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Editorial board application of Shampa Ghosh

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Shampa Ghosh M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. (website)
Areas of expertise: Neuroscience, Maternal and child health, Biochemistry, Micronutrient deficiency

Relevant experience:

Professional - Research, Teaching, Academic Editor
Publishing - Scientific writing and editing
Open -

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Shampa.ghosh (discuss • contribs) 13:00, 25 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

  • Questions:
    • Apart from a few contributions to a Wiki-book I do not find you to have any experience on Wikimedia sister projects. We consider familiarity with the Wiki-culture and collaborative editing a pre-requisite. How would you like to defend yourself in this aspect?
    • Could you elaborate on your experience pertaining to scientific writing and editing?
    • The journal is just establishing itself and has a long way to go. Parametrically, what are the steps of development that you have in mind with respect to this journal and what role would you possibly play in the same?
    • The journal has already empanelled a number of credible board members quite recently. What additional value do you think you could bring to the table?
-Diptanshu💬 17:49, 27 November 2017 (UTC)Reply
  • Reply: Many thanks for your questions. I agree that I have meagre experience with Wikimedia but I can always start working in association with it. I have a good experience of writing and editing research manuscripts in biological sciences. Presently, I am working with an academic writing and editing company where my job profile is to understand the research done and write or edit the manuscripts. Regarding the journal, I would like to say that it is in a nascent stage and needs careful decisions to shape it better and bring it to a level where it is widely accepted in the medical field. I do understand that as an editor one has to work in close collaboration with other members of editorial board to invite prospective authors, verify the viability of the manuscript before sending it to peer reviewers and check the final manuscript along with the comments received to discuss and decide finally for publication. I could help in this as I have a good experience in it. Shampa.ghosh (discuss • contribs) 18:04, 6 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
I think that Wikimedia experience is not a prerequisite, since we have plenty of expertise in that area on the board, so that is not a problem. I think your scientific background is very valuable and, I would recommend acceptance as an associate editor, as per precedent set by Wiki.J.Med. Such a position gives the opportunity to contribute expertise and gain experience in the journal, outside of the main board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 05:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
As with the below applicant, I do have reservations about English proficiency here, which I suggest might be even more crucial in an associate editor who would perform langauge editing and finalizing of manuscripts. It would be useful to see some examples of work. --Florian (Elmidae) (talk · contribs) 06:26, 16 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Declined due to lack of consensus. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 22:33, 14 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Dr. Jitendra Kumar Sinha

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Dr. Jitendra Kumar Sinha M.Sc. (Neuroscience), Ph.D. (Biochemistry) (website)
Areas of expertise: Neurobiology, Obesity, Ageing

Relevant experience:

Professional - University Teaching, Research. Assistant Professor at Amity Institute of Neuropsychology and Neurosciences, Amity University, Noida, India.
Publishing - I have been handling various reviewing and editorial works for journals, websites, etc.
Open - I have been working on correcting/editing Wikipedia pages, Google Maps and few other web pages. I shall be glad to join Wiki.

--G10sinha (discuss • contribs) 15:37, 25 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. G10sinha (discuss • contribs) 15:37, 25 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

