Editorial Board Changes at OPO
2013; Wiley; Volume: 33; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/opo.12085
ISSN1475-1313
Autores Tópico(s)Visual perception and processing mechanisms
ResumoThe academic side of a research journal is run by an editorial team, whose number and role varies depending on the journal. OPO includes a small team of Associate Editors (now 8) who provide support to the Editor-in-Chief by taking an editorial lead on papers that fall within their area of expertise. i.e. they choose the reviewers, subsequently consider their reviews and finally make a decision on whether a manuscript should be accepted with minor, moderate or major revisions or rejected. In addition, OPO has a larger team of editorial board members (now 22) who support the journal in a number of other ways, such as making decisions regarding whether a paper should be fully reviewed or whether it should be rejected prior to full review. This approach is used to try to keep the ever-increasing reviewer workload to a minimum and to give authors a rapid response if a paper would ultimately be rejected. Feedback to the authors is provided by the editorial team member whenever a paper is rejected in this way. Editorial team members might also help the journal by identifying appropriate reviewers for papers and either suggesting topics for special themed issues and invited review papers or taking on the role of a special issue editor and/or invited review author themselves. Several long-term members of the editorial team are stepping down at this time. Bernard Gilmartin,1 editor-in-chief of OPO between 1987 and 2000 and a huge help to me when I started as editor-in-chief in 2010, has now retired and decided to hang up his OPO editorial boots. Thank you very much for all your support Bernard. Bernard's name will continue to be linked to the journal via the Bernard Gilmartin OPO Award. In addition, editorial board members Pablo Artal, Susana Chung, Ken Ciuffreda, Bruce Evans, Bill Harris, John Marshall, Eli Peli and David Regan have stepped down this year. Several of these hugely talented and extremely busy people have been supporting the journal for many years (back to when Bernard was editor in some cases!) and I would like to thank them all very much for their help. Plans for the development of the journal will continue as described previously:2 we will continue to publish themed issues, invited review papers and virtual issues and attempt to improve statistical reporting and provide a speedy, fair and robust review process. Although there is surprisingly limited evidence to indicate that peer review actually improves the quality of published work, there is evidence that adding a statistical reviewer to the process improves manuscript quality.2 Overload of statistical reviewers needs to be avoided, so that we are publishing invited review papers that discuss the statistical errors that most commonly appear in submissions3-6 and this will continue. These statistical guideline papers are free to access on our website. We will also continue to support the areas identified in our themed issues, invited review papers and virtual issues, which include (the list is not exhaustive): The role of vision in everyday activities,7 ocular epidemiology,8 vision and IT displays,9 myopia,10-13 visual and physiological optics,14 glaucoma,15, 16 in-practice research,17 and binocular vision.9, 18, 19 We currently have a call for papers for a feature issue led by Arthur Bradley (Indiana), Brendan Barrett (Bradford) and Kathryn Saunders (Coleraine) on “Binocular Vision: from laboratory to clinic” with a deadline for submissions of September 1st 2013. The new editorial team of 8 associate editors and 22 editorial board members is listed in the hard copy of the journal, on the following page and on our website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1475-1313/homepage/EditorialBoard.html. I am very grateful for those members of the team that have agreed to stay on for another term. Thank you! To help them with journal developments, I am very pleased to announce that Joanne Wood (QUT, Australia), Frank Schaeffel (Tübingen, Germany) and Jez Guggenheim (Hong Kong), previously editorial board members, are now taking on associate editor roles. In addition, I am very pleased to welcome new editorial board members Andrew Anderson (Melbourne), Arthur Bradley (Indiana), Jenny Burr (St. Andrews), Catey Bunce (Moorfields, London), Ruth van Nispen (Amsterdam), Jason Porter (Houston), Mark Rosenfield (SUNY) and Ben Thompson (Auckland). Welcome to the OPO editorial team! Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne, Australia Arthur Bradley, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Ben Thompson, University of Auckland, New Zealand Catey Bunce, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK Chi-Ho To, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Chris Hammond, Kings College, London, UK Daphne L. McCulloch, University of Waterloo, Canada David Atchison, Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia Dennis Levi, University of California, Berkeley, USA Gary Rubin, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK Gerald Westheimer, University of California, Berkeley, USA Jason Porter, University of Houston, USA Jennifer Burr, University of St. Andrews, UK John Lawrenson, City University, London, UK Keith Meek, Cardiff University, UK Konrad Pesudovs, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Mark Rosenfield, State University of New York, USA Robert Montés-Micó, University of Valencia, Spain Ruth van Nispen, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands Seang Mei Saw, National University of Singapore Thomas T. Norton, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA Tom van den Berg, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands Frank Schaeffel, University Eye Hospital, Tübingen, Germany Jeremy Guggenheim, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Joanne Wood, Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia Larry Thibos, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Mark Bullimore, University of Houston, USA Neil Charman, University of Manchester, UK Paul McGraw, University of Nottingham, UK Richard Armstrong, Aston University, UK
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