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Since: December 2017
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The editorial board handles any confidential article submissions, and has final responsibility for ensuring that robust academic peer review is performed in a timely manner. Information about editorial board responsibilities, and how to apply to join the editorial board, are found below.
Editorial board members
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Andrew Leung 
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: climatology, atmospheric sciences, aviation
Dr. Andrew Leung is a climatologist working at Polar Knowledge Canada. He is a contributor to Wikipedia and many of its sister projects.
Thomas Shafee
From: 30 October 2017
Fields: biochemistry, protein evolution, bioinformatics, convergent evolution, protein engineering, experimental evolution, data science, data visualization, science communication
Dr. Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is particularly interested in how protein superfamilies evolve and how that information can be used to engineer proteins for human uses.
Henry Hoff
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: physics, mathematics, geology, materials science, mineralogy, high temperature superconductor, radiation, spectroscopy, surface science, astrophysics, metallurgy, electronics, diffusion, crystallography, polarization, metallography, microanalysis, physical chemistry, pyrometer, crystal growth, alloying, material defect, electrical resistivity, electron microscopy, actinide, ferromagnetism, transmission electron microscope, X-ray spectroscopy, insulator, Electron diffraction, crystal structure, crystal chemistry, doping, casting, optical microscopy, temperature, fracture, phase, calibration, lattice, grain growth, irradiation, surface roughness, superconductivity, fractography, mathematical model, thin film, electric current
My original research efforts have been performed through participation per numerous grants from the USA Department of Energy at Argonne National Laboratory and Department of Defense at the Naval Research Laboratory.
W. Brian Whalley
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: geomorphology, glacial geology, sediment, weathering, pedagogy
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Ian Alexander
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: requirements engineering, biology, history and philosophy of science
Ian Alexander is a retired systems engineer who has helped to bring over 100 Wikipedia articles on biology, and its history and philosophy, to 'Good Article' status.
Daniele Pugliesi
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: Chemical engineering, process engineering
Daniele Pugliesi is a multipotentialite Lecturer and Technical Consultant providing training and assistance in many fields related to industrial activities, management and sustainability.
Sylvain Ribault
From: 24 November 2017 to 24 January 2023
Fields: mathematical physics, theoretical physics, mathematics
Sylvain Ribault is a researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Saclay. He sometimes blogs on the subjects of scientific publishing and conformal field theory.
Jack Nunn
From: 24 November 2017
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: participatory research, public health genomics
Jack Nunn is a researcher in the Department of Public Health at La Trobe University. His research is in creating and evaluating equitable and ethical ways for people to participate in all aspects of research and science. Jack is currently a PhD candidate exploring genomics research and ways of involving people. Jack is the founder and Director of the not-for-profit education organisation 'Science for All'.
Sridhar Gutam
From: 24 November 2017
Fields: plant physiology, agricultural science, horticultural science
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Guy Vandegrift
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: physics, engineering, mathematics
Guy Vandegrift teaches physics and astronomy at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, and is currently working to develop Quizbank.
Thijs van Vlijmen
From: 6 March 2018
Fields: cell biology, protein science
Dr. Thijs van Vlijmen completed his Ph.D. at Utrecht University in the Department of Cell Biology in the University Medical Center Utrecht in 2008. After that he started working at Springer Science+Business Media as a publishing editor. He is currently Associate Editorial Director for Australia and New Zealand at Taylor & Francis.
Kelee Pacion
From: 21 April 2018
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: instructional design, science communication, research, education, research policy
Kelee Pacion is the Biology and Environmental Sciences Librarian at Princeton University. Her interests are science communication, information literacy, and education.
Edmund Palermo
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: polymer, biomaterial, biomimetics
Ed Palermo is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). His interests are in polymer science and biomaterials.
Tina Qin
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: e-Science, scholarly communication, cheminformatics
Tina Qin is the science and engineering librarian and lecturer at Department of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. She is particular interested in e-Science, scholarly communication and chemical informatics.
Loren Cobb
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: applied mathematics, simulation, statistics, sociology, Economics, political science, computer science
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Paula Diaconescu
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, polymer
Paula Diaconescu is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research group focuses on switchable catalysis, a new area of chemistry inspired by nature’s sensory processes. Switchable catalysts use external triggers in order to toggle between multiple species with different reactivity.
José Lages
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: theoretical physics
José Lages is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. His recent researches focus on Chaos in Quantum Physics, Chaos in Astrophysics, and Complex Networks. He co-invented the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities obtained from the statistical analysis of Wikipedia articles network for different language editions.
