scieditorScience Editor and PublisherНаучный редактор и издатель2542-02672541-8122АНРИ10.24069/SEP-25-37scieditor-443Research ArticleEDITORIAL PROCESSESРЕДАКЦИОННЫЕ ПРОЦЕССЫManuscript management systems require sensible management: The case of authors from different geographic regionsОбоснованность требований в системах электронной редакции: кейс-исследование на примере авторов из разных регионов мираhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3299-2772Тейшейра да СилваХайме А.Teixeira da SilvaJaime A.

независимый исследователь, Кагава, 761-0799, Икэнобэ 3011-2, Япония

Independent Researcher, Ikenobe 3011-2, Kagawa-ken, 761-0799, Japan

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Manuscript management systems (MMSs) are used to facilitate the submission of articles to journals. They guide authors by making specific requests, which may be optional or mandatory. In the latter case, authors would hope that such requests are not trivial, nor– in the author’s opinion– should they be required for any aspects that are not related to the article’s academic content. In this case study, a brief account is noted for a mandatory clause in some MMSs of indexed journals in which the submitting author, and presumably the corresponding author (CA), must make note of the regional or geographic source of that work, research or intellect. In the case of a single CA with one affiliation, the choice is simple, and there are no issues, but when there is a single CA or co-CAs with multiple and geographically diverse affiliations, which regional source should be selected? This article emphasizes that in the latter case, metadata that is provided by the submitting author is both inaccurate and potentially biased. This is important if the journal and publisher use such metadata to showcase the regional or global diversity of their submitting authors. An assessment of the MMSs of 16 of the top 50 ranked neuroscience journals– in terms of their Clarivate impact factors– revealed only one journal (Elsevier’s Brain Behavior and Immunity) that required this mandatory “Region of Origin” clause in its MMS.

Системы электронной редакции (manuscript management systems, MMS) используются для облегчения процедуры подачи статей в журналы. Они проводят авторов через эту процедуру с помощью перечня вопросов, часть из которых носит опциональный характер, а часть является обязательной. Обязательные вопросы, по мнению автора данного исследования, не должны касаться несущественных моментов и выходить за рамки научного содержания статьи. В работе кратко рассматривается практика включения в систему электронной редакции индексируемых журналов обязательного вопроса, при ответе на который автор, подающий рукопись (то есть ответственный автор), должен указать региональную или географическую принадлежность выполненной работы, исследования или интеллектуального вклада. Если у единственного ответственного автора одна аффилиация, выбор очевиден и проблем не возникает. Но какой следует указать регион, когда у ответственного автора или нескольких ответственных соавторов аффилиации множественные и географически разнесенные? В статье показано, что в таких случаях метаданные, вводимые при подаче рукописи, оказываются неточными и потенциально предвзятыми, и это особенно важно, если на их основе журнал демонстрирует широту географического охвата авторского состава. Анализ систем электронной редакции 16 из 50 ведущих журналов по нейронаукам (на основе импакт-фактора Clarivate) выявил лишь один журнал (Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, издательство Elsevier), в системе которого предусмотрен обязательный пункт Region of Origin («Регион принадлежности»).

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