About

Editorial Policy Advisory Group

Our Editorial Policy Advisory Board assists the editorial team in matters of publishing policies and practices. Members of the Board are chosen from trusted organisations working in scholarly publishing.

The Board helps us ensure that DOAJ criteria are effective for the widest range of publishers across the globe.

Scope

To contribute expertise and advice on:

  • Developments in scholarly publishing
  • Publishing ethics and questionable practices
  • Publishing practices in different subject or geographical areas
  • New criteria for inclusion in DOAJ or changes to existing criteria
  • Other issues of editorial policy or practice

Members

The Editorial Policy Advisory Group is:

Budianto Hamuddin

Budianto is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Vocational Studies at Universitas Lancang Kuning, Indonesia, where he also leads the Research Department at LPPM Unilak. An active member of RJI, he currently serves as the coordinator for Tim Panji RJI to support and develop scientific journals in Indonesia. Budianto earned his Master's degree from the Universiti Malaya in Malaysia and his Doctorate from Universitas Hasanuddin in Indonesia, specializing in Applied Linguistics with a focus on cyberbullying on online platforms. He serves on the editorial boards of several SINTA-accredited journals in Indonesia and is a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals.

José Florencio Fabella Lapeña, Jr.

Joey is a retired Professor of Otolaryngology at U.P. College of Medicine, former Vice Chancellor at the University of the Philippines Manila and Attending Otolaryngologist at Philippine General Hospital. He has special interests in pediatric cleft and aero-digestive surgery, medical education, mentoring, writing and peer review. He is Secretary of the World Association of Medical Editors, Past President of the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors, and Charter President of the Philippine Association of Medical Journal Editors. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, and chairs the Philippine National Journal Selection Committee for the Western Pacific Region Index Medicus of the World Health Organization.

Jose Octavio Alonso Gamboa

Octavio is a founding member of Latindex (www.latindex.org), an information system comprising 24 countries, of which he has been the general coordinator since 2005. He is a tenured academic at the General Directorate of Libraries of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Studies. His experience includes topics such as the quality and visibility of scientific journals, as well as the transformation of academic journals to the digital culture. His professional career focuses on regional science communication and open access, reflecting his interest in the promotion of open science and the democratization of knowledge.

Kazuki Ide

Kazuki is a Specially-Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University. His broad research interests include scholarly communication/publication ethics, public health/health informatics, and ELSI/RRI. He has performed peer reviews over 500 times and received the Top Peer Reviewer Award in 2019 for Cross-Field (Top 1% in the World, Web of Science). He also led the translation of the following educational materials into Japanese: Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences (IAP, 2023) and Think.Check.Submit. (2024).

Kylie van Zyl

Kylie is one of the small, dedicated team at African Journals Online, a South Africa-based NPO dedicated to quality African-published scholarly journals, where she handles JPPS assessments of new applicant journals. She holds an MA and PhD in History from Rhodes University, specialising in the social history of health in South African contexts.

Matt Hodgkinson

Matt is a publishing and research integrity consultant based in Cambridge, UK. He volunteers as the co-chair of the membership subcommittee of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Treasurer of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE). He has worked at three Open Access journal publishers: as a professional scientific editor at both BioMed Central (BMC) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS), then as Head of Research Integrity and Head of Editorial Policy and Ethics at Hindawi. He was also a Research Integrity Manager at the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO).

Paulin Ribbe

Paulin holds a master degree in digital publishing from ENSSIB (French National Library and Information Science School, Lyon, France). He has worked as a project manager for European projects in various research infrastructures in social sciences: Huma-Num, OPERAS (OpenEdition). He currently works in Sciences Po Lyon as Open Science Officer, and as a project manager for Mir@bel, a website and community aiming to facilitate access to online journals. He participates in various projects including major French publishing platforms and agencies working together to increase the visibility of French scientific journals.