Thais C. Morata
From: 20 May 2018 to 21 January 2023
Fields: public health, occupational health, hearing science, communication studies, communication disorder
Thais Morata is a Research Audiologist at the US NIOSH and coordinator of the NORA Manufacturing Sector Council. She created the Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards™, is a founding associate editor for the International Journal of Audiology, and a founding editor of the Cochrane Work Review Group. She co-instructs several graduate classes and promotes the Wiki Edu platform.
Vinod Scaria
From: 20 May 2018
Fields: genomics, genome informatics, RNA
Edward Baker
From: 31 January 2019
Fields: taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, biodiversity informatics, bioacoustics
Ed Baker is an orthopterist and bioacoustician at the University of York, and Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum, London.
Mad Ball
From: 11 December 2019
Fields: open science, citizen science, participatory research, genetics, biotechnology, health research
Trained in biotech, now highly interdisciplinary focus on empowering individuals & community to take an active role in leading and contributing to research about themselves.
Jeff Lundeen
From: 28 January 2020
Fields: physics, metrology, optics, quantum information, quantum metrology, photonics, fundamental science
Jeff Lundeen is the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics. He heads an experimental laboratory at the University of Ottawa that uses photons to study the unique characteristics of quantum physics, to carry information for quantum computing, and to build quantum-enhanced sensing and measurement devices.
Moritz Schubotz
From: 16 August 2020
Fields: computer science, digital library
Moritz Schubotz and his group research on Mathematical Information Retrieval at the Department of Mathematics at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. His main interests are: research, teaching, building research infrastructure, establish a FAIR scholary practice.
Michel Bakni
From: 19 November 2022
Fields: telecommunications network, simulation, wireless sensor network, energy
Kevin M. Moerman
From: 19 June 2023
Fields: computational mechanics, finite element analysis, biomechanics, image-based modeling and rendering, computational design
Previous board members
Mikael Häggström
From: 5 November 2017 to 16 March 2019
Additionally: adviser
Fields: medicine, radiology, pathology, informatics
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
From: 24 November 2017 to 6 February 2019
Fields: molecular evolution, bioinformatics, genomics
Felipe Schenone
From: 5 November 2017 to 2 August 2022
Fields: wiki, logic, philosophy, MediaWiki
Felipe Schenone is a philosopher and logician by training, web developer and wiki-expert by trade. Contributor to Wikipedia and other wikis since 2008, he believes that science and academia should ditch paid journals and embrace open knowledge.
Rosemary Redfield
From: 3 May 2020
Fields: microbiology, genetics, evolution
Florian Weller
From: 24 November 2017 to 12 September 2022
Fields: zoology, conservation biology, ecosystem model, paleontology, geology
Markus Pössel
From: 5 November 2017
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: astrophysics, astronomy, general relativity
Scott Thomson
From: 19 June 2019
Fields: zoology, paleontology, taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Testudines, conservation science
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Yulia Sevryugina
From: 16 August 2020
Fields: metascience, data science, cheminformatics, information science, crystallography, inorganic chemistry, chemical education
Research career in chemistry: coordination chemistry, small molecule crystallography, medicinal, and boron chemistry. As faculty at TCU, I was leading a research group in the the development of dopamine targeting drugs. Currently, at the University of Michigan, my research interests are in data science and scientometrics as related to chemistry and biomedical research.
Melanie Stefan
From: 24 November 2017
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: computational biology, biochemistry, neurobiology, statistics
Melanie Stefan is a Professor of Physiology at Medical School Berlin. Her research group focuses on using computational tools to understand learning and memory.
Activity
Coordinating peer reviews
[edit | edit source]Editorial board members are expected to participate in the coordination of the peer review process of submitted articles to the board. This includes corresponding with the author, identifying potential peer reviewers, corresponding with peer reviewers and reminding peer reviewers of the review due dates. An editorial board member does not need to participate in the peer review coordination of every submitted article.
Article decisions
[edit | edit source]The purpose of the editorial board is to form consensus about whether to include upcoming articles in the journal, based on multiple factors such as scope, peer reviewer recommendations and utility for Wikipedia. In the same manner as Wikipedia is not a democracy, the means of decision making is discussion leading to consensus; Straw polls can be used to test for consensus, but polls or surveys can impede, rather than foster, discussion.
Editorial board members will be notified by email to wjsboard
googlegroups.com (only accepting emails from board members) when an article submission is up for decision, together with whether it needs to be held strictly confidential or not. An editorial board member does not need to comment on every article submission. In addition, editorial board members should join the public group of WikiJSci to stay updated about what's going on in the project. In practice, members of the editorial board have substantial communication by email, especially for confidential submissions. Public submissions can be discussed at their pages. Anyone may add their opinions and comments for such online discussions.
