《医用气体研究》（ Medical Gas Research ）是一种刚刚创办不久的开放存取（OA）类期刊，是专门发表有关医用气体研究成果的一个平台，这无疑对于医用气体研究工作者来说是一个利好消息。我看到科学网站 专门就有研究氢气医用的-孙学军老师 的 博客，他也翻译了《医用气体研究》的部分内容，我在此还是想说明主编对期刊的影响。 《医用气体研究》主要是将刊发论文的重点主要集中于神经生物学的基础研究和临床研究，以及与医用气体相关的多学科研究成果。医用气体是一个包括氧气、氢气、一氧化碳、二氧化碳、氮气、氙,硫化氢、氧化亚氮、二硫化碳、氩、氦和其他惰性气体等在内的多种气体的大家族。这些医疗气体被广泛用于临床与基础科学研究的多个领域，包括麻醉、高压氧医学、潜水医学、内科、外科、急诊医学以及许多基础科学学科,如生理学、药理学、生物化学、微生物学和神经科学等。 我们不仅关心《医用气体研究》OA杂志的创刊，更关注其主编的来头，主编张教授（ Professor John Zhang ）目前就职于美国加利福尼亚洛马·林达大学医学院（Loma Linda University School of Medicine, USA）,张教授的医学根底源于20世纪80年代末（1987年）在我国重庆的受训，1992年他在加拿大埃德蒙顿获得博士学位,主要致力于神经生物学,特别是脑血管疾病研究。2008年张教授编辑了“高压氧用于神经紊乱治疗”（Hyperbaric Oxygen for Neurological Disorders）教科书。目前,张教授在美国加利福尼亚洛马·林达大学医学院主要从事神经外科和生理学研究,其次是麻醉学及神经学研究,张教授被聘任《医用气体研究》主编与其在医用气体和神经血管生物学领域的研究成就密不可分。更为详细的最新消息，请浏览该刊网站： http://www.medicalgasresearch.com/
几年前，我记得西北大学学报编辑部姚远老师曾经说过，有人就有主编影响因子的提法，但是自己至今一直没有看到原文，最近看到《光明日报》开展的高校学报改革出路何在系列报道，结合美国《数学评论》（MR）2010年10月份的收录期刊一览表（是目前最新结果）中中国（包括港台）期刊的新变化，再回头想想昔日接触到的高校学报编辑同仁，感到主编影响因子的确有道理。主编确实对期刊的影响很大，可以说期刊在外界的影响力与主编自身的影响力有正比关系，难怪许多专业期刊的主编不是一种由政界官员来担任的角色，而是由某一领域内的知名学者来掌舵领航，特别是有些国际性的名刊更是如此，丘成桐就是《亚洲数学杂志》的主编之一，我们经常会在CEN周刊网站看到某些新主编的就职公告。但是我在此谈到的是以个人接触到或者了解到的信息作为基础，以高校学报界为例进行简要说明。其主编是广义的，并非就是学报封面或者封底上明确署名的主编，他可能就是一个普通编辑，是负责某些学科的，但是同样会对学报产生重要影响。先说说《内蒙古师范大学学报：自然科学汉文版》主编陈汉忠老师，《内蒙古师范大学学报：自然科学汉文版》能够在RM淘汰中国期刊的过程中躲过一劫，而且死里逃生，二返长安，其中陈汉忠老师的功不可没，我记得我们2004年联合创办《大学数学辑刊 》(Math Colloq.Chin.Univ.,简称MCCU) 之后，非常关注MR收录我国期刊的一些新变化，并将我们搜集到的信息传递给相关杂志编辑部，虽然有编辑部非常重视，及时回信或者采取积极的补救或者应对措施，然而，绝大多数的高校学报编辑部根本就不回信，置之不理，本人认为这种态度本身就是主编危机意识的反映。处于强手如林的竞争之中，不知己知彼，岂能百战不殆？一劳永逸的思想观念可以说是根深蒂固，认为我刊入选某个数据库之后，就可以成为终身成员，永远不会被淘汰。其实，这是一种完全错误的观点，根本没有任何一家二次文献数据库会将收录期刊一成不变的收录下去，为了保证数据库的高水准，优胜劣汰的规则才是永恒不变的真理。 陈汉忠老师收到我们关于《内蒙古师范大学学报：自然科学汉文版》被MR收录中断的信息后，及时与我们联系，将其学报发表的优秀数学论文推荐给我们，我们通过MCCU推荐给MR编辑部，果然被收录了，但是后来我们发现有重复收录的现象（即《内蒙古师范大学学报：自然科学汉文版》和MCCU有重叠收录的情况），马上通知陈汉忠老师，建议他单独与MR编辑部联系，《周口师范学院学报》也有类似情况，他们单独联系的结果，《周口师范学院学报》仅仅收录了一年就被淘汰了，而《内蒙古师范大学学报：自然科学汉文版》二返长安后，MR数据库一直摘评延续至今，而且是为数不多的几家高校学报，特别是师范大学类学报之一。陈汉忠老师这几年为了学报的发展，特别是数学稿件质量的不断提高，新招不断，聘请外校兼职编委，向著名学者预约稿件，积极参加专业学术研讨会等。2010年专程从内蒙古呼和浩特来到西安，有转乘去天水，参加第6届国际数论与Smarandache问题研讨会（6th international coference on number thoery and Smarandache problems）”，每年一度的国际数论研讨会今年3月25-27日在渭南举行，陈汉忠老师再次参加第7届国际数论与Smarandache问题研讨会（7th international coference on number thoery and Smarandache problems）”，积极宣传和与作者交谈，为学报组织优秀稿源。 其次就是浙江的《杭州师范大学学报：自然科学版》，2005年的桂林会议上(2005年11月20日至25日在广西 桂林 召开)，通过绍兴文理学院学报编辑部的翁胜兰老师介绍，认识杭州师范学院学报编辑部的方岩老师，当时他们学报刚公开不久，尚未入选任何一种国际知名数据库，经过这几年的不懈努力，《杭州师范学院学报：自然科学版》成长为《杭州师范大学学报：自然科学版》，当然与学校更名有关，但是更重要的是学报自身的发展，先后加入了德国《数学文摘》（ZBl）、俄罗斯《文摘杂志》（AJ）、波兰《哥白尼索引》（IC）、美国《化学文摘》（CA）等多家国际著名数据库，2010年获奖浙江省优秀科技期刊“编辑质量奖”，都是方岩主编以及编辑部的其他编辑同仁的贡献和努力的结果。还有《北京工业大学学报》的梁洁老师、《合肥工业大学学报：自然科学版》的朱新华老师等曾经多次与本人联系、在获得国际交流联系方式之后，积极进行联系，这2种期刊目前均是MR的尚在继续收录的期刊，也有其他国际著名数据库收录。相反《菏泽学院学报》的成广兴教授（数学专业，已退休）、《西安文理学院学报：自然科学版》主编吕玉琴编审（英语专业，曾经长期在科研机构从事科技信息的咨询服务工作，后调到西安文理学院学报，已退休）等，他们在职时非常重视国际交流，深知入选国际著名数据库对于学报自身扩大影响的重要性，所以千方百计，借助各种渠道，想方设法使自编的学报能够参与国际交流，使其发表的论文在国际著名数据库亮相，而二位退休后，后来者新人有新方式，对于国际交流的热衷程度锐减，表现最为突出的就是与MCCU的合作相继中断，但是发展的结果至今为止，尚未看到入选新的国际数据库。而《南阳师范学院学报》就不同，该刊2002年创刊，先后入选ZBl、CA数据库,参与MCCU的编辑工作，使其数学论文入选MR数据库。在2010年教育部科技司举办的“第三届中国高校精品优秀特色科技期刊奖”评比活动中，《南阳师范学院学报（自然科学版）》又一次荣获中国高校特色科技期刊奖。这是该校学报自科版前两届荣获中国高校特色科技期刊奖后，第三次获此殊荣。而且2010年的评比中，全国师范院校学报仅有2家获得此奖，《南阳师范学院学报：自然科学版》是其中之一，也是河南省唯一一家获得特色奖的学报。同时，在全国连续三届获此奖的学报仅有14家。这些成绩的获得与姚兴芝， 陆宜新 主编的努力有密切关系。特别是陆宜新编审，曾经2次到陕西西安、宝鸡，与学报界同行进行交流，积极参与MCCU的合作编辑工作，同时也不放过自身努力，付出必有收获，《南阳师范学院学报：自然科学版》已经入选CA数据库、也被ZBl数据库收录。截止2011年4月26日，ZBl累计摘录49篇论文。相关信息如下： J. 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MSC2000: *49M30 Comment on this Item PDF MathML XML ASCII DVI PS BibTeX Online Ordering Journal 《西北大学学报：自然科学版》主编姚远编审，在科技期刊史研究方面成绩突出，《西北大学学报：自然科学版》的科技期刊史研究成为其一个新亮点，过去是内蒙古师范大学的科学史研究在全国乃至世界也有一定影响，但是现在似乎西北大学有超越内蒙古师范大学的势头。 再说浙江大学学报编辑部张月红编审，她是《浙江大学学报》自然科学版的编辑部主任，她也是《浙江大学学报》进SCI的第一功臣。她工作非常执着，依靠自己的英语特长，为《浙江大学学报》在国际舞台赢得一席之地。有人描述当年和ISI沟通申请学报进SCI的可能性时，对方回答：我们已经有nature,science这样的综合、权威期刊，对于综合性期刊我们不再欢迎。张回答：nature,science能把所有的好稿都发了吗？对方语塞。张月红老师手下人员不多，不过团队的硕士、博士个个很敬业，从编辑、校对到排版，事无巨细，坦白的说，比国内不少中文期刊编辑部的效率要高一些。付出就有回报，值得敬佩。也非常值得国内中文期刊编辑部学习。《浙江大学学报》成为中国第一份闯进SCI阵营的高校学报（不含高校主办承办的其它学术期刊），令《清华大学学报》、《北京大学学报》惭愧、汗颜。其后，《地球科学——中国地质大学学报》也进了。再后，浙江大学学报的其它英文辑也进了。《浙江大学学报》入选SCI，是张月红及其编辑同仁的辛劳与付出的最好回报。更详细的信 息可以浏览《 我所知道的张月红老师和浙江大学学报 》。 《地球科学——中国地质大学学报》能够进入SCI，不能说与主编王亨君教授没有关系啊。2000年学报主编王亨君荣获全国“百佳出版工作者”称号。1999年影响因子居高校学报第一位，学报上的文章曾被EI（工程索引）、CA、CBST、GeoRef等国际著名检索系统收录。进入21世纪以来，《地球科学》编辑部在国际交流方面进行了积极探索，为《地球科学》早日走向世界奠定了基础。学报编辑部先后与国际上156个国家和地区的研究机构和出版公司建立了长期的交换和发行关系。为学报国际化、网络化、数字化，为学报网络版问世，为创建中国名牌期刊和世界名牌期刊争进SCI世界著名检索系统而努力奋斗的目标终于变成现实。通过王享君及其同事的不断努力,《地球科学》的编辑出版工作逐渐走上正轨,由复刊初期的不定期到双月刊,由中文版到外文版,由一个不起眼的一般学报发展成为国内外有影响的地学期刊。王亨君是一位“开拓型”人才,始终把追求卓越,不断创新作为自己工作的准则。对她来说,一个目标的实现同另一个新目标的提出总是结伴而行。更多更详细的报道请浏览《编辑学报》2001年04期发表的喻军，王淑华 合作撰写的“ 华丽的乐章——记《地球科学》主编王亨君教授 ”。类似的例证还可以列举很多，不再一一列举。 就约稿而言，与主编的影响也有着千丝万缕的联系。有影响的主编可以约到高水平的稿件。如Cell Research的李党生常务副主编，就能约到美国的一些著名科学家写的综述性文章，这类论文是以国际大视野为背景，综述了某一个领域或者某一个方面近期的研究进展或者发展历史等，对于系统而全面了解其相关知识非常有用，也是易被他人引用的文献类型。约名家、大家写这类稿件，对于大大提升期刊的影响力无疑大有帮助。 当我们看到有些高校学报已经被某数据库淘汰多年，但是他们依然在学报封底或者其他位置注明“被XX数据库收录”字样，这种情况并非少数，从中反映出主编根本就不了解期刊被收录动态信息，可能也不关注收录信息，如果稍有留意就不会出现这种情况。一个仅仅局限于编辑，而忽视编辑结果的外界影响、忽视编辑结果的传播与扩散的主编，这种主编是否会对其期刊带来生机，发展壮大与扩大影响也难以想象，说白了充其量就是一个编校员，期刊的发展需要的不是这样的主编，不知您是否同意我的观点？ 主编对期刊的影响是多方面的、全方位的，可能还有许多，欢迎批评指正，相互切磋，共同提高，共同进步。
杂志如何运行？ 我们在投稿的时候只能看到杂志对作者的要求，一般不了解他们后面在干什么活，了解一下应该对我们有一些帮助。作为新任《 Medical gas res 》 的副主编，我最近接受了几项委派审稿专家的任务，在完成这个任务的过程中，了解到的一点“内幕”，分享给年轻科研工作者，以希望对大家更有效地向国外杂志投稿有一点帮助。 当你的论文被系统确认后，系统给你一个论文编号，主编应该是先看看文章的题目和摘要，根据他的理解，这个内容哪个副主编比较熟悉，就委任这个副主编负责这个稿件的后续工作。当然副主编肯定也要看看内容是否能玩的转，并确认是否接受这个任务。一般情况下，主编都比较忙，不会详细看稿件内容，主要根据题目、摘要、论文副标题、主要结果图片表格。 副主编接受到任务后，下一步主要工作就是寻找合适的审稿专家。 找审稿专家的依据有 4 个方面， 1 是作者建议的审稿专家。 2 是根据 Medline 上的信息与稿件内容符合度，系统自动筛选一批专家，并给出符合度百分比（我觉得这个东西很好，国内的杂志应该效仿）。 3 是杂志的编辑委员队伍。 4 是副主编根据对稿件内容的初步分析，找自己熟悉的专家。一般情况下，副主编比较懒，不会详细看稿件内容，也是主要根据题目、摘要、论文副标题、主要结果图片表格。如果发现论文很有意思，也会细看的。即使副主编自己很熟悉，一般也会继续指派审稿专家的。 所以在投稿的时候，选择比较理想的建议审稿专家也很重要，如果副主编发现你选的是他认为合适，或与系统提示一致的，那么送给这个专家的可能性就比较大。 副主编找好专家后，确认后系统会自动发给审稿专家邀请信，并指定最后期限。信的内容都是套话，就是希望能接受这个任务，帮我们干活。等到了约定时间，如果有的专家没有回来意见，会通过系统发一催促审稿的信。 两个专家的意见到齐后，如果意见比较一致，就是都不拒稿件。副主编会把意见转给作者，在转的时候如果副主编有个人意见，可以在系统中填写，好象一般不写。如果两个专家的意见不统一，则要另请一个专家再审。等第三个专家意见来了，决定拒绝或再审阅，副主编会给主编一个参考意见，主编再指示如何开展后续工作。 作者把修回稿件提交后，主编会再次委托副主编组织工作。一般仍请原来的副主编，当然也可能不同，这个决定权在主编。副主编接受任务后，仍会再邀请原来的两个专家再次审稿（有的杂志邀请另外的专家。）程序同上，这次信的内容中专门写了几个要求： When assessing the work, please consider the following points: 1. Is the question posed by the authors new and well defined? 2. Are the methods appropriate and well described, and are sufficient details provided to replicate the work? 3. Are the data sound and well controlled? 4. Does the manuscript adhere to the relevant standards for reporting and data deposition? 5. Are the discussion and conclusions well balanced and adequately supported by the data? 6. Do the title and abstract accurately convey what has been found? 7. Is the writing acceptable? 总的意思是，作者是否根据阁下的意思进行了正确反馈，从语言表达等细节上考虑能接受吧？当然即使这样，专家可能仍有意见，要求作者继续修改，那么重复上述过程。直到论文接受。 在上述邮件的落款中都是主编，就是说虽然副主编做的具体事情，但审稿专家和作者都会感到是主编来的信。
