality and dubious submissions to all journals , it is important that all professional and scientific organisations are careful in this . </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black'>My humble suggestion and request is that all GIS professional organisations should avoid taking any sponsorship or royalty for scholarly publications (books, journals etc) from any GIS vendors . If a professional association takes sponsorship for any scholarly publication (edited books etc) from any GIS vendor and agrees to publish it through the vendor’s press then there is potential issues with independent peer review and ensuring scientific quality. It is only natural that any GIS vendor publication press to have vested interests in promoting their products and agenda. It also makes it easy for the vendor to get endorsement for their products from scientific and professional organisations using this route.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black'>By taking sponsorship for scholarly publications (edited books etc) from any vendors , it will then become difficult for the Professional Organisations to take strong moral stand against low quality and dubious submissions for other journals .Especially in times we are seeing increase in fake scientific articles submissions etc, it is important to have clear guidelines for any sponsorship.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black'>I am happy to work on a Open Letter to highlight this issue but will need help from the wider community. If you are a journal editor, it will be very helpful, if you can share the statistics of how many articles that you have identified in the last three years that are problem and you have rejected .It will be helpful to share examples of these (removing author details etc) , so the wider community is aware of the problem and can take steps to help reduce the problem in the future.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black'>Best wishes,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black'>Suchith</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></div></body></html>