The main outcomes from inclusion discussions are:
- Acceptance of the article
- Rejection until there is an acceptable peer review of the article
- Rejection until article is modified
- Rejection outright
Other activities
[edit | edit source]The editorial board also discusses and makes decisions regarding the overall operation of the journal. However, major issues that do not involve confidential matters should be discussed at the journal's public forums, at Talk:WikiJournal of Science, and/or the public Google Group of the journal through wikijscigooglegroups.com. Editorial board members are encouraged to invite potential additional participants to the journal.
Editorial board members may also opt to include themselves in the mailing list about matters related to the overall WikiJournal organization at the general WikiJournal mailing list. Matters that are important to the WikiJournal of Science should be emailed to its own mailing list as well. Editorial board members may also participate in online meetings, whose dates are usually announced by the board email list.
All positions in the journal are voluntary, that is, for no financial gain.
Editor-in-chief and assistant
[edit | edit source]The editor-in-chief has final responsibility for all operations and policies.
The assistant to the editor-in-chief will act in place of the editor-in-chief on the event of his resignation or incapacity.
Both the editor-in-chief and the assistant to the editor-in-chief are expected to participate in public relations of the journal, including interviews and articles when opportunities arise. They are expected to add newly elected board members to the wjsboardgooglegroups.com, whose presentation page (visible to members only) contains additional information for board members.
At least the editor-in-chief and the assistant to the editor-in-chief are entrusted with the journal's password to administer the journal's WikiJSci.org domain at GoDaddy. This domain needs to be renewed every other year, at a cost of approximately $30 each time. Logging into the domain's account at GoDaddy also avails for changing the email addresses included in the common email address (known by the editorial board) for updates about the journal. This site is also where redirection to another target than the current one may be done in the future.
- Duties of the editor-in-chief
WikiJournal User Group/Ethics statement
Join
If you are interested in becoming an editorial board member, you need to abide by the following:
- You should be willing to have your full name displayed online as seen in the list of editorial board members. Affiliations should be stated as well.
- You should be familiar with the purpose and structure of the journal, as well as its Bylaws. It is also recommended to be familiar with external guidelines by which the journal abides:
- ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication: [1]
- COPE code of conduct for journal editors: [2]
- You should abide by the confidentiality policies of the journal:
Confidentiality policies
[edit | edit source]Most authors have allowed their article submissions to WikiJournal to be open-access in the wiki from the very beginning. Still, the main requirement as a member of the editorial board is to not leak those works that authors wish to be confidential up until publication. Many journals do not accept submissions that have been in the open at any time, and thereby authors may be harmed by premature disclosure of any or all of an article submission's details. Editorial board members therefore keep such works confidential by restricting discussions about such articles in email communications or at a closed group at Google Sites, rather than talk page entries in Wikipedia or Wikiversity. Members of the editorial board must not retain such works for their personal use.
You should generally ask for permission from the sender before posting non-public board emails to a public location such as in this wiki or forwarding to the journal's public email lists (wikijscigooglegroups.com and wikijournal-enlists.wikimedia.org).
Applying
[edit | edit source]If you agree with the policies, please apply here. This should include a short summary of:
- STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education and experience
- Wikipedia or related project experience
- Publishing or editorial experience
- A statement of acceptance of the policies
All fields are optional, and you do not need to have experience in every area, however some relevant experience is very useful.
The editor-in-chief, or someone appointed by the editor-in-chief, should perform the following tasks:
- Monitor the applications page, and let the editorial board know about knew applications.
- The identity of the applicant should be confirmed, if not already properly evidenced. It may be done by contacting the person through an email or number from a public website (suggested email template).
- Journal members may ask for clarifications or complementary information.
- The editorial board will form a consensus of whether to let the applicant join the board.
Onboarding process
[edit | edit source]For applicants accepted to the board, the following tasks should be performed:
- Mark their application as accepted, by copy-pasting {{subst:WikiJournal accepted board member}} at the bottom of the section.
- Contact the new editorial board member via email to inform them (Suggested email template)
- Direct-add the new editorial board member to the board's private email group, which will grant them access to the private page only visible to board members
- Add them to the Editorial board page using the WikiJournal editor summary template
These tasks can be distributed to any editorial board members of the journal.
Duties of editorial board members
WikiJournal User Group/Ethics statement
Duties of the editor-in-chief
WikiJournal User Group/Ethics statement
- Full ethics statement, by the WikiJournal User Group