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The 43rd SSP Annual Meeting offers attendees another strong program full of informational and thought-provoking presentations, covering the biggest issues and questions in our industry today. Join colleagues from society and commercial publishers, research institutions, university presses, libraries, and service providers to ask the tough questions and strive together to find the right balance within an industry in the throes of change.
The development of a world-class domestic STM journal publishing program has become a national goal of China; to move forward from having a large presence in science and technology, to becoming a world recognized STM powerhouse.
China has emphasized its national strategy to build a group of the world’s leading STM journals within a clear timeline through the issue of the “Chinese STM Journal Excellence Action Plan (2019-2023)”, which includes specific directives to encourage domestic collaboration and expansion. Additionally, in February 2020, the Ministry of Science & Technology issued the notice “Some measures to eliminate the unhealthy orientation of ‘paper-only’ in science and technology evaluation (trial)”. At the same time, a new notice on “Regulating the use of related indicators in SCI papers in higher education institutions: opinions on establishing correct evaluation orientation” was jointly issued by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science & Technology.
To help inform the international publishing community, this session will provide first-hand critical insight into these most recent developments that have the potential to reshape the academic publishing industry in China.
Dr. Donald SAMULACK, Head, Global Stakeholder Engagement at Cactus Communications
Dr. Donald SAMULACK is Head, Global Stakeholder Engagement at Cactus Communications. He is actively involved in supporting the publication needs of the academic and publishing communities, managing workflows across global time zones, and raising the level of awareness and professionalism of good publication practices, worldwide. As such, he understands the logistics of scholarly publishing, peer review, as well as the global outsourcing of author support and research communication services, and is a major player in shaping perceptions, defining workflows, and delivering quality.
Dr. Zhaoping LYU, Executive Secretary, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)
Before Dr. LYU took the position of Executive Secretary of CAST in April of 2020,he successively served as Deputy Director, Director and Secretary of the Party Committee of the State Key Laboratory of New Metal Materials of the University of Science and Technology Beijing. In June 2017, he was appointed as Vice President of the university and concurrently served as Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the university. As a distinguished professor, Dr. LYU was selected member of the Changjiang Scholar Programme of the Ministry of Education.
Christine HU, General Manager, Greater China, Cactus Communications, Inc.
Christine HU, as General Manager, Greater China, for Cactus Communications, supports growth and oversees the commercial activities of the Greater China region. She has rich experience in marketing, communications, and government relations in the publishing, information service, clinical solution, and pharmaceutical industries. Christine served as Marketing Head of CACTUS Greater China before she advanced to her current position. Prior to joining CACTUS, Christine has held leadership roles in the R&D-based Pharmaceutical Association Committee and Wolters Kluwer China, as well as within the national-level English-language daily newspaper, China Daily.
Bing LIU, Vice President, Chinese Medical Association Publishing House
Prof. Bing LIU is Professor of Editorship, and Vice President of the Chinese Medical Association Publishing House. He is responsible for the publication, management and digitization of 147 Chinese Medical Association Journals. He is also the Editorial Director of Bio-X Research, Editorial Board of Acta Editologica, and Secretary General of the Medical Journals Committee of Chinese Editology Society for Scientific Periodicals. He used to work as the Editorial Director in the Chinese Journal of Cardiology for many years.
Tieming ZHANG, Director General, Society of China University Journals
ZHANG has nearly 20 years’ experience in the editing and publishing of scientific journals and has published research papers on editorial science. He has led a number of research projects for the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and the Science and Technology Department of China’s Ministry of Education. He has also participated in the drafting of consulting reports and policy recommendations on the development and reform of journals, and has been invited many times as a review expert for journal projects of China’s Ministry of Education and CAST. He is also the President of Society of China University Journals; Board member of China Journal Association; and Member of the 8th Science and Technology Commission under the Ministry of Education.
Zong-Ming (Max) CHENG, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Horticulture Research/Plant Phenomics, Nanjing Agricultural University/University of Tennessee
Dr. Zong-Ming (Max) CHENG is currently a Professor at the University of Tennessee and Nanjing Agricultural University. He received his PhD in horticulture (a subfield of plant science and agriculture) from Cornell University in 1991, and has been a faculty member for over 30 years at North Dakota State University and the University of Tennessee. He has published over 140 peer reviewed papers and was elected Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 2012. In 2014, Dr. CHENG launched the journal Horticulture Research (HR), published by Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature), and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief. HR was indexed in SCIE in 2017, and is now ranked #1 in the JCR field of Horticulture, and #l6 (of 234) in Plant Science.