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The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions
Background: In 2017, the Metabolomics Society conducted a survey among its members to assess the degree of its current success, define opportunities for improving its service to the community and make plans to establish future goals and direction of the Society. Methods: A 32-question online survey...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31058861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo9050089 |
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author | Zanetti, Krista A. Hall, Robert D. Griffin, Julian L. Putri, Sastia Salek, Reza M. Styczynski, Mark P. Tugizimana, Fidele van der Hooft, Justin J.J. |
author_facet | Zanetti, Krista A. Hall, Robert D. Griffin, Julian L. Putri, Sastia Salek, Reza M. Styczynski, Mark P. Tugizimana, Fidele van der Hooft, Justin J.J. |
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description | Background: In 2017, the Metabolomics Society conducted a survey among its members to assess the degree of its current success, define opportunities for improving its service to the community and make plans to establish future goals and direction of the Society. Methods: A 32-question online survey was sent via e-mail to all Metabolomics Society members as of 19 June 2017 (n = 644). In addition to the direct e-mails, the link to access the survey was made available through social media. The survey was open until 10 August 2017. Question-specific data were reported using the summary data generated by SurveyMonkey and additional stratified analyses performed using Stata 15. Results: The number of respondents was 394 (61%) with 348 (88%) completing the multiple-choice questions in survey. Metabolomics Society annual meetings, networking and the opportunity to join the global metabolomics community were among the most important benefits expressed by the Metabolomics Society members. Conclusions: The survey collected the first data focusing on membership issues from Society members. The Society should focus on collecting and monitoring of demographic data during the membership registration process; continuing to support the early-career members of the Society; and developing initiatives that focus on member networking to retain and increase Society membership. |
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spelling | pubmed-65726282019-06-18 The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions Zanetti, Krista A. Hall, Robert D. Griffin, Julian L. Putri, Sastia Salek, Reza M. Styczynski, Mark P. Tugizimana, Fidele van der Hooft, Justin J.J. Metabolites Article Background: In 2017, the Metabolomics Society conducted a survey among its members to assess the degree of its current success, define opportunities for improving its service to the community and make plans to establish future goals and direction of the Society. Methods: A 32-question online survey was sent via e-mail to all Metabolomics Society members as of 19 June 2017 (n = 644). In addition to the direct e-mails, the link to access the survey was made available through social media. The survey was open until 10 August 2017. Question-specific data were reported using the summary data generated by SurveyMonkey and additional stratified analyses performed using Stata 15. Results: The number of respondents was 394 (61%) with 348 (88%) completing the multiple-choice questions in survey. Metabolomics Society annual meetings, networking and the opportunity to join the global metabolomics community were among the most important benefits expressed by the Metabolomics Society members. Conclusions: The survey collected the first data focusing on membership issues from Society members. The Society should focus on collecting and monitoring of demographic data during the membership registration process; continuing to support the early-career members of the Society; and developing initiatives that focus on member networking to retain and increase Society membership. MDPI 2019-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6572628/ /pubmed/31058861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo9050089 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zanetti, Krista A. Hall, Robert D. Griffin, Julian L. Putri, Sastia Salek, Reza M. Styczynski, Mark P. Tugizimana, Fidele van der Hooft, Justin J.J. The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions |
title | The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions |
title_full | The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions |
title_fullStr | The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions |
title_full_unstemmed | The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions |
title_short | The Metabolomics Society—Current State of the Membership and Future Directions |
title_sort | metabolomics society—current state of the membership and future directions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31058861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo9050089 |
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