[Geo4All] Journal editors - please share summary statistics

[Christian Willmes]

Dear Suchith,


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.

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.

If that is straight, most corruption that we maybe see currently will 
evade, because transparency helps here a lot.


Best regards,
Christian


Am 17.07.2018 um 10:55 schrieb Suchith Anand:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> 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 dubioussubmissions to all journals 
> , it is important that all professional and scientific organisations 
> are careful in this .
>
>
> My humble suggestion is that all  GIS professional organisations 
> should avoidtaking any sponsorship or royalty for scholarly 
> publications (books, journals etc) from anyGIS 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.
>
>
> By taking sponsorship for scholarly publications (edited books etc) 
>  from any vendors , it will then become difficult for the Professional 
> Organisations to take strong moralstand against low quality and 
> dubious submissions for other journals .Especially in times we are 
> seeing increase in fake scientific articles etc, it is important 
> tohave clear guidelines for any sponsorship.
>
>
> 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 
> manyarticles 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.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
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