Abstract
Abstract. Editors of several journals in the field of hydrology met during the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna in April 2017. This event was a follow-up of similar meetings held in 2013 and 2015. These meetings enable the group of editors to review the current status of the journals and the publication process, and to share thoughts on future strategies. Journals were represented at the 2017 meeting by their editors, as shown in the list of authors. The main points on invigorating hydrological research through journal publications are communicated in this joint editorial published in the above journals.
Highlights
Over the past five years, the editors of a number of journals in the discipline of hydrology have met informally to discuss challenges and concerns in relation to the rapidly changing publishing landscape
A meeting was convened in Vienna in April 2017 which was attended by 21 editors representing 14 journals
Even though the journals are published in quite different settings, the editors found common cause in a vision of the editor’s role beyond just that of gatekeeper ensuring high-quality publications, to being critical facilitators of scientific advances
Summary
Over the past five years, the editors of a number of journals in the discipline of hydrology have met informally to discuss challenges and concerns in relation to the rapidly changing publishing landscape. There are instances of reviewers (and editors) attempting to promote their own (or their journals’) citation metrics by requiring authors to cite their list of papers (citation coercion and citation stacking) None of these practices are conducive to advancing the science of hydrology. A number of journals have introduced a “fast-track” or “rapid communication” route in an attempt to report quickly on an extreme event or new technology These types of papers place a higher burden on reviewers in relation to speed and additional challenges to editorial teams regarding review quality, while authors risk compromising quality for expediency. This adds additional complexities to the issues of quantity, speed and multiple authorships
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