RSTMH are looking for Editorial Advisors for Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
To apply to be an Editorial Adviser, please send a brief version of your CV, a short paragraph summarising your areas of expertise and a brief account of why you want to take up this position (maximum of 250 words) to Tamar Ghosh, tamar.ghosh@rstmh.org.
Accountable to: RSTMH and the journal’s Editor-in-Chief
Appointment: 3-year term
Time commitment: Estimated to be one hour per week
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene is an official journal of RSTMH. It publishes authoritative and impactful original, peer-reviewed articles and reviews on all aspects of tropical medicine.
The journal offers a respected voice for clinicians, health-related scientists, development organisations and students.
Purpose of the role
The purpose of the Editorial Advisory Board is to assist RSTMH in defining the strategic direction of the journals, and to actively promote them to colleagues in the field. The core function of the role will be to provide advice to the journals' Manging Editor and Editors-in-Chief on how the publication should be developed, with the long-term aim of raising the journals' profile within the field.
Members will be expected to act as an advocate for the journals, as well as suggesting commissioning opportunities and ideas to RSTMH.
Each member of the Editorial Advisory Board will represent a subdiscipline within the field of tropical medicine or global health, with a particular emphasis on covering RSTMH's priority thematic areas of focus.
The Editorial Advisory Board will not usually meet formally; however, members will be expected to be available for quarterly phone calls with the Managing Editor and willing to meet RSTMH informally at conferences.
Responsibilities
- To act as an advocate for the journal, actively promoting it to potential and existing authors and readers;
- To feed into and provide feedback on the RSTMH strategy for the journal and assigned thematic area;
- To provide feedback and advice on community perception of the journal and suggest improvements for consideration by the Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief;
- To provide advice to potential authors on the writing and submission of papers to the journal;
- To submit some of their own best work to the journal (at least one manuscript per year);
- A willingness to provide commissioning support to the journal;
- To propose topics and articles to the Managing Editor for commissioning (including potential authors);
- To suggest ideas for special issues and series or collections of articles and act as guest editor for a special issue, as appropriate;
- To act as referees for the journal and to recommend new referees, as required;
- To occasionally assist RSTMH in making decisions on submissions (either prior to or following peer review) if an appropriate Associate Editor cannot be assigned;
- Keep RSTMH up to date with relevant meetings, key papers and new developments.
To find out more, and how to apply, visit the RSTMH website.
Closing date: Rolling recruitment currently
