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Recommendations to the Executive Board
with Board Responses from Board
Meeting Held July 13, 2017
STANDING COMMITTEES

The 2018 award will be compiled from
articles published from Jan-Feb of 2016
until Nov-Dec 2017. Donna Bahun will
obtain data based upon downloads in the
prior calendar year.
Board Response: Agree if the metrics can be obtained.

Food Protection Trends Management
Committee
1.

It is recommended that Matt Taylor be recognized
as Vice Chair and will ascend to Chair on July 21,
2019.
Board Response: Agree
It is recommended that five awards be developed
to recognize publications in FPT and be awarded
during the 2018 meeting:
1. Most-cited peer-reviewed publication.
This award will recognize the most-cited
publication based upon citations over the
past five calendar years. Metrics will be
determined from Web of Science based
upon Clarivate Analytics.
2. Most-viewed peer-reviewed publication. This award will recognize the most
viewed publication published over the
past 2 calendar years. The 2018 award
will be compiled from articles published
from Jan-Feb of 2016 until Nov-Dec
2017. Donna Bahun will obtain data based
upon views in the prior calendar year.
3. Most viewed general interest publication. This award will recognize the most
viewed publication published over the
past 2 calendar years. The 2018 award
will be compiled from articles published
from Jan-Feb of 2016 until Nov-Dec
2017. Donna Bahun will obtain data based
upon views in the prior calendar year.
4. Most downloaded peer-reviewed publication. This award will recognize the
most downloaded publication published
over the past 2 calendar years. The 2018
award will be compiled from articles
published from Jan-Feb of 2016 until
Nov-Dec 2017. Donna Bahun will obtain
data based upon downloads in the prior
calendar year.
5. Most downloaded general interest
publication. This award will recognize
the most downloaded publication published over the past 2 calendar years.

It is recommended that the final survey be
delivered by a web-based survey platform that
will allow for integrated logic to be established
within the survey (direct next question based
upon response). Cathy Cutter, Faith Critzer, and
Donna Bahun will work to craft preamble to the
survey and test the instrument once available
prior to release to all IAFP members. It is also
recommended that a $100 gift card be awarded
randomly to one participant in order to incentivize
participation.
Board Response: Agree.

It is recommended that a new online viewing platform be considered by the Executive Board for
FPT. The current platform makes it difficult for the
IAFP membership to access and view content.
Consider allowing for hyperlinked table of contents so readers don't have to advance through
all content to get to an article they are interested
in reading and improve the ability to view content
(ex. font is too small and zoom is too close).
Board Response: Agree, IAFP staff will look
into options of a new platform. The current
table of contents is linked to the article page
for ease of navigation.

Journal of Food Protection Management
Committee
1.

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,
b.

Run a distribution curve of our citations in
conjunction with our impact factor.
Board Response: Agree

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