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ORCID IDs are published and included in metadata, and
more open access articles are being published.
The 2016 Impact Factor is 1.417 and the 5-year IF is
1.739. The 2015 IF was 1.609 with a 5-year IF of 1.963. With
all the changes we have made in the past year, we are confident that the IF will improve as we continue through 2017.
Linda Harris asked a question about alert frequency
options. Didi responded that if we were doing pre-print on
manuscripts, weekly alerts were available. Since ahead-ofprint publication of the final edited article was chosen, weekly
alerts do not apply. Didi had Allen Press remove the weekly
update link to avoid confusion.
Manan asked a question about DOIs. The DOI for an
ahead-of-print article does not become active until it's registered with CrossRef. As soon as the article goes online, the
DOI should be active. Manan indicated that sometimes the
ahead-of-print articles do not have an active DOI. Didi will
check if there is a lag time with CrossRef and Alan Press to
get more information on this.
Didi was recognized by the entire committee for her contributions to many of the positive changes that have occurred
to the Journal this year.
David Tharp led a discussion on the replacement of
Dr. Joe Frank as a Scientific Editor, beginning Jan. 1, 2018.
Beginning in late September or early October, we need to
establish a search committee to include a Board member,
a Scientific Editor, and four - six committee members. A
search plan has been developed and documented by the
IAFP Board. The deadline for submitting interests and CVs is
Sept. 12, 2017. The selection committee will have a teleconference around Sept. 25-29. The Board would like to have
the recommendation from the Committee by October 3, 2017
with the entire process complete and communicated to the
selected editor by the end of October. The new editor would
visit the Des Moines office for an orientation meeting with
Didi, David and the IAFP team. Duties of the new editor will
commence on Jan 2, 2018. Joe Frank was appointed Jan 1,
2002. Volunteers were requested resulting in a sub-committee of Sean Leighton, Steve Kenney, Abani Pradham, Panos
Skandamis, Guodong Zuang, and Faith Critzer.
Didi shared a status update on JFP prepared by Informed
Strategies. The report included an update on the communication plan, work on our metrics, and some recommendations:
(1) conduct a discovery audit to confirm current content is
visible through primary discovery sources - Google Scholar,
EBSCO and ProQuest, (2) evaluate emerging publication
systems in development and demand for Open Access to
determine options in two years, and (3) consider creating collections of prior articles on hot topics that could reinforce the
JFP brand and generate new revenue.
Judy Luther provided a second report on the Journal's
Impact Factor, showing historic levels. Judy's recommendations for consideration include: (1) obtain an IF analysis from
Clarivate Analytics, (2) consider utilizing Clarivate's service
for inviting well-cited authors to submit a paper, (3) evaluate
the impact of articles less likely to be cited, (4) work with Allen
Press to implement TrendMD, and (5) examine the role of
citations in Altmetrics.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
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The Committee would like to continue to work with Judy
Luther to
a. Correlate article downloads with citations to get a
better understanding of our metrics and our readership and,

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Run a distribution curve of our citations in conjunction with our impact factor.

Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018 in Salt Lake City, UT.
Meeting Adjourned: 12:00 p.m.
Chairperson: Vijay K. Juneja.

Program Committee
Members Present: Alvin C.B. Lee, Renee Boyer, Laura
Brown, Yuhuan Chen, Michelle Danyluk, Heidy den Besten,
Martin Duplessis, Mark Moorman, Laurie Post, Carrie Rigdon,
Manpreet Singh, Tori Stivers, Jarret Stopforth, Peter Taormina,
and Pamela Wilger.
Board/Staff Members Present: Mickey Parish and Tamara
Ford. Number of Attendees: 17.
Meeting Called to Order: 7:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 12,
2017. Introductions were made.
The Process - Tamara explained the process for the
2018 process. October 3 is the deadline for symposium,
roundtable and workshop proposals. The Committee will
review all of the submissions using the online system, and will
meet via conference call in late October or early November
to select proposals for further development. Committee
members should plan on a 5-6 hour conference call.
The submission deadline for abstracts is January 16,
2018. The Committee will again review all symposium,
roundtable and workshop proposals. The Committee will
be divided into five teams; each team will review one-fifth
of the abstracts. The Committee will meet in Salt Lake City,
February 16-17, 2018 to select abstracts and sessions for
IAFP 2018. The Committee asked for mobile-friendly review
and area of expertise selection for judging.
From feedback from the PDG Chair/Vice Chair Meeting
and with Board discussion, the PDG sponsorship should
be listed in the program. The PDG Chairs and Vice Chairs
should be notified of which proposals were submitted under
their PDG.
The PDG chairs also requested that they know why a
proposal was rejected. In many cases there are similar proposals.
For proposals, the Program Committee encourages organizers to have identified potential speakers. A proposal with
potential speakers is more likely to be accepted than TBD for
a slot.
IAFP 2017 Evaluation - The Committee provided feedback concerning IAFP 2017.
Room counts - The Program Committee requested room
count estimates. The student session monitors are asked to
count attendance at each session. Tamara will provide to the
Committee. The Committee suggested app scanning like we
do for PDG meetings, but it may not be logistically feasible.
App/Program - Based on attendee feedback, the
Program Committee would like to note which sessions or
speakers are being recorded either in the app or the program.
AV/Technical Issues - Tamara discussed the encryption
issues that caused laptop issues when uploading. She will let
speakers know this for next year. The AV projectors were too
dim and screens often too small. This will be fixed for 2018.
Technical Session Convenors - must have two convenors and a back-up person for each session.

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