Scientific Workshop: Publishing Integrity and Good Practices in Editing in Biomedicine

On April 25, 2014, a scientific workshop for biomedical journal editors entitled “Publishing Integrity and Good Practices in Editing in Biomedicine” was held at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Skopje. As English was the official language of the workshop, the program is provided below in English, together with a link to the presentations:

10,00 Welcome greetings – Acad. Momir Polenakovic

10,15 Editing in the digital age: Editors and editorial research – Prof. Ana Marusic

11,15 Ethical issues in academic publishing and responsible publication of research – Prof. Elizabeth Wager

12,00 Discussion

13,00 Registration of participants for the Scientific Workshop for journal editors

14,00 Introductory speech – Acad. Momir Polenakovic

14,15 Editorial policies in journals from the scientific (semi) periphery – Prof. Ana Marusic

15,00 Biomedical journals in R. Macedonia: current state – Acad. Momir Polenakovic, Lenche Danevska, MS

15,15 Open journal systems: editor’s perspective – Prof. Zoran Zdravkovski

15,30 New international developments in publishing related to authorship – Prof. Doncho Donev

16,05 The road to the impact factor – Prof. Zoran Guchev

16,20 Institutional scientific impact of Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia in the Scopus database – prof. Mirko Spiroski

16,35 Editorial policies and good practices in editing Macedoniaan Medical Review and Bantao Journal – Prof. Goce Spasovski

16,50 Editorial policies and good practices in editing the journal Medicus – Prof. Azis Pollozhani

17,05 Editorial policies and good practices in editing Balkan Journal of Medical Sciencies – Prof. Dijana Plashevska Karanfilska

17,20 Does peer review work and how to improve it? New models in journal peer review – Prof. Elizabeth Wager

18,05 Discussion and concluding remarks

Workshop Presentations (ZIP, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts)