• President of EASE, 2023-25, VP 2021-23, Council member 2018-21
• Chairman of the EASE Regional Chapters Committee
• Initiated and chaired the EASE Turkish Regional Chapter, 2018-22
• Editorial Advisory Board member European Science Editing
• General Secretary of the Balkan Association of ORL-HNS
• Founder of Mirko Tos Ear and Hearing Research Centre
• Founding President of Trakya Society of ORL-HNS

Cem was elected as a member of the Journal Selection Committee of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM) TR Index in 2018. He was the previous Editor in Chief (2012-2016), Co-Editor (2004-2008) and the Editor at Large of the Balkan Medical Journal (2016-2018), which is the only journal from medical schools in Turkey indexed in SCIE and Medline. Cem has organized more than 20 webinars, workshops, symposiums and conferences on scientific writing, editing, reviewing, journal management and publication ethics. Beside EASE, he is the member of COPE and the World Association of Medical Editors.

Cem was member of Programme Committee for the 14th EASE Conference, Bucharest 2018 and president of “How to become successful authors and editors of scientific journals – 3rd International Symposium of Scientific Journals of Trakya University”, which was endorsed by EASE. Cem also organized one of the Pre-Conference Events of EASE Virtual Conference 2020 and a Panel Discussion at “Peer Review Week 2020”, which received great interest from academicians and publishers in Turkey.

Cem is the author of more than 100 articles and owner of two patents in ORL. He has more than 1000 citations. His h-index is 21 (GoogleScholar) and 15 (WoS). He also has several researches, papers and presentations on science publishing related subjects. He serves as editorial board member or reviewer in more than 20 ORL-HNS, audiology, underwater, aerospace medicine or science publishing related scholarly journals indexed in WoS. He received “Outstanding Young Faculty Award”, “Science Award” and “Researcher of the Year Award” in Turkey, and has been awarded “Goodwill Ambassador to the Academy from Turkey and the Balkans” by the American Academy of ORL-HNS. He worked as a postdoc scholar at the University of Copenhagen with Danish Government scholarship and at Miami Ear Institute of the University of Miami with Fulbright scholarship.

Cem updated the Turkish translation of the EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English. With Orhan Yilmaz and colleagues, he translated the INASP “Handbook for Journal Editors” into Turkish. He also translated EASE SAGER Guidelines into Turkish with Muge Atakan.

 

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