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BEC editors

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Executive editor meeting minutes

2023-09-07, 11:00 (CET)
Cardoso Luiza HD, Chinopoulos Christos, Cocco Paolo, Garcia-Roves Pablo Miguel, Gnaiger Erich, Kowaltowski Alicia J, Tindle-Solomon Lisa

Meeting Agenda:

Increase submissions:

- EBEC call for papers (non-invited speakers) – full papers (not abstracts)

- Special issues for other meetings

- Follow-up on call for submissions/special topics

- Names of individuals to invite to submit

Executive editor rotation/extension
Other topics?

Meeting Minutes:

Increase submissions ideas:

- Provide incentive for authors, e.g. free/discounted registration or membership

- Focus on reproducibility experiments/confirmatory results

- Make it easy (more flexibility on terminology)

- For special issue for a meeting, will look into possibility for one in Barcelona in Oct (might be out of scope of journal)

- Journal needs more visibility - include slide at end of presentations to promote BEC

- MiPsociety summer school - have a series of educational papers

Executive editor rotation/extension

- Unanimous vote in agreement with Christopher Axelrod joining as an Executive editor

Other topics?

- Find out about more funding opportunities in EU - Link on EU funding: https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-04133000/document

- Next meeting to be Jan 2024

Action points:

- AK: send any information that comes from the meeting in France

- PC/LT/EG: Create ppt slide to circulate to all editors for use.

- PC/LT/EG/LC: prepare email to becboard and authors with updates/minutes

2022-11-22, 16:00 (CET)
Cardoso Luiza HD, Chinopoulos Christos, Cocco Paolo, Garcia-Roves Pablo Miguel, Gnaiger Erich, Kowaltowski Alicia J, Tindle-Solomon Lisa

Meeting Agenda:

https://www.bioblast.at/index.php/Editorial_board_participation

https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Peer_review

https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Conflict_of_interest

Meeting Minutes:

Editorial board participation guidelines - https://www.bioblast.at/index.php/Editorial_board_participation

- Rejected multiple editor positions as a conflict of interest

Agreed:

- Number of reviews expected: No more than 3 declined or unanswered requests/year.

- Appointment length: 3 years, renew if meets the above criteria. Appointment can be ended earlier if non-responsive/decline to act as editor twice without explanation.

- Executive editors may invite associate editors without discussion and inform the other members. Once journal more established executives can look at the board member composition and create a strategy to target areas where there is not an editor.

Conflict of interest policy for editors and reviewers - https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Conflict_of_interest

Agreed:

- For editors and reviewers, conflicts should be taken into account before accepting an assignment. Conflicts of interest include joint publications or collaborations within the past 5 years. Publications with a consortium are an exception.

Peer review process and quality of reviews - https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Peer_review

- Post acceptance “reviews” can be viewed as a conflict of interest and be frustrating for authors. Additionally not a sustainable workload.

- Pre-review edits for SI Units, IUPAC and MitoEAGLE terminology done by BEC editorial staff and sent to authors for acceptance.

· Language should not be edited

- High quality editors should in turn pick high quality reviewers that will catch scientific errors

- Unrealistic to expect every error or ambiguous terminology to be caught

- Stronger signposting to author checklist on what the journal requirements are

- Editors should desk reject manuscripts that do not talk about bioenergetics

Published open peer reviews - Based on below feedback (figure), we will now provide 3 options (to be selected by reviewer in the reviewer form)

(1) Published open peer review with name (2) Published open peer review without name (3) No published open peer review.

Agreed on above. UPDATED to only options (1) and (3)

Next meeting – frequency and date?

Agreed:

- Every 6 months or upon need.

Anything else?

