Past Meeting Topics | Committee on Publication Policy

PAST MEETING TOPICS

This page summarizes the topics discussed at recent meetings of the Committee on Publication Policy.

Fall 2016 Meeting (Honolulu):

Proposed revisions to appeals and resubmission policies.
Page count estimates and related problems with avoidance of page charges.
AIPP presentation on open access (OA) and various publication models: Consensus is that OA substantially boosts article downloads, but impact on citations is a relatively small increase at best.
AIPP has been working on the migration to the new Scitation platform for the past 8 months. The new platform will go live in mid-December.
POMA publication charges for co-sponsored meetings.

Spring 2017 Meeting (Boston):

AIPP provided a presentation on their zero-cite analysis and marketing initiatives. (About 20% of JASA articles receive no citations. If these articles were removed, the JASA impact factor would be 1.916.)
Updates provided on POMA, JASA EL, and Acoustics Today.
Transition to the new Scitation platform.
Impact on JASA of emerging U.S. government policies on access to public research.
Creation of new PP web page.

Fall 2017 Meeting (New Orleans):

PP web page has been upgraded to include ASA member suggestions for meeting topics.
JASA performance metrics and public relations activities.
Self-plagiarism and manuscript similarity checker.
Conflicts of interest with AEs/reviewers.

Spring 2018 Meeting (Minneapolis):

Fall 2018 Meeting (Victoria, Canada):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives.
Do we need JASA Letters to the Editor given that we have JASA Express Letters?
What is considered as a previous publication, which cannot be submitted to JASA?
Updating the ASA Ethical Principles page.
Withdrawn or not presented papers at ASA meetings were published in POMA.
Reconsidering the previous PP Committee recommendation: “The Committee recommended removing the current EL limitation of 15 references.”
Procedures when coauthors are added or dropped from a manuscript after the initial submission.

Spring 2019 Meeting (Louisville, KY):

Update on the new Ethical Principles of the ASA.
Withdrawn or not presented papers at ASA meetings should not be published in POMA.
What actions should be taken when plagiarism and text recycling are found in manuscripts?
Do we need two versions of a manuscript when submitting to JASA?

Fall 2019 Meeting (San Diego, CA):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications
New Ethical Principles of the ASA.
Recommendations of the subcommittee on the plagiarism and text recycling.

Spring 2020 Meeting (Virtual):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
Plagiarism and text recycling (self-plagiarism) in books and books’ chapters.
Data availability policy for the ASA journals.

Fall 2020 Meeting (Virtual):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
Web-Posting Guidelines for ASA Publications
Information on the JASA website about how scholars should proceed when they identify work that they find problematic in some way.

Spring 2021 Meeting (Virtual):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
Data availability statements in the ASA publications
Letter from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation
JASA Impact Factor

Fall 2021 Meeting (Seattle, WA):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
AIPP recently instituted a name change policy for authors
Collections is a new feature of Acoustics Today
Recent poor editing of JASA papers

Spring 2022 Meeting (Denver, CO):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
Other matters.

Fall 2022 Meeting (Nashville, TN):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
Appeal policy for the ASA Publications.
Formal handbook/guideline for reviewers.
Policies regarding reviewers signing their reviews.
Manuscripts announcing a new database.
Allow authors to choose a figure to highlight on JASA website and social media.

Spring 2023 Meeting (Chicago, IL):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
Other matters.

Fall 2023 Meeting (Sydney, Australia):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
ASA publications submission process.
New Ethics Approval Statement requirement for authors.

Spring 2024 Meeting (Ottawa, Canada):

Update on the ASA journals and AIP Publishing initiatives that are relevant to the ASA publications.
Submissions of previously rejected papers where the Associate Editor hadn’t invited resubmission or where there has been a granted appeal by the Editor-in-Chief.
Other matters.