  • Questions:
    • Although your first edit dates back to 2011, you have hardly ever been active on any of the Wiki sister projects. Could you please specify the reason? We consider familiarity with the Wiki-culture and collaborative editing a pre-requisite. How would you like to defend yourself in this aspect?
    • Could you elaborate on your experience pertaining to review and editorial work?
    • The journal is just establishing itself and has a long way to go. Parametrically, what are the steps of development that you have in mind with respect to this journal and what role would you possibly play in the same?
[It is to be noted that the user also applied to join the Editorial Board of WikiJournal of Medicine]
-Diptanshu💬 17:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)Reply
  • Comment - Although I don't think that frequent (or even any) Wiki contribution is a prerequsite so long as other skills would prove useful, the referencing issue is a problem (for clarity, they were reprimanded on Wikipedia for extrapolating animal model references to make statements on human disease example). However, their scientific publishing record does indicate an ability to interpret information accurately, so I shall otherwise wait for the applicant's response. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 00:16, 1 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
  • Answers: As noted by Dr. Diptanshu Das, I have also applied for the Editorial Board of WikiJournal of Medicine, as I was invited to do so (if I was interested). The same queries were raised there and I am answering it here again. "I don’t have any specific reason but I think I can work fruitfully. I have some experience of reviewing and editing research papers/review articles related to neuroscience, biochemistry and life sciences journals like: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience - Guest Associate Editor; Matters – Editorial Board Member; Frontiers in Pharmacology – Reviewer; Medical Hypothesis – Reviewer; and Neuroscience – Reviewer. I agree that WikiJournal of Medicine would be indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, etc. soon and that would make it one of the preferred journal by researchers and scientists to share their work. I see an excellent growth in the journal in next few years, which also depends upon the editorial board’s hard work. I am sure I can be a productive part of the team." Regards. --G10sinha (discuss • contribs) 12:08, 5 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Experience as guest editor for a Frontiers journal is definitely useful, as is the applicant's highly relevant scientific expertise. I would recommend acceptance as an associate editor for Wiki.J.Sci. (as currently performed at Wiki.J.Med.). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 05:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
I am sorry to remain negative, but I do believe that language and content editing and working within scientific journal conventions, as would be required from an associate editor, might not play out too well based on the applicant's available contributions to Wikimeda projects. --Florian (Elmidae) (talk · contribs) 06:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Declined due to lack of consensus. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 22:33, 14 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Thijs van Vlijmen

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Thijs van Vlijmen Ph.D. in Biochemistry (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) (website)
Areas of expertise: Cell Biology, Protein Science and Scholarly Publishing

Relevant experience:

Professional - Research (protein-protein interaction studies and cell biology (manipulation and imaging)), Teaching (practical courses for Bachelor and Master students)
Publishing - I have been a publisher for Springer Nature (Senior Publishing Editor) and Taylor & Francis (Associate Editorial Director) for the last 10 years. I have also been the scientific editor of two volumes in the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Book Series (Springer Nature), the developmental Editor of around 50 book manuscripts and the commissioning editor of journal articles and book titles and chapters
Open - minor (but obviously critical) edits on Wikipedia (under a few separate account names)

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Van Vlijmen (discuss • contribs) 07:03, 30 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

  • Comment - Experience with multiple established publishers gives valuable knowledge. Note: Jack Nunn has indicated to me that the applicant has experience in promoting public understanding of science, but I would prefer them to describe it in their own words for the record here. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 00:01, 1 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Reply by Applicant to comment by T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) - I have been involved in the 'Campfires and Science' project with Jack Nunn, which is a community outreach program to make people aware of the fact that everyone is a scientist, that anyone can generate scientific data and that science is for everyone. This has been done by taking interested individuals into the state forests of Victoria for a variety of field based activities, chaperoned by experts in those respective areas. I have also presented at quite a few university campuses and at international conferences on Open Access publishing and the rights that authors of scholarly material have. Van Vlijmen (discuss • contribs) 13:45, 1 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
  Support - I think the ability to mediate between the general public and academics will usefully add to the board's knowledge. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 03:39, 1 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
  • Question - Could you write a few words on your vision of the future of academic publishing, and the roles of traditional journals, preprint archives, Wikipedia? Sylvain Ribault (discuss • contribs)
Reply - Of course, I think that 'Open', be it access, science, or data, is going to become more important very quickly. With increasing local, regional and national mandates in this area, it is likely that only venues that offer clear and unhindered 'Open' pathways will survive. There might be a small number of traditional journals that will be able to remain as they are, but the majority will need to adapt or they will disappear. The current climate of researcher assessment in combination with the mandates mentioned above make for an interesting mix that is actually slowing the transition to 'Open' and it is also, at least in some research areas, slowing down the use of preprint servers. Wikipedia can play an important role in this, if it can get the balance right in the short term (being both preprint server, 'journal' and a source of peer reviewers). If the WikiJournals can harness the power of crowd sourced peer review (pre and post publication), while also complying with the requirements put on the authors, that could really make a big impact. The opportunities are endless, but a few initial hurdles will need to be cleared before these journals become viable publishing venues, mainly in relation to a few key abstracting and indexing services. Always happy to elaborate on this.Van Vlijmen (discuss • contribs) 04:47, 17 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
  Support Thank you for having elaborated. Sylvain Ribault (discuss • contribs) 13:14, 20 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 10:02, 6 March 2018 (UTC)Reply


Editorial board application of Jack Brooks

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Jack Brooks PhD (Physiology) (website)
Areas of expertise: Cognitive psychology, Neuroscience, Neurophysiology.

Relevant experience:

Professional - Research (PhD project as well as other research projects). Currently working as a postdoc at the University of Chicago.
Publishing - Articles in peer-reviewed journals in experimental, review, and commentary formats (see https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3970-7671), multiple articles in popular science magazines (The Scientist, Australasian Science, BrainWorld etc.), and blogs. I have also peer-reviewed articles for three different journals and two conferences.
Open - Published two articles in Scholarpedia in 2017. Also helped with wiki editing and formatting in 2017. Basic use of open science framework, and of Publons.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. JackBrooksDr (discuss • contribs) 14:44, 15 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 12:09, 15 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Kelee Pacion

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Kelee Pacion M.ED (Curriculum and Instruction for STEM) MLS (Academic Librarianship) MPA (Public and Non Profit Management-Graduate Dec 2018) (website)
Areas of expertise: Instructional design, science communication, research, education, and some science policy

Relevant experience:

Professional - Undergraduate Life Sciences Librarian at Cornell University- Liaison to departments of Neurobiology and Behavior, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology and Genetics- teaching students how to locate specific information for their discipline. I co-teach "Applied Science Communication" at Cornell, and teach workshops in evaluating information.
Publishing - 2 articles related to librarianship https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3355-3571 We are also working on an article on teaching with Wikipedia, but is not published as of yet.
Open - I have taught 5 courses for editing with Wikipedia and have done a few minor edits. I have also presented posters on this topic at AAAS and ACRL.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Saguaromelee (discuss • contribs) 16:02, 29 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 07:19, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Edmund F. Palermo

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Edmund F. Palermo Ph.D. University of Michigan, Macromolecular Sci & Eng (2011) (website)
Areas of expertise: Polymers, Biomaterials, Biomimicry

Relevant experience:

Professional - Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Materials Sci & Eng
Publishing - co-author of 25+ scholarly publications, ~ 1000 citations, H-index 15. Peer-reviewer for ~50 journal articles
Open - Course instructor for WikiEd projects on Biomaterials, 2 years, ~50 students, 10+ Wiki Articles created or edited by student teams. Major overhauls were done in each course, students trained to reference peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, and open-access materials.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. MTLE4470 EFP (discuss • contribs) 14:13, 30 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

The h-index is a measure of an author's publication impact. If h-index = X, that means the author has written at least X papers that have been each cited at least X times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index. MTLE4470 EFP (discuss • contribs) 14:26, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, I was really asking about the relevance of the h-index, given the known criticisms, and the fact that the index is especially unhelpful in a multidisciplinary context. Sylvain Ribault (discuss • contribs) 21:26, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Indeed, it's widely understood to be an imperfect measure of impact due to age- and field-dependancies. To give some context, I'm an early career materials chemistry person. Within those given age/field constraints, H=15 is considered fairly good. MTLE4470 EFP (discuss • contribs) 00:14, 1 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 07:19, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Tina Qin

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Tina Qin MS, MLS (website)
Areas of expertise: e-Science, scholarly communication, chemical informatics

Relevant experience:

Professional - Instructor of Chemistry and Science & Engineering Librarian at Vanderbilt University
Publishing - 10+ scholarly pulications
Open - Course instructor of chemical literature integrated with Wikipedia course projects.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. VandyChem5600 (discuss • contribs) 15:41, 30 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 07:19, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Loren Cobb

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Loren Cobb PhD, 44 years in academia (now retired) (website)
Areas of expertise: applied math, simulations, statistics, sociology, economics, political science, computer science

Relevant experience:

Professional - PhD-level teaching and research, consulting, writing, fieldwork
Publishing - peer reviews for academic journals, editing special issues
Open - Wikipedia (25 articles), ArXiv, open-source programming

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Aetheling (discuss • contribs) 17:23, 30 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 07:19, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Paula Diaconescu

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Paula Diaconescu Professor of Chemistry (website)
Areas of expertise: inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, polymers

Relevant experience:

Professional - Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Publishing - http://pldgroup.chem.ucla.edu/publications.php
Open - several Wiki articles and some textbook chapters created or edited by student teams

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Pauladiaconescu (discuss • contribs) 00:21, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 07:20, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Andrew Leung

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Andrew Leung M.Env.Sc, Ph.D Candidate (Toronto) (website)
Areas of expertise: Climatology, atmospheric science, aviation

Relevant experience:

Professional - I'm completing my Ph.D research at University of Toronto on climate change impacts on northern Canadian airports. I'm also working full time in the government in weather monitoring.
Publishing - A number of peer-reviewed articles on climatology and teaching in higher education. Also published a peer-reviewed book chapter on the connection between weather, Wikipedia page views and social media
Open - Started editing Wikipedia back in July 2006. Currently an English Wikipedia admin and a Wikispecies bureaucrat. I was a Region Ambassador for the Canada Education Program before the program phased out. I also ran a few Art & Feminism edit-a-thon workshops in Toronto.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:45, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

  • We already had some discussions about using WJS a refererence in Wikipedia, and academic standards vs Wikipedia standards. Some questions that may arise: can a WJS article serve as a reference for a nearly identical Wikipedia article? Can we copy a WJS article to Wikipedia even though the author does not reference many claims that are obvious to her, makes technical statements, and violates other Wikipedia rules such as WP:SYNTHESIS? Should WJS try to publish articles that are good by Wikipedia standards, or articles that are merely acceptable? In mathematics some articles are little more than compilations of formulas, for example this one; in my experience such articles are extremely useful to students and researchers, should they be encouraged? I am not asking you to answer these questions now, but to say whether you are motivated to contribute to such debates, and how your experience as a Wikipedia administrator could be useful. Sylvain Ribault (discuss • contribs) 12:16, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
    @Sylvain Ribault: Speaking from a non-admin capacity, I think we can draw parallel comparison with WikiJournal of Medicine. Medical pages on Wikipedia, as we know, require a higher quality of sources. If WJM can successfully incorporate their paper contents into Wikipedia pages and WJS achieves the same degree of peer reviewing, then I don't see why WJS shouldn't be accepted. In fact, since our review process is more transparent than many other journals (open access or not) and that Wikipedia has countless of references where the articles are published in a journal of questionable quality or downright predatory open access journal, I see WJS' contribution as a net-positive for Wikipedia. And it appears that there have been positive cross-cutting discussions between the communities, which should minimize antagonizing editors from both communities.
    Publishing something that is considered "acceptable" or "good" is often a judgment call. If the purpose of publishing in WJS is to simply improve the quality of the article by text or image, then acceptable should be fine. But if the goal is to reach good article or featured article, then "good" may not even be enough if the existing Wikipedia article doesn't cover enough breadth or depth. For your math question, I vaguely recall a different set of notability rules exist for math articles but it has been ages since I visited that page and unsure if things have changed (or even what the page is called now). OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:09, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
    Thank you! Sylvain Ribault (discuss • contribs) 07:39, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
  •   Support - Extensive Wikipedia experience (over a decade as editor and admin) would be a very useful asset. They would also provide first-hand view of how Wikipedia has been changing since 2006. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 02:45, 1 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
  •   Support - For the same reasons as above, and because integration with Wikipedia is essential for WJS. Sylvain Ribault (discuss • contribs) 07:39, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
  •   Support - Welcome aboard! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:27, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
  •   Support Useful qualifications and experience. I think some admin insights into WP processes might be especially handy for further development.--Florian (Elmidae) (talk · contribs) 07:22, 16 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 07:20, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of José Lages

