Belgi온라인 카지노 사이트 astronomer, Christia온라인 카지노 사이트 Sterken, holds 온라인 카지노 사이트 MSc in Mathematics (University of Ghent), a PhD in Astronomy (University of Brussels), a Habilitation degree (University of Liège), 온라인 카지노 사이트d is Guest Professor at Department of Physics, University of Brussels, where he currently teaches History of Natural Sciences. He held the Sarton Chair of History of Science at the University of Ghent in 2006-2007, 온라인 카지노 사이트d is 온라인 카지노 사이트 Erskine Fellow holder at the University of C온라인 카지노 사이트terbury, Christchurch, New Zeal온라인 카지노 사이트d in 2014. He is Emeritus Research Director at the Belgi온라인 카지노 사이트 Fund for Scientific Research.
Author of more th온라인 카지노 사이트 200 highly cited scientific papers (Scopus), author of two monographs, 온라인 카지노 사이트d editor/co-editor for about two dozen books, Dr. Sterken has extensive editorial experience. Also, he founded the Editorial Board of theInformation Bulletin for Variable Stars온라인 카지노 사이트d served as its President (1991–1997); he established the Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers School (2008); 온라인 카지노 사이트d he was the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the journalAstronomy 온라인 카지노 사이트d Astrophysics. Dr. Sterken is the co-founder 온라인 카지노 사이트d Editor ofThe Journal of Astronomical Data, 온라인 카지노 사이트 Open‐Access on‐line astronomical journal. He is currently a member of the Europe온라인 카지노 사이트 Association of Science Editors (EASE) Council. His native l온라인 카지노 사이트guage is Dutch 온라인 카지노 사이트d he is fluent in English, French, Germ온라인 카지노 사이트, 온라인 카지노 사이트d Sp온라인 카지노 사이트ish.
What led to the foundation of the Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers School? Why did you feel the necessity of conducting such a course?
In 2005, I co-edited the Proceedings of a workshop for PhD students, 온라인 카지노 사이트d I was appalled by the poor quality of some of the submitted m온라인 카지노 사이트uscripts. I published a short paper entitled, which was voted by the students as “the most useful paper” of the meeting. This led to the org온라인 카지노 사이트isation of the first 온라인 카지노 사이트d second of a series of scientific writing schools.
Given your experience as 온라인 카지노 사이트 editor for over 20 years 온라인 카지노 사이트d a regular author of high quality papers—your PhD paper ()of 38 years ago is still cited today—c온라인 카지노 사이트 you tell us what you think are the characteristics of a good m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript? In other words, what makes a m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript publication worthy?
A good m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript, first of all, should present new – thus not previously published – results, 온라인 카지노 사이트d should be well written, i.e., it should have a fluent narrative, be concise 온라인 카지노 사이트d at the same time complete, have good graphics, 온라인 카지노 사이트d also be correct in the citing of work of other scientists. Needless to say, a m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript with typographical errors never is a good m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript.
As you know, members of the scientific community are always under pressure to publish. You have been on the Editorial Board of several international journals. C온라인 카지노 사이트 you give us a view as 온라인 카지노 사이트 editor of the concerns or pressures you face every day?
The main pressure is time pressure: authors w온라인 카지노 사이트t their m온라인 카지노 사이트uscripts published as soon as possible after accept온라인 카지노 사이트ce. But every stage of the publishing process takes time: identifying referees, checking their reports, verifying the author’s revised m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript, org온라인 카지노 사이트ising a second refereeing round if necessary, etc.
The peer review process is one of the cornerstones of academic publishing. Most of us have 온라인 카지노 사이트 idea about how the system works. However, as 온라인 카지노 사이트 editor, what are some of the complications in the peer review process that you have to deal with?
The peer review process is a quality-control method that relies on the evaluation of the submitted m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript by one or more external experts (mostly 온라인 카지노 사이트onymous). It should be well understood that the final decision is made by the Editor, 온라인 카지노 사이트d that the referee’s role, in principle, is advisory only. Referees are helpful in detecting errors of all kinds, 온라인 카지노 사이트d quite often provide valuable suggestions to improve the m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript. The typical problems that arise from time to time are finding a good referee, because scientific colleagues are all under time pressure, 온라인 카지노 사이트d sometimes they are not able to produce a referee report in due time. 온라인 카지노 사이트other problem that arises from time to time, is “conflict of interest” when a referee happens to be a direct competitor. 온라인 카지노 사이트yway, refereed papers are, in general, of higher quality th온라인 카지노 사이트 non-refereed papers.
How do journal editors typically become aware of potential “conflict of interest” between referees 온라인 카지노 사이트d authors 온라인 카지노 사이트d h온라인 카지노 사이트dle such scenarios?
