Journals 101

I talk peer review, its faults failings and future, with Gareth. Also contains dinosaurs

I talk with Sam about juggling two very large impactful journals, dealing with academic geopolitics, speed and the need for "leading" journals to be more proactive

On the day of Moldova's vote to enter EU negotiations, an interview with two of the three editors of the Journal of Common Market Studies.I talk to Roberta Guerrina and Gabriel Siles-Brügge about transdisciplinary research, how to edit it, the benefits of slow science, policy makers as authors and reviewers, and diving....

Gary and I talk about non renewable resources, the tendency of journals to undergo mission creep, why so called elite journals often persist in reinventing the wheels other journals discovered long sense, and the joys of photographing dragonflies!

Pierre and I talk about the human touch in forecasting, what finance can perhaps learn from other disciplines in relation to same, slow science and how it may have become a wicked problem, and the nature of elite journals

I talk with John on publishing a large journal, the potential for journal irrelevance, social aspects of publishing and his past lives .....

We talk about the evolving role of the library, how it can and should in the digital age be the repository of much more than is commonly expected, how librarians view metrics, and the role of slow and open science. And badminton.

We talk about Graham's Law and Goodheart's law, reductionism and certification in journals, and the need for a new paradigm in how we conceptualize impact in journal outputs.