This book reports on the state of academic journal publishing in a range of geolinguistic contexts, including locations where pressures to publish in English have developed more recently than in other parts of the world (e.g. Kazakhstan, Colombia), in addition to contexts that have not been previously explored or well-documented. The three sections push the boundaries of existing research on global publishing, which has mainly focused on how scholars respond to pressures to publish in English, by highlighting research on evaluation policies, journals’ responses in non-Anglophone contexts to pressures for English-medium publishing, and pedagogies for supporting scholars in their publishing efforts.
Table of Content
Mary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis: Problematising English as the Privileged Language of Global Academic Publishing
Section 1: Evaluation Practices Shaping Academic Publishing
Lynn Nygaard and Rocco Bellanova: Lost in Quantification: Scholars and the Politics of Bibliometrics Robin Nagano and Edit Spiczéné: Phd Publication Requirements and Practices: A Multidisciplinary Case Study from a Hungarian University Yongyan Li and Rui Yang: Chinese Business Schools Pursuing Growth through International Publication: Evidence from Institutional Genres
Section 2: Scholars’ Practices and Perspectives
Birna Arnbjornsdottir and Hafdis Ingvarsdottir: Issues of Identity and Voice: Writing English for Research Purposes in the Semi Periphery John Harbord: Language Policy and the Disengagement of the International Academic Elite Laurie Anderson: Publishing in Pursuit of an Academic Career: The Role of Embedded and Encultured Knowledge in National Job-market Entry Strategies of Elite Early Career European Scholars
Section 3: Academic Journal Policies and Practices
Aliya Kuzhabekova: The Reaction of Scholarly Journals to Impact-Factor Publishing Requirements in Kazakhstan Cheryl Sheridan: Blind Peer Review at an English Language Teaching Journal in Taiwan: Glocalized Practices within Globalization of Higher Education Melba Cardenas and Isobel Rainey: Publishing from the ELT Periphery: The Profile Journal Experience in Colombia Cheryl Ball, Andrew Morrison and Douglas Eyman: The Rise of Multimodality in Academic Publishing Francoise Salager-Meyer: Open Access: The Next Model for Research Dissemination? Ismaeil Fazel and Joel Heng Hartse: Reconsidering “Predatory” Open Access Journals in an Age of Globalized English-Language Academic Publishing
Section 4: Pedagogies for Global Academic Publishing
Ju Chuan Huang: Teaching Writing for Publication in English to Engineering Students: Implications from a Collaborative Course in Taiwan James Corcoran: The Potential and Limitations of an English for Research Publication Purposes Course for Mexican Scholars Soraya Abdulatief and Xolisa Guzula: Emerging Academics: Using Whatsapp to Share Novice and Expert Resources in a Postgraduate Writing Group
Index
About the author
Theresa Lillis is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. She has published widely on global academic writing and production and participation in knowledge-making.
