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Predatory Conferences: What Are the Signs?
Like predatory journals, predatory conferences are a growing part of the academic landscape, but unlike their journal counterparts, to date predatory...
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Conferences and Networking: Getting to Know the Science and the People Behind It
Conferences bring together individuals to share their research findings, network with peers, and stay up to date on advancements within their...
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Distance education as a tool to improve researchers’ knowledge on predatory journals in countries with limited resources: the Moroccan experience
The emergence of predatory journals is a global threat for scientific integrity, particularly in under-resourced settings such as low- and...
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Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences
Representations of higher education in fiction-based sources contribute to forming public perceptions of academia, and so are a form of public...
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Understanding and Addressing Drivers of Corruption in Academic Publishing
In this chapter, factors that influence and drive different types of corruption in academic publishing are explored. Getting published should be a...
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Understanding and Addressing Drivers of Corruption in Academic Publishing
In this chapter, factors that influence and drive different types of corruption in academic publishing are explored. Getting published should be a...
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Croatian scientists’ awareness of predatory journals
So-called predatory journals threaten to diminish the quality of papers and of scientific research. This paper defines what constitutes a predatory...
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Choosing a Publisher or Publication Outlet
This chapter covers some of the pragmatics associated with academic publishing such as choosing a publisher and a publication outlet. In the past...
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Establishing Expertise: Writing Partnerships, Multiple Projects, and Online Presence
A common question from doctoral students who are enrolled in writing for publication courses and struggling mightily to generate their first...
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The added value of a professional editing/translation service
This chapter highlights cases where using the services of a professional editing / translation service may be a better alternative to using, for...
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Being an Author in the Digital Economy
The openness and responsiveness of the online and digital world in the twenty-first-century raises critical questions for traditional academic...
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Sacrificial Lambs
In this chapter, we focus more squarely on related predatory mechanisms of racialized disaster patriarchal capitalism in the pandemic higher...
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Publishing Literature Reviews
With the credo of academics being ‘publish or perish’, much attention is given to publishing output of studies, which includes literature reviews....
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An Analysis of Writing for Publication Research on Novice Anglophone (L1) Academics: A Scientometric Perspective
Given the paramount importance of scholarly publication in academia, a significant body of research in Applied Linguistics and TESL, and their...
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Supporting Doctoral Candidates to Disseminate Their Research
Dissemination of results of doctoral research should be a routine part of the process of postgraduate study, based on the requirements for the...
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Rejection
The academic life is one of repeated rejection interrupted by occasional success. Everyone I know in academia has experienced lots of rejection. Of...
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Transition from Academic Integrity to Research Integrity: The Use of Checklists in the Supervision of Master and Doctoral Students
Given the prevalence of misconduct in research and among students in higher education, there is a need to create solutions for how best to prevent...
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Promoting Ethical Practices: Stakeholders and Publishers
Scholarly publishing is complex and fulfils its mission of advancing scientific knowledge only if the primary stakeholders adhere to ethical...
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In Closing
This chapter In Closing is a short, final chapter. It consists of six sections each of which looks at academic publishingAcademic publishing from a...