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José Lages PhD (website)
Areas of expertise: Theoretical Physics, Chaos, Complex Systems

Relevant experience:

Professional - Associate Professor, former head of physics and astronomy department, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Publishing - Peer reviewed publications, Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearcherID, reviewer for several journals in physics and astronomy
Open - Scholarpedia, arXiv

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Joselages (discuss • contribs) 23:51, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 07:20, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Thais C. Morata

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Thais C. Morata M.S., Ph.D. (website)
Areas of expertise: Public Health, Occupational Health, Hearing Science, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Relevant experience:

Professional - Research and Teaching (mostly in the US and Brazil), Public Health Practice, Outreach, Founding Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Audiology (NLM ID: 101140017) and Cochrane Work (http://work.cochrane.org/editorial-board)
Publishing - Peer-reviewed journals, books and book chapters, authoritative recommendations, science blogs, articles in trade journals
Open - Edits Wikipedia and contributes to the adoption of the WikiEdu platform in the classroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TMorata

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. TMorata (discuss • contribs) 15:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 01:51, 20 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Konrad U. Förstner

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Konrad U. Förstner Dr. rer. nat. (website)
Areas of expertise: Life sciences (Bioinformatics, Systems biology, RNA-Biology, Infection biology)

Relevant experience:

Professional - Head of the Core Unit Systems Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany
Publishing - Publication list on ORCID and Google Scholar, Peer Review activities on Publons
Open - Wikipedia and Wikidata edits; Involved in WikiCite and other open science related communities; Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry instructor, Co-host of the podcast Open Science Radio

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Konrad Foerstner (discuss • contribs) 19:35, 15 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 01:51, 20 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Jonathan Holland

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Jonathan Holland B.Phil, Mathematical physics; M.A. Mathematics, Princeton University; Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (website)
Areas of expertise: Mathematical analysis, differential geometry, general relativity, twistor theory

Relevant experience:

Professional - Published research in mathematics (list of publications). Taught for three years as a lecturer at Rochester Institute of Technology, for two years at Princeton University's Freshman Scholars Institute, and for several years as a graduate student.
Publishing - Served as a referee and AMS reviewer. In the process of writing a book with World Scientific publishing.
Open - I have edited Wikipedia anonymously for many years. My most recent open/collaborative project is on Geogebra (see link above). In addition, I have authored a number of preprints on the ArXiv.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Maknongan (discuss • contribs) 13:02, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Could you please give a link to your list of publications? (Including preprints of course.) Also, it would be helpful to know your contributions to Wikipedia, if you were willing to reveal them. Sylvain Ribault (discuss • contribs) 20:29, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

I added a list of publications to User:Maknongan. I edit Wikipedia under the pseudonym Sławomir Biały. Maknongan (discuss • contribs) 21:13, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 01:51, 20 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Vinod Scaria

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Vinod Scaria PhD (website)
Areas of expertise: Genomics, Genome Informatics, RNA Biology

Relevant experience:

Professional - Research, Teaching,
Publishing - Editorial Board Member: PLoS ONE , Journal of Translational Medicine, Journal of Orthopaedics, International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, PeerJ
Open - Open Source Drug Discovery, Nipah Open Research Collaborative

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Sdoniv (discuss • contribs) 04:32, 19 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted to board. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 01:51, 20 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Hemachander Subramanian

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Hemachander Subramanian Ph.D (website)
Areas of expertise: Theoretical and computational investigations of biological systems

Relevant experience:

Professional - Ph.D in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, post-doctoral experience in Theoretical Biology. Staff Scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Publishing - Published research articles in theoretical condensed matter, theoretical biology, and image processing. Please see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4869-5994.
Open - I Use ArXiv to make my articles freely available. Peer-reviewed a few articles thus far. Have given two public talks during "Pint of Science" festivals on general aspects of my research.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. HemachanderTBio (discuss • contribs) 21:15, 19 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted as associate editor. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 00:21, 15 November 2018 (UTC)Reply


Associate editor application of Christos Noutsos

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Christos Noutsos PhD (website)
Areas of expertise: Genomics, Plants, Bioinformatics

Relevant experience:

