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  • 标题:Changes to the Canadian Journal of Public Health/ Des changements a la Revue canadienne de sante publique.
  • 作者:Potvin, Louise
  • 期刊名称:Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • 印刷版ISSN:0008-4263
  • 出版年度:2015
  • 期号:January
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Canadian Public Health Association
  • 摘要:Last year, I pointed out that the world of scientific publication has changed dramatically over the past 15 to 20 years. Traditionally, scientific journals were directed by an editor-in-chief (most often a man) who, more or less single-handedly, worked to ensure the scientific quality and relevance of the published content. Basically, this consisted of determining the broad editorial directions of the journal (including the number and content of sections), determining which submissions would go forward to peer review, managing the review process, supporting authors in their work to improve articles and making the final decision to publish an article or not. Often these editors were leaders in their field and enjoyed a high profile and influence. It was their journal! For those who knew him, this description easily evokes the role played by Milton Terris at the Journal of Public Health Policy, a journal he founded at the beginning of the 1980s and managed from his home for more than 20 years, almost right up to his death.

Changes to the Canadian Journal of Public Health/ Des changements a la Revue canadienne de sante publique.


Potvin, Louise


As I announced last year, in my first editorial as Scientific Editor, it was with the intention of inspiring a new vision and new practices that I accepted the challenge of assuming responsibility for the scientific content of the Canadian Journal of Public Health (CJPH). Today, I am pleased to inform you that a significant change--though invisible to you the readers--has taken place in the governance of our journal ... the Editorial Board has been given a new mandate that will involve it more directly in the daily operations of the Journal, and its composition has been modified.

Last year, I pointed out that the world of scientific publication has changed dramatically over the past 15 to 20 years. Traditionally, scientific journals were directed by an editor-in-chief (most often a man) who, more or less single-handedly, worked to ensure the scientific quality and relevance of the published content. Basically, this consisted of determining the broad editorial directions of the journal (including the number and content of sections), determining which submissions would go forward to peer review, managing the review process, supporting authors in their work to improve articles and making the final decision to publish an article or not. Often these editors were leaders in their field and enjoyed a high profile and influence. It was their journal! For those who knew him, this description easily evokes the role played by Milton Terris at the Journal of Public Health Policy, a journal he founded at the beginning of the 1980s and managed from his home for more than 20 years, almost right up to his death.

However, this model is no longer viable, in part because of the growing volume of manuscripts submitted and the hyperspecialization in fields of research relevant to one domain or one discipline, and also in part because of the increasing difficulties in attracting and retaining first-class reviewers. That is why I proposed following the example of other major public health journals and providing the CJPH with an editorial board that is strongly involved in the Journal's direction and the management of its content. Such a committee, active in ongoing operations, would free up time to better reflect on the Journal's long-term development, since the diversity of its makeup ensures better coverage of all fields, entry into a number of pertinent networks and better alignment of the Journal's content with developments in our field.

Over the past year, and after having informed the individuals who made up the various existing committees of my intention to redefine the editorial structure of the CJPH, I personally invited eight colleagues to join the new Editorial Board. My priority for this board was to recruit leaders in their field of specialization and individuals who could legitimately embody the scientific excellence and relevance to which the Journal aspires. These are individuals you will recognize because you have read their work for a number of years. It gives me great pleasure to introduce them to you.

Linda Dodds is a professor at Dalhousie University's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Director of the Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit. Her work is focused primarily on the medium- and long-term effects of in-utero exposures. On our team, Linda is predominantly responsible for managing submissions involving epidemiology in general and maternal and infant health.

Trevor Hancock, currently a professor at the University of Victoria's School of Public Health and Social Policy, is known primarily for his long career as an activist, a practitioner and a consultant in the field of public health. His writings are known throughout the world and viewed as authoritative, particularly with regard to the integration of environmental, organizational and health issues. I have given Trevor a very special mandate to develop a new section of the Journal in which we will publish the works of public health practitioners, relating to their practice. Articles in this section will be subject to review by peers recognized as professionals in the field and as individuals we would like to attract as authors for this section.

