Agronomy Journal
Editorial Board Meeting
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 3:00 to 5:00pm
Marriott Room 10
3:00-3:05
3:05-3:20
3:20-3:25
3:25-3:30
Welcome
ASA Publications Director, Mark Mandelbaum
Recognize incoming and outgoing Editors
Status of Symposium Papers
•AJ Statistics, 2012-2013, Barry Glaz
•Enhanced Fertilizers, 2013, Jerry Hatfield
•Solar Corridor, 2013, Robert Kremer
•Water Security Task Force, 2013, Gary Peterson
3:30-3:40
3:40-3:50
Managing Editor’s Report, Sue Ernst
Journal Statistics, Brett Holte
•Science article, John Bohannon, open access journals
http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=15639&tip=sid
4:00-4:20 Open Discussion
• Genomics (Arnold Bruns)
Successfully getting reviewers (What can we do?)
Should authors identify if they used an “editorial service”
Are we an editing service for International papers?
New Symposium Papers (publishing)
• Publishing Data Bases (Peter Kyveryga)
4:20-4:50 Added issues as raised by TE’s and AE’s
AJ board needs to encourage authors to publish in AJ (symposia from the meetings)
Need for added Crops/Genetics AE’s
Weed Science AE’s (Arnold Bruns, David Clay)
Turf AE’s (Arnold Bruns, David Barker)
5:00
Adjourn
Associate Editor Graduates
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Ardeshir Adeli, Associate Editor, July 1, 2010−December 31, 2013
Francisco J. Arriaga, Associate Editor, July 1, 2010−December 31, 2013
Humberto Blanco, Associate Editor, July 1, 2010−December 31, 2013
Lucas Borras, Associate Editor, January 1, 2008−December 31, 2013*
Fikru J. Haile, Associate Editor, January 1, 2008−December 31, 2013*
David L. Holshouser, Associate Editor, January 1, 2008−December 31, 2013*
E. Raymond Hunt, Associate Editor-Precision Ag, January 1, 2008−December 31, 2013*
Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Associate Editor, January 1, 2008−December 31, 2013*
Robert J. Kratochvil, Associate Editor-Crops, January 1, 2011−December 31, 2013
Henry J. Mascagni, Associate Editor-Crops, January 1, 2008−December 31, 2013*
Maxim J. Schlossberg, Associate Editor, August 1, 2008—May 10, 2013
Sieglinde S. Snapp, Associate Editor, January 1, 2008−December 31, 2013*
Afshin Soltani, Associate Editor, July 1, 2010−December 31, 2013
*Indicates two consecutive terms of service on the Agronomy Journal editorial board.
Thank you!
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Outstanding AE’s
Carlos Pedreira
Tom Samples
Vasilia Fasoula
Jack Martin
Marty Schmer
Dan Long
Nicolas Martin
Ray Hunt
AJ Recognition (AE,TE, SAE, Editor, Editor in Chief)
Ken Barbarick, 19 years
Jerry Hatfield, 21 years Meeting Global Food Needs in 30 Years, Can Agriculture Deliver?
Warren Dick, 22 years
Incoming AE’s
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Blade, Stanford (AE-Production Ag, 1/1/2012 to 12/31/14, First term)
Bosworth, Sid (AE-Crops, 9/1/2013 to 12/31/2016, First term)
Heiniger, Ron (AE-Crops, 9/1/2013 to 12/31/2016, First term)
Lauer, Joe (AE-Production Ag, 7/15/2013 to 12/31/2015, First term)
Miguez, Fernando (AE-Biometry, 1/1/2012 to 12/31/2014, Second term)
Trostle, Calvin (AE-Crops, 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2015, First term) (term dates
were adjusted—original start date was 1/1/2012)
Yeater, Kathleen (AE-Biometry, 7/1/2013 to 12/31/2015, First term)
Discipline
Precision Agriculture
Biometry/Statistics
Crops
Agronomy
Soils
Water-Production Ag
Agronomy
Enhanced Fertilizers
Solar Corridor
Water_Security
First
Peter
Barry
Arnold
Dorivar
David
David
Bill
Jerry
Robert
Gary
Last
Kyveryga
Glaz
Bruns
Ruiz-Diaz
Clay
Barker
Raun
Hatfield
Kremer
Peterson
TODAY
email
Assigned 2013
pkyveryga@iasoybeans.com 61
barry.glaz@ars.usda.gov
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arnold.bruns@ars.usda.gov 70
ruizdiaz@ksu.edu
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david.clay@sdstate.edu
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barker.169@osu.edu
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bill.raun@okstate.edu
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jerry.hatfield@ars.usda.gov 6
10/31/2013
Most Recent
10/29/2013
10/29/2013
10/29/2013
10/29/2013
10/30/2013
10/30/2013
10/2/2013
10/8/2013
kremerr@missouri.edu
gary.peterson@colostate.edu
immediate release
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AVG.
95
430
Total
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Increased submissions: China and India
Science can be good (English?)
ASA recommends several web sites that can be used to
improve their paper.
https://www.agronomy.org/publications/language-help
http://virtual.parkland.edu/walker102/punct.htm
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Instructions to Authors
https://www.agronomy.org/files/publications/aj-instructionsauthor.pdf
Science, October 4, 2013
John Bohannon, Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?
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The invoice arrived with good news: After a science-free review process, one of their journals—the
International Journal of Cancer and Tumor—accepted the paper. Posing as lead author Alimo Atoa, I requested
that it be withdrawn. I received a final message that reads like a surreal love letter from one fictional
character to another:
Dear Alimo Atoa,
We fully respect your choice and withdraw your artilce.
If you are ready to publish your paper,please let me know and i will be at your service at any time.
Sincerely yours, Grace Groovy
Melville House
John Bohannon’s Open Access sting paper annoys many, scares the easily scared, accomplishes
relatively little
by Sal Robinson
A honey-bee stinger in close-up.Terrors!
There have been many great stings in history. For instance, that time when two guys invented a great
unknown Australian modernist poet and his complete works in an afternoon. But John Bohannon’s Open
Access sting is not one of them.
Bohannon, an Oxford-educated biologist and science journalist, roiled the academic world last week when
he revealed, in a story for Science magazine, that a fraudulent paper he had written about a lichen molecule
that seemed to have cancer-fighting properties had been accepted by 157 online OA journals,
Associate Editor
Average number of papers as Associate Editor
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6 years, 8-12/year
Methods
- Associate Editor
Assigned paper by the Technical Editor
- Read abstract, methods, conclusions
- Look at the references (potential key reviewer)
- Identify 2-4 potential reviewers from references
- Called 2-4 of these potential reviewers on the phone.
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____ has referenced your “AJ” paper of 2012.
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____ noted the importance of your work,
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…. wait to let potential reviewer say something
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could you review a similar paper....?
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Thank you
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Sue Ernst, Managing Editor
Brett Holte, Manager Submissions
Warren Dick, Editor in Chief
Meg Ipsen, Editorial Asst.
Keith Lovejoy – Reprints
Janet Riley – Invoicing
Mark Mandelbaum, Director of Publications
TE’s
AE’s