I am delighted to announce that, over the next 2 years, a book on the maritime aspect of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will be co-authored with Associate Professor Kevin LO, an authority on Global China and the BRI.
Continue readingOn Saturday, 9 March 2024, I received a rejection decision from a non-academic individual from the journal Sage Open for a paper (SO-20-3070) that I had submitted on 29 August 2020 and that had received three positive peer reviews suggesting acceptance on 7 September 2021, raising questions about the journal’s academic merits.
The story of that weird academic experience started at the end of August 2020 when I submitted a paper of mine (SO-20-3070) at Sage Open because it dealt with general social sciences as a thematic focus, and it was open access with a fee of 800USD. I got a fast decision (Major Revision) on the 1st of December 2020, and reviews that were quite beneficial pointed out flaws in the paper and suggested how to correct them and strengthen the manuscript.
Continue readingBy Cherian George and Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis
Academia as an industry has come to rely on journal impact factors as convenient proxy measures of faculty members’ research quality. As competition intensifies — among individuals, departments, and universities — such bibliometrics have grown in importance. At many institutions, researchers are pushed to publish in journals that are highly ranked.
Many scholars of non-western societies have long noted, though, that “top-tier” journals, while international in reputation, are far from global in orientation. This is an issue that we and our colleagues in the Global Media Studies Network are keen to discuss.
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