scholarly journals Academic publishing career paths – initial research and observations

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Carden
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Publishing Career ◽  
Initial Research

scholarly journals Publishing is evolving, but are we? Developing talent for the future

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-331
Author(s):  
Andrew James Miller
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Career Mobility ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Publishing Community ◽  
Publishing Career

At the APE 2020 Pre-Conference in Berlin, a group of talent development and HR experts from across the scientific research and publishing community came together to discuss the future of talent development in the scholarly publishing industry. We heard from an excellent group of speakers who shared with us a rich and diverse range of expertise and experience. We set ourselves the challenge of imagining what the world of scholarly academic publishing would look like in 2030, and asked ourselves the question: how can we work together to develop the talent we will need now, and for the future, in a rapidly changing world? Are we keeping pace, and are we prepared for the challenge ahead? Based on our discussion, three key themes emerged: the importance of supporting increased diversity & inclusion within scholarly publishing, interorganizational leadership development initiatives for leaders across the publishing ecosystem to exchange experiences and ideas, and greater research and publishing career mobility to encourage more fluid movement between research and publishing jobs. We believe these things are all very achievable if we commit to investing in the kind of culture change and new ways of thinking that will lead us to success in 2030.

scholarly journals Academic publishing: Making the implict explicit

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecile Badenhorst ◽  
Xiaolin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Writing Fluency ◽  
Implicit Processes ◽  
Writing For Publication ◽  
Academic Writer ◽  
Publishing Career ◽  
Emotionally Intelligent ◽  
Publishing Practices

For doctoral students, publishing in peer reviewed journals is a task many face with anxiety and trepidation. The world of publishing, from choosing a journal, negotiating editors and navigating reviewers’ responses is a bewildering place. Looking in from the outside, it seems that successful and productive academic writers have knowledge that is inaccessible to novice scholars. While there is a growing literature on writing for scholarly publication, many of these publications promote writing and publishing as a straight-forward activity that anyone can achieve if they follow the rules. We argue that the specific and situated contexts in which academic writers negotiate publishing practices is more complicated and messy. In this paper, we attempt to make explicit our publishing processes to highlight the complex nature of publishing. We use autoethnographic narratives to provide discussion points and insights into the challenges of publishing peer reviewed articles. One narrative is by a doctoral student at the beginning of her publishing career, who expresses her desires, concerns and anxieties about writing for publication. The other narrative focuses on the publishing practices of a more experienced academic writer. Both are international scholars working in the Canadian context. The purpose of this paper is to explore academic publishing through the juxtaposition of these two narratives to make explicit some of the more implicit processes. Four key themes emerge from these narratives. To publish successfully, academic writers need: 1) to be discourse analysts; 2) to have a critical competence; and 3) to have writing fluency and 4) to be emotionally intelligent.

scholarly journals Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (9) ◽  
pp. 4609-4616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junming Huang ◽  
Alexander J. Gates ◽  
Roberta Sinatra ◽  
Albert-László Barabási
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Historical Comparison ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Publishing Career

There is extensive, yet fragmented, evidence of gender differences in academia suggesting that women are underrepresented in most scientific disciplines and publish fewer articles throughout a career, and their work acquires fewer citations. Here, we offer a comprehensive picture of longitudinal gender differences in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic publishing careers by reconstructing the complete publication history of over 1.5 million gender-identified authors whose publishing career ended between 1955 and 2010, covering 83 countries and 13 disciplines. We find that, paradoxically, the increase of participation of women in science over the past 60 years was accompanied by an increase of gender differences in both productivity and impact. Most surprisingly, though, we uncover two gender invariants, finding that men and women publish at a comparable annual rate and have equivalent career-wise impact for the same size body of work. Finally, we demonstrate that differences in publishing career lengths and dropout rates explain a large portion of the reported career-wise differences in productivity and impact, although productivity differences still remain. This comprehensive picture of gender inequality in academia can help rephrase the conversation around the sustainability of women’s careers in academia, with important consequences for institutions and policy makers.

Career Paths in Community Psychology and Social Justice Related Fields

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret I. Davis ◽  
Josefina Alvarez ◽  
Carmen Curtis ◽  
Lucia D'Arlach ◽  
Joseph Ferrari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Career Paths

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Michiel Leezenberg ◽  
Stanley Thangaraj
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
City College ◽  
Tennessee Technological University ◽  
Technological University

Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 483 pp., (ISBN: 9781138646643). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey, Balti, Republic of Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, 252 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-330-33239-3) Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University, United States Emel Elif Tugdar & Serhun Al, eds., Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests, Cham: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, pp. 235, (ISBN: 978-3319537146) Reviewed by Joost Jongerden, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 364 pp, (9781108684842). Reviewed by Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava, Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019, 192 pp. (ISBN: 978-1629636511). Reviewed by Stanley Thangaraj, City College of New York, United States

Review: Flycatcher - Memoirs of an amateur entomologist

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Hans Silfver
Keyword(s):  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Hague

Spencer, K. A. 1992: Flycatcher. Memoirs of an amateur entomologist.- SPB Academic Publishing bv, The Hague. 414 pp. IBSN 90-5103-072-X. Price DFL 190.

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