Lindsay McLaren is a professor in the University of Calgary's Department of Community Health Sciences, and Co-Director of the University's Population Health and Inequities Research Centre at the O'Brien Institute for Public Health. In the fall of 2014, she received one of the 14 applied research Chairs in Population Health awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Within the framework of this chair, her work will address questions relating to water fluoridation, but her studies have bearing on many lifestyle issues. On our team, Lindsay will deal primarily with issues relating to intervention research, public policies and prevention.

Eric Mykhalovskiy is a professor at York University's Department of Sociology. His work deals generally with the sociological analysis of medical knowledge, mainly with regard to questions related to the treatment and prevention of HIV/ AIDS. On our team, he will continue the work begun by Joan Eakin. Joan retired recently after having developed the qualitative research section of the Journal. In addition to ensuring the publication of qualitative research of the highest quality, Eric's mandate is to develop critical content in our journal and to ensure close ties to our colleagues in the social sciences.

Jean Shoveller is a professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Population and Public Health. She founded and directs the Youth Sexual Health Team at UBC. Her career is punctuated with awards and funding grants. Her work deals primarily with the sexual health of adolescents and young adults from the perspective of reducing health inequities. On our team, her primary responsibility will be issues relating to women's and youth's health and matters of health equity. She is also responsible for the implementation of our gender-equality policy.

Paul Villeneuve is a professor at Carleton University's Department of Health Sciences and a researcher at the Occupational Cancer Research Centre. He worked for many years as a researcher and analyst at Health Canada. His work deals with the effects on health of occupational and environmental exposures. On our team, Paul will be primarily responsible for matters dealing with environmental and occupational health.

Reg Warren is a consultant in health promotion. He has worked with the governments of Canada and Ontario and has been associated with the University of Toronto's Centre for Health Promotion. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to public health, health promotion and the promotion of professional practices based on research data. Reg will continue with the role he has held with the Journal over the last number of years, responsible for special supplementary editions.

Christina Zarowsky is a professor and the Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Montreal's School of Public Health. Her work involves global health in general, with particular interest in the social determinants of health, migrant and refugee health and HIV/ AIDS. In addition to her taking on questions relating to health systems, I have given Christina a specific mandate to define a strategy to increase the global health content of the Journal and our relevance to this field.

It was with great enthusiasm that these extremely high-quality researchers responded to my invitation to become editors of the CJPH and began to get involved with the operations of the Journal. We have already had a first retreat during which we began the work of revising the Journal's sections and editorial policies. We have started to decentralize the management of the peer-review process. Over the coming year, we will develop new sections and recruit collaborators who will make up the group of associate editors to support us in the more specialized fields. By next year, we will announce the new sections and our editorial policies.

On behalf of the team, I want to thank you for continuing to read the Canadian Journal of Public Health and for contributing to it, as authors or reviewers. At the end of the day, you are the Journal's raison d'etre!

Louise Potvin

Editor in Chief

Comme je vous l'annonqais l'annee derniere, a l'occasion de mon premier editorial au titre de redactrice scientifique de la revue, c'est dans l'optique d'insuffler une nouvelle vision et de nouvelles pratiques que j'ai accepte le defi d'assumer la responsabilite du contenu scientifique de la Revue canadienne de sante publique (RCSP). Il me fait plaisir aujourd'hui de vous informer qu'un changement majeur, bien qu'invisible pour vous lecteurs, a ete opere dans la gouvernance de votre revue: le Comite editorial s'est vu accorde un nouveau mandat, qui l'impliquera beaucoup plus directement dans les operations quotidiennes de la revue, et sa composition a ete renouvelee.

