Editorial Freedom
Scientific Research Publishing Inc. (SCIRP) is a privately owned publishing house.
Editors (i.e. Editors-in-Chief and Editors as Members of the Editorial Board) are granted editorial freedom (editorial independence)
by the owners of SCIRP as it is accepted and good practice in scientific publishing (compare with links below).
Reason for the Advisory Board
SCIRP maintains a general common appearance among its journals and enforces common standards by giving guidance to its Editors.
The provision of the Generic SCIRP Peer Review Process (click on "Review Process")
for each journal is just one such example.
A balance has to be found between "editorial freedom" on the one hand and "common appearance and common standards" on the other hand.
In order to find this balance, SCIRP considered it useful to establish an
Advisory Board on the publisher's level of the organization.
Set Up and Working of the Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is made up of selected Editors-in-Chief and Editors active and supportive at SCIRP in matters also beyond their journals.
SCIRP is especially interested to develop itself in
Open Access publishing
and in the adoption of quality measures.
The publisher is very open to its Editor's advice.
It consults members of the Advisory Board individually in areas of their expertise.
SCIRP is also asking for the board's general and international point of view
by bringing board members together using electronic means of communication.
SCIRP Advisory Board Chairman and Members
Title | Name | Primary Affiliation | Country | Activity at SCIRP |
SCIRP Journal | SCIRP Biography Page |
Official Page at Institution |
Personal Page |
Other Relevant Page |
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CHAIRMAN | ||||||||||
Professor Dr. | Kuo-Chen Chou | Gordon Life Science Institute | USA | Editor-in-Chief | Natural Science (NS) | --- | ||||
MEMBERS | ||||||||||
Professor Dr. | Alessandra Bordoni | University of Bologna | Italy | Editor-in-Chief | Food and Nutrition Sciences (FNS) | --- | --- | |||
Dr. | Juan J. Canales | University of Canterbury | New Zealand | Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science (JBBS) | --- | --- | |||
Professor Dr. | Chris Cannings | University of Sheffield | UK | Editor | Journal of Information Security (JIS) | |||||
Professor Dr. | Leo Depuydt | Brown University | USA | Editor | Advances in Pure Mathematics (APM) | --- | --- | |||
Associate Professor Dr. | Tai-Yin Huang | Pennsylvania State University - Lehigh Valley | USA | Editor | Natural Science (NS) | --- | ||||
Associate Professor Dr. | Gwang-Hee Kim | Kyonggi University | South Korea | Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research (JBCPR) | --- | --- | |||
Professor Dr. | Seung-Yup Ku | Seoul National University | South Korea | Editor | Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OJOG) | |||||
Professor Dr. | Hosam M. Mahmoud | The George Washington University | USA | Editor-in-Chief | Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics (OJDM) | |||||
Professor Dr. | Ospan Mynbaev (independend scientist) | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia | Russia | Editor | Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OJOG) | --- | --- | |||
Professor Dr. | Dieter Scholz | Hamburg University of Applied Sciences | Germany | Editor-in-Chief | Advances in Aerospace Science and Technology (AAST) | |||||
Professor Dr. | Xuejun Sun | The Second Military Medical University | China | Editor-in-Chief | World Journal of Neuroscience (WJNS) | --- | --- | |||
Professor Dr. | Zhihua Zhang | Beijing Normal University | China | Editor-in-Chief | American Journal of Climate Change (AJCC) | --- |
Links
CSE: Relations between Editors and Publishers (Editorial Independence)
ICMJE: Journal Owners and Editorial Freedom
COPE: Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers (PDF)
The text was written in a team effort by international scientists and SCIRP staff in March 2014.
Compare this text with SCIRP's AboutUs page and SCIRP's page about the Advisory Board.