Council of Asian Science Editors

Case 10th Newsletter

Published on 30 December, 2024.
Edited by Geun Cheol Park and Tae-Sul Seo.

Contents

Meeting Report: The 8th Asian Science Editors’ Conference and Workshop 2024

Tae-Sul Seo
Secretary-General of Council of Asian Science Editors, KISTI

Figure 1 The cover page of the program book

The 8th Asian Editors’ Conference and Workshop 2024 was held at The Westin Hotel, Jakarta, with the theme “Reflecting on the past ten years of Asian Science Journal for the Future.” About one hundred and eighty participants from 11 countries attended the conference (Figure 2). It was a face-to-face conference six years after 2018 that commemorated the tenth anniversary of the CASE.

Figure 2 Number of participants by country

The program consisted of a plenary session, five workshop sessions, a forum, two invited talk sessions, and poster presentations. The plenary session was chaired by Zuriati Zakaria, Professor, IKM, Malaysia who was also the newly elected president of the Council of Asian Science Editor. In the plenary session, two presentations were given. Dr. Ramanathan Subramaniam, the former President of CASE, gave the first presentation. He addressed the outlook of Asian science journals, especially in the STEM discipline. He believed that Asian science journals could be improved and jump to the next level by considering strategic thinking. He suggested some critical issues for Asian science journals to raise their international status.

The second presentation was given by Mr. Yoga Dwi Arianda, scientific journal coordinator, Directorate of Research, Technology, and Community Service, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Indonesia. He gave information on how the Indonesian government measured the quality of a scientific journal and monitored the journal’s performance in Indonesia. He also showed us the scientific journal accreditation (ARJUNA) system which assesses strictly the journal quality through certain assessment aspects. Every journal has to meet the minimum criteria of journal assessment before being submitted to the ARJUNA portal. The result of the journal accreditation assessment was classified into six score levels displayed in the SINTA (Science and Technology Index) portal.

Dr. Ramanathan Subramaniam
Mr. Yoga Dwi Arianda

Figure 3 Presenters of the Plenary session

On the first day, five workshops proceeded as shown in Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7. In workshops 1 and 2, country reports of Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia were presented. In workshop 3, four experts presented how to improve the quality of Asian journals. Workshop 4 covered the subject of journal indexing in DOAJ, Scopus, and WoS. Finally, in workshop 5, two presentations on publishing ethics were conducted.

Past Ten Years of Korean Science Journals by Prof. Sue Kim
Past ten years of J-STAGE by Director Ritsuko Nakajima
Development of Indexing Journals in Thailand in International Database by Prof. Rattikorn Yimnirun
Past Ten Years of Malaysian Science Journals by Dr. Zuriati Zakaria

Figure 4 Presenters of the Workshop-1 & 2

Managing Journals and Improving Impact of Asian Journals by Mr. Daniel Prathipati
Improving the Quality of Science Journals by Dr. Jeffrey Robens
Best Practices of Journal Management at UNAIR: Maximizing Impact by Prof. Iman Harymawan
Best Practices and Case Studies of Persistent Identifiers in Journal Publishing by Ms. Estelle Cheng

Figure 5 Presenters of the Workshop-3

Mastering DOAJ Inclusion: Achieving Open Access Excellence for Asian Journals by prof. Ikhwan Arief
How Scopus helps research journals improve international impact? by Ms. Tracy Chen
Web of Science Journal Selection Process by Mr. Diu Seng See

Figure 6 Presenters of the Workshop-4

Strategies and actions pertaining to research and publication ethics by prof. Cheol-Heui Yun
From Ethical Issues to Practical Solutions: How AI Enhances Manuscript Preparation by prof. Ide Bagus Siaputra

Figure 7 Presenters of the Workshop-5

On the second day, a forum was held for the first time at this event (Figure 8). The forum dealt with artificial intelligence in journal publishing, a hot topic. Professor Kihong Kim introduced a recent trend of AI technologies used in journal publishing. An active discussion, by experts from Korea, India, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, was followed.

Presenter: Prof. Kihong Kim
Panels: President Basil D’Souza, Prof. Abrizah Abdullah, Prof. Cheol-Heui Yun, Prof. Ide Bagus Siaputra, and Mr. Barry Clarke

Figure 8 Forum for AI in journal publishing

The event was finalized after invited talk sessions including four speakers (Figure 9). Firstly, Professor Abdullah from Malaysia introduced the concepts of diamond open access and preprint as recent trends of journal publishing, while Dr. Hur from Korea introduced recent services of Crossref. Mr. Yoo from Korea and Mr. Clarke from Singapore dealt with peer review in journal publishing.

Embracing Diamond Open Access and Preprint Practices by Prof. Abrizah Abdullah
What’s New at Crossref by Dr. Yera Hur
Gain In-Depth Journal Insights and Find Peer Reviewers Easily with Scinapse By Mr. Junseon Yoo
Trends and Issues in Peer Review by Mr. Barry Clarke

Figure 9 Presenters of the Invited talk session-1 & 2

During the second day, eleven posters were presented (Figure 10). Four posters were from Korea and six were from Indonesia. Three Indonesian posters were from Universitas Airlangga. Best poster prizes were awarded to one from Korea and two from Indonesia.

Figure 10 A photo of a poster presentation