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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thank you Christian. Fully agree that the letter should be <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> written with positive connotation and examples from Open science , importance of openness, transparency of research results etc. I
need help from you and others who have more knowledge and experience on this. So please share your ideas and draft text.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><font size="3">Although technical things are important to highlight, </font>I<font size="3"> think it is also important for us all to think why Science should always be a public good for the benefit of humanity.</font><font size="3"><br>
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<p><font size="3">Some of the truly amazing people I had the opportunity to meet do not have any "education"or "qualifications" but they inspired me by their values and humanity. </font></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 July 2018 10:49<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Geo4All] Journal editors - please share summary statistics</font>
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<p>Dear Suchith,</p>
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<p>I fully support your initiative. May I suggest that the letter should be written with positive connotation. Not denouncing this or that particular publication, or practice, but promoting what is good for science.
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<p>In particular I think promoting Open Science and Reproducible Experiments (in our case source code and reproducible GIS Analysis workflows/algorithms) including open access to the underlying (input and result) data is key here. I.e. a proprietary software
tool would not qualify for this approach, because without access to the software (or its underlying algorithms/implementations), the experiment would not be fully reproducible.<br>
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<p>If that is straight, most corruption that we maybe see currently will evade, because transparency helps here a lot.</p>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">Am 17.07.2018 um 10:55 schrieb Suchith Anand:<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">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.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">With the rapid increase in lot of low quality and dubious</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">submissions to all journals , it is important that all professional and scientific organisations are careful in this .</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">My humble suggestion is that all</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> GIS </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">professional organisations should avoid</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">taking any sponsorship or royalty for scholarly publications (books, journals etc) from any</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">GIS
vendors . If a professional association takes sponsorship for any scholarly publication (edited books etc)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">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 </span><span style="font-size:11pt">natural
that any GIS vendor publication press to have vested interests in promoting their products and agenda.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">It also makes it easy for
the vendor to get endorsement for th</span><span style="font-size:11pt">eir </span><span style="font-size:11pt"> products from scientific and professional </span><span style="font-size:11pt">organisations </span><span style="font-size:11pt">using this route.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; line-height:normal"><span style="">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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:11pt">
</span><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size:11pt">stand against low quality and dubious submissions for other journals .</span></font><font face="Helvetica
Neue"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:11pt">Especially
in times we are seeing </span><span style="font-size:11pt">increase in fake scientific articles etc, it is important to</span></span></font><span style="">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:11pt">have clear guidelines for any sponsorship</span><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">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></p>
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