在前篇博文这样的审稿意见意味着什么 http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=398391 一文中，我提到主编要求修改的来信。就在今天，他给通讯作者来信（以前一直和我联系）说： Attached is a much revised version of your manuscript submitted to Human Ecology. Please review our editing but do not make any changes except correcting errors of fact. If you accept the edited version, I will forward it to production. 这是不是意味着文章接受了，而且准备排版发表了？ 还有没有其它担心。以前没有发表过SCI，心里没底啊。
王 应 宽 2010-08-15 Beijing, China 2010-10-30修订 博主按： 携妻儿黑龙江休假刚回来，忙碌之余，本想抽空写点儿游记，以弥补未提前通告即擅自休博一周的无礼。打开新创博文文件夹，发现 5 月份曾写了几句的一篇博文，随即完成此篇，游记后补。 浪得虚名：教育改变人生 回想在陕西大巴山深处一个偏僻落后的小山村放牛时，也不曾想到未来会怎样？但如果不读书继续放牛，恐怕不但自己走不出那个落后的地方，下一代还得子承父业继续放牛！一个放牛娃通过读书改变了命运，改变了人生轨迹。寒窗苦读数十载，走出大巴山，虽然考入了西北农业大学，在那里读了本科和硕士，但后来没有继续从事自己年少时擅长的行当继续当牛仔放牛，经营牧场，而是到了北京从事科技学术期刊的编辑出版工作。后来还读了北大的博士，去了美国明尼苏达大学作了高级访问学者。如今，从事几本国际英文期刊的编辑出版工作和学术交流工作，在所在的学术圈里广交朋友，广结善缘，得到同行认可，也获得一些微不足道的头衔，可谓浪得虚名（参见下表，更新时间 2010 年10 月）。从我自身的成长经历，切身感受到是学习创造了未来，知识改变了命运，读书使人不断进步，教育改善了人生。尽管我们的教育体制不完善，存在诸多需要改善的弊端，但不能否认的是，教育改变了很多人的人生。因此，对教育杀人的观点不能认同。教育为受教育者提供发展的基础和机遇，但发展后劲和前途就得依靠受教育者自身的再学习、再教育和再努力了。这也是为什么同一个班级的同学毕业数载后发展各异的原因所在。我认识很多学术界的大牛，他们曾经也在放牛，但都实践了知识改变命运，教育改变人生的道路。 博主在此列举浪得虚名，绝非炫耀，旨在说明：学习创造未来，知识改变命运，教育改变人生。 浪得虚名一瞥 编辑本行： 国际农业工程学会会刊主编（ Editor-in-Chief of the CIGR Journal ） 亚洲农业工程学会会刊《国际农业工程学报》执行主编 (Executive Editor-in-Chief of International Agricultural Engineering Journal) 《国际农业与生物工程学报》 (IJABE) 创办者、执行主编 (Founder and Executive Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering) 《农业工程学报》副主编、编委 (Associate Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Member of Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering) 学术兼职 国际农业与工程学会执行委员 ( 中国仅 2 名，博主的执委代表 CIGR 期刊 ) Executive Board Member of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering 亚洲农业工程学会执行委员 Executive Council Member of the Asian Association forAgriculturalEngineering(AAAE) 海外华人农业、生物与食品工程师协会 (AOCABFE) 执行委员兼中国区负责人 Executive Board Member and China Regional Director of the Association of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers 2011 农业工程新技术国际学术研讨会（ 2011EAET ）秘书长（受聘单位山东理工大学） Secretary General of 2011 International Conference on Emerging Agricultural Engineering Technologies (2011 EAET) CIGR 期刊管理委员会委员 /CIGR Journal Policy Board Member 福建农林大学兼职教授 /Guest Professor at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University 中国管理科学研究院学术委员会特约研究员 Invited Research Fellow of Academic Committee of Chinese Academy of Management Sciences 《山西农业大学学报》特约编委 Invited Guest Editor of Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University 大众科技报社通讯员 /Guest Reporter of Popular Science News 中国科学技术期刊编辑学会会员 Member of China Editology Society of Science Periodicals 中国农业工程学会高级会员 Senior Member of Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering 2007 年曾兼任《农业工程技术》杂志社长兼执行主编 Having ever been Managing Editor and Journal Manager of Agricultural Engineering and Technology
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王 应 宽 2010-04-18 Beijing, China Minutes of the Inauguration Ceremony of CIGR Journal Handover to China By Dr. Wang Yingkuan Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Managing Editor of IJABE, Associate Editor-in-chief of Transactions of the CSAE, CSAE and CAAE Time: 9:00-11: 00 A .M, April 7, 2010, Wednesday Venue: Meeting Room A606, Office Building, CAAMS Organizer: Prof. Li Shujun, Executive President of CAAMS, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, Member of Executive Board of CIGR Prof. Zhu Ming, President of CAAE CSAE, Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the CSAE, Vice Standing Chairman of IJABE International Editorial Board Master of Ceremony (Emcee): Prof. Lanfang Zhang, International Cooperation Department, CAAMS Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, CAAE Attendees: Incoming President and Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Prof. Fedro Zazueta, on behalf of the CIGR Presidium and CIGR President Prof. Sren Pedersen. Invited guests: Prof. Bill Stout, Honorary President of CIGR, Former Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Founder of CIGR Ejournal, USA; Prof Jiannong Xin, Member of Executive Board of CIGR, University of Florida, USA; Prof Yubin Lan, Agricultural Engineer and Professor, USDA-ARS at Texas AM University, College Station, USA. Three Chinese Representatives of CIGR Technical Sections: Prof. Wang Maohua, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Member of CIGR Technical Section VII, Honorary President of the CSAE CSAM, Editor-in-Chief of IJABE, China Agricultural University(CAU), China; Prof. Li Baoming, Member of CIGR Technical Section II, Vice Dean of College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, China; Prof. Huang Guanhua, Secretary of CIGR Technical Section I, Section Editor of CIGR Ejournal, Director of Chinese-Israeli International Center for Training in Agriculture, CAU, China. Leaders and Representatives from CAAMS, CSAM: Li Shujun, Zhao Xiaopeng, Liu Ruiwen, Zhang Zhenxin, Lanfang Zhang, Li Qing, Wang Jin, Zhang Pengzi Leaders and Representatives from CAAE and CSAE: Zhu Ming, Qin Jingguang, Guan Xiaodong, Wei Xiuju, Wang Yingkuan and two part-time editors Rabi Rasaily and Lingyan Zhang presented. Over twenty participants attended the ceremony. The inauguration ceremony of CIGR E-Journal handover to China was held on April 7, 2010, Wednesday in the meeting room A606 of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS) office building. The organizers of the ceremony were Prof Li Shujun, Executive President of CAAMS and CSAM, and Prof Zhu Ming, President of the CAAE and CSAE. On behalf of Prof Li Shujun and Prof Zhu Ming, Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, called together the ceremony, who was also the Master of Ceremony (Emcee) along with Prof. Lanfang Zhang from International Cooperation Department, CAAMS. The program kicked off at 9:00 am with the introduction to all the participants. The participants from USA were also present via video conference. Because of the time difference, many expected participants failed to present the ceremony. The followings are the key speakers with their brief views and remarks on the handover ceremony: 