Monday 19 October 2009
08:30–10:00 Hall E
Moderator M. Turina, Editor, Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery
| 08:30 | Editor’s dream: a perfect manuscript L.H. Cohn, Boston, Editor, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery |
| 08:48 | Editor’s nightmare: poor paper and worse revision L.H. Edmunds Jr., Philadelphia, Editor, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery |
| 09:06 | Editor’s balancing act between association, publishers, and authors L. von Segesser, Lausanne, Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, and Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery |
| 09:24 | Editor’s ever increasing headache: plagiarism in modern publishing I. Beecroft, Martigny, Managing Editor, European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery and Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery |
| 09:42 | Editor as detective: conflict of interest in publishing A.S. Wechsler, Former Editor, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery |