After a long time planning and several days' busy preparation, the editorial board workshop was finally completed yesterday. Prof. LIU Shiyin coming from Lanzhou, Dr. Paolo Tarolli from University of Padova coming from Beijing  attended this workshop. In fact, it should be fixed to hold a editorial board workshop once a year to discuss the journal's development and faced difficulties or challenges, and seek help or suggestions from the editorial members and editors, and also establish a platform for the editorial members  to meet and discuss further cooperation.Next year, we should prepare much earlier and invite more overseas editorial members and editors, and also invite important reviewers and authors to attend this workshop.

Besides, Paolo gave a presentation to the students and researchers in our institute. Both his PPT and presentation are great with beautiful pictures and figures!

A really busy month!

Poster for informing the editorial board workshop, one pasted  in the lobby of  Buidling 1, and one besids the elevator gate of the first floor in Building 2. It cost me some time to design it. Next time, it will be much easier to do this!  

A banner to hang  across the wall of the meeting room. It was printed in a company.

The agenda for the editorial workshop on October 23 morning.

Editorial members and editors attending this workshop

Prof. CUI chairs the workshop and made a welcome speech, and then every member attending this workshop made a self introdution.

Prof. YU Dafu,the former executive editor in chief of the Journal of Mountain Science recalled the journal history, which showed the difficult time at the  very beginning of the journal foundation

Prof. QIU,the present executive editor-in-chief  made a summary on our past work and on the journal's developmental trends, and listed the problems we met presently and our future challenges we need to face and solve.

Prof LIU Shiyin introduced his strategy to organize special issues and suggestions on how to organize more high quality papers.  

Dr. Paolo told his ideas on how to raise journal influence and impact factor: publish hot topic papers at the right time and suggested some  possible hot topics. He will chair two sessions on next year's EGU Conference and he hopes the journal  will dispatch editor to do journal promotion in this conference.

Free dicsussion on three topics: 1) The key columns the journal should set in next year; 2) special issue or special topics strategy for the journal; 3) how to raise the journal impact fact and impact factor.