3rd RSIH&SWA Workshop – Morelia, Mexico – 21 October 2015

Potential Topical/Special Journal Issue(s)?

M.M. Bisi (Mario.Bisi@stfc.ac.uk) (1).

(1) RAL Space, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot,

Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, England, UK

Please note that the call for sessions for the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society

(AOGS) 2016 meeting is now open with a deadline of 25 November 2015;

AOGS 2016 (http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/) will take place in Beijing,

China – 31 July 2016 to 05 August 2016 and the convenors do not have to attend

if they are not able to but still want to propose a session.

A Topical Issue (1) Do we want one?

Potential Title (depending on the Journal): “Remote Sensing

Observations and Space Weather” (more options later)?

Traditionally, we have successfully gone with the Solar Physics

Journal (for Aberystwyth 2009 (published 2010), Aberystwyth

2011 (published 2013), and Nagoya 2013 (published 2015).

What about AGU Space Weather Journal or IOP Astrophysical

Journal Supplemental Series?

There will need to be three Guest Editors (GEs) again (two are not

enough) most likely, depending on the Journal we decide to go

with: Mario M. Bisi – Americo Gonzalez-Esparza – Bernard V.

Jackson – Igor Chashei.

If Solar Physics, each volume should ideally be ~220 pages in total

where smaller/larger editions are allowed; other journals not too

different. Solar Physics is completely free for the authors to

publish including no page/colour or movie charges; only charges

would be for reprints if required. AGU Space Weather not too onerous in charges as it is online

only; Ap.J.Supp. Can prove expensive, especially for printing

colour. Ap.J.Supp. has the highest impact factor by far, but there will be

more-stringent rules and timelines to be adhered to. Space Weather has the lowest impact factor but is new and

upcoming and is being heavily published in and read world wide! Solar Physics processes are well known and is the ‘safe’ but maybe

not the ‘best’ option this time around.

A Topical Issue (2)

Would we want a review/quasi-review article this time around

(likely written by the GEs and workshop organisers)? Authors would firstly submit their abstracts, author lists, and

suggested referees several months ahead of the paper-submission

deadline regardless of the Journal chosen and ALL papers are

refereed as normal! For papers where one or more of the Guest Editors is an author

(especially first author), the paper will then be primarily worked

on by journal editors only. If we can get a topical/special issue set up fairly soon, it is likely

that we would specify a deadline for submission late-Spring/early

summer 2016, and publication in late 2016/early 2017 in paper

form except Space Weather which is only online (depending on

refereeing time and collating of all the expected papers).

A Topical Issue (3)

Four possible titles (or something new/a combination):

“Remote-Sensing Observations of the Heliophysical System”

OR

“Space Weather Science and Forecasting

with Remote-Sensing Techniques”

OR

“Remote Sensing Observations and Space Weather”

OR

“Remote Sensing Investigations for Space Weather Purposes”

A Topical Issue (4)

Summary So, what’s needed today: we need to decide on the journal of

preference (Space Weather), we need to know as accurately as

possible the number of papers (~12-13) just from our community

representatives here, the choice of the TI title (3), the abstract-

submission date (01 February 2016), and whether or not this

overall rough submission timeline sounds feasible (Yes)? GEs will work closely with journal editor(s) to approve papers and

have some teleconferences to be sure the Topical/Special issue is

completed in a timely manner, i.e. chasing authors/referees and

also in refereeing papers etc… when referees let us down (which

does happen for a few papers)! Potential GEs now need to put together a brief proposal ASAP

to (SWx Journal) which will include a small abstract for the TI –

if not Solar Physics, then a small learning curve as it was in 2009!