31.2166, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Predatory Risks and Concerns

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Subject: 31.2166, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Predatory Risks and Concerns

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Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 03:15:35
From: Pejman Habibie [phabibie at uwo.ca]
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: Predatory Risks and Concerns

 
Scholarly publication and research communication: Predatory risks and concerns
Editors: Pejman Habibie  & Ismaeil Fazel   

This edited volume aims to address the crucial and consequential phenomenon of
‘predatory’ publishing from different perspectives, and examine its
implications for academic lives and careers of scholarly writers.

In the past decade, the expansion and availability of the Open Access model
and the global burgeoning drive to publish has spurred the mass proliferation
of new venues and formats of scholarly publication whose quality and rigor are
hard to evaluate, leading to growing concerns, confusions, and controversies
in scholarly communities. Against this