Journal Committee

 

Name	Email	Term Ending
Pam Cook	[email protected]	2020
Howard Elman	[email protected]	2018
Jerry Griggs	[email protected]	2019
Max Gunzburger	[email protected]	2019
Ilse Ipsen	[email protected]	2018
Tasso Kaper	[email protected]	2020
Tamara Kolda, Chair	[email protected]	2018
Michael J. Miksis	[email protected]	2019
Michael Overton	[email protected]	2018
Ulrich Ruede	[email protected]	2019
Ronnie Sircar	[email protected]	2020

 

Journal Committee Charge
The Journal Committee of the Publications Committee is charged with
performing some or all of the following tasks:

• Evaluate and respond quickly to proposals for new journals. Make
  recommendations on new journal proposals to the Vice President for
  Publications, SIAM Board, and SIAM Council.
• Analyze the journal program to ensure that subject areas covered
  adequately reflect the needs of the SIAM membership and the applied
  mathematics, scientific computing, and computational science communities
  at large and that the journals remain current with the changes in those
  and related fields.
• Monitor journal editorial board structures to ensure that the
  models used best serve the authors and editors.
• Analyze and recommend effective ways to integrate the Internet
  into the publications program, such as electronic-only supplements to
  journal articles.
• Monitor free vs. fee-based delivery mechanisms for print and
  electronic publications.

Questions that the Journal Committee should revisit periodically include:

• What is the mission of the suite of SIAM journals? How can SIAM journals best serve this mission?
• How much control should EICs have over the editorial policy of their journal?
• Should guidelines be established about rejecting papers without review
  when those papers are perceived to fall outside the scope of the journal?

These are just some of the issues related to the SIAM journal program that could be analyzed and evaluated; others may arise in the course of committee discussions.

Members of the Journal Committee will be appointed by the President in consultation with the Vice President for Publications. Members will serve three-year terms, renewable once with the approval of the President. The President  appoints the committee Chair in consultation with the VP for Publications. Under normal circumstances the committee Chair will serve a three-year term,  renewable once with the approval of the President.

The committee reports to the VP for Publications.The committee will annually present a report to the VP for Publications. The VP for Publications will serve ex officio on the committee, but will not chair it. Much of the committee's discussion will take place by phone and email, but one face-to-face meeting per year would be beneficial.