ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) hosted its 7th Annual Conference, on Saturday, August 21, 2021, virtually (via Zoom Meeting App), where top-notch industry & academic experts shared their knowledge, new initiatives and openly discuss the predictions, challenges, and opportunities facing the pandemic driven landscape of the scholarly publishing industry of Asia in a friendly environment.
Like every year the organizing committee focuses on the most burning issues, challenges of the Asian Publishing Industry and brought those to our Annual Conference platform for expert advice, peer’s experiences, and to figure out the best possible solutions to these obstacles. Keeping in view the status of the publishing community of Asia, this year’s conference was themed, “Pandemic Driven Scholarly Publishing: Ways to Ensure Future Resilience and Sustainability”
Conference Agenda:
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08:30 AM | Zoom Meeting Room Opens |
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08:50 AM | Greetings and Conference Regulations Maryam Sayab | Professional Development Manager – The ACSE |
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09:05 AM | Welcome Address Prof. Dr. Gazi Mahabubul Alam | Conference Chair, 7th ACSE Annual Conference |
| Session I Moderators: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ozaslan & Prof. Dr. Rubina Hanif |
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09:30 AM | Editorial Evaluation & Peer Review: Questionable Practices During Pandemics Prof. Dr. Kaiser Jamil | Vice President, The ACSE & Head of Genetics Department, BMMRC, India |
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09:50 AM | Pandemic Preparedness: Scholarly Communications and Countermeasures Prof. Dr. Zabta Khan Shinwari | Director, The ACSE & Prof. Emeritus, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad |
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10:10 AM | Publishing Innovation: How Do International Publishers Use New Marketing Tools for Journal Development Charley Miao | Regional Director, The ACSE & TrendMD |
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10:30 AM | Pros and Cons: Scholarly Communications and Social Media’s Engagement during Pandemic Prof. Dr. Gazi Mahabubul Alam | Conference Chair, 7th ACSE Annual Conference |
| Session II Moderators: Prof. Dr. Zabta Khan Shinwari & Prof. Dr. Kaiser Jamil |
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11:00 AM | Way Out to Promote a Journal in Post-Pandemic Haibao Xue | Director of Business Development, Asia Pacific, Compuscript |
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11:15 AM | Research in Social Sciences: COVID to Post-COVID Transformation Prof. Dr. Rubina Hanif | Director, NIP, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad |
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11:30 AM | TrendMD: Boosting Readership & Citation of Scholarly Publications Ms. Tash Brown | COO, TrendMD, China |
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11:45 AM | COVID-19 Pandemic and Adaptive Publishing Patterns in Indonesia Dr. Finarya Legoh | Head of International Relation & Funding, Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) |
| Session III Moderators: Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam & Porf. Dr. Mona M. El-Husseiny |
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12:15 PM | Preserving Research Quality: What needs to be changed in Technical Journals? Dr. B. Nageswara Rao | Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, India |
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12:30 PM | Research Publications during a Pandemic; Making Scholarly Journals more Reliable Sources of Information for Non-Science Audiences Dr. Mohammed Aliyu Paiko | Editor, Science Alert |
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12:45 PM | Pandemic Driven Plagiarism and Predatory Journal cases: What needs to be done? Dr. Ch. M. Junaid Nazar | Head of Nephrology Section, World Academy of Medical Science |
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01:00 PM | Challenges and Opportunities for Open Access Publishing during Pandemic in India Dr. Jani Dilip Batukray | Associate Professor, Government Engineering College Dahod Gujarat, India |
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01:15 PM | Scholarly Publishing in the Pandemic Era and the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Tools Habeeb Ibrahim Abdul Razack | Research Scholar | Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| Session IV Moderators: Charley Miao & Pippa Smart |
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01:45 PM | Sustainable Academic Goals: Reducing Dependencies to Commercial Publishing Dr. Dasapta Erwin Irawan | Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia |
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02:00 PM | Pre-Submission Peer Review: Enhancing the Efficacy of Journal’s Reviewing Process Dr. Sam T. Mathew | Researcher & Medical Communications Expert, India |
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02:15 PM | JATS and JATS4R: Its Importance in Publishing Workflows and the Dissemination of Information in the Scholarly Ecosystem Melissa Harrison | Chair, Steering Committee, JATS4R |
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02:30 PM | Supporting Sustainability in Editorial Work through the EASE Environmental Manifesto Prof. Dr. Joan Marsh MA PhD | Deputy Editor, The Lancet Psychiatry |
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02:45 PM | Preprints and Peer Review: Recommendations to Protect Public Trust in Medical Science Dikran Toroser | Director, Publications Group Lead, Takeda | ISMPP, AMWA and EMWA |
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03:00 PM | Panel Discussion: Distraction, Modernism and Creativity: Ways to Generate and Implement new Thoughts in Scholarly Publishing Charley Miao | Gazi M. Alam | Pippa Smart | Muhammad Sarwar |
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04:00 PM | Closing Remarks Prof. Dr. Gazi Mahabubul Alam | Conference Chair, 7th ACSE Annual Conference |
SPONSORS
On behalf of the entire organizing committee, we would like to publicly thank the generous support from our Platinum, Gold & Silver sponsors of the 7th ACSE Annual Conference. With your contribution, the conference helped to engage diversified academic/industry professionals and participants in scholarly conversation concerning the issues and forthcoming challenges to Asian Publishing Community.
