R2R Debate Teams Announced | The Researcher to Reader Conference – BMA House, London – 24-25 February 2020

"This time, the debate is on the subject of Journal Brands and Impact Measures. Teams of debaters will be arguing for and against the controversial proposition:

“The venue of its publication tells us nothing useful about the quality of a paper”.

Speaking for the proposition will be:

• Dr Mike Taylor, who is a Research Associate at the University of Bristol and a Software Guy at Index Data
• Toby Green, who is Managing Director at Coherent Digital and Former Head of Publishing at the OECD

Speaking against will be:

• Pippa Smart, who is a Publishing Consultant, Editor-in-Chief of Learned Publishing and President of the European Association Of Science Editors
• Dr Niall Boyce, who is Editor of The Lancet Psychiatry and a PhD researcher at Birkbeck..."