- Look into tracking citations

MitoPedia topics: BEC

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-== Editorial Team ==
+:::: <big>Visit the the Bioenergetics Communications website for » [https://www.bioenergetics-communications.org/index.php/bec/about/editorialTeam '''BEC editorial team''' ]</big>
-:::::: ''The BEC editor, assisted by the BEC co-editor, directs the overall strategy of the journal and acts as an ambassador for the journal. The managing editors coordinate the workflow between editors, reviewers, and authors.''
+<br>
-:::: BEC editor: [[Gnaiger Erich]]
+<br>
-:::: BEC co-editor: [[Cardoso Luiza HD]]
+<br>
-:::: Managing editors: [[Beno Marija]], [[Tindle-Solomon Lisa]]
+<br>
-:::: Graphics and IT editor: [[Cocco Paolo]]
+<br>
+=== Executive editor meeting minutes ===
-=== Executive editors ===
-:::::: ''The executive editors collaborate with the editor and co-editor to effectively direct the overall strategy of the journal as the executive team. Major decisions for the journal are taken by the executive team. Executive editors are consulted by the editor when major decisions must be taken. In collaboration with the associate editors, they are involved as manuscript editors.''
-:::: [[Chinopoulos Christos]] - HU
-=== Associate editors ===
+__NOTOC__ [[File:Expand.png|right|25px|Click to expand or collapse]]
-{{MITOEAGLE banner}}
+<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
-:::::: ''The associate editors act as manuscript editors to oversee the review process for submitted manuscripts. The associate editors are consulted occasionally by the executive team on major decisions. BEC invites experts from the COST Action [[MitoEAGLE network]] to join as associate editors.''
+:: '''2023-09-07, 11:00 (CET)''' <br> [[Cardoso Luiza HD]], [[Chinopoulos Christos]], [[Cocco Paolo]], [[Garcia-Roves Pablo Miguel]], [[Gnaiger Erich]], [[Kowaltowski Alicia J]], [[Tindle-Solomon Lisa]]
-:::: [[Acuna-Castroviejo Dario]] - ES
+<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
-:::: [[Ali Sameh S]] - EG
+::: '''Meeting Agenda:'''
-:::: [[Alves Marco G]] - PT
+::::* Increase submissions:
-:::: [[Battino Maurizio]] - IT
+::::: - EBEC call for papers (non-invited speakers) – full papers (not abstracts)
-:::: [[Bishop David J]] - AU
+::::: - Special issues for other meetings
-:::: [[Blier Pierre U]] - CA
+::::: - Follow-up on call for submissions/special topics
-:::: [[Borutaite Vilma]] - LT
+::::: - Names of individuals to invite to submit
-:::: [[Breton Sophie]] - CA
+::::* Executive editor rotation/extension
-:::: [[Bustos Matilde]] - ES
+::::* Other topics?
-:::: [[Chabi Beatrice]] - FR
-:::: [[Chakrabarti Lisa]] - UK
-:::: [[Chakrabarti Sasanka]] - IN
-:::: [[Cervinkova Zuzana]] - CZ
-:::: [[Coen Paul M]] - US
-:::: [[De Pinto Vito]] - IT
-:::: [[Galina Antonio]] - BR
-:::: [[Garcia-Roves Pablo Miguel]] - ES
-:::: [[Iyer Shilpa]] - US
-:::: [[Kaambre Tuuli]] - EE
-:::: [[Keller Markus A]] - AT
-:::: [[Koopman Werner JH]] - NL
-:::: [[Kowaltowski Alicia J]] - BR
-:::: [[Krako Jakovljevic Nina]] - RS
-:::: [[Larsen Steen]] - DK
-:::: [[Larsen Terje S]] - NO
-:::: [[Lemieux Helene]] - CA
-:::: [[McMillan Duncan GG]] - NL
-:::: [[Messina Angela]] - IT
-:::: [[Moisoi Nicoleta]] - UK
-:::: [[Molina Anthony JA]] - US
-:::: [[Moreno-Sanchez Rafael]] - MX
-:::: [[Murray Andrew James]] - UK
-:::: [[Nesci Salvatore]] - IT
-:::: [[O'Gorman Donal]] - IE
-:::: [[Oliveira Marcus F]] - BR
-:::: [[Oliveira Pedro Fontes]] - PT
-:::: [[Orynbayeva Zulfiya]] - US
-:::: [[Patel Hemal H]] - US
-:::: [[Place Nicolas]] - CH
-:::: [[Roden Michael]] - DE
-:::: [[Sandi Carmen]] - CH
-:::: [[Schlattner Uwe]] - FR
-:::: [[Sharma Pushpa]] - US
-:::: [[Silber Ariel Mariano]] - BR
-:::: [[Spinazzi Marco]] - FR
-:::: [[Stocker Roland]] - AU
-:::: [[Treberg Jason R]] - CA
-:::: [[Tretter Laszlo]] - HU
-:::: [[Vercesi Anibal E]] - BR
-:::: [[Viscomi Carlo]] - IT
-:::: [[Wei Yau-Huei]] - TW
-:::: [[Weinberger Klaus M]] - DE
-:::: [[Zorzano Antonio]] - ES
-=== Section editors ===
+::: '''Meeting Minutes:'''
-:::::: ''The section editors assign submitted manuscript to manuscript editors.''
+::::* Increase submissions ideas:
-:::: [[Cardoso Luiza HD]] - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Magnesium Green; NextGen-O2k - Q-redox
+:::::- Provide incentive for authors, e.g. free/discounted registration or membership
-:::: [[Cecatto Cristiane]] - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Calcium Green
+:::::- Focus on reproducibility experiments/confirmatory results
-:::: [[Doerrier Carolina]] - SUIT protocols; NextGen-O2k - NAD(P)H
+:::::- Make it easy (more flexibility on terminology)
-:::: [[Huete-Ortega Maria]] - NextGen-O2k - photosynthesis, algal bioenergetics
+:::::- For special issue for a meeting, will look into possibility for one in Barcelona in Oct (might be out of scope of journal)
