{"title":"Unraveling the Attributes of Productive Scholars in Social Science Fields: A Study of Chinese Scholars Publishing in Top-Tier International Journals","authors":"Xiao-gan Jiang, Ziqian Zhang","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0081","url":null,"abstract":"Aspiring researchers worldwide strive to amass a prolific publication record to elevate their academic standing and advance their research careers. However, achieving research productivity is a multifaceted endeavour shaped by individual characteristics, institutional support, and societal factors. This study explores the experiences of ten high-performing Chinese scholars in social science fields. By examining their prolific publication records in top-tier international journals, the study unveils the distinct attributes that characterize productive researchers and the strategies they employ to facilitate their scholarly publishing. Through in-depth interviews and an exploration framed by academic identity and academic socialization, the study highlights the significance of cultivating a robust academic identity, fostering efficient scholarly practices, and promoting effective collaboration. These findings offer invaluable insights for emerging academics seeking to enhance their research productivity without compromising the quality of their work, especially concerning publications in esteemed international journals.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141694964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethics of Scholarly Book Reviewing","authors":"Steven E. Gump","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0073","url":null,"abstract":"Post-publication scholarly book reviews, as acts of public assessment, draw attention to the contributions of recently published scholarly works. The various actors in the production and consumption of scholarly book reviews—authors, publishers, reviewers, book review editors, readers—bring different expectations to such reviews. As evaluators, reviewers must strive for accurate and appropriate descriptions and assessments that are objective, fair, unbiased, and without conflicts of interest. Questions of ethics can arise in many ways. This article describes the key relationships in the production of scholarly book reviews, emphasizing several ethical dimensions that reviewers should keep in mind at all stages of the reviewing process.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141691623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Conceptual ‘APC Ring’: Is There a Risk of APC-Driven Guest Authorship, and Is a Change in the Culture of the APC Needed?","authors":"J. A. Teixeira da Silva","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0060","url":null,"abstract":"While guest or honourary authorship in academic papers is a broadly and widely discussed phenomenon in biomedical research, the issue of the use—or abuse—of article-processing charges (APCs) as a form of potential authorship exchange currency, that is, the ‘APC ring,’ is neither being considered nor discussed. The APC is central to the open-access (OA) movement, specifically the gold OA model. It is conceivable that, in a hyper-competitive academic publishing environment where the number of gold OA journals is growing, a segment of poorly funded researchers aiming to publish in ranked OA journals with out-of-reach APCs might turn to richer or well-funded researchers to cover the APC bill in exchange for authorship. Despite this, no published cases directly documenting APC-for-authorship schemes as a form of guest authorship appear to exist, which seems inconceivable. One possible explanation is that if such unethical behaviour were to be detected by APC-charging OA journals, it might not be reported as such. In this situation, APC-dependent OA journals would be conflicted between receiving a financial lifeline, the APC, and exposing authors that have abused the APC in their journals in exchange for authorship. How would publishers dependent on the APC-based OA model justify receiving APCs derived from an APC ring? Although this form of guest authorship is currently hypothetical, it seems highly likely, so this issue needs greater debate, and if actual case studies exist, these need to be openly and publicly debated to better appreciate how this phenomenon is taking place.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141704050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crossing Between Clinical Work and Scholarly Publishing: Early-Career Neurosurgeons as Clinician-Researchers","authors":"Albert W. Li","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0086","url":null,"abstract":"Medical professionals who assume multiple roles as clinicians and researchers are commonly found in hospitals worldwide. Likewise, in many Chinese hospitals, particularly among early-career medical professionals with MD and PhD degrees, active engagement in both clinical practice and scientific research is expected. In the current ethnographic study, the cultural-historical activity theory is used to explore how three early-career neurosurgeons at a tier-one northern Chinese hospital conduct and write research for publishing in Science Citation Index (SCI)-indexed journals in addition to handling their heavy clinical workload. Drawing on multiple sources of qualitative data, including semi-structured interviews, two-week naturalistic observations, field notes, photographs, and daily activity logs with three neurosurgeons, the study findings highlight Chinese neurosurgeons conduct and write up their research using patient data and collaborating with laboratories while seeking academic language editing and peer feedback. Ethical considerations of clinician-researchers’ scholarly publishing process, implications for researching medical professionals’ boundary crossings, and future research directions are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141691588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Editor’s Instructions to Manuscript Reviewers","authors":"R. L. Lyman","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0082","url":null,"abstract":"Three to four decades ago an editor’s instructions to manuscript reviewers requested that reviewers focus on evaluating the quality and significance of the author’s research. Recent instructions now include things a reviewer should not do, such as not concerning oneself with manuscript formatting, not correcting typographical errors, and not correcting grammar. If sloppy formatting, typographical errors, and poor grammar detract from the quality and significance of the author’s research, the reviewer must comment on these attributes, particularly when these things detract from evaluating the quality and significance of the research described.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141694364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing: Editors in Writing Studies, edited by Greg Giberson, Megan Schoen, and Christian Weisser; The Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication, edited by Pejman Habibie and Anna Kristina Hultgren","authors":"Steven E. Gump","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141708193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Bibliometric Analysis of Book Reviews Published in Translation Journals between 2010 and 2021","authors":"Lei Li, Linxin Liang","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0028","url":null,"abstract":"Contrary to the emphasis placed on the importance of book reviews as influential drivers of intellectual exchange in the social sciences and humanities, there is a lack of attention by researchers toward the potential of this academic form as a valuable research material and data source. This study aims to bridge this research gap by conducting a bibliometric analysis of 1814 book reviews published in fourteen reputable translation journals during the 2010–21 period. Four major findings were outlined: a slight decline in the number of book reviews in the translation discipline, a propensity among translation journals to favour highly organized yet somewhat mundane book reviews, an evident geographical concentration of contributors toward book reviewing, and prestige and topic biases involved in the proliferation of multiple reviews for a book.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134945075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining the Covering Letter: Why, When, and How to Communicate with Journal Editors before Manuscript Submission","authors":"Steven E. Gump","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0047","url":null,"abstract":"Online submission portals for scholarly journal manuscripts regularly include space for a covering letter or its equivalent. But why should that opportunity mark the first contact between author and editor? This article reimagines the submission-accompanying covering letter by exploring the value of earlier outreach and correspondence between authors and editors. For authors planning submissions to journals in the humanities and humanities-adjacent social sciences, especially, this article explains the purpose and practice of initiating contact via query letter after manuscript conceptualization but before manuscript composition. Following a positively received query letter, a covering letter becomes a straightforward letter of transmittal accompanying an anticipated submission that an editor should be predisposed to welcome.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135547313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>The New Academic: A Researcher’s Guide to Writing and Presenting Content in a Modern World</i> by Simon Clews; <i>How to Write Differently: A Quest for Meaningful Academic Writing</i> by Monika Kostera","authors":"Steven E. Gump","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135707127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Publishing during Doctoral Candidature: Policies, Practices, and Identities</i> by Jun Lei","authors":"Saiying Xu, Qinshu Huang","doi":"10.3138/jsp-2023-0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp-2023-0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135706614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}