Dear All, sorry that I missed the Rosexec meeting in PAG, and has been less involving in this committee, felt quite bad. It has been very overwhelming in handling Hort. Res manuscripts, with some 400% increase of submission in 2019.
Dr. Velasco has mentioned to me that he made the announcement of 5th Intl Hort. Res Conference this year in Venice, Italy and he and Dr. Laurens also mentioned to me that there were some concerns on the impact factor of Horticulture Research in the Rosexec meeting, and how it would do this year and beyond. So I thought to give you some nutshell updates and thoughts.
HR was first published in Jan. 22, 2014, and now it is exactly five years old! At the very beginning, I set my goal to have its first impact factor (IF) around 3.5, so it would be placed it in the top among the horticultural journals, and it was perfectly matched with the first real IF in 2017, 3.6. For some reasons I have no idea, the IF was adjusted to 4.554 in September 2017, which was far above what I anticipated. I quickly realized that it would be "troublesome" for 2018, and it was dropped to 3.368. Although it was reasonable to think that a new journal will be bounce up and down some, but it worried some "whether it will continue to get lower". Rainbow (my assistant) and I, and many Associate Editors and authors had the same worry. 2018 was very strange, and many plant journals has their IFs dropped quite a lot, for example, Plant Physiology dropped below 6, or the number in some 10 years ago. Good news for Hort. Res is that it will be kept as one of the leading Horticulture or plant science journals. As of this week, Horticulture Res. is at 3.5 or so based on the WoS citation data, with still a couple of months remaining for data input (All 2018 published papers will be inputted into WoS by the end of March), so I am anticipating the IF for 2018 (to be released in the summer of 2019) will be somewhere between 3.5-4, not reaching to 4.554, but significantly above the 2018's 3.368.
I don't know how many of you know exactly how the IF is calculated. It is a simple fraction of total number of citations in current year (say, 2018) divided by the total number of papers published in the previous 2 years (2016 and 2017), so the more citations, the higher IF, and more papers published, potentially smaller IF. For 2019 released IF, Hort. Res. had nearly 9% more papers published, our anticipated IF would be 10-20% higher than that we had in 2018, so I am pleased that Hort. Res' IF in 2019 will be strong.
So what made the 2018 IF lower? I contributed it to a couple of reasons: fewer review articles, and more average # of citations per article, so we did not have a couple of "strong performers" articles, numerous review articles that I solicited, and were committed, got delayed, and many were still not submitted. Because of relatively few papers we have published, it would make a lot of difference. I hope that our series of review articles on "roadmap of Rosaceae crops" will help. They were also got delayed to the Spring, or even summer, some may be delayed to fall, so were many other reviews that I recruited, some of them were 2-3 year behind. ---I knew each one is extremely busy. I am still working on those, pushing, but have to be "nice". Haha!
A couple of other trends with Hort. Res. that is worth to mention. In the first three years, about 80% papers were coming from outside of China, in 2018, about 60% were from China, because they would not submit to journals without IF and they have the largest number of researchers and are producing increasingly better research papers, which I understand. So I encourage more submissions from outside of China.
In 2018, we had more than 700 submission, and published 75 articles, comparing to 34, 33, 36, and 40 articles in 2014-2017), so our rejection rate is nearly 90%, it may be too selective. We are anticipating to publish 100-120 papers in 2019, and keeps about 85-90% rejection rate, so we do have many high quality papers that deserve to be published. Therefore, the denominator in calculating IF will be much greater, our pressure to get more citations will be much greater too.
For a journal to have a great impact, the publishing field uses three standards: 1. IF--suggesting quality, 2. size of journal (# of papers published)-suggesting an active, strong research field, and 3. Diversity and source countries of papers. So I am facing triple challenges: keeping/improving impact factor, increasing # of papers to be published, and maintaining a broad source of papers to be published and come from. We are making a good progress in 2018 (IF will be 10-20% greater -to be released in summer 2019, and published papers were nearly 90% more). In 2019, the published papers will be likely increased by 50-60% to about 100-120 papers, hopefully our IF for 2019 (to be released in 2020) will be maintained in 3.5-4 range, certainly I would like to see it goes up above 4, but requiring more citations.
How can you help to maintain the high quality and high impact of Hort. Res? I encourage you: 1. Submit your best papers to Hort. Res, 2. Propose, contribute and recruit popular review and opinion/perspective papers which tend to get more citations, 3. Accept reviews and return reviews on time -fast turning around encourages authors to consider Hort Res as the first choice to submit. 4. If appropriate, citing papers published in Hort. Res, whether you are publishing in Hort Res, or not. I can't request, force anyone to do so, it is 100% voluntary.
Since the inception, I have the very strong support from all of you! I really appreciate everyone's strong support so far! Saying "thank you" is not enough! As I said, Hort. Res is a community journal and needs community support, you have supported, and I am sure you will continue to support, I am confident that you will!
Hope to see you in Venice in September 30-Octboer 4, 2019, if not sooner, or latest in RGC10 in Spain!
All the best to you all!
Max
From: rosexec-list-bounces(a)bioinfo.wsu.edu [mailto:rosexec-list-bounces@bioinfo.wsu.edu] On Behalf Of Main, Doreen
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 11:29 PM
To: rosexec-list(a)bioinfo.wsu.edu; gdr-list(a)bioinfo.wsu.edu
Subject: [Rosexec-list] RosEXEC and RosIGI Meeting Sunday Jan 13, 10-12 AM
Hi Folks,
Our annual RosEXEC/RosIGI meeting will be held 10 AM to noon PST this Sunday in Garden Salon 1 at PAG.
The meeting is open to all.
For those of you who would like to join by GoToMeeting the access information is as follows:
Please join our Rosexec/rosIGI meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/636604221
10 AM - Noon, PST, January 13, 2019
You can also dial in using your phone.
(For supported devices, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.)
United States: +1 (646) 749-3131
- One-touch: tel:+16467493131,,636604221
Access Code: 636-604-221
Joining from a video-conferencing room or system?
Dial: 67.217.95.2##636604221
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First GoToMeeting? Let's do a quick system check: https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check
Cheers
Dorrie
Dorrie Main, PhD
Professor of Bioinformatics
Department of Horticulture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774 (office)
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu<mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu>
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu<http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/>
Dear all,
Please find attached a draft of the meeting minutes for your review and edits. I have highlighted in yellow areas where that are incomplete or incorrect.
Thank you.
Lise
Lise L Mahoney, Ph D
Research Assistant Professor
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems
University of New Hampshire
Kendall Hall, 214
129 Main Street,
Durham, NH 03824
603-862-1187
Hi Folks,
Please find attached the GDR quarterly report and plan of work for the next quarter.
Sorry for not getting this to you in a more timely manner, exceptionally busy lately.
Also attached is the GDR renewal SRS proposal we submitted to the SCRI program. If we get invited for a full proposal we will submit the full proposal.
Cheers
Dorrie
Dorrie Main, PhD
Professor of Bioinformatics
Department of Horticulture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774 (office)
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu<mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu>
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu<http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/>
Hi Folks,
Please join us for the NRSP10 workshop at PAG which covers many aspects of using GDR for research.
Workshop: Database Resources for Crop Genomics, Genetics and Breeding: NRSP10
When: Sunday January 13, 1.30 – 3.40 PM
Where: Meeting Room
Presentations
1.30: Overview of NRSP10 - Achievements and Future Plan (Dorrie Main)
1.45: Using the Online GenSAS Platform for Community Genome Annotation (Jodi Humman)
2.00: Tripal v3, the Collaborative Online Database Platform for Genomic, Genetic and Breeding
Databases
2.15: Using NRSP10 Data and Tools for Basic Research (Sook Jung)
2.30: Using NRSP10 Data and Tools for Translational Research (Cameron Peace)
2.45: Using NRSP10 Data and Tools for Breeding (Ksenija Gasic)
3.00: Global Performance Prediction Tool in Tripal BIMS (Craig Hardiner)
3.15: Open Discussion of NRSP10
Overview
NRSP10 is a USDA NIFA, industry and US Land Grant Universities funded project which provides standardized database and informatic resources for undeserved or specialty crops such as tree fruit, nuts, cotton and berries. It builds on existing database resources developed for Rosaceae (Genome Database for Rosaceae, www.rosaceae.org), Citrus (Citrus Genome Database, www.citrusgenomedb.org), Vaccinium (Genome Database for Vaccinium, www.vaccinium.org), Cool Season Food Legumes (Cool Season Food Legume Genome Database, www.csfl.org) and Cotton (CottonGen, www.cottongen.org). Developed using Tripal, an open-source, resource-efficient, modular, well supported software platform, these community databases provide centralized access to integrated genomic, genetic and breeding data and analysis tools for 24 crops representing a combined annual production value of over $25B. In this training workshop, we present progress in NRSP10 through a series of presentations by users and discuss the next 5 year plan for this project.
Cheers
Dorrie
Dorrie Main, PhD
Professor of Bioinformatics
Department of Horticulture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774 (office)
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu<mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu>
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu<http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/>
Hi Folks,
Our annual RosEXEC/RosIGI meeting will be held 10 AM to noon PST this Sunday in Garden Salon 1 at PAG.
The meeting is open to all.
For those of you who would like to join by GoToMeeting the access information is as follows:
Please join our Rosexec/rosIGI meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/636604221
10 AM - Noon, PST, January 13, 2019
You can also dial in using your phone.
(For supported devices, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.)
United States: +1 (646) 749-3131
- One-touch: tel:+16467493131,,636604221
Access Code: 636-604-221
Joining from a video-conferencing room or system?
Dial: 67.217.95.2##636604221
Cisco devices: 636604221(a)67.217.95.2
First GoToMeeting? Let's do a quick system check: https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check
Cheers
Dorrie
Dorrie Main, PhD
Professor of Bioinformatics
Department of Horticulture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774 (office)
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu<mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu>
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu<http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/>
Dear all,
Thank you all who have submitted edits and additional information. Attached please find the final edit of the 17 October meeting minutes.
Happy New Year and best regards,
Lise
Lise L Mahoney, Ph D
Research Assistant Professor
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems
University of New Hampshire
Kendall Hall, 214
129 Main Street,
Durham, NH 03824
603-862-1187