Je vous en faisais part l'annee derniere, le monde de l'edition scientifique a change drastiquement au cours des 15 ou 20 dernieres annees. Traditionnellement, les revues scientifiques etaient dirigees par un redacteur en chef (c'etait effectivement souvent un homme) qui assurait plus ou moins seul la qualite scientifique et la pertinence du contenu publie. Cela consistait essentiellement a determiner les grandes orientations editoriales du journal, incluant le nombre et le contenu des sections, assurer la selection des articles pour la revision par les pairs, gerer le processus de revision, accompagner les auteurs dans leur travail d'amelioration des articles et prendre la decision finale de publier ou non un article. Souvent, ces redacteurs etaient des leaders dans leur domaine et jouissaient d'une tres grande notoriete et autorite. C'etait leur revue! Pour ceux qui l'ont connu, cette description evoque facilement le role assure par Milton Terris au Journal of Public Health Policy, qu'il a fonde au debut des annees 1980 et qu'il a dirige de son domicile, pendant plus de 20 ans, presque jusqu'a sa mort.

Cependant, ce modele n'est plus viable, en partie a cause du volume croissant d'articles soumis et de l'hyperspecialisation des domaines de recherches pertinents pour un champ ou une discipline, et aussi en partie a cause des difficultes croissantes rencontrees pour mobiliser et fideliser des reviseurs de qualite. C'est pourquoi, a l'instar des grandes revues de sante publique, j'ai propose de doter la RCSP d'un Comite editorial fortement implique dans l'orientation de la revue et la gestion de son contenu. Outre qu'un tel comite, actif dans les operations courantes, permette de degager du temps pour mieux reflechir au developpement a long terme de la revue, celui-ci, de par la diversite de sa composition assure une meilleure couverture de l'ensemble du champs, la penetration de plusieurs reseaux pertinents et un meilleur alignement du contenu de la revue avec les developpements dans notre domaine.

Au cours de la derniere annee et apres avoir avise les personnes qui formaient les divers comites en place de mon intention de redefinir la structure editoriale de la RCSP, j'ai personnellement invite huit collegues a joindre ce nouveau comite editorial. Pour ce nouveau comite editorial ma priorite fut de recruter des leaders dans leur domaine de specialisation et des personnes qui, en toute legitimite, pourront incarner l'excellence scientifique et la pertinence pour la pratique, a laquelle la revue aspire. Ce sont des personnes que vous connaissez puisque vous les lisez regulierement depuis plusieurs annees. Il me fait grand plaisir de vous les presenter.

Linda Dodds est professeure au Departement d'obstetrique et gynecologie a l'Universite Dalhousie et directrice de l'Unite de recherche en epidemiologie perinatale. Ses travaux portent principalement sur les effets a moyen et long terme des expositions intra-uterines. Dans notre equipe, elle est plus specifiquement en charge des questions qui concernent l'epidemiologie en general et la sante maternelle et infantile.

Trevor Hancock qui est maintenant professeur a l'Ecole de sante publique et politiques sociales de l'Universite de Victoria est surtout reconnu pour sa longue carriere d'activiste, de professionnel et de consultant dans le domaine de la sante publique. Ses ecrits sont connus a travers le monde et font autorite, notamment en ce qui concerne l'integration des questions environnementales, organisationnelles et de sante. Je lui ai donne le mandat tres particulier de developper une nouvelle section de la revue dans laquelle nous publierons les travaux de professionnels de la sante publique en lien avec leur pratique. Les articles de cette section seront soumis a la revision par les pairs, entendus comme des professionnels du domaine, tout comme les auteurs que nous voulons attirer pour cette section.

Lindsay McLaren est professeure au Departement des sciences de la sante communautaire a l'Universite de Calgary et co-directrice du Centre de recherche sur la sante des populations et Requite a l'Institut de sante publique dans la meme universite. Elle a requ a l'automne 2014 l'une des 14 chaires de recherche appliquee en sante des populations decernees par les Instituts de recherche en sante du Canada. Dans le cadre de cette chaire, ses travaux porteront sur les questions relatives a la fluoration de l'eau, mais ses travaux portent sur un ensemble d'habitudes de vie. Dans notre equipe, elle s'occupe plus particulierement des questions relatives a la recherche interventionnelle, aux politiques publiques et a la prevention.