1. Prof. Fedro Zazueta, Incoming President and Editor-in-Chief of CIGR E-Journal, gave a wonderful speech with the title of Today is truly a memorable day Via Video Conference. He briefly recalled the history of CIGR Journal with three milestones: Prof Bill Stout launched the journal; Modernize communication resources of CIGR using modern IT technology and redesign the CIGR website, implementing an management system for the CIGR Journal; Move the journal to the Open Journal System with the help of Dr. Jiannong Xin, Dr. Bill Stout, staff at the University of Florida and Staff at Texas AM University. This established a modern online review system and open access repository for publications in our profession at no cost to the authors. Today, we are looking at a new horizon. With the support from CSAM and CSAE, and with a dedicated professional editor, Dr. Yingkuan Wang, the level of the Journal is being raised to a higher standard, and a new stage in the development of the Journal and its positive influence on our profession worldwide will come. He is looking forward to this close collaboration between CSAM, CSAE and CIGR. 2. Prof. Wang Maohua, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out in his speech that this ceremony is a landmark with great significance in the cooperation between CIGR and China. The CSAM and CSAE joining as a Chinese Federation became a national member of CIGR in 1989. Since then, the academic exchange and friendship between Chinese agricultural engineers and worldwide colleagues of agricultural and biological societies have become more and more close link with good cooperation development. In 2004, the CIGR International Conference with the theme of The Olympics of Agricultural Engineering was successfully held in Beijing. Prof Wang expressed his sincere thanks to all former and active CIGR leadership, all our friends for their great trust, friendship and cooperation. The CIGR E-Journal Handover to China from today will be much helpful for Chinese federation of CSAM and CSAE to learn more experience for CIGR activities. I believe that the editorial board and both the CSAM and CSAE will do best efforts to make the EJournal even greater success. In the past, we all benefited a lot from our successful cooperation. In the future, we will write a new chapter in cooperation. Great thanks to CIGR Leaders who have made the decision that the 18th CIGR World Congress in 2014 will be held in Beijing, China. We will do our best to co-sponsor this important event. Prof Wang stressed that the cooperation to establish a strategic cooperative partnership among CIGR, CSAM and CSAE is a multi-win-win strategy. 3. Prof. Bill Stout, Honorary President of CIGR, Founder and Former Editor-in-Chief of CIGR E-Journal, addressed at the inauguration ceremony at his home in Meridian, Idaho, USA Via Video Conference. He mentioned that the concept of CIGR Ejournal was born in Oslo of Norway in August 1998, and took shape at Texas AM University, USA with the publication of seven technical articles and two overview papers in 1999. By the end of 2009, the journal has grown with the publication of 484 original papers and 115 invited overviews with authors from 57 countries. Dr. Fedro Zazuetta proposed the Ejournal adopt the Open Journal System which was approved by the CIGR Presidium and he was appointed as Editor-in-chief in 2009. China proposed to host the Ejounal some time ago. That leads us to today---the inauguration of Dr Yingkuan Wang as the Editor-in-Chief under the sponsorship of CSAE and CSAM. He thanked the CAAMS and its President, Dr Li Shujun for the moral and financial support for the Ejournal. Prof Bill Stout believes that the future of the CIGR Ejournal is bright. It continues to strive for higher quality and is well on its way to becoming as good as any of the best journals in the field of agricultural and biological engineering. He wishes the new Editor-in-Chief, Dr Yingkuan Wang and all his colleagues well as they undertake this important assignment. And he is looking forward to continuing to work as their advisor and supporter. 4. Main points of the speech given by Prof. Li Shujun, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, Executive President of CAAMS Prof Li first thanked the CIGR Presidium for giving China the opportunity to operate the CIGR Ejournal. Since the 2004 CIGR International Conference held in Beijing, more and more Chinese agricultural engineering scientists have been actively involved in the CIGR academic activities and have been playing positive roles in promoting CIGR worldwide. From 2007, China has been seeking the opportunity to host the CIGR Ejournal. The three-party agreement was signed on October 16, 2009 among CIGR, CSAM and CSAE in the CAAMS in Beijing, which was a big step forward for the CIGR Ejournal to come to China. CAAMS provided 1 million RMB Yuan for journal as the launching fund. Two rooms for the Editorial Office of the CIGR Ejournal are ready now, equipped with internet connection facilities, computers, printers, fax machines, four lines of telephones as well as the furniture. Apart from the facilities, five staff members of the CIGR Ejournal Editorial Office have been selected and employed. The incoming Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Wang Yingkuan from CSAE has been recommended and selected by both China and CIGR due to his outstanding professional qualifications. He appreciated that Prof. Bill Stout accepted the invitation to serve as the advisor to the CIGR Ejournal. Prof Li also promised, as the host of the CIGR Ejournal, CAAMS will be glad to provide whatever is needed by the CIGR Editorial Office and will be happy to offer the best support service. CAAMS will also invite the universities and research institutes in China to make contributions to the CIGR Ejournal. Prof Li stressed that the operation of the CIGR Ejournal should follow the CIGR-CSAM-CSAE Three-party Agreement and the Bylaws drafted by the CIGR Presidium. We will also rely on the CIGR section chairs and editors to ensure high quality, make the best use of the talented people both in China and abroad, and upgrade the professional level of the Editorial Office staff by continued technical training. He disclosed the Dr, Wang Yingkuan, the incoming Editor-in-Chief, has a detailed business plan to improve the journal. He believe with joint efforts of all the related parties under the guidance of the CIGR Presidium and the leadership of the Editor-in-Chief, the