SfN Journals and Elsevier have announced a new educational series for early career neuroscientists as they pursue publication in research journals. This one-year pilot program will begin with an interactive panel discussion on November 14 at SfN’s annual meeting, Neuroscience 2023, followed by three webinars in 2024.
The joint initiative will provide early-career neuroscientists direct interaction with journal publishers, editors, authors, and other experts on different issues relating to scientific publishing. The series intends to address specific needs and questions of early career researchers as they plan their publishing futures, increase engagement between major publishers and the author community, and provide greater clarity between early career researchers and publishers on their respective needs to support high-quality contributions to neuroscience journals. While SfN and Elsevier are the initial co-organizers, engagement of other publishers in this initiative is welcomed.
The educational series will launch with an interactive panel discussion, “Publishing and Researcher Evaluation,” on November 14 at Neuroscience 2023 in Washington, D.C. Led by co-moderators Jasna Markovac and Gail Rodney, senior publisher, Elsevier, this interactive panel discussion will cover common ways researchers and articles are evaluated in hiring, promotion, and funding decisions, including impact factor, h-index, and other bibliometrics, as well as some emerging alternatives. As the largest gathering of researchers studying the brain and nervous system, Neuroscience 2023 will convene over 25,000 attendees; nearly half will be early career scientists at the student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty stages.
Following the panel discussion at Neuroscience 2023, SfN Journals and Elsevier will co-host three, 60-minute quarterly webinars in 2024 on specific topics in publishing. All webinars will be recorded and placed on Neuronline, SfN’s online home for learning and discussion, so that these resources can be made available and promoted to the broader neuroscience community.
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