Eric Mykhalovskiy est professeur au Departement de sociologie de l'Universite York. Ses travaux portent generalement sur l'analyse sociologique des savoirs medicaux a partir principalement de questions liees au traitement et a la prevention du VIH/sida. Dans notre equipe, il assure la succession de Joan Eakin. Celle-ci a pris sa retraite recemment apres avoir developpe la section recherches qualitatives. En plus d'assurer la publication de recherches qualitatives de haute qualite, le mandat d'Eric est de developper un contenu critique dans notre revue et d'assurer les liens avec les collegues des sciences sociales.

Jean Shoveller est professeure a l'Ecole de sante publique et des populations de l'Universite de la Colombie-Britannique. Elle a fonde et dirige l'Equipe de recherche sur la sante sexuelle des jeunes a cette meme universite. Sa carriere est jalonnee de prix et de bourses salariales. Ses travaux portent principalement sur la sante sexuelle des adolescents et jeunes adultes dans une perspective d'equite en matiere de sante. Dans notre equipe, elle est plus particulierement responsable des questions relatives a la sante des femmes et des jeunes et aux questions d'equite en matiere de sante. Elle est aussi responsable de la mise en reuvre de notre politique d'egalite des genres.

Paul Villeneuve est professeur au Departement des sciences de la sante de l'Universite Carleton et chercheur au Centre de recherche sur les cancers occupationnels. Il a travaille longtemps comme chercheur et analyste a Sante Canada. Ses travaux portent sur les effets sur la sante d'expositions environnementales et occupationnelles. Dans notre equipe, il est plus particulierement responsable des questions liees a la sante environnementale et occupationnelle.

Reg Warren est consultant en promotion de la sante. Il a travaille avec les gouvernements du Canada et de l'Ontario et a ete associe au Centre pour la promotion de la sante de l'Universite de Toronto. Il s'interesse a un large eventail de questions liees a la sante publique, la promotion de la sante et a la promotion des pratiques professionnelles fondees sur des donnees de recherche. En continuite avec son role a la revue au cours des dernieres annees, il est responsable des numeros speciaux.

Christina Zarowsky est professeure et directrice du Departement de medecine sociale et preventive de l'Ecole de sante publique a l'Universite de Montreal. Ses travaux concernent la sante mondiale en general avec un interet particulier pour les determinants sociaux de la sante, la sante des migrants et des refugies et le VIH/sida. En plus de s'occuper des questions relatives aux systemes de sante, je lui ai donnee le mandat specifique de definir une strategie pour accroitre le contenu de sante mondiale de la revue et notre pertinence pour ce domaine.

C'est avec beaucoup d'enthousiasme que ces chercheurs de tres grande qualite ont repondu a mon invitation de devenir des redacteurs de la RCSP et commence a s'investir dans la revue. Nous avons deja eu une premiere retraite au cours de laquelle nous avons amorce le travail de revision des sections et politiques editoriales de la revue. Nous avons commence a decentraliser la gestion du processus de revision par les pairs. Au cours de la prochaine annee, nous elaborerons de nouvelles sections et recruterons des collaborateurs qui formeront le groupe de redacteurs associes pour nous epauler dans des domaines plus specialises. D'ici l'an prochain, nous annoncerons des nouvelles sections et nos politiques editoriales.

Au nom de l'equipe, je tiens a vous remercier de continuer a lire la Revue canadienne de sante publique et d'y contribuer a titre d'auteur ou de reviseur. Apres tout, c'est pour vous que la revue existe!

Louise Potvin

Redactrice en chef

doi: 10.17269/CJPH.106.5055
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