CIGR Ejournal can be made into a first-class international journal equal to the best journals in the agricultural/biological engineering area. 5. Main points of the address given by Prof. Zhu Ming, President of CSAE and CAAE Prof Zhu Ming first greeted all the friends and guests there. He expressed his great honor and excitement to witness the inaugural ceremony of CIGR Ejournal handover to China. Prof Zhu gave his heartfelt thanks to CIGR Presidium and foreign friends for their friendship, trust and support, so that China can operate the CIGR Ejournal. He warmly welcomed CIGR Ejournal to China, on behalf of Chinese agricultural engineers and scientists! He is quite convinced that Chinas agricultural engineering will be booming together with the prosperity of CIGR Ejournal. Therefore, maintaining a strategic cooperative partnership between CIGR and CSAE/CSAM is a win-win policy, which is good for all. Prof Zhu believes that the joint efforts of two strongest societies, CSAM and CSAE and academies, CAAMS and CAAE in China as cosponsor to operate the journal, will surely accelerate the development of CIGR Ejournal. Dr. Wang Yingkuan from CSAE is well qualified and completely competent for the new editor-in-chief. Prof Zhu promised, as the President of CAAE and CSAE, he ensure that CAAE and CSAE will give full support to run this journal. CSAE will conduct close cooperation with CSAM and CIGR to promote the journal. Last, he wish CIGR Ejournal a great success in China and worldwide! 6. Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief, s hared his ten new ideas on further improvement and promotion of the CIGR Ejournal. Starting with using a definite title of the Ejournal, transforming into a quarterly periodical publication as a professional and scientific journal, active communication with all indexing databases, improving and customizing the journal websites, increasing the visibility and accessibility of journal website, organize OJS training for section editors and editorial staff, strengthening the editorial team by training, improving journal manuscript process, inviting good papers and organizing an international editorial board with over 100 members from about 50 countries. Dr. Wang stressed that he would really appreciate more liberty and decision-making power to handle the journal affairs independently, and should have a major voice in editing and publishing this journal, since CIGR, CSAM and CSAE trusted and selected him as the editor-in-chief. Dr. Wang gave his special thanks to Prof Bill Stout, Zhu Ming and Li Shujun for trusting and recommending him as the new editor-in-chief, and great assistance, guidance, effort and support to host the CIGR Journal in China. Dr Wang believes and wishes this journal a great success in China and around the world! 7. Brief report on the preparation work for the CIGR E-Journal Editorial Office was given by Prof. Lanfang Zhang, International Cooperation Department of CAAMS. The preparation work includes six aspects: 1) Leaders of CSAM and CSAE discussed the operation of the CIGR Ejournal with the CIGR Presidium. Dr. Shujun Li visited the University of Florida and talked with Prof. Fedro and Prof. Jiannong Xin on the CIGR Ejournal matters. 2) A team was set up with Dr. Li Shujun as the leader, and three working meetings were held to make the business plan, formulate the working timetable and the detailed steps to implement the plan. 3) Five staff members for the CIGR Editorial Office were selected and employed, and the first short training on OJS was conducted and the professional training on OJS and the editing expertise training are also planned by new Editor-in-chief Dr. Wang Yingkuan. 4) The present editor-in-chief Prof. Fedro made frequent communications with the incoming Editor-in Chief Dr. Wang Yingkuan, and four online meetings were held between the two editors and the meeting minutes were made, which very much ensured the smooth handover of the CIGR Ejournal from US to China. 5) CAAMS allocated two office rooms equipped with all the necessary facilities and furniture. CAAMS also provided one million RMB Yuan as the fund for staring the operation of the CIGR Ejournal. 6) The Editor-in-Chief Dr. Wang Yinkuan spent a lot of time on visiting the CIGR website and the CIGR Ejournal website to learn more information and try to find out what should be improved. He drafted a detailed plan to improve the quality and promote the journal. 8. After the formal announcement by Prof. Fedro Zazueta, on behalf of Prof. Sren Pedersen, President of the CIGR, the CIGR E-Journal has officially moved to China, and Dr. Wang Yingkuan has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief of the CIGR E-Journal. After the formal announcement of the handover of CIGR Ejournal, farewell was given to foreign guests and video conference was ended. The rest of the participants presented in a meeting room proceeded to the 2 nd floor of the same building for the unveiling ceremony of CIGR Editorial office and Editor-in-Chief office. Prof. Li Shujun and Prof. Zhu Ming jointly unveiled the nameplate of the Editorial Office. Prof. Wang Maohua and Dr Wang Yingkuan jointly unveiled the nameplate of the Editor-in-Chief office of the CIGR E-Journal. The ceremony was officially closed after taking some group photo s. The whole process of the Inauguration Ceremony of the CIGR Journal Handover to China has been recorded, and the video clips will be played during the 2010 CIGR World Congress at Quebec, Canada, on Ju ne 13-17, 2010. After the ceremony, a luncheon party was held to celebrate the successful ceremony and smooth handover.
