[CPN] Companion volume progress report

Thu Apr 6 13:58:58 EDT 2017

Hear! Hear!

On Apr 6, 2017, at 10:30 AM, David Marjanovic wrote:

> Hello, everyone!
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> The "everything we thought we knew about dinosaur phylogeny is wrong" paper that came out in Nature recently ( http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646/full/nature21700.html ) cites the Sauropoda chapter of the companion volume as having been published in 2010, both in the "paper" (extended abstract) itself (as ref. 31) and in the supplementary information (as "Taylor et al. 2010"):
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> "Taylor, M. P., Upchurch, P., Yates, A. M., Wedel, M. J. & Naish, D. In Phylonyms: a Companion to the PhyloCode (eds De Queiroz, K., Cantino, P.D., Gauthier, J.A.) (Univ. California Press, 2010)"
> "Taylor, M. P., P. Upchurch, A. M. Yates, M. J. Wedel, and D. Naish. 2010. Sauropoda. In De Queiroz, K., P.D. Cantino, J. A. Gauthier (eds.), Phylonyms: a Companion to the PhyloCode. University of California Press. Berkley [sic]."
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> Three authors, a prominent editor, two prominent named reviewers and at least one anonymous reviewer didn't notice. The slumber that has befallen this mailing list – there hasn't been any traffic here for 13 months and 3 days – appears to be a widespread phenomenon.
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> I think this highlights the need to publish the ICPN and Phylonyms soon. May I ask for another progress report?
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> With best wishes,
> David
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> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 03. März 2016 um 20:54 Uhr
> Von: "Adl, Sina" <sina.adl at usask.ca>
> An: "Michel Laurin" <laurin at mnhn.fr>, "Philip Cantino" <pcantino at gmail.com>
> Cc: "clementw at tcnj.edu" <clementw at tcnj.edu>, "T. Michael Keesey" <keesey at gmail.com>, "torsten.eriksson at uib.no" <torsten.eriksson at uib.no>, "Committee on Phylogenetic Nomenclature" <cpn at listserv.ohio.edu>, "Erika Edwards" <erika_edwards at brown.edu>, "Michael Donoghue" <michael.donoghue at yale.edu>, "Kevin de Queiroz" <dequeirk at si.edu>, "Thomas Near" <thomas.near at yale.edu>, "David Tank" <dtank at uidaho.edu>
> Betreff: Re: [CPN] Companion volume progress report
> Thank you Phil, Sina
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> From: Michel Laurin [mailto:laurin at mnhn.fr]
> Sent: February-27-16 3:18 PM
> To: Philip Cantino <pcantino at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: Companion volume progress report
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> Thanks Phil,
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> I think that the final deadline should be about two months from now, provided we warn all authors about this soon. After all, many journals require revisions to be done in 60 days, or the papers are treated as new submissions. This seems all the more justified that most contributions have been in the author’s hands for some time now. The only exceptions I would make are the contributions that are still in the editor’s hands, and the Companion Editors should strive to send these back to the authors very soon.
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> Are we still on schedule for a late 2016 publication, or does 2017 seem more likely now?
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> Best wishes,
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> Michel
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> Le 27 févr. 2016 à 17:33, Philip Cantino <pcantino at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Dear ICPN members and ISPN Council,
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> I have attached two documents concerning the progress of Phylonyms, the companion volume to the PhyloCode.  I know there has been a lot of concern about the slow progress of this work, which I certainly share.  I am happy to report that the companion volume is finally approaching completion.  
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> I plan to send the attached document entitled "comp vol report February 2016" to the authors early next week.  The other document, which I don't plan to send to the authors, summarizes the progress made since 2012.  The most dramatic changes over this four-year period are the percentage of submissions accepted (87% now versus 32% in Feb. 2012) and the number of not-yet-accepted contributions that are "in the editors' court" (6 now versus 83 in Feb. 2012).  There are also 31 unfinished contributions that are in the hands of authors.  In some cases, those authors have been sitting on their contributions for many months or even years without revising them, perhaps because they believed that the book was never going to be finished.  In other cases, the authors received their contributions back from the editors only recently.  At some point (fairly soon), I think we need to set a hard deadline for authors, but the deadline needs to be fair to those authors who were not at fault for the delay in their contributions.
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> Best regards,
> Phil
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> <comp vol report February 2016.doc><Phylonyms progress 2012-2016.docx>
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