Professional - Research, Teaching
Publishing - Associate Editor Current Plant Biology, Reviewer PlosOne, Reviewer Molecular Ecology
Open -

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. 137.139.130.119 (discuss) 16:48, 27 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Note: Applicant username on Wikipedia is User:Noutsosc

Status: Accepted as associate editor. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 04:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Associate editor application of Jenny R. Lenkowski

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Jenny R. Lenkowski PhD (website)
Areas of expertise: Developmental biology, neurobiology

Relevant experience:

Professional - College professor and researcher
Publishing - Have reviewed manuscripts for Chemosphere, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Molecular Medicine Reports, Neural Regeneration Research, PeerJ, PLoS One, Stem Cells & Development
Open - Wikipedian Course Instructor

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. ProfJRL (discuss • contribs) 17:16, 7 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Status: Accepted as associate editor. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 04:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Associate editor application of Ayush Bhardwaj

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Ayush Bhardwaj (website)
Areas of expertise: Wireless Networks , SDN , LTE

Relevant experience:

Professional - Research Postgraduate , Trainee R&D at STMicroelectronics
Publishing - Assistant Editor De Gruyter Open Computer Science Journal
Open -

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. 103.37.201.96 (discuss) 00:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Editorial board application of Gorla Praveen

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Gorla Praveen Master of Engineering (website)
Areas of expertise: Electronics, Information & Communication Technology, Telecommunication, Wireless Networks, Software Defined Radios, Wireless Localization, Radars, Antenna & Wave Propagation.

Relevant experience:

Professional - Thesis and Research
Publishing - Chief Editor for AIT Student Union Research Magazine, Special Study report on Object Detection using Wireless Signals, published articles on Observations and Proposed Guidelines for Institutional & Academic Development from Students Point of View, Admin Voluteer 2017 OpenAcceessButton.org Organizer for Global Wireless Summit 2015
Open - Wikimedia, Mozilla Open Leadership, The Learning Documentation Project, Firefox Browser to Browser Radio Communication, Freedom Box Testing, Member of Open Access India and Creative Commons Global Network (India)

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Gorlapraveen123 (discuss • contribs) 23:15, 23 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Based on consensus here and at associate editor application - Result: Accepted as associate editor.

Associate editor application of Gorla Praveen

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Gorla Praveen Master of Engineering (website)
Areas of expertise: Electronics, Information & Communication Technology, Telecommunication, Wireless Networks, Software Defined Radios, Wireless Localization.

Relevant experience:

Professional - Thesis and Research
Publishing - Chief Editor for AIT Student Union Research Magazine, Special Study report on Object Detection using Wireless Signals, published articles on Observations and Proposed Guidelines for Institutional & Academic Development from Students Point of View, Organizer for Global Wireless Summit 2015
Open - Wikimedia, The Learning Documentation Project, Firefox Browser to Browser Radio Communication, Freedom Box Testing, Member of Open Access India and Creative Commons Global Network (India).

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Gorlapraveen123 (discuss • contribs) 03:00, 24 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Based on consensus of here and at Editorial board application - Result: Accepted as associate editor.

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Editorial board application of Ed Baker

Latest comment: 5 years ago5 comments5 people in discussion

Ed Baker BSc Physics (website)
Areas of expertise: Taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, biodiversity informatics, bioacoustics

Relevant experience:

Professional - I have worked at the Natural History Museum, London and the University of York. My research focuses on the taxonomy and bioacoustics of the orthoptera, and the field of biodiversity informatics. I have previously worked for the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. I List of publications
Publishing - I am a subject editor of Zookeys and the Biodiversity Data Journal, and editor of Phasmid Studies.
Open - I led the Wikimedian in Residence project at the Natural History Museum. I started the BioAcoustica project as an open repository for bioacoustic recordings. I have previously worked in the Scratchpads project to build open web resources for biodiversity information, and the sharing of these data with aggregators such as GBIF.

I confirm that I will act in accordance with the policies of the WikiJournal of Science. Edwbaker (discuss • contribs) 14:37, 5 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Result: Accepted into the editorial board.

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