TenProposals for improving the journal: Address at CIGR Ejournal Handover Ceremony By Dr. Wang Yingkuan Incoming Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Managing Editor of IJABE, Associate Editor-in-chief of Transactions of the CSAE, CSAE and CAAE Dear Mr. Incoming President and Editor-in-Chief Prof Fedro Zazueta, Prof Wang Maohua, Prof Bill Stout, Prof Zhu Ming, Prof Li Shujun and other CIGR Officials and Members, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: Good morning and good evening ! Thank you all. I am excited and happy to be selected as the new editor-in-chief. I will try my best to improve, publicize and promote the CIGR J ournal. Since all the leaders and distinguished guests have delivered excellent speeches ， I will not repeat their kind words of praise and thanks. Today, I am going to share ten of my new suggestions on how to improve and promote the CIGR Journal. First, Unify one definite title of CIGR Journal I know from the emails that CIGR was criticized by Thomson ISI for the confusing journal titles. According to my rough statistics, we have used ten journal titles. They are as follows: E-Journals CIGR Journal CIGR Ejournal CIGR ejournal CIGR E-Journal (hyphen) The CIGR Electronic Journal Agricultural Engineering International: The CIGR EJournal ( the Presidium approved this one as the official name, but it can be changed by approval of the appropriate body) Agricultural Engineering International: The CIGR Journal of Scientific Research and Development The CIGR Journal of Agricultural Engineering Scientific Research and Development The CIGR Journal of AE Scientific Research and Development I will not make a decision on this, but I welcome suggestions on a good title after in-depth investigation. Frankly, I prefer CIGR Journal. Second, Behave like a journal The present practice of publishing one volume each year is not desirable and scientific. It is more like an online archive depositing some peer reviewed papers, rather than a journal. A journal is a serial publication, thus it should be published periodically. Therefore, some changes are needed. I plan to make the CIGR Journal a Quarterly publication with four issues a year, with volume and number of issues. I also wish to change the appearance, say, design a journal cover, adopt two-column format, add a page header with running title, journal title, volume and number of issue , making it more like a professional and scholarly journal. Third, Keep aggressive contact with indexing system I will conduct active communication with all indexing databases with the focus on Thomson ISI and EI. Certainly, we must continuously improve the quality of our journal. We also need to make some changes to meet the criteria of the indexing databases such as SCI and EI. Fourth, Improve and customize the journal website I will improve and customize the journal website. There are great opportunities for improving the journal website. I will provide detailed journal introduction, guide manuals for authors, reviewers and editors. To enlarge the expert databases of our journal to provide strong support to peer review is also an important task. Fifth, Increase the accessibility and visibility of journal website I will add a direct hyperlink to CIGR Journal in CIGR website. There is a link that leads to a brief introduction to the journal, but it cannot navigate to the journal website. What I need is to navigate directly to the journal homepage after clicking the journal link. I will also try to exchange interlinks with other related journals. After publishing each issue, I will use OJS to send an Article Alert to all the registered users of our journal. All those measures will greatly increase the accessibility and visibility of our journal and published papers. Sixth, Organize OJS training CIGR Journal uses Open Journal System (OJS) to receive submissions, conduct peer review, communicate with all users and publish papers online. Skillful use of OJS will improve the efficiency of handling manuscripts. The best solution to break the bottleneck is to provide OJS training. I plan to organize OJS training for our section editors and editorial staff. I may provide some online video guides for reviewers, authors and readers. Seventh, Strengthen the team of Section editors and editorial staff In order to strengthen our editorial team and also share the workload, I will invite more experts to serve as the section editors. I also plan to appoint more professional editorial staff, including science editors, English editors, copy editors, full time or part-time. Moreover, all kinds of training such as technical writing, editing, reviewing, proofreading for authors, reviewers and in-house editors will be provided. Eighth, Improve journal manuscript process Reasonable journal manuscript process will be made with a timetable for each procedure. We will monitor the review process, to ensure a timely, serious and high quality peer review with good review comments and constructive suggestions. We will ask the authors to make timely and effective revisions with a response letter addressing to the review comments. I plan to strengthen the post-review process, with more emphasis on editing, English polishing, formatting, proofreading, online publishing, to improve the writing and presentation of accepted papers. Ninth, Invite and solicit good papers Free submissions are not enough for a good journal. We cannot sit and wait for free submissions from authors. I will do my possible to invite good-quality papers. I will encourage our staff editors to attend symposia and meetings, contacting scientists face to face and inviting papers. Tenth, Organize an International Editorial Board I will organize an international editorial board of CIGR Journal. The board will consist of over 100 members from over 50 countries. An international editorial board will attract worldwide participation and support. These are just some of my plans. I have a lot of new ideas to improve and promote the journal, and there are many, many things to do. Since CIGR, CSAM and CSAE trust me as the editor-in-chief, I really appreciate more liberty and decision-making power to handle the journal affairs independently. I should have a major voice in editing and publishing this journal. Finally, I have to thank one of my best friends, Prof Bill Stout, for his selfless service and great contribution to the journal in the past ten years. He has launched this journal and has been working hard for it persistently for ten years. Thank him for trusting and recommending me as the new editor-in-chief of the CIGR Journal. I really appreciate his great assistance and guidance serving as an adviser after his resignation. Special thanks also go to Prof Zhu Ming and Prof Li Shujun for their great effort and support to host the CIGR Journal in China. I ask all of you to support the CIGR Journal and me as ever in the future. I wish this journal a great success in China and around the world! Thank you,
