Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?

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Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Manuel Ennes
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Mendonça, Sandro, Pereira, João
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/15933
Resumo: This paper probes the internal governance of research journals by focusing on the editorial boards of leading African studies academic journals. We submit editorships to systematic scrutiny through a number of perspectives: geography, gender, institutional affiliation, research performance, entry/exit, etc. Overall, leading journals in the area of African studies are found to be less inclusive than expected: under a quarter of the editors are Africa-based scholars while women are even scarcer. Observations on editorial inflation, interlocking editorships and differentiated journal positioning are also made possible by taking a quantitative approach to editorial evidence. What we refer as “Editormetrics” thus suggests the need for further debate regarding the managerial rules and roles of journals. This perspective may, and perhaps should, inform other evidence-based appraisals of the journal “industry” and the research scene at large.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
title Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
spellingShingle Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
Ferreira, Manuel Ennes
Editorships
Editormetrics
Research governance
Editorial inflation
Interlocking editorships
African studies
title_short Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
title_full Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
title_fullStr Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
title_full_unstemmed Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
title_sort Gatekeeping African studies : What does “editormetrics” indicate about journal governance?
author Ferreira, Manuel Ennes
author_facet Ferreira, Manuel Ennes
Mendonça, Sandro
Pereira, João
author_role author
author2 Mendonça, Sandro
Pereira, João
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ferreira, Manuel Ennes
Mendonça, Sandro
Pereira, João
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Editorships
Editormetrics
Research governance
Editorial inflation
Interlocking editorships
African studies
topic Editorships
Editormetrics
Research governance
Editorial inflation
Interlocking editorships
African studies
description This paper probes the internal governance of research journals by focusing on the editorial boards of leading African studies academic journals. We submit editorships to systematic scrutiny through a number of perspectives: geography, gender, institutional affiliation, research performance, entry/exit, etc. Overall, leading journals in the area of African studies are found to be less inclusive than expected: under a quarter of the editors are Africa-based scholars while women are even scarcer. Observations on editorial inflation, interlocking editorships and differentiated journal positioning are also made possible by taking a quantitative approach to editorial evidence. What we refer as “Editormetrics” thus suggests the need for further debate regarding the managerial rules and roles of journals. This perspective may, and perhaps should, inform other evidence-based appraisals of the journal “industry” and the research scene at large.
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