Scholarpedia:Assistant Editor/Follow-Up Invited Authors

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    This is a time consuming procedure. Following up one expert per week per assistant editor would be more than enough.

    How Scholarpedia invitation system works

    When an editor invites an expert, the editor registers the expert (creates an account) and then generates an invitation email using a template, e.g., Scholarpedia:Invitation to Computational Neuroscience (fields are filled in automatically). Typically, the invited experts agree (almost 80%) or decline (10%) within a few weeks.

    Once the author info and the invitation is in the database, Scholarpedia sends automatic follow-ups twice per month using the template Scholarpedia:Follow up Invitation and a copy of the invitation. Some experts agree to (or decline) the invitation after a few follow-ups. Yet, there are some who still do not respond.

    What to do

    There is no point to email to these authors, since they receive automatic reminders twice per month for the last few months. Either the emails are wrong, or the invited authors could not find 5 seconds of their time to click 'decline' link in the reminder to get off the mailing list.

    • Click the article and see whether the topic has an editor (listed at the bottom).
    • If it does, send an email to the editor and offer your help to follow-up the author, then go to the next article.
    • If there is no editor, google the author on the web and find the phone number or an email address of somebody who is a colleague of the author.

    Tell the author that you are an assistant editor of Scholarpedia and that you are contacting him/her on behalf of Scholarpedia and the editor-in-chief. Kindly explain that we have not heard yes or no from that person and that we hope he/she could write the article, possible with a co-author. However, if the expert is too busy or not interested, we need to know the name of the "second best expert in the world" to invite for the article. Also, mention that the follow-ups are sent automatically and they will continue to come until the YES or NO decision is reached. In any case, the expert needs to click either 'agree' or 'decline' link in the invitation (the link has a token and it is unique for every invitee). Please, be polite. If the invitee says no and does not want to click the link, let the editor-in-chief@scholarpedia.org know and the invitation will be removed.


    List of non-responders

    Invitees for these articles, ordered chronologically, were invited before September 1, 2007. If you take the title, mark it as "(taken by <your username>)" so that others know that this article is taken care of.

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