-:::: [[Komlodi Timea]] - O2k-FluoRespirometry - Amplex UltraRed; NextGen-O2k - Q-redox
+:::::- Journal needs more visibility - include slide at end of presentations to promote BEC
+:::::- MiP''society'' summer school - have a series of educational papers
-=== Assistant editors ===
-[[File:MITOEAGLE-representation.jpg|left|80px|link=http://www.mitoeagle.org/index.php/MitoEAGLE|COST Action MitoEAGLE]]
-:::::: ''Early Career Investigators are invited by BEC Associate editors to join as 'Assistant editors' as part of the [[MitoEAGLE Early Career Investigators |MitoEAGLE]] mentoring concept. The executive and associate editors are responsible for involving the invited assistant editors in the editorial activities. The assistant editors may also collaborate with their mentors as reviewers.''
-:::: [[Beleza Jorge]] - PT
-:::: [[Fernandez-Ortiz Marisol]] - ES
-:::: [[Forbes-Hernandez Tamara Y]] - ES
-:::: [[Magri Andrea]] - IT
-:::: [[Zdrazilova Lucie]] - CZ
+::::* Executive editor rotation/extension
+:::::- Unanimous vote in agreement with [[Axelrod Christopher L|Christopher Axelrod]] joining as an Executive editor
-[[File:BEC-exlibris.png|left|200px|Bioenergetics Communications]]
+::::* Other topics?
-== Bioenergetics Communications is part of the H2020 NextGen-O2k project ==
+:::::- Find out about more funding opportunities in EU - Link on EU funding: https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-04133000/document
-{{NextGen-O2k H2020-support}}
+:::::- Next meeting to be Jan 2024
+::::* Action points:
+:::::- AK: send any information that comes from the meeting in France
+:::::- PC/LT/EG: Create ppt slide to circulate to all editors for use.
+:::::- PC/LT/EG/LC: prepare email to becboard and authors with updates/minutes
+</div></div>
+<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
+:: '''2022-11-22, 16:00 (CET)''' <br> [[Cardoso Luiza HD]], [[Chinopoulos Christos]], [[Cocco Paolo]], [[Garcia-Roves Pablo Miguel]], [[Gnaiger Erich]], [[Kowaltowski Alicia J]], [[Tindle-Solomon Lisa]]
+<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
+::: '''Meeting Agenda:'''
+:::: https://www.bioblast.at/index.php/Editorial_board_participation
+:::: https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Peer_review
+:::: https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Conflict_of_interest
+::: '''Meeting Minutes:'''
+::::* '''Editorial board participation guidelines''' - https://www.bioblast.at/index.php/Editorial_board_participation
+::::: - Rejected multiple editor positions as a conflict of interest
+::::: Agreed:
+::::: - Number of reviews expected: No more than 3 declined or unanswered requests/year.
+::::: - Appointment length: 3 years, renew if meets the above criteria. Appointment can be ended earlier if non-responsive/decline to act as editor twice without explanation.
+::::: - Executive editors may invite associate editors without discussion and inform the other members. Once journal more established executives can look at the board member composition and create a strategy to target areas where there is not an editor.
+::::* '''Conflict of interest policy for editors and reviewers''' - https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Conflict_of_interest
+::::: Agreed:
+::::: - For editors and reviewers, conflicts should be taken into account before accepting an assignment. Conflicts of interest include joint publications or collaborations within the past 5 years. Publications with a consortium are an exception.
+::::* '''Peer review process and quality of reviews''' - https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Peer_review
+::::: - Post acceptance “reviews” can be viewed as a conflict of interest and be frustrating for authors. Additionally not a sustainable workload.
+::::: - Pre-review edits for SI Units, IUPAC and MitoEAGLE terminology done by BEC editorial staff and sent to authors for acceptance.
+::::::  · Language should not be edited
+::::: - High quality editors should in turn pick high quality reviewers that will catch scientific errors
+::::: - Unrealistic to expect every error or ambiguous terminology to be caught
+::::: - Stronger signposting to author checklist on what the journal requirements are
+::::: - Editors should desk reject manuscripts that do not talk about bioenergetics
+::::* '''Published open peer reviews''' - Based on below feedback (figure), we will now provide 3 options (to be selected by reviewer in the reviewer form)
+::::: (1) Published open peer review with name (2) Published open peer review without name (3) No published open peer review.
+::::: Agreed on above. UPDATED to only options (1) and (3)
+::::* '''Next meeting''' – frequency and date?
+::::: Agreed:
+::::: -  Every 6 months or upon need.
+::::* '''Anything else?'''
+::::: - Look into tracking citations
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