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Last, quarterly meetings were suggested and Laura
Strawn will schedule a meeting being cognizant of the
time zones for people around the world.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Appoint Connie Fisk as Vice-Chair.
2. Make FPT open-access six months after
the publication date.
3. Appoint an associate editor for FPT.
4. Appoint a consultant to support FPT in its
strategic planning initiative.
5. Honor outstanding reviewer(s); selected by
the Scientific Editor/IAFP team to highlight
at the Editorial Board Reception.
6. Modify and adopt a similar policy to
Elsevier's language for the AI policy in FPT
(that is used by JFP).
7. Allow book reviews in FPT under the
general interest category: with approval by
the Scientific Editor in advance.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 14, 2024, Long
Beach, California.
Meeting Adjourned: 4:32 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson Laura Strawn.
JFP Management Committee
Members Present: Erin Crowley, Cathy Cutter,
Michelle Danyluk, Armitra Jackson-Davis, Doris
D'Souza, Laurel Dunn, Martin Duplessis, Lisa Gorski,
Joshua Gurtler, Lauren Jackson, Pragathi Kamarasu,
Kali Kniel, Jovana Kovacevic, Alvin Lee, Judy
Luther, Minto Michael, Matthew Moore, Ruth Petran,
Ana Allende Prieto, Sarita Raengpradub, Birendra
Rajapreyar, Patricia Rule, Panos Skandamis, Laura
Strawn, Mark Turner, Pranaya Udash, Daniel Weller,
Anett Winkler, Ian Young.
Board/Staff Present: Michelle Danyluk,
Ruth Petran, Lisa Hovey, Dina Siedenburg.
Number of Attendees: 29.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, 10:00 a.m.
Eastern Time, July 31, 2023.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Jovana Kovacevic.
Old Business: The meeting started at 10 AM.
Matthew Moore distributed the meeting agenda and
gave a brief introduction followed by the committee
members introducing themselves.
Following the introduction, the chairman appointed
Jovana Kovacevic as the recording secretary. A
welcome to new committee members (Alvin Lee,
Erin Crowley, Sarita Raengradub, Dan Weller, Kerry
Bridges) was provided, and a thank you to exiting
committee members (Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona,
Jovana Kovacevic, Patricia Rule, Edith Wilkin,
Pardeepeninder Brar) and reappointed members
(Marion Castle and Valentina Trinetta) was also given.
Then, there was a solicitation of any changes or
modifications of the agenda, for which it was noted that
the addition of an executive board update was needed.
Next, the chairman sought the approval of the minutes
of the meeting of 2022 from the committee members.
A motion was passed to approve the minutes of
the meeting from 2022 and was seconded by the
committee members.
Michelle Danyluk provided the Executive Board
update to the committee, where she noted that the
attendance of the meeting has exceeded the previous
year and expectations. She thanked the Ontario
affiliate for all of their help with the meeting. Next, she
noted the success of the June free webinar initiative,
which resulted in over 9,000 views; more than what
would normally be observed in a year. Michelle then
noted that there is a new way to volunteer with IAFP
for committees and other service roles through the
website, where you can also sign up to get JFP
updates. Finally, she provided a warning that an
update to Google may have caused some to have all
of their IAFP emails sent to email spam folders. If you
notice this happening, please reach out to IAFP staff to
get this fixed.
Jenn Woods from Elsevier provided an Administrative
Report for the journal via Zoom. The transition to
Elsevier has gone well, and we are starting to see the
benefits of the new platform in the form of leveraging
the other related journals ( " Recommended Articles
and search results " ) that could draw readers to JFP.
She noted several marketing videos and a marketing
campaign for the journal are planned for further
in 2023/2024. This includes videos in English and
Mandarin, as well as interviews with Panos, and author
testimonials. Additionally, she noted the entire back
catalog of JFP articles should now be available on the
platform.
In 2022 JFP had 361 submissions with 197 accepted
and published with a 41% rejection rate. So far in
2023, there have been 104 submissions with 85
accepted. As projected in 2023, there are slightly fewer
submissions (-2%) but more than the dip expected with
the transition, as well as a 5% increase in accepted
articles, with the majority of submissions from Asia
and North/Central America. It was then noted that
the excellent work of the editors and reviewers has
allowed JFP to achieve a good speed, with an average
of 5.2 weeks to first decision; competitive with or
better than similar journals. JFP saw a dip in impact
factor from 2.745 (2021) to 2.0 (2022); however, this
dip occurred for the vast majority of journals (~80%)
based on changes in calculation methodology by
Clarivate. However, the CiteScore (based on 4 years of
data instead of 2) increased from 3.80 (2021) to 4.20
(2022). Of note, some of the highest cited articles were
invited reviews commissioned by the Scientific Editors,
so this practice will continue. It should be noted that
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