Address at Inaugural Ceremony of CIGR E-Journal Handover to China By Prof. Wang Maohua, Honorary President of CSAE and CSAM, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) April 7, 2010 Beijing Dear Distinguished Incoming President and Editor-in-Chief of CIGR E-Journal, Prof.Fedro Zazueta, Dear Honorary president of CIGR, Prof. Bill Stout, Dear colleagues of CIGR, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very happy to meet so many friends of our CIGR community here for the inaugural ceremony of CIGR E-Journal handover to China . This is a significant landmark in further promotion of the cooperation between CIGR and Chinese agricultural engineering federation. 21 years before in 1989, the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery (CSAM) and the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE) were joined as a Chinese Federation of CSAM and CSAE to represent agricultural engineering professional community in China to become a national member of CIGR. Since then, the academic exchange and friendship between Chinese agricultural engineers and colleagues of worldwide agricultural and biological societies have become more and more close link with good cooperation development. In the past 80 years, the CIGR have played a great role in consolidation of worldwide agricultural engineering communities to promote knowledge and experience transfer and contribute to change the conventional agriculture into modern food production system with advanced engineering and management technologies in the world. Some Chinese Scholars have actively involved in CIGR leadership and sessions in promotion of academic activities. In 2004, the CIGR International Conference with the theme of The Olympics of Agricultural Engineering was successfully held in Beijing . I would like to express my sincere thanks to all former and active CIGR leadership, all our friends for their great trust, friendship and cooperation. The CIGR E-Journal Handover to China from today will be much helpful for Chinese federation of CSAM and CSAE to learn more experience for CIGR activities. Here I would like to thank the former president of CIGR, Prof. Bill Stout, for his initiation to propose the CIGR E-Journal Handover to China and to extend CIGR E-Journal editorial experience to Chinese Editorial group in many years. I believe that the editorial board and both the CSAM and CSAE will do best efforts to make the EJournal even great success and continuous getting support and guidance from all of you! I believe the CIGR E-Journal will provide good services to CIGR community in the future! The cooperation of Chinese Federation of CSAM CSAE with CIGR is a multi-win-win strategy. In the past, we all benefited a lot from our successful cooperation. In the future, we will write a new chapter in the further even successful cooperation. Great thanks to CIGR Leaders have made the decision that the 18th CIGR World Congress in 2014 will be held in Beijing , China . We will do our best to co-sponsor this important event. Chinese Agricultural and biological engineering community will maintain a close relationship and cooperation with CIGR and establish a strategic cooperative partnership among CIGR, CSAM and CSAE. The world become flat, the fast advances of information and communication technology will change our working and life pattern and will have chance to use the new technologies to create a harmonious world. Thank you.
王 应 宽 2010-04-14 Beijing, China Address at Inauguration Ceremony of CIGR Ejournal Handover to China Address by Dr Bill Stout CIGR Honorary President Former CIGR Ejournal Editor-in-Chief Good morning to my dear friends and colleagues in China! Good evening to others! I am honored to be invited to participate in this video conference to inaugurate the CIGR Ejournal operations in China. As many of you know, I have been associated with the Ejournal since the original concept was born. It was in August, 1998. I was in Oslo, Norway visiting with CIGR Honorary President, Prof. Egil Berge. We were discussing the need for CIGR to host a means for dispersing technical information to its members in some 95 countries and others interested in agricultural engineering technology around the world. The idea of some kind of international journal emerged. But how? Paper journals are expensive, far beyond the financial resources of CIGR. We talked about the possibility of an electronic journal which has many advantages over paper journals and is much less expensive. I went home and talked with my Texas AM colleagues. They were enthusiastic about the idea and Dr George Sabbagh stepped forward and volunteered to serve as the first Editor-in-Chief. I should also acknowledge the dedicated service of two other Editors-in-Chief---Dr Rosana Moreira and Dr Lingjuan Wang. All these Editors served admirably for several years. The first year, 1999, we published only 7 technical articles and 2 invited overviews. The number of submissions and published articles grew every single year during the first 10 years that I was involved. By the end of 2009 we had published 484 peer reviewed original research papers and 115 invited overviews with authors from 57 countries. All this was done with no cost to authors or readers. But as the Ejournal continued to grow in numbers and quality it became apparent that the workload of processing the submissions was outgrowing the capability of a volunteer Editor-in-Chief to handle. Dr Fedro Zazueta, IT Specialist at the University of Florida (and Incoming President of CIGR) stepped forward and proposed that the Ejournal adopt the Open Journal System, an automated technical journal management system. Everyone agreed so Dr Zazueta was appointed as Editor-in-Chief last year and starting with Volume XI, 2010, the OJS was used. And submissions continued to increase substantially---196 last year. China proposed to host the Ejounal some time ago. Prof. Li Shujun will give details in his address later in this program. That leads us to today---the inauguration of Dr Yingkuan Wang as the Editor-in-Chief under the sponsorship of CSAE and CSAM. Finally, I want to recognize CAAMS and its President, Dr Li Shujun for the moral and financial support for the Ejournal. Details will be given in other presentations. The future of the CIGR Ejournal is bright. It is serving a critical need by providing technical information for both developing countries and industrial countries around the world. It continues to strive for higher quality and is well on its way to becoming as good as any of the best journals in the field of agricultural and biological engineering. I wish the new Editor-in-Chief, Dr Yingkuan Wang and all his colleagues well as they undertake this important assignment. And I look forward to continuing to work as their advisor and supporter. Thank you.
王 应 宽 2010-004-04 Beijing, China 国际农业与生物工程学会会刊 CIGR Journal 即将落户中国 经过前一段时间的联系和我与 CIGR 即任主席 Fedro 教授之间多次视频会议，终于确定了 CIGR 期刊移交中国承办的具体事项。经过商议，拟准备于 2010 年 4 月 7 日上午 9-11 点在中国农业机械化科学研究院（ CAAMS ） A606 会议室举行 CIGR 期刊落户中国移交启动仪式。会议将邀请的外宾包括国际农业与生物工程学会（ CIGR ）主席团（主席、当选主席、上任主席和秘书长）、 7 个专业技术分会主席、 CIGR 会刊栏目主编和特邀嘉宾等 20 余人。国内参会代表包括中国农业工程学会和农机学会的名誉理事长汪懋华院士、 CIGR 专业技术分会的委员中国代表，中国农业工程学会领导及代表、中国农业机械学会领导及代表和 CAAMS 国际合作部成员、 CIGR 会刊编辑部全体工作人员等 20 余人。会议的语言为英语。所邀请的 CIGR 主席团成员、各分会主席、栏目主编等外宾将通过网络视频 (Video Conference) 形式参加会议。国内参会代表全部到现场开会。启动仪式之后，王应宽博士将接任 CIGR 会刊主编， CIGR 期刊正式移交落户中国。会议中英文议程附后。欢迎关注，期待支持。 中文议程 国际农业与生物系统工程学会会刊 CIGR Journal 落户 中国移交启动仪式议程 时间： 2010 年 4 月 7 日 ，星期三，上午 9:00-11: 00 A .M. 地点： 中国农业机械化科学研究院（ CAAMS ）六层会议室 A606 召集人 ： CAAMS 院长、 CSAM 副理事长李树君研究员 CAAE 院长、 CSAE 理事长朱明研究员 主持人： CAAMS 国际合作部张兰芳研究员 CAAE, CIGR Ejournal 新任主编王应宽博士 出席人员： CIGR 主席团成员（现任主席 Pedersen 、当选主席、上任主席、秘书长等） CIGR 当选主席、 CIGR 期刊现任主编 Fedro Zazueta 教授 CIGR 前任主席、 CIGR 期刊创始人及前任主编 Bill Stout 教授 CIGR 执委， UFL 教授辛建农博士； USDA-ARS, TAMU 教授兰玉彬博士 CIGR 各专业技术分会主席和期刊栏目主编 ( 但因时差未必都参加 ) CIGR 各专业技术分会执委中国代表汪懋华院士、李保明教授、黄冠华教授 中国农业机械学会领导及代表（李树君、赵小鹏、张兰芳、刘瑞文、张振新、国际部和编辑部工作人员等） 中国农业工程学会领导及代表（朱明、秦京光、管小冬、靳佩贞、魏秀菊、王应宽） CIGR EJournal 期刊编辑部兼职编辑 Rabi Rasaily, Lingyan Iris Zhang 议程： 主持人介绍参会来宾 1 CIGR 当选主席、 CIGR 期刊现任主编 Fedro Zazueta 教授致辞（网络视频） 2 汪懋华院士致辞 3 CIGR 前任主席、 CIGR 期刊创始人及前任主编 Bill Stout 教授致辞（网络视频） 4 中国农业机械学会副理事长、中国农业机械化科学院院长李树君研究员致辞 5 中国农业工程学会理事长、中国农业工程研究设计院院长朱明研究员致辞 6 新任主编王应宽博士致辞 7 CAAMS 国际合作部张兰芳研究员介绍 CIGR 会刊编辑部前期筹备情况 8 CIGR 主席 Soren Pedersen 教授宣布 CIGR 会刊正式落户中国（网络视频） 会议室的视频会议结束，与外方视频人员告别，转到二楼办公室举行揭牌仪式。 9 中国农业机械学会领导李树君和中国农业工程学会理事长朱明联合为 CIGR 期刊编辑部新址揭牌 10 仪式结束，合影留念。共进午餐。启动仪式将全程录像，影像资料将在 6 月份魁北克举行的 2010 CIGR World Congress 期间播放。 2 英文议程 Inauguration Ceremony of CIGR Journal Handover to China Time: 9:00-11: 00 A .M, April 7, 2010, Wednesday Venue: Meeting Room A606, Office Building, CAAMS Organizer: Prof. Li Shujun, Executive President of CAAMS, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, Member of Executive Board of CIGR Prof. Zhu Ming, President of CAAE CSAE, Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the CSAE, Vice Standing Chairman of IJABE International Editorial Board Master of Ceremony (Emcee): Prof. Lanfang Zhang, International Cooperation Department, CAAMS Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, CAAE Attendees: CIGR Presidium: President: Prof. Sren Pedersen Past President: Prof. Irenilza de Alencar Ns Incoming President and Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal: Prof. Fedro Zazueta Secretary-General: Prof. Toshinori Kimura Invited Guests: Prof. Bill Stout, Honorary President of CIGR, Former Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Founder of CIGR Ejournal, USA Prof Jiannong Xin, Member of Executive Board of CIGR, University of Forida, USA Prof Yubin Lan, Agricultural Engineer and Professor, USDA-ARS at Texas AM University, College Station, USA. Section Chairs and Section Editors of CIGR Ejournal: Jose Tarjuelo-Section I Chair Daniel Berkmans-Section II Chair John K. Schueller-Section III Chair Mikio Umeda-Section IV Chair Pietro Piccarolo-Section V Chair Jozef Grochowicz-Section VI Chair Antonio M Saraiva-Section VII Chair Andre Aarnink Thomas M. Banhazi Laszlo Baranyai Remigio Berruto William Joseph Chancellor (resigned) Antonio Brasa Ramos Richard Love (resigned) Milan Martinov Neil McLaughlin Soren Pedersen (included) Fedro S. Zazueta Ranahan (included) Bill A Stout (included) Guanhua Huang (included) Chinese Representatives of CIGR Technical Sections: Prof. Wang Maohua, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Member of CIGR Technical Section VII, Honorary President of the CSAE CSAM, Editor-in-Chief of IJABE, China Agricultural University(CAU), China Prof. Li Baoming, Member of CIGR Technical Section II, Vice Dean of College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, China Prof. Huang Guanhua, Secretary of CIGR Technical Section I, Section Editor of CIGR Ejournal, Director of Chinese-Israeli International Center for Training in Agriculture (CIICTA), CAU, China Leaders and Representatives from Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery (CSAM) Prof. Li Shujun, Executive President of CAAMS, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, Member of Executive Board of CIGR Dr. Zhao Xiaopeng, Director, International Cooperation Department of CSAM Prof. Liu Ruiwen, Deputy Secretary-General of CASM Prof. Zhang Zhenxin, Deputy Secretary-General of CASM Prof. Lanfang Zhang, International Cooperation Department of CSAM Mrs. Li Qing, International Cooperation Department of CSAM Mrs. Wang Jin, International Cooperation Department of CSAM Ms. Zhang Pengzi, International Cooperation Department of CSAM Leaders and Representatives from Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE) Prof Zhu Ming, President of CAAE CSAE, Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the CSAE, Vice Standing Chairman of IJABE International Editorial Board Prof Qin Jingguang, Secretary General, CSAE Jin Peizhen, Director of Information Center, CAAE Prof Guan Xiaodong, Vice Standing Secretary General, Vice Director, CSAE Prof. Wei Xiuju, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the CSAE, CAAE Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Managing Editor of IJABE, Incoming Editor of CIGR Ejournal All staff from the CIGR Editorial Office including part-time editors Rabi Rasaily, Lingyan Zhang AGENDA Master of Ceremony (Emcee) introduces all the attendees 1 Address by Prof. Fedro Zazueta (Via Video Conference) 2 Address by Prof. Wang Maohua, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering 3 Address by Prof. Bill Stout (Via Video Conference) 4 Address by Prof. Li Shujun, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, Executive President of CAAMS. 5 Address by Prof. Zhu Ming, President of CSAE and CAAE 6 Address by Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief 7 Report on the preparation work for the CIGR Ejournal Editorial Office by Prof. Lanfang Zhang, International Cooperation Department of CAAMS. 8 Formal announcement by Prof. Sren Pedersen, President of the CIGR Ejournal Handover to China Farewell to the foreign guests and End of Video conference Proceed to the second floor of the Office Building of CAAMS, where the CIGR Editorial office and Editor-in-Chief Office locate, to hold the Opening Ceremony. 9 Prof. Li Shujun, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, and Prof. Zhu Ming, President of CAAE CSAE, jointly unveil the nameplates of the Editorial Office and the Editor-in-Chief office of the CIGR Ejournal. 10 Closing the ceremony. Taking group photos. The Inaugural Ceremony of the CIGR Journal Handover will be recorded and the video clip will be played during the 2010 CIGR World Congress at Quebec, Canada, in June 2010.
