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The Journal of Open Research Software is looking for Associate Editors

Posted on 9 February 2016

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The Journal of Open Research Software is looking for Associate Editors

Posted by n.chuehong on 9 February 2016 - 2:52pm

The Journal of Open Research Software is seeking candidates to serve as additional Associate Editors, due to the increase in the volume of submissions to the journal.
The Journal of Open Research Software is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes Software Metapapers describing research software with high reuse potential as well as research papers on Issues in Research Software that cover different aspects of creating, maintaining and evaluating open source research software.

General Qualifications

Candidates for Associate Editors should be actively working in an area where research software is used, however we do not require candidates to have a PhD or be based within a university.
Ideal candidates will have had experience in writing and reviewing research software papers. They should also be aware of the leading users and developers of research software in their field, as this will aid their ability to manage the review process. We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate that they have read or written a number of high quality research software papers, and gained a broad experience of the qualities that make a software (or data) paper useful.
Associate Editors should be able to devote the time and energy necessary to ensure that published articles are of the highest quality and provide useful information to the journal’s readers, and work with the Editor-in-Chief and their fellow Associate Editors to act as advocates for the journal.

Responsibilities

  • promoting the journal within their field
  • soliciting papers from within their field
  • providing expert reviews in their area and/or soliciting expert reviewers for papers in their area
  • working with authors to improve their papers during the submission and review process
  • draft decisions and feedback based on reviews
  • making suggestions to improve the journal
  • participate in quarterly editorial meetings

Fields of expertise

We are seeking Associate Editors from all fields of research, howeverwe are particularly seeking candidates with the following expertise or experience:

  • Geospatial software
  • Classification software
  • Medical image processing
  • Life sciences
  • Physiological signal processing
  • MATLAB
  • Mathematica

Applications

Candidates should send an email to editor.jors@ubiquitypress.com with the subject "Associate Editor position" and the following information:

  • A short summary of your current research position
  • A description of why you believe you would make a good Associate Editor for JORS
  • A suggestion of the subject areas that you would cover
  • References to any relevant supporting material

Please note that this is a voluntary editorial position. The time commitment is not huge but also not trivial; editors are expected to handle 1-2 submissions per month for the journal. Further information or answers to questions can be obtained from editor.jors@ubiquitypress.com, and further details about the journal can be found at http://openresearch.metajnl.com/

The Journal of Open Research Software is published with the support of the Software Sustainablity Institute, and the Editor-in-Chief is Neil Chue Hong.

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