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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. <br>
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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>
Christian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 17.07.2018 um 10:55 schrieb Suchith
Anand:<br>
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colleagues,</span><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:
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt;">With
the rapid increase in lot of low quality and dubious</span><span
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</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
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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);
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</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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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue"; font-size: 11pt;">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:
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</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
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Neue"; font-size: 11pt;">
</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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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt;">Best
wishes,</span></p>
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