Description
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.
Chapter
1 Problematizing English as the Privileged Language of Global Academic Publishing
Part 1 Evaluation Practices Shaping Academic Publishing
2 Lost in Quantification: Scholars and the Politics of Bibliometrics
3 PhD Publication Requirements and Practices: A Multidisciplinary Case Study of a Hungarian University
4 Chinese Business Schools Pursuing Growth through International Publishing: Evidence from Institutional Genres
Part 2 Scholars’ Practices and Perspectives
5 Issues of Identity and Voice: Writing English for Research Purposes in the Semi-periphery
6 Language Policy and the Disengagement of the International Academic Elite
7 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
Part 3 Academic Journal Policies and Practices
8 The Reaction of Scholarly Journals to Impact-factor Publication Requirements in Kazakhstan
9 Blind Peer Review at an English Language Teaching Journal in Taiwan: Glocalized Practices within the Globalization of Higher Education
10 Publishing from the ELT Periphery: The Profile Journal Experience in Colombia
11 The Rise of Multimodality in Academic Publishing
12 Open Access: The Next Model for Research Dissemination?
13 Reconsidering ‘Predatory’ Open Access Journalsin an Age of Globalised English-language Academic Publishing
Part 4 Pedagogies for Global Academic Publishing
14 Teaching Writing for Publication in English to Engineering Students: Implications from a Collaborative Course in Taiwan
15 The Potential and Limitations of an Intensive English for Research Publication Purposes Course for Mexican Scholars
16 Emerging Academics: Using WhatsApp to Share Novice and Expert Resources in a Postgraduate Writing Group