You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Your mentors might even discourage board membership out of concern that your time would be better spent on research. However, a board-member position could confer large, lasting dividends. The role typically requires a few hours each month more just before publication deadlines on tasks such as consulting with editors, recruiting authors or reviewing papers.
These positions are usually unpaid, but they offer important benefits. Your network will expand to include fellow editorial-board members around the country and the globe, and they could provide leads on professional opportunities or introduce you to new contacts in your discipline. As a mid-career mathematician with editorial-board experience, I can attest to these benefits.
Springer Nature publishes Nature. These appointments, although unpaid, helped me to reach several longtime professional goals. Time management for scientists. Soon after that meeting, I won a contract for the general-interest book that I had long wanted to write — a book that I expect will generate royalties and speaking engagements.
I also won an international grant with funding for travel and writing support, and access to the invitation-only Heidelberg Laureate Forum this September in Germany, so that I can write about this meeting in mainstream publications such as Quanta and The Washington Post. My editorial-board-member colleagues report similar career enhancements. One colleague, who had been a postdoc when she became a board member, landed a tenure-track position at her top-choice institution during her term on the board.
During her interviews, hiring-committee members mentioned how impressed they were with her editorial-board service. Another colleague was nominated for a faculty scholarship award at her university as a result of serving on our editorial board, a distinction that will be noteworthy in her future applications for promotion. Yet another fellow board member landed a paid editing job with a prestigious publisher that she works for — and enjoys — alongside her visiting assistant professorship.
How did I land my position? Identify a target publication or two on whose editorial board you would like to serve. Read your target publications to familiarize yourself with the topics, format, tone and length of accepted articles. Look at the credentials of those on the editorial board to determine whether any match — or could soon match — your own. Network with the editors of your target journal and with editorial-board members at professional conferences, where they often hold board meetings.
Although their meetings will probably be closed to non-members, you might be able to attend other panels or talks in which the members participate. Editorial board members: Review submitted manuscripts. Advise on journal policy and scope. Identify topics for special issues, which they may guest edit. Attract new authors and submissions. Promote the journal to their colleagues and peers. Tools and resources Researcher Academy modules Gender Bias in academic publishing Editors' Update articles What makes a strong editorial board?
About BMC Who we are Open access Advancing peer review Standards and affiliations Policies For Editors Assessing a new manuscript Finding peer reviewers Making an editorial decision Editorial policies Systems and tools Encouraging submissions Commissioning Promoting your journal Article promotion Developing the Editorial Board Promoting research through blogs Institutional support Partnerships and societies Publication costs and funding OA funding and policy support Advertising and sponsorship Press center Additional services News and events Careers Support and Contact Developing and maintaining Editorial Boards The backbone of any successful journal is an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board.
Responsibilities of the Editorial Board The Editorial Board should assist in a variety of aspects of running the journal. Their responsibilities may include but are not limited to : Providing scientific expertise for the journal Submitting articles Administering peer review or serving as a peer reviewer Helping the journal to attract high-quality manuscripts, for example by promoting the journal at relevant conferences Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal Suggesting topics and authors for commissioned reviews and commentaries Your journal contact will be happy to give advice and answer any queries you may have regarding the structure of your Editorial Board.
These may include: Improving peer review times. Peer review can often become delayed when trying to find suitable handling editors or reviewers for a manuscript.
Increasing the size of the Editorial Board can create a ready-made resource of potential reviewers or handling editors to be invited more quickly Increasing visibility. The Editorial Board are a great way to bring the journal to new audiences, particularly in new topics or countries. New Editorial Board members can be encouraged to tell their colleagues about the journal at conferences or talks Increasing submissions.
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