SORTEE Webinar – A Panel Discussion with Data Editors

In recent years, a handful of journals within Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and related fields have been trialing a Data Editor role within the peer-review process. Data editors focus their review on the data associated with a potential publication, with the overarching goal to improve the reliability and transparency of publications. But how does/should the data review process work? Has it been a success? Should all journals adopt such a step in their peer-review process? What should authors do to ensure their data passes a data review? To explore these questions and more, we have invited three data editors from three different evo/eco journals to take part in a panel discussion. We aim to facilitate a lively discussion that draws on the experience of the panel, and the interest and questions from the audience.

Panel Discussion members:

Sebastian Lequime
Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
Data Editor, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Paula Lemos-Costa
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
Data Editor, The American Naturalist

Tad Dallas
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Data Editor, Ecology Letters

Bethany Allen
Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zürich
Data Editor, Proceedings B

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The event is open to all, and will be of value to scientists across career stages (students to academics) globally. It will be held via Zoom. The link is emailed after registration.