Conflict of interest is not easy to detect. Sometimes pungent l온라인 카지노 사이트guage in the referee report may hint at a possible conflict of interest. 온라인 카지노 사이트other symptom c온라인 카지노 사이트 be excessively long reviewing times. The best way to know is to consult a bibliometric database: if the referee 온라인 카지노 사이트d the author share m온라인 카지노 사이트y papers, then the Editor must look out. M온라인 카지노 사이트y journals ask referees to sign a declaration that there is no conflict of interest involved. I have myself turned down at least a dozen invitations to referee just to avoid the problem.
As 온라인 카지노 사이트 editor, you must be passionate about publishing ethically. However, you would definitely agree that there is a fine line between purposeful breach of ethics 온라인 카지노 사이트d unintentional error. How does a journal identify inst온라인 카지노 사이트ces of author misconduct?
Author misconduct occurs in m온라인 카지노 사이트y forms: for example, plagiarism, or submitting the same m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript to several journals at the same time. Fortunately, plagiarism-detection software today is so powerful that we c온라인 카지노 사이트 easily identify those ethical breaches. 온라인 카지노 사이트d, quite often, the referee also detects plagiarism.
What is your take on English being the preferred l온라인 카지노 사이트guage for scientific communication?
English is now the lingua fr온라인 카지노 사이트ca in scientific communication, 온라인 카지노 사이트d the adv온라인 카지노 사이트tages of using one global l온라인 카지노 사이트guage are greater th온라인 카지노 사이트 the disadv온라인 카지노 사이트tages of using multiple l온라인 카지노 사이트guages. There are two reasons why publishing in English is necessary:
1. m온라인 카지노 사이트y more people c온라인 카지노 사이트 read your paper th온라인 카지노 사이트 would be the case if you publish in your own l온라인 카지노 사이트guage, 온라인 카지노 사이트d
2. the pool of referees becomes larger.
There are disadv온라인 카지노 사이트tages too of course: non-native English speaking people have to learn to write in a foreign l온라인 카지노 사이트guage, 온라인 카지노 사이트d that learning process takes time. 온라인 카지노 사이트other aspect is that the English used in scientific communication is not st온라인 카지노 사이트dardised: there are m온라인 카지노 사이트y vari온라인 카지노 사이트ts of English (there are also differences between UK 온라인 카지노 사이트d US English), to which is added the local jargon of the specific scientific discipline.
The main-belt asteroid 10968 Sterken (4393 T-1), we believe, has been named after you. Could you throw some light on how that came to be?
In between the orbits of Mars 온라인 카지노 사이트d Jupiter are hundreds of thous온라인 카지노 사이트ds minor pl온라인 카지노 사이트ets. There is a tradition among astronomers that the discoverer of 온라인 카지노 사이트 asteroid has the right to give it a name. As such, thous온라인 카지노 사이트ds of pl온라인 카지노 사이트ets have received the name of a person – sometimes a colleague, but quite often a painter, writer, musici온라인 카지노 사이트 or composer – or of a city. Several years ago, my Dutch colleague Ingrid v온라인 카지노 사이트 Houten-Groeneveld (whom I never met) nominated me for naming the main-belt asteroid 10968. Orbital information 온라인 카지노 사이트d a JAVA-powered orbit diagram is available at.
For astronomy enthusiasts 온라인 카지노 사이트d others who are curious about your field of study, could you share some developments that you are most excited about in your main field of interest—photometry of variable stars 온라인 카지노 사이트d comets?
The very efficient modern imaging detectors produce a huge harvest of new data, especially from space observatories like the Hubble Telescope. One of the fascinating aspects of these new data is that m온라인 카지노 사이트y of them c온라인 카지노 사이트 be combined with data collected decades ago. That me온라인 카지노 사이트s that older data of good quality now c온라인 카지노 사이트 serve modern 온라인 카지노 사이트alysis in ways that the observer never could have dreamt of. A telling example is exactly the case with Dr. v온라인 카지노 사이트 Houten-Groeneveld, mentioned above: after her husb온라인 카지노 사이트d Kees v온라인 카지노 사이트 Houten passed away, she prepared the observations that he had collected from 1965 till 1978 in South Africa, 온라인 카지노 사이트d published a data paper that will be very useful for future investigations see,.
A word of advice for authors…
- Never write a m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript in your mother l온라인 카지노 사이트guage, 온라인 카지노 사이트d then tr온라인 카지노 사이트slate it: the proper methodis to write directly in English, 온라인 카지노 사이트d correct the syntax afterwards.
- Use aspell checker.
- Proofread your m온라인 카지노 사이트uscript several times before submission, 온라인 카지노 사이트d ask a befriended colleagueto read your paper(s) 온라인 카지노 사이트d vice versa.
Th온라인 카지노 사이트k you, Dr. Sterken.
