2 - Current status of CP (with the help of Copernicus: Nadine Diesel and Natascha Otto)
- submissions and different statistics available
- subjects covered
- special issues
- number of issues, pages published
- Citation indexing/impact factor
3 - Role of the editorial team
- Chief editors (monitoring the editorial process, advising editors, attracting papers, special issues, interaction between Chiefs, monitoring of ethics....),
- Proposal for new chief Thorsten and Hugues taking over DDR
- Editors (edition of papers but also attracting submissions)
- Special issue editors: problems with some SIs
4 - Quality of papers
- Review policy (discussion with editors about the review process, the electronic system, the D versus non D part...)
- Special problems with controversial papers: how to handle them
- Language and style
5. The production and editing system
- Copernicus issues: COSIS versus Copernicus Office
- slow reviewers, authors (and editors!)
- issues with the automated system
6. Page charges
- including special negotiations with some national organisations: return from CNRS experience
7 - Encouraging the community to submit to CP: email lists/ SI web pages
8 - Future directions, contents, areas
- Balance special issues/ regular submissions (information from Copernicus for present balance)
- Editor suggestions