Editorial workflow of a community-led, all-volunteer scientific journal: lessons from the launch of Seismica

Hannah Mark; Théa Ragon; Gareth Funning; Stephen P. Hicks; Christie Rowe; Samantha Teplitzky; Jaime Convers; Ezgi Karasözen; R. Daniel Corona-Fernandez; Åke Fagereng

doi:10.26443/seismica.v2i2.1091

Authors

Hannah Mark Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1722-3759
Théa Ragon Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1276-1910
Gareth Funning Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8247-0545
Stephen P. Hicks Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7476-3284
Christie Rowe Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9208-3960
Samantha Teplitzky University of California Berkeley Library, Berkeley, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7071-332X
Jaime Convers Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3144-5611
Ezgi Karasözen Alaska Earthquake Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaksa, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1140-1427
R. Daniel Corona-Fernandez Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-2470
Åke Fagereng School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6335-8534

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v2i2.1091

Abstract

Seismica is a community-led, volunteer-run, diamond open-access journal for seismology and earthquake science, and Seismica's mission and core values align with the principles of Open Science. This article describes the editorial workflow that Seismica uses to go from a submitted manuscript to a published article. In keeping with Open Science principles, the main goals of sharing this workflow description are to increase transparency around academic publishing, and to enable others to use elements of Seismica's workflow for journals of a similar size and ethos. We highlight aspects of Seismica's workflow that differ from practices at journals with paid staff members, and also discuss some of the challenges encountered, solutions developed, and lessons learned while this workflow was developed and deployed over Seismica's first year of operations.

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