JRC EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD - OUR PERPLEXITIES REMAIN

JRC EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD - OUR PERPLEXITIES REMAIN


We draw your attention to the recently created JRC Editorial Review Board. Several of our members have expressed concerns about the need for such a board and the scope of its Terms of Reference. While agreeing that the JRC must ensure the highest quality possible for its publications, it has not been demonstrated that there is really currently a serious problem that needs to be resolved in this way.

See our original post in Connected for further details: Connected

R&D Ispra sent a note asking for clarification to the Acting DG C. Vitcheva. See here: R&D Note

We recently received this reply to our note: Reply from the DG

We appreciate the further explanations received, but remain not fully convinced about the scope and utility of the project. For example, the concern about increasing bureaucracy - it is stated that the 'Editorial Review Board will have to set up its own new process', but this is easier said than done.

We welcome any further comments you may have, and will transmit them to the DG in a meeting soon.

R&D Ispra