Brieflands seminars for journal editors: indexing and PubMed Central, impact factor, DOI registration, editorial workflow and the journal management system, held across Iran between 2011 and 2015.
Workshop archive
Journal Management and Editorial Leadership Workshops
For a decade Brieflands ran the training that Iranian journal editors could not easily get elsewhere: how indexing actually works, what the impact factor measures, how to move a manuscript through an editorial system, and what a DOI is for. Sessions were held in Tehran, Hamedan, Ahvaz, Shiraz and Sari, and with the Iranian Society of Medical Editors.
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Courses
12
Sessions held
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Host institutions
2011–15
Years active
Courses and host seminars
The flagship seminar travelled; the technical courses were taught in Tehran.
What Do Editors Need to Improve Their Journals?
Flagship seminarRan four times2011–14
The seminar Brieflands took around the country. Content varied by host but covered indexing in the major citation databases and in PubMed Central, the impact factor and how it is calculated, manuscript preparation to AMA style, writing and editing, the core concepts an editor needs, and navigating the journal management system.
Sessions: Tehran, 29 December 2011 (08:00–18:00) · Iranian Society of Medical Editors, 26 December 2013 · Hamedan, 30 January 2014 · Ahvaz, two days with CME credits. Presenters: Dr. Siavash Miri, Amir Hasani, Azam Raoufi, Romina Karimzadeh and Mahyar Ahmadpour, Department of Education.
The Concept and Requirements of Successful Publishing, Ahvaz
Two days2014Ahvaz
A two-day programme with Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. Day one: the peer review process, plagiarism, navigating the online system, style editing to AMA style, and tables and figures to AMA style, with practical workshops between sessions. Day two: EndNote, from what it is to working in it, with a practical workshop.
Sessions: 26 and 27 March 2014.
Sixth Annual Meeting of the Iranian Society of Medical Editors
Full day2013Editors-in-chief
A full-day meeting held with the Iranian Society of Medical Editors at the Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center in Velenjak, Tehran, for the editors of Iranian journals.
Session: 26 December 2013, 08:00–15:00.
Seminar for the Editorial Board of the Iranian Journal of Radiology
Host seminar108 attendees
A seminar for the journal’s editorial team at Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, with separate tracks for associate editors, reviewers and the editor-in-chief.
Presenters: Dr. Siavash Miri and Roya Daneshmand. Audience: 108 members of the Iranian Radiology Association.
ISI Web of Science: What Should an Editor-in-Chief Know?
IndexingEditors-in-chief
Basic concepts of the Web of Science, how indexing works across its constituent databases, and a comparison of the impact factor as reported by Google Scholar, Scopus and Journal Citation Reports.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
2014Fifteen modulesTechnical
A detailed technical course on the DOI: what it is, how it is registered and deposited, and how it fits into journal production. Delivered as a fifteen-part programme.
Session: 13 November 2014.
Navigating the Journal Management System
2012Host workshopFree
Held with the Research Center of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Mofid Hospital: how to run a journal through the online system, alongside the core concepts an editor needs.
Session: 25 January 2012, 08:00–14:30.
The Article Acceptance Process, Shiraz
2013Host workshopRole-based
Held with the Colorectal Research Center at Shahid Faghihi Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The programme followed a manuscript through the system by role: online submission by the author, online review by the reviewer, then handling by the associate editor and by the editor-in-chief.
Presenters: Parisa Farhadi and Farnaz Tabatabaei, Department of Education. Session: 2 May 2013.
Basics of Medical Journalism and Publication Strategy
2015Twelve modulesAuthors and editors
A broad programme on publication strategy in the biomedical sciences, including plagiarism, self-revision and language editing, delivered as twelve modules across a full day.
Session: 12 March 2015.
This is an archive record
These seminars ran between 2011 and 2015 and registration is closed. Brieflands now offers this work as services: journal visibility and indexing, DOI and Crossref registration, and the NeoScriber platform.