On March 1, I have started handling papers for Biometrika as deputy editor, along with Omiros Papaspiliopoulos. With on average one paper a day to handle this means a change in my schedule and presumably less blog posts about recent papers and arXivals if I want to keep my daily morning runs!
Archive for scientific editing
and here we go!
Posted in Books, Running, Statistics, University life with tags academic journals, Biometrika, blogging, editor, peer review, scientific editing on March 16, 2018 by xi'anBiometrika
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags academic journals, Anthony Davison, Biometrika, Paul Fearnhead, PCI Comput Stat, Peer Community, scientific editing, Series B on November 29, 2017 by xi'anAfter ten years of outstanding dedication to Biometrika, Anthony Davison is retiring as Editor of Biometrika on 31 December. Ten years! Running a top journal like Biometrika is a massive service to the statistics community, especially when considering the painstaking stage of literally editing each paper towards the stylistic requirements of the journal. For which we definitely should all be quite grateful to Anthony. And to the new Editor, Paul Fearnhead, for taking over. I will actually join the editorial board as assistant editor, along with Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, meaning we will share together the task of screening and allocating submissions. A bit daunting given the volume of submissions is roughly similar to the one I was handling for Series B ten years ago. And given the PCI Comput Stat experiment starting soon!
bibTeX and homonymy
Posted in Books, University life with tags BibTeX, compilation, LaTeX, MCQMC2014, scientific editing on October 31, 2015 by xi'anHow comes BibTeX is unable to spot homonyms?! Namely, if I quote two of my 1996 papers in the same LaTeX document, they will appear as Robert (1996a) and Robert (1996b). However, if I quote two different authors (or groups of authors) with the same surname, Martin as in the above example, who both happened to write a paper in 2014, BibTeX returns Martin (2014) and Martin (2014) in the output, hence it fails to recognise they are different authors, which is just weird! At least for author-year styles. I looked on Stack Exchange TeX forum, but the solution I found did not work with the IMS and Springer styles.
predatory but not that smart…
Posted in Statistics with tags comments, natural induction, predatory publishing, Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Fisicas y Naturales, scientific editing, Singapore on May 27, 2018 by xi'anAn email I received earlier this week, quite typical of predatory journals seeking names for their board, but unable to distinguish comments from papers, statistics from mathematical physics, or to spot spelling mistakes:
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