Journals 101

Stephanie and I discuss business, history, managing journal overlap, the quantitative turn in social sciences, reviews, and rankings. Most importantly, we discuss science fiction.

I talk with Francesco, about what makes a top-ranked journal, the nature of generalist v field journals, and the many double-edged swords of Open Access.

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

John and I talk about a journal that spans professional and academic worlds, research metrics as football stickers, letting annoyance drive your research path and the promise and peril of Generative AI

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....

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

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!

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.