image: Hongfeng Yang
Credit: Courtesy of Hongfeng Yang
SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent has appointed Hongfeng Yang as the first deputy editor-in-chief of its journal Seismological Research Letters (SRL).
Yang, a professor in the department of Earth and environmental sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, joined the editorial board of SRL as an associate editor in 2018. He will begin the deputy position on 1 December.
“I’m looking forward to working more closely with Hongfeng in his new role as deputy editor. The dedication, thoughtfulness and good judgment he exercised as an associate editor will serve him well as deputy,” said Bent. “Hongfeng has some fresh ideas about how to maintain or increase SRL’s growth. As the first deputy editor, he will help shape the position for those who follow.”
Yang served previously as an editor for Earthquake Science and an associate editor for Earthquake Research Advances. He was a member of the editorial boards of Tectonophysics, Earth and Planetary Physics, the Chinese Journal of Geophysics, and Earthquake Research.
“In my view, one of the key challenges is how to effectively engage and appropriately recognize high-quality reviewers, especially in the context of an increasingly crowded publishing landscape,” Yang said. “At the same time, it is equally important to consider how to cultivate strong author communities and broaden the journal’s readership. Balancing reviewer motivation, author development and audience expansion is essential for sustaining the journal’s impact.”
His research interests include earthquake source physics, subduction zone dynamics, fault zone structure and evolution and induced earthquakes.
Yang said he is personally looking forward to SRL paper submissions that include “new observations and methods in seismology, as well as applications of seismic and geophysics methods in fields out of seismology. Such work will help promote seismology to different fields and the public.”
Along with his SSA membership, Yang is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Chinese Geophysical Society, the Seismological Society of China. He is the Solid Earth Section President-elect of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. He was also elected as executive board member of the Seismological Society of China.
Yang received his B.S. (2000) and M.S. (2004) in geophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his Ph.D. in seismology from Saint Louis University in 2010.
For more information on SRL, please visit the journal page at the SSA website.