Learning about journal publication: the pedagogies of editing a ‘special issue’

Pat Thomson; Tina Byrom; Carol Robinson; Lisa Russell

doi:10.4324/9780203860960

Learning about journal publication: the pedagogies of editing a ‘special issue’

Pat Thomson, Tina Byrom, Carol Robinson, Lisa Russell

Department of Education and Community Studies

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Abstract

Despite the development of, and arguments for, alternative genres of open access and devolved publication (Smith, 1999; Willinsky, 2006), writing for commercially produced scholarly journals continues to be significant. In Britain, for example, academic ‘output’ in the social sciences is measured and judged, in the national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), largely on the basis of single-authored books (the scholarly monograph) and peerrefereed journal articles. The current proposal to change the RAE process to focus more strongly on citations makes the work of publishing in high-status and publicly indexed journals not simply a necessity, but a high-pressure imperative.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Publishing Pedagodgies for the Doctorate and Beyond
Editors	Claire Aitchison, Barbara Kamler, Alison Lee
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	9
Pages	137-156
Number of pages	19
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781135173418
ISBN (Print)	9780415480192
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203860960
Publication status	Published - 2010

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Learning about journal publication : the pedagogies of editing a ‘special issue’. / Thomson, Pat; Byrom, Tina; Robinson, Carol; Russell, Lisa.

Publishing Pedagodgies for the Doctorate and Beyond. ed. / Claire Aitchison; Barbara Kamler; Alison Lee. 1st. ed. London : Routledge, 2010. p. 137-156.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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