Thank you all for making this event a remarkable success story!
COLLABORATORS
Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA), Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI), International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP), American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), Include RCC Institute of Information Technology (RCCIIT), National Council of Tibb (NCT), Institute of Clinical Psychology (ICP) | University of Karachi (UOK), Pakistan, Foundation University Islamabad (FUI), IINAMEI.
ABOUT THE COUNCIL
The Asian Council of Science Editors is the first and the foremost leading organization in Asia, aiming to provide a unified and active platform for Asian editors and scholars to understand their editorial problems, explore solutions, and devotedly take up the future challenges to enhance the quality of Asian Scientific and Scholarly publications.
COMMENTS
ACSE has set a high bar for quality, standards and management not only in face to face meetings but for virtual as well. The experience of presenting and listening in Aug 2021 event was excellent. Topics were important for any academician, researcher or publisher. Presenters has delivered content systematically. I learned many new things through these presentations. Congratulations to organizing committee for another successful event.
The Conference was well organized. Thanks to all the speakers, organizers, and sponsors to make this conference successful. Best wishes to all.
Great conference, thoroughly enjoyed the whole day, yet will give maximum marks to the panel discussion. Recommend in future we may have such events more often at least twice a year and share thoughts with the younger lot. Appreciate the organizers and young participants for mind-blowing comments and questions.
Greetings to the Organizing committee of the 7th ACSE conference,
Congratulations for conducting a very informative conference with just the right choice of topics, on a novel theme- on Publication Ethics during the Covid-19 pandemic. All the Presentations were excellent. The timing for the sessions was perfectly maintained. Overall it was well organized with novice content. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be part of the prestigious event.
Wishing the ACSE team many more successes.
Dr. Kaiser Jamil
V.P – ACSE,
Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research center, Hyderabad, TS, India
Well-organized sessions with a mix of insightful and novice content. Thanks for the opportunity to be a part of it.
Good Day to Organizer,
Timely Organized, Sessions are incredible and wonderful content with neat presentation. Thanks to all Speakers and Organizer and Team for such wonderful programme.
Regards
Dr. D. Saravanan
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology
Chennai 600119
India
ACSE-2021 was an excellent conference…it was incredibly well organized, it had wonderful content and was very timely. Well done on this very successful outcome!
Congratulations on conducting such a needful dialogue on the pandemic driven publication. The insights from the conference were indeed very useful for all academics.
As usual, it was a well-organized conference. The level of expertise and knowledge of the presenters are excellent. The experience on a scale is 9.5. May the ACSE family prosper day by day.
Conference cover majority of related topics. Suggest to cover the important of impact factor/WOI/Scopus in next discussion.
Thank you for inviting me to share information in such an important conference. It was virtually organized, but the essence of the conference and the information provided by excellent speakers were captured thoroughly.
The conference covers important topic of online publication with all related issues. Congratulations!
I am appreciating all efforts to let the ACSE annual conference in August 2021 with all features of organizations with going smoothly to all respectable presenters.
Really it was a wonderful event especially in that time period of Covid19 challenges.
With all my pleasure to share usually.
Rating scale from my side is 9.5 out of 10….CONGRATULATIONS
The conference was well organized in the pandemic situation. The topics and speakers are very excellent .
Really great experience.
The conference was really very well organized. It was indeed a learning experience. However, it will be better if the slides or materials pertaining to the conference are shared with the participants.
Conference was very well organized.
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Wonderful presenters..
The conference was organized well. The speakers delivered content worthwhile. The experience rate was 9 out of 10.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
The virtual conference was organized well. The speakers delivered the content in a systematic way. I really enjoyed.I rate the experience on a scale of 10 is 9.
Happy to hear such a good rating scale for our Annual Conference. We hope to see you at the next ACSE events & activities too.
The conference was well thought over, well designed, well convened and well attended.M. Sarwar and the organisers earned an applause.
The conference was one of the best conferences I ever attended. It covers so important topic concerning publications’ stages particularly those related to the reviewers and the editors.
I liked it so much.
Thank you very much for your kind words of appreciation Dr. Negm.