[Geo4All] Journal editors - please share summary statistics

Thu Jul 19 03:44:00 PDT 2018

Thank you Christian. Fully agree that the letter should be  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.

Although technical things are important to highlight, I think it is also important for us all to think  why Science should always be a public good for the benefit of humanity.

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.

Best wishes,

Suchith

________________________________
From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Christian Willmes <c.willmes at uni-koeln.de>
Sent: 19 July 2018 10:49
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Journal editors - please share summary statistics

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 dubious  submissions 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 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.

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 etc, it is important to  have 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 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.

Best wishes,

Suchith

This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee
and may contain confidential information. If you have received this
message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and
attachment.

Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not
necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email
communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored
where permitted by law.

_______________________________________________
GeoForAll mailing list
GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org>
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall

--
Dr. Christian Willmes
AG GIS & Fernerkundung      | GIS & RS Group
Geographisches Institut     | Institute of Geography
Universität zu Köln         | University of Cologne
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234
http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14126.html
http://www.sfb806.de
http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de
http://publons.com/a/1316706/
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-6542

This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee
and may contain confidential information. If you have received this
message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and
attachment. 

Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not
necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email
communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored 
where permitted by law.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/attachments/20180719/31c38db9/attachment.html>