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Editorial governance
Readers need to know who stands behind a report, who wrote it and whose interests might have shaped it. This page sets out the editorial governance of Reports, published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI): how publishers and editors are kept independent, how conflicts are declared and handled, and how authorship is decided. These rules apply to every series and every edition. Information and enquiries are open today.
The workspace for editorial governance.
Series production desk
Editorial governance · Annual synthesis · Edition 7 · Example interface, not a record
Editions in production
| Annual synthesis | Global | Data check | 83 | W39 |
| Country profile 7 | Country | Peer review | 97 | W11 |
| Water outlook | Sectoral | Drafting | 51 | W24 |
| Methods note 4 | Methods | Released | 100 | done |
Data check, annual synthesis
Edition pipeline
- Outlineboard
- Draftauthors
- Data checkevery value
- Peer reviewtwo rounds
- Editorialdecision
- ReleaseDOI
- Correctionsversioned
Reports · Series production desk. Series production desk: example names and illustrative values, not a record.
Each edition names its publisher and editors.
A named publisher
GCRI publishes Reports. Where another competent institution publishes an edition, it is named, with its responsibility.
Series editors
Each series has editors who decide what is published, following the series method.
Independent reviewers
Reviewers are independent of the authors and declare their conflicts.
No one can buy or block a finding.
- No funder, sponsor, member or host can purchase a favourable position or a finding.
- No contributor can veto publication of a result they dislike.
- Editorial independence is never purchased through sponsorship or membership.
- Funding for every edition is disclosed in the edition.
- Release follows review, not event publicity deadlines.
How the process runs.
Process
Editorial governance: Deliberation to decision
A dialogue question gets an accountable owner, evidence and financial readings; deliberation is recorded with dissent, and the accountable decider decides.
01 Question and evidence
- 01Frame the question with an accountable ownerRecord · The Global Risks ForumGRF frames dialogue questions, with GCRI consulted and the Global Risks Alliance (GRA) where finance is involved. The question note names an accountable owner.
- 02Evidence briefRecord · GCRIGCRI prepares an evidence brief with labels, sources and limits. GRF and GRA are informed.
- 03Financial reading, where finance is involvedRecord · The Global Risks AllianceWhere a record has financial implications, GRA supplies a financial reading as an options note. It is never a transaction or an approval.
02 Dialogue
- 04Who takes part, and with what authorityComponentForum design asks who the audience is, who should participate, who should not, and what authority, if any, speakers carry.
- 05Dialogue and deliberationExercise · The Global Risks Forum; councilsCouncils decide by consensus on the record, with dissent recorded. Evidence producers, deliberators and funders stay distinguishable.
- 06Options and recommendationRecord · The decision ownerThe Decisions room keeps the decision case, options, criteria, appraisal run and recommendation as records.
03 Record
- 07Deliberation recorded before findings move onRecord · The councilCouncil deliberation on exercise findings is recorded before findings go to Reports. Approved minutes are published, with dissent.
04 Decision
- 08Accountable decider decidesDecision · The accountable deciderCouncils recommend within a published scope and take no public-authority decisions. Each decision has one accountable decider.
- 09Follow-up route and recordRecordEvery forum has a follow-up route. Records state what was concluded, if anything, and what remains unresolved.
Councils · The Global Risks Forum · The global levelDesigned programme process, not a record of operation. No cycle has run and every programme is at service level R0. A gate is a programme decision, never a public-authority approval, certification or deployment authorisation. No council is constituted.
Conflicts are declared, published and acted on.
- 01
Declare
Authors, editors and reviewers declare financial, institutional and personal interests relevant to the subject.
- 02
Assess
The series editors decide whether the interest can be managed or requires the person to step aside.
- 03
Disclose
Relevant declarations are published with the edition.
- 04
Exclude
A reviewer with a declared conflict never signs the relevant acceptance, and an editor with a conflict hands the decision to another editor.
Authorship follows contribution.
Authors are the people who made a substantial contribution and can answer for the content. Others are acknowledged as contributors. Agent or model assistance is disclosed and never listed as authorship. Disputes about authorship and concerns about integrity go to the integrity concern form, and are reviewed by someone not responsible for the contested decision. GCRI’s wider rules are on editorial integrity.
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Questions and answers.
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