王 应 宽 2010-03-19 Beijing, China CIGR 期刊网络工作会议纪要（ 2010-03-17 ） CIGR Ejournal 期刊工作会议如期举行，此次参加会议的人数增加，有 5 人在不同的地方通过计算机终端参会。会议由本人发起召集，通过 Skype 的 Conference 组建会议功能，召集大家开会。因为网络问题，会议期间有几位几次被 Kick out of the meeting 。会议很热闹，除了了完成各项议程，还进行了友好热烈的讨论。特别难能可贵的是， CIGR 前任主席、名誉主席， CIGR Ejournal 创始人和前任主编， Texas AM University 退休教授 Bill Stout 博士凌晨 4 点多就起床来参加会议，开完会有才回去睡回笼觉。会后他的会议评论很有参考价值，对以后的工作很有帮助。非常感谢各位的支持！ 会议确定下次视频会议的时间为 2004 年 4 月 1 日。就是愚人节那天！ 贴出会议纪要和 Bill Stout 的评论在此，以作纪念。 Agenda CIGR Journal Transition Meeting 2 7:30 AM Eastern March 17, 2010 Online Meeting In attendance: Wang Yingkuan*, Bill Stout*, Lanfang Zhang*, Xiaopeng Zhao*, Jiannong Xin, Fedro Zazueta* Call to order - 7:39 Changes to the Agenda Timetable for the transition of CIGR Ejournal Transition will take place immediately after the Journal board is in place. An announcement will immediately follow. Wang added: Wang and his editorial team plan to get started in early April after the CIGR announcement. A launching ceremony for CIGR Ejournal transition will be held jointly by CSAM and CSAE. OJS training for editorial staff will be provided in late March. Amendment of the Bylaws (May be discussed in next meeting) Changes to bylaws will follow standard parliamentary procedure, requiring approval by the Presidium. Observations: 1) Title of the Journal is not clear, this needs to be consistent. ISI is confused with it. 2) Some inconsistencies in repeated numbered headings that need to be addressed. 3) CIGR is an open access journal. Need to address copyright issue who holds the copyright author, CIGR?- 4) Composition of Journal Policy board. Members for geographic representation-. 5) Wang may not have the last version of the Bylaws. Communication from Thompson Scientific Request from Thompson for a description of the journal, we will need to respond. Wang will carefully study the ISI criteria to make any necessary changes to the approach. Journal Process The process is a blind review process. Wang adds: In general, after the manuscripts are accepted, technical editing, formatting, proofreading are necessary to make the paper ready to publish. English language polishing may be needed for the accepted papers with poor English from non-English speaking countries. Finally, converting Word file to PDF, and then uploading to the journal website. 100 Member Board? (International Editorial Board) Create an Editorial Board - Leave to Journal Board to create under the Editor. Change ejounral to ejournal Wang and Fedro will discuss offline. Replacement for Richard Love Fedro will work with section chair. Process for Section Editors Suggest to Chairs to move forward quickly A process is in place for the Section Editors to be selected by the technical section. Any member of a member society can be a section editor. The editor may nominate some candidates of section editors to Section Chair for approval. Status of Board members Recommendations will come from EURAGENG will come next week. Not clear about Africa. Next Meeting April 1 st , same time and location. Adjourn 8:21 Prof Bill Stouts Comments added to the Minutes Hello Yingkuan , Lanfang and Fedro , ---It was good to participate as a rather silent partner in the Online Meeting. As my primary assignment in CAAMS this fall is to advise Yingkuan and the Ejournal, here are some of my views. I hope they are helpful. First, some opinions about the overall goals of the Ejournal (not necessarily in order of importance): ---to obtain approval by ISI, EI, etc ---to continue to improve the quality of published papers ---to maintain diversity of authorship among countries ---to maintain a balance of authorship between developing and industrialized countries ---to publicize the success of the Ejournal in various ways, eg exhibits at conferences, articles in the CIGR Newsletter, prepare summary of papers showing authorship by country(I can do this in the fall), etc ---emphasize no cost to authors and readers ---etc A general problem in the past---some Section Chairs have been non-responsive and ineffective as far as the Ejournal is concerned. Dont be surprised if we continue to have this problem. How did I handleI appointed a few Section Editors when the Section Chair failed to fulfill his/her responsibilities. A good example was Bill Chancellor who did an outstanding job as Editor for Section III and served for many years until he resigned recently. Perhaps the authority of the Editor to take this action should be built into the Ejournal Bylaws. We may have a similar problem with members of the Journal Policy Board. Unfortunately, my experience is that sometimes busy people will agree to serve, but later fail to perform as expected and necessary. The key will be to select members who are knowledgeable about editing/publishing and are truly interested. And then to give the Editor the authority to replace non-performing individuals. Agenda CIGR Journal Transition Meeting 2 7:30 AM Eastern March 17, 2010 Online Meeting In attendance: Wang Yingkuan*, Bill Stout*, Lanfang Zhang*, Xiaopeng Zhao, Jiannong Xin, Fedro Zazueta* Call to order - 7:39 Changes to the Agenda Timetable for the transition of CIGR Ejournal Transition will take place immediately after the Journal board is in place. StoutI agree. Lets activate Yingkuan as Editor as soon as practical and end the uncertainty of the transition . An announcement will immediately follow. Amendment of the Bylaws (May be discussed in next meeting) Changes to bylaws will follow standard parliamentary procedure, requiring approval by the Presidium. Observations: 1) Title of the Journal is not clear, this needs to be consistent. In the past ISI has criticized CIGR for using several different names for the Ejournal. We should review all pages of the website (including the CIGR general website, Ejournal website, OJS instructions for authors, etc) to make sure that we consistently use only the official approved name. 2) Some inconsistencies in the membership that need to be addressed. 3) CIGR is an open access journal. Need to address copyright issue who holds the copyright author, CIGR?- 4) Composition of Journal Policy board. Members for geographic representation-. 5) Wang may not have the last version of the Bylaws. Communication from Thompson Scientific (I have a large file of old correspondence with ISI. Yingkuandid I share any of this with you? Do you want any of the old letters?) Request from Thompson for a description of the journal, we will need to respond. Wang (Fedroit would be more personal if you would use Yingkuan, his given name. We should all be on a first name basis.) will carefully study the ISI criteria to make any necessary changes to the approach. Since many of us will be in Pittsburgh for the ASABE meeting in June, should you consider a visit to ISI in Philadelphia? I dont think that I need to be involved, but perhaps Yingkuan and Fedro should consider it. Journal Process The process is a blind review process. The process Fedro outlined is essentially the same as that followed since the beginning of the Ejournal 12 years ago. That is, approval of two qualified reviewers is required. The Editor checks submissions to make sure they deal with engineering and fall within the scope of the Ejournal. Also, when I was serving as Editor, I checked submissions to make sure they complied with the Ejournal Style and Format. Then the manuscripts are submitted to the appropriate Section Editor who selects qualified reviewers. When at least two positive reviews are received, their comments are sent anonymously to the authors who are instructed to carefully consider the reviewer comments and prepare a final draft. I always asked authors to give me a summary of the revisions made in response to reviewer comments and also a list of any reviewer suggestions that were rejected by the authors and their reasons. These records were kept of file for several years in case anyone questioned the review process (actually, this never happened). In the event of rejection of a manuscript by reviewers, it is the Editors job to diplomatically advise authors. I always said the manuscript is rejected in its present form. This gives authors a chance to make major revisions and possibly correct errors, do more research, etc and resubmit if they choose. 100 Member Board? (International Editorial Board ) (I was cut off Skype from this point until the discussion of the next meeting, so have no comments on this section) Create an Editorial Board - Leave to Journal Board to create under the Editor. Change ejounral to ejournal Wang and Fedro will discuss offline. Replacement for Richard Love Fedro will work with section chair. Process for Section Editors Suggest to Chairs to move forward quickly A process is in place for the Section Editors to be selected by the technical section. Any member of a member society can be a section editor. Status of Board members Recommendations will come from EURAGENG will come next week. Not clear about Africa. Next Meeting April 1 st , same time and location. Adjourn 8:21 This type of Online discussion is very useful to keep everyone informed and allow input from all. Best regards to all! Bill Stout 17 March 2010
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