Hi everyone, I'm currently having an extremely hard time finding reviewers for a paper at @jovi which relates to visualization, simulation, and orbital dynamics. The review version is public at https://www.journalovi.org/2024-rein-rebound/ and the reviews will be public and (optionally) attributed as well. Please ping me if interested, and RT for reach!

#academia #visualization #space #Astrodon

Anyone has a bit of experience with @DOAJ? We submitted @jovi for inclusion, but got a very speedy rejection because it's not publishing enough. I thought the requirement is that a journal needs to have published at least 5 peer-reviewed articles to be included, and JoVI ticks that box?

@owiecc @W_Lucht and one example journal published by Aalborg University is @jovi , the Journal of Visualization and Interaction (founded by @mjskay , @lonnibesancon , @chat and myself).

P.S. it says "student volunteers" in the post, but postdocs are also welcome to join!

Want to help promote open and transparent practices in #HCI and #VIS?
Curious about the inner working of academic publication processes?

JoVI is looking for volunteers to fill in the following positions:

* Assistant to the journal organizers
* Technical co-chair (Open Journal Systems: OJS)
* Assistants to the accessibility chair (2 persons)

See https://www.journalovi.org/posts/2025-04-29-student-volunteers/ for more details, and don't hesitate to contact us with questions!

#academia #publishing #OpenAccess #openscience

New publication in JoVI:

Yes, Yes in Yellow: Memes and What They Tell Us About (Queer) Use of Data Visualization

by Alyxander Burns

https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jovi/article/view/8419

New publication in JoVI:

Provenance Visualization as an Entry Point to the History and Curation of Information Collections

by Tomas Vancisin, Mary Orr, Loraine Clarke, Uta Hinrichs

https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jovi/article/view/8436

New publication in JoVI (and our first interactive article!):

Gatherplot: A Non-Overlapping Scatterplot

by Deokgun Park, Sung-Hee Kim, Niklas Elmqvist

https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jovi/article/view/8540

/cc @elm

It's finally done: the first properly peer-reviewed open-access article has been published in JoVI!

"Practice with uncertainty integration improves performance on a qualitatively different task and with new visualizations" by Benjamin T. Files, Ashley H. Oiknine, TIffany Raber, Bianca Dalangin, Kimberly A. Pollard.

In case you are curious, head to https://doi.org/10.54337/jovi.v1i1.7971 and have a look. Note that the reviews are also public!

#OpenAccess #academia #publishing

Going to #CHI2024 and interested in experimenting with new review methods, open practices, and interactive publications?

Join us in a SIG meeting by @jovi (the Journal of Visualization and Interaction) on 16 May 11:00 (Hawaiʻi time) in room 318A

Details: https://journalovi.org/posts/2024-04-04-chi-sig

Just saw someone brag about getting a paper accepted after the 10th (TENTH!) resubmission. 🤯

What an incredible waste of resources. This paper has probably collected somewhere around 35 separate reviews, no doubt with a fair bit of opposing views and change requests.

If there only was a venue which doesn't have to meet some arbitrary rejection rate and aims for continuity of reviews between revisions... 🤔

*cough* @jovi *cough* 😉

I am - once again - pretty pissed right now by the journal reviewing process, having ultimately been dealt a rejection after going through major revisions.

There seems to be an unspoken assumption among editors and reviewers that _any_ requested revision has to be followed to the letter, no matter if it makes any sense or not. Of course, we argued against this in the revision letter, but it doesn't look like anybody read it. 😑

Once again, one of the reasons I co-founded @jovi.

JoVI has received its first ever submission on its experimental track! 🥳

The submission, under review, is available here: https://journalovi.org/2023-park-gatherplots/

and the reviewing process will be entirely on Github - follow it here: https://github.com/journalovi/2023-park-gatherplots

@dr_pi No - right now, it's up to the reviewers if they want to remain anonymous or sign their reviews. But it might be an idea to put that information behind a "click-to-reveal" thing?

@floe @LudoWaltman @jovi @lonnibesancon @chat yeah I'm hoping we can eventually move away from accept/reject

Quick update: JoVI is now a full-blown official journal, with our own ISSN (2794-5502) and DOI prefix (https://doi.org/10.54337/jovi.vXiY.NNNN), courtesy of Aalborg University press and the Royal Danish Library. :jovi: 🥳

JoVI's first publication is now live! See https://doi.org/10.54337/jovi.v1i1.7782 for our inaugural editorial & mission statement.

/cc @khornbaek @amelia @arvind @scheidegger @jschwabish @elm @lane @lace @floe @mjskay @lonnibesancon

Super excited to announce that we are partnering with
@jovi! JoVI is a new open community-driven diamond open-access journal (read: no cost to authors) and accepted talks will be invited to submit to a special issue.

And last but not least, our advisory board:
Pierre Dragicevic http://dragice.fr/
Kasper Hornbæk @khornbaek
Eva Hornecker http://www.ehornecker.de/
Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman
Yvonne Jansen https://yvonnejansen.me/
Amelia McNamara @amelia
Arvind Satyanarayan @arvind
Carlos Scheidegger @scheidegger
Jon Schwabish @jschwabish

Our Associate Editors:
Leilani Battle @leibatt
Niklas Elmqvist @elm
Lane Harrison @lane
Yvonne Jansen https://yvonnejansen.me/
Lace Padilla @lace
Jon Schwabish @jschwabish
Jason Dykes @jsndyks