Dear all,
Just a quick reminder that you have until the end of this week to contact me if
you are interested in, or have questions about joining the Editorial Office of
Ecosystems and People.
Just for clarification, but it was sufficiently clear for most: this is not a
call for editorial board members. We contact those individually and
sporadically, based on thorough research from our side.
See the full message below. Thanks to those that already contacted us!
All the best,
Alexander
From: Oudenhoven, A.P.E. van
Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:43 AM
Subject: Interested in joining the Editorial Office of Ecosystems and People?
Dear friends of YESS,
Ever since its restart in 2018/2019, Ecosystems and
People<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbsm22/current> has been doing really
well, thanks also to contributions by early career researchers with a strong
interdisciplinary focus. We've published interesting special issues, our
download and citation numbers are increasing rapidly, and we can now consider
the journal to be among to top 10% of journals in the relevant scientific
fields.
This also means that we are receiving a larger number of high quality
submissions, which equals more work for the team. Therefore, we'd like to send
out this request if any of you would be interested in joining our Editorial
Office team.
If you are an early career researcher, and are interested in joining the team
to experience the following activities, then we'd love to hear from you:
* Assess and check incoming scientific papers, together with the editors in
chief
* Communicate with editors, authors and reviewers of papers you are
responsible for, on technical, content-based and practical questions
* Guard the identity of the journal, in terms of scope and direction
* Manage the social media (Twitter) account of the journal, if you are into
this
Two of the three co-editors in Chief (Matthias Schröter and Alexander van
Oudenhoven) started off as editorial office members, and Sakshi Rana and Paty
Santillán have been taking up the role in the last years. Some of the
advantages they have identified include (a biased overview, admittedly):
* Interacting with and learning from top researchers from all over the
world, expanding your network
* Being part of a team of editors, which is balanced in accordance with
three criteria of inclusiveness (gender, seniority, region)
* Obtaining an inside view on and understanding of the entire scientific
publication process, from submission to review to decision, revision and
eventual publication
* Getting to know current and future hot topics in sustainability sciences
* Hands-on learning experience on diplomacy and assertiveness in
communication.
* Being able to complete relatively short and simple tasks, while
contributing to something bigger. Getting things done is not always easy while
doing a PhD / research project, and these kind of activities are strangely
rewarding!
These tasks should take two to three hours per week on average. Being a member
of the Editorial Office is a voluntary position, but we do offer support in
terms of advice and coaching, network, travel, courses and software, upon
mutual agreement. Because of the time and effort required to welcome you to the
team, we would prefer if you could stay on for at least one, preferably two
years.
In case you are interested, please send a short motivation letter (half a page)
and your CV, so we can get to know you. Please send this before March 20th in
reply to this email or to
a.p.e.van.oudenhoven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:a.p.e.van.oudenhoven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
We are sharing this with you first, and not on social media, as we identified
the YESS network as being closest to our core activities. Feel free to share it
with any of your peers that might be interested. No need for reply all, hence
the BCC email.
Many thanks in advance, and looking forward to hearing from you,
Alexander van Oudenhoven
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Dr Alexander van Oudenhoven
Co-Editor in Chief Ecosystems and
People<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=tbsm22>
New Special Issue The Science-Policy Interface of Ecosystems and People:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbsm22/16/S1?nav=tocList
Ecosystems and People is now a Q1 journal in the SJR: https://bit.ly/3hGQm2g
We have achieved gender balance in our Editorial
Board<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=tbsm22>
- read more about it
here<https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/women_and_girls_into_biodiversity/>
Through Taylor & Francis we are a member of the Committee of Publications
Ethics<http://publicationethics.org/> (COPE)
Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University
Email:
a.p.e.van.oudenhoven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:a.p.e.van.oudenhoven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Twitter: twitter.com/AvanOudenhoven<https://twitter.com/AvanOudenhoven>
