Huge thanks to Kaitlyn Hair and Catherine Gibbons for excellent reviewer comments. 👍

We are an open science journal and I am *extremely pleased* to announce that we will be doing a CEC course on open science practices in research and publishing at #SOT2024 on 10 March. It'll cost a few quid but we have a great line-up and hope to make it worth your while!

In case you missed it, your Editor-in-Chief was on the Reproducibilitea podcast earlier this year, hoping not to make a fool of himself while talking about citational politics. open.spotify.com/episode/7tMF97…

NEW. A brief summary of the vision, mission, and flagship editorial policies of our journal. Includes an overview of the reasons for the policies (more detail forthcoming in an editorial, watch this space). Thoughts, questions always welcome! osf.io/n6baz

If you like a sneaky peaky, this is the presentation I am doing for the Navigation Guide webinar tomorrow (Tuesday). It's on what I learned about improving the quality of SRs Environment International and we are implementing for all submission types at EBT. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Your EiC is annotating focus group transcripts, where researchers discuss how bias can be introduced into studies. Each group agreed that lack of agreed protocol potentially biases research - which is why journals (er like mine ahem) need to step up and review & publish them.

We are very excited to announce that we have signed up to a randomised trial that will investigate how a registered-reports style process for manuscript revisions can help (and/or hinder?) the peer-review process. More details coming soon!

You like additional information? Here is some additional information! osf.io/tshqu/ Project is being coordinated by Center for Open Science with Noah Haber cracking the whip.

Just trying to figure out how to evaluate expert commentary submissions to the journal. ChatGPT proving tremendously useful once again - this is the kind of guidance that can easily be converted into a v1 appraisal questionnaire.

OK, so this is partly a systems check where your editor is submitting his own manuscript to ensure our processes work, but in his opinion (and that of the reviewers!) this is interesting work. Revision process is fully open, evaluation reports are here: zenodo.org/record/8042147

We are now officially a Real Journal, with our first paper published yesterday! 🥳 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A new preprint submitted to our journal. It is the second in a series by the same research group (disclosure: I am part of it, but do not decide the receiving journal). Hopefully, it will prove very interesting!

Open peer review is still annoyingly tricky to implement at journals in a clean and intuitive way. One challenge is connecting reviews to manuscripts. We are looking at medRxiv as providing a potential solution. linkedin.com/posts/ebt-jour…

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New evaluation report, for a protocol for proof-of-concept demonstration of automated data extraction in an evidence mapping context. A challenge to structure the planned methods. Asked for revisions and look forward to seeing the next draft. zenodo.org/records/100731…