Tonight (10-11pm) I attended the editorial board meeting for Advances in Communication and Swallowing (ACS). https://journals.sagepub.com/home/csw. The journal editors Dr. Ciarán Kenny and Dr. Julie Regan are based in Ireland and ACS is the official journal of the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT). It is a Q2 journal with a cite score of 1.1. It is a young journal and there is a lot of good will amongst the editors and editorial board.
It is my pleasure to be on the editorial board of the following journals:
In 2025 I am co-editing a special issue of Child Language Teaching and Therapy and have been invited to be co-editor of some special issues in the future.
Tonight I attended the annual Child Language Teaching and Therapy (CLTT) editorial board meeting.
One interesting topic that was covered included the use of AI in publishing: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/using-ai-in-peer-review-and-publishing.
There was a great discussion about sourcing and incentivising reviewers.
I am excited to work with CLTT to initiate a special issue based on my summer lecture. The lecture was sold out - and apparently there has been a lot of discussion throughout the world about it. The recorded version of the talk will be uploaded on the CLTT website soon.
Tonight I attended an editorial board meeting for Advances in Communication and Swallowing (ACS).
https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/advances-in-communication-and-swallowing
The journal is now indexed in SCOPUS. Currently submissions are from Europe - and they are wanting to diversify the content of the journal. There will be a special issue coming up on multilingualism. They also have capacity to promote SDGs - https://www.iospress.com/highlighted-sdg-content
I have been accepted as an Editorial Board Member (EBM) for the Speech section of the Q1 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research https://pubs.asha.org/jslhr/edboard and my term has just begun with the arrival of an EBM Welcome Pack of information. The role of EBMs is here https://academy.pubs.asha.org/erc/editorial-board-members/.
I am an editorial board member on a number of other journals including:
Tonight I enjoyed participating in the 2022 International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editorial Board meeting. Congratulations to the editors Libby Cardell and Natalie Munro on the excellent quality of papers and the trajectory of the journal.
2021 statistics: IJSLP had 319,000 downloads/views. The journal’s 2021 Impact Factor is 1.820 and 5 Year Impact Factor is 2.358. IJSLP is rated Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile and the 2021 Cite Score is 3.7. It has a 27% acceptance rate.
I was delighted to see that two of our papers were in the most cited for 2021:
McGill, N., Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). “Many wasted months”: Stakeholders’ perspectives about waiting for speech-language pathology services. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 313–326. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1747541 [11 citations]
McLeod, S., Davis, E., Rohr, K., McGill, N., Miller, K., Roberts, A., Thornton, S., Ahio, N., & Ivory, N. (2020). Waiting for speech-language pathology services: A randomised controlled trial comparing therapy, advice and device. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 372–386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1731600 [10 citations]
Additionally, the article with the top Altmetric score was ours:
McLeod, S. (2018). Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1428687
[191 altmetric score]
I have been invited to join the 2023 editorial board of Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) - Speech Section as an Editorial Board Member (EBM) from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023. What a great honor. I look forward to this role.
I have been invited to be a member of Paul H. Brookes Editorial Advisory Board for the Communication and Language Intervention Series. The series editors are Alan G. Kamhi and Rebecca J. McCauley. The editorial board members are:
What an honour!
Tonight was the Advances in Communication & Swallowing Editorial Board Meeting was held tonight (starting 9pm my time).
The editorial board is now profiled here: https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/advances-in-communication-and-swallowing.
I recieved this welcome email
Dear Members of the JMBS Editorial Board,
Happy New Year 2022! We would like to share some good news. The Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech was evaluated by the Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB) and it has been approved for coverage in Elsevier Scopus. JMBS will appear on the Scopus list in about a month. Thank you for your continuing teamwork and support!
Elena Babatsouli and Martin J. Ball Editors, Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (JMBS)
Last night was the annual IJSLP Editorial Board meeting with editors Anne Whitworth and Elizabeth Cardell, and board members across Australia and the world: Chris Code, Mark Onslow, Kirrie Ballard, Lyndsey Nickels, Suze Leitao (Edwin Yui, Holly Storkel and Liz Ward unable to attend).
We will write a special editorial commemorating the life of James Law who was on the board at the time he passed away.
We celebrated the current impact factor - 2.484 and our ranking compared with other key journals in our field (see below).
Tonight (starting at 11pm ~ early afternoon in London) I attended the annual Editorial Board meeting for the journal Child Language Teaching and Therapy. There is lot of exciting work happening with the journal. In 2020 there were 106,755 full text downloads!
Australian authors were well represented in the most downloaded and most cited articles.
Congratulations to CSU authors Anna Glover, Jane McCormack, and Michelle Smith-Tamaray who were in the top 10 most downloaded papers (1,217 downloads) for "Collaboration between teachers and speech and language therapists: Services for primary school children with speech, language and communication needs"
We also learned about changes to the 2020 and 2021 impact factors from Clarivate:
• The 2020 Impact Factor (published in June 2021) will use the online publication date rather than the print publication date to calculate citations to a journal in 2020. This means that the next Impact Factor will only see changes in the numerator of the Impact Factor equation for journals that publish OnlineFirst. This is likely to lead to some inflation in Impact Factors and rankings across the majority of journals. Journals with very large backlogs might see even greater inflation.
• The 2021 Impact Factor (published in June 2022) will use the online publication date for both the citing (numerator) and cited articles (denominator) data, not the printed issue date. 2021 will likely see a universal drop in all Impact Factors compared to 2020 as a result.
The first meeting of the editorial board of Advances in Communication and Swallowing (https://www.iospress.nl/journal/advances-in-communication-and-swallowing/) was held tonight (10pm my time, 1pm Irish time). This is the official journal of Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapy
Editors:
Associate Editors:
Editorial Board:
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| ACS Editors and Board Members (who were available and agreed to have their photos shared on social media) |
There will be 2 issues/year with the possibility of an additional special issue each year. The journal is receiving submissions for the first issue under their new name (volume 23).
I am currently on the following editorial boards:
I was the editor of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2008-2013) and have been the guest editor of special issues of Clincial Linguistics and Phonetics, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedica.
I really enjoy engaging with researchers' ideas before they are published for the world to read. It is a privilege to support researchers in communicating their work.
I have been invited to join the editorial board of Advances in Communication and Swallowing https://www.iospress.nl/journal/advances-in-communication-and-swallowing/
This is the official journal of Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapy and is a "rejuvination" of the IASLT journal. The editors are Julie Regan and Irene P. Walsh
Aims: To publish original work of a clinical and/or theoretical nature in the areas of communication and swallowing To disseminate research of a high standard, nationally and internationally
