Journals 101

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.

I talk with Roger, from International Business Review. We discuss academic silo's, the creep of less than informative metrics into academic career planning and what if any can be done, and we talk hillwalking....

I talk to Tom about whether Long Range Planning is a economics, strategy or IB journal, what that means in real terms as disciplinary splits, the nature of strategy as an overarching lens, and what its like to teach in a top tier US Business School.

I talk to Aoife about the intertwined nature of scholarly overpublishing, and why good science is good science. location preferences, PhD student formation, academic administrators and their....skill sets..., and about how when you are lost any plan is a good plan. We also discuss the interdisciplinarity of RSER and why that matters in this day and age.