Editorial Volume 4 (1) 2019 - Development and evolution of the journal (original) (raw)
Related papers
Editorial: Vol. 9, No. 4, 2017
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2017
With the publication Volume 9, number 4, the journal enters 10 years of scholarly Open Access publishing. The year 2018 will celebrated in various ways; there will be Special Issues, awards for authors and more. At the same time, we feel, it is time to introspect the context of the making of the journal and its future. In the year 2008 when the founding editors thought of promoting researches in Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Open Access utilizing the new web technology, we entered a vast area of emerging technology. So primarily it was our tryst with technology that led us to explore and organize the necessary tools for creating a journal. Now when we look back at what went to the making of the journal, we understand that we were truly inspired by the promise of the web facilitating communications in wholly new way. Of course, we were amateurs in the field of scholarly publishing, but at the same time we were seeking to implement certain international standards and norms at a time when research publication rarely followed those criteria in India.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2013
The primary purpose of this journal is to help all of us move more rapidly toward a sustainable and socially just world. We will seek to do so by providing a forum in which scholarship oriented toward sustainability and social justice, that is, toward building a better world for all, can be published and, we hope, influence all of us as scholars, managers, leaders, and citizens of the world to effect positive change. We, the editorial board, believe that this purpose is stable and we hope that our editors, contributors, and readers will be willing and eager to take risks, try out new ideas and types of analysis, insights, and approaches, learn from our experiences, and welcome changes in and evolution of the journal. It is clear that even the best informed and wisest among us has little certainty about how to manage for global sustainability. Humility thus is appropriate in all we write and do-but we seek to combine humility with intellectual rigour and professional boldness.
Communications
When writing our last year's editorial during the early days of January 2020, little did we know that our lives were about to drastically change. COVID-19 has affected the way we use technology as well as the way we lead our personal, social and working lives. As to the production process of the journal, COVID 19 clearly was a game changer. During the first lockdown in spring 2020, considerably less submissions reached us. During summer and autumn, submissions increased, reaching 87 articles by the end of the year, more concretely 81 regular articles, five research in brief articles and one debate article (compared to 85 submissions in 2019, and 65 in 2018). In 2020, authors had to write while teaching online and coping with a changed work-life balance, faced with field research that had to be rearranged or suspended, conferences that were canceled or transferred to a virtual edition, home schooling and child care and worries concerning relatives and friends. Especially for young researchers this was often combined with the structural problem of short-term contracts. In 2020, we faced disruption and often we lacked the serenity to reflect, analyse and write. Under these difficult circumstances, we are grateful to our authors for their high-level contributions and for remaining committed to our journal. This gives us the optimism that 2021 will be a better and again a fruitful year. Our journal seeks to improve its position as a forum for high quality research,
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
As our first issue for 2018 it is timely to provide some bibliometrics on the recent performance of the journal. The bibliometric data in this editorial provide readers with information about the journal’s publication, review and article access statistics, the articles attracting the most interest over the past year and the citation performance of the journal. Overall, the journal continues to strengthen its position with high quality submissions and an increasing trend in citation impact factors.