EASE Summer Symposium 2026 – Session 3

Methods for Setting and Upholding Editorial Standards

Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 10am-11.30am

This practical session focuses on how journals can systematically set, maintain, and communicate editorial standards. Examples include threshold-setting for methodological rigor, reviewer and editor training programmes, background research on publishing norms, and use of established standard-setting frameworks such as the outputs of organizations like the EQUATOR Network, COPE and EASE. Panelists will discuss how to ensure that authors, reviewers, and editors understand and adhere to expectations, and how transparency and continuous improvement contribute to elevating journal quality. Participants will gain strategies for fostering consistency across their editorial team and hear about successes and failures of trying new strategies to enforce standards. Finally, the session will examine the potential for AI to analyze data as well as provide highly segmented data to fuel micro-targeted engagement campaigns aimed at unique individual experiences.

Chair

Iva Grabarić Andonovski

Editor, University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Food Technology and Biotechnology journalCroatia

Editor of Food Technology and Biotechnology with over 20 years of experience in scientific publishing. EASE Vice President from 2023-27, Chair of EASE Croatian Regional Chapter, and Co-Chair of Environment and Sustainability Committee. Active in Croatian scientific community as one of the founders and currently the President of Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC), member of HRČAK (Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals) Advisory Board, and Organizing committee member of PUBMET Conference on Scholarly Communication.

Speakers

Tetyana Yaroshenko

Deputy Director for Research and International Cooperation, State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine Ukraine

Loreta Tauginienė

Associate Professor, Kaunas University of TechnologyLithuania

Dr Tauginienė is Associate Professor and Head of Centre of Society, Transformations and Governance Research at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. She is a Member of the COPE Council, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Academic Ethics, and member of the Advisory Board of the French Office for Research Integrity.

Milica Ševkušić

Project Coordinator, EIFL Open Access ProgrammeSerbia

Cheol-Heui Yun

Chair of Publication Ethics Committee, Seoul National Univ./Dept Agricultural BKorea, Rep.

Vice chair of EASE Korea and co-chair of the EASE Regional Chapter Programme Committee