A journal that is specifically designed to help early career researchers publish their research
A platform that enables researchers to act as editors in chief of their own virtual journal
A journal that is specifically designed to help
early career researchers publish their research
A journal that is specifically designed to help early career researchers publish their research
Global Policy: Next Generation or GPNG is a journal, about global policy, but coordinated by early career researchers to support early career researchers. The journal was designed to express many of the problems that early career researchers experience, such as
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limited experience and familiarity with how to persuade editors and to publish in respected journals
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inadequate experience in peer review—and therefore limited exposure to the lessons that scholars learn when they review manuscripts.
To address these concerns, GPNG introduced some practices that are not applied in other journals. For instance
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authors receive up to three rounds of feedback from editors before the manuscript is sent to reviewers
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at least two members of the editorial team deliver feedback on every submission
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reviewers are informed the manuscript was submitted by an early career researcher—primarily to attract more extensive and detailed feedback
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the editorial team help authors understand and manage the feedback from reviewers
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the editorial team engage appreciably with social media to promote the work of early career researchers
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the editorial team present webinars about how to publish academic papers successfully
Further reading
Stiles, G., Pescinski, J., Petrich, K., & Ufimtseva, A. (2022). For early‐career researchers by early‐career researchers: The GPNG model for advancing, promoting and supporting innovative research. Learned Publishing, 35(3), 361-366.
A platform that enables researchers to act as
editors in chief of their own virtual journal
The website peeriodicals.com enables researchers to act as editors of a virtual journal. This opportunity enables researchers, either in alone or in coalition, to publicize the authors and publications that are compatible with their values. That is, these editors can set their editorial policy to promote the researchers, topics, or papers they believe are most important to their readers. In this role, they select manuscripts that are existing preprints or published in other journals. They can also solicit reviews of these manuscripts to decide whether these papers should be included.
The platform was developed to diversify editorial policies and challenge the existing practices of traditional journals—similar to some other attempts, such as the APPRAISE initiative, Peer Community, and Science Open Collections. All these initiatives explore other approaches and priorities to challenge the traditional, and perhaps obsolete, practices of journals and publishers.
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