How to Become Successful Authors

&

Editors of Scientific Journals

Pippa Smart, PSP Consulting, Oxford, UK

Pippa.smart@gmail.com - https://www.pspconsulting.org/

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5528-4704

Pippa Smart is the President of EASE (the European Association of Science Editors), and an independent publishing consultant. She has worked in scholarly publishing for over 25 years in a variety of roles, and now specializes in providing strategic development support for editorial groups and publishers. This includes training, consultancy and contract negotiations. She is Editor-in-Chief of Learned Publishing, the journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers (ALPSP) and writes the ALPSP monthly member newsletter. Her works takes her around the world and has allowed her to appreciate the many different models of scholarly publishing and understand the pressures that editors and small publishers experience when trying to compete in a global environment where the "rules" are often established by large, well-supported organizations.

Professor Ana Marušić, MD, PhD

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6272-0917

Ana Marušić is Professor of Anatomy and Chair of the Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health at the University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia, and holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. She is the Co-editor in Chief of the Journal of Global Health. She chairs the Research Committee of the World Association of Medical Editors. She is Past President of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and Council of Science Editors (CSE). Prof. Marušić is also the Co-Chair of the Cochrane Scientific Committee. Prof. Marušić is the founder of the Cochrane Croatia and takes responsibility for Research as its Research Coordinator. She is on the Steering Group of the EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUality And Transparency Of Health Research) Network. She has a number of significant academic achievements including authorship of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and was heavily involved with creating the policy of mandatory registration of clinical trials in public registries which helped change the legal regulation of clinical trials worldwide. She has received a number of awards for her research, most recently a Meritorious Award from the Council of Science Editors in 2016.