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Additional thoughts on journal editorship: (1) I took the gig because I publish a lot of papers so a lot of people provide free labor on my behalf. I'd been Associate Editor for 3 journals prior to this and had enjoyed the work. 1/
(2) I recognize that the publishers make a lot of money off our free labor but I also benefit by their willingness to publish mine and my students'/postdocs'/colleagues' papers so this isn't a place I'm willing to take a stand. 2/
(3) I agreed to do this after being contacted by a board member of the society that supports this journal saying that had very few applicants. I also agreed because very few women had been EICs over the years. 3/
(4) I also agreed because it was a co-editorship and the other person applying (Tasos Hovardas) was super eager and convinced me we could manage the work load. 4/
(5) In his defense, he did most of the non-editing work - editing the annual report, dealing with the publisher, etc. We both were assigned exactly half of the papers. 5/
(6) One of my goals in taking on the gig was to reduce the review times at this journal. We were very successful but that's also why it was so frustrating. Had to constantly be reviewing, nagging associate editors, reviewers, etc. 6/
(7) We also published some very cool special issues: including this one on evaluating collaborative conservation: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/33/4?nav=tocList 7/
My personal favorite that looked at gender and sexuality in agriculture. The guest editors were both ECRs and really enjoyable to work with and the issue has some fantastic articles on a challenging topic. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/32/8?nav=tocList 8/n
And this one's pretty cool as well looking at novel and controversial research methods in our field, guest edited by @KristinFloress. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/32/10?nav=tocList 9/n
Tasos and I also managed to diversity our editorial board in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality so that was a positive thing as well. And we worked with our editorial board to examine if our review process was biased. 10/n
So not saying it wasn't a worthwhile use of my time. But it was most definitely MY time and frequently done on weekends. But we all need to do this type of service if we want academia to survive so I'm glad I put my time in. Also glad it's done :). 11/11
