The Associate Editor Meeting of International Journal of Sediment Research (IJSR) was held in Beijing, China on Oct. 30, 2017. The topic of this meeting was about the future development of IJSR. Eleven editors from China, America, France, Singapore, India and the Netherlands attended this meeting.

Prof. Hongwei Fang, the Editor-in-Chief, presided over this meeting. Firstly he made welcoming remarks and introduced the schedules for the meeting. Every attendee gave a self-introduction afterwards. Prof. Fang presented a report concerning the current development of IJSR. International Journal of Sediment Research is a quarterly publication, with 50~60 papers published per year. The Journal Impact Factor (IF) in 2016 has increased to 1.494, while it is 1.306 in 2014 and 1.388 in 2015. However, the rank of IJSR in journal categories is unsatisfactory, which implies the international influence of IJSR needs improvement. Prof. Fang also put forward several possible measures to promote the journal’s development, including publishing special issues, inviting associate editors or other famous scholars to provide review papers, and setting up a new editorial office in Tsinghua University.

Thereafter the attendees had congenial discussions about the future development of IJSR and they came up with numerous suggestions on how to enhance the international influence and make the journal achieve greater progress. Prof. Charles Melching shared his experience and reflections as an executive editor, and he stressed that a limit for paper length should be set to ensure the quality of publications. Prof. Zhaoyin Wang, the previous chief editor, proposed that financial support would be vital for journal development, and the scope or subject of the journal could be extended to interdisciplinary, hot topics, and new topics. Moreover, issues about online editorial system, Open Access and article types were discussed as well. In the end, an outline and summary was composed based on the discussion.

The Associate Editor Meeting of International Journal of Sediment Research, Oct. 30, 2017, Beijing, China

Discussion on the future development of IJSR, Oct. 30, 2017