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Additional thoughts on journal editorship: (1) I took the gig because I publish a lot of papers so a lot of people provide free labor on my behalf. I& #39;d been Associate Editor for 3 journals prior to this and had enjoyed the work. 1/
(2) I recognize that the publishers make a lot of money off our free labor but I also benefit by their willingness to publish mine and my students& #39;/postdocs& #39;/colleagues& #39; papers so this isn& #39;t a place I& #39;m willing to take a stand. 2/
(3) I agreed to do this after being contacted by a board member of the society that supports this journal saying that had very few applicants. I also agreed because very few women had been EICs over the years. 3/
(4) I also agreed because it was a co-editorship and the other person applying (Tasos Hovardas) was super eager and convinced me we could manage the work load. 4/
(5) In his defense, he did most of the non-editing work - editing the annual report, dealing with the publisher, etc. We both were assigned exactly half of the papers. 5/
(6) One of my goals in taking on the gig was to reduce the review times at this journal. We were very successful but that& #39;s also why it was so frustrating. Had to constantly be reviewing, nagging associate editors, reviewers, etc. 6/
(7) We also published some very cool special issues: including this one on evaluating collaborative conservation: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/33/4?nav=tocList">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr2... 7/
My personal favorite that looked at gender and sexuality in agriculture. The guest editors were both ECRs and really enjoyable to work with and the issue has some fantastic articles on a challenging topic. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/32/8?nav=tocList">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr2... 8/n
And this one& #39;s pretty cool as well looking at novel and controversial research methods in our field, guest edited by @KristinFloress. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/32/10?nav=tocList">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr2... 9/n
Tasos and I also managed to diversity our editorial board in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality so that was a positive thing as well. And we worked with our editorial board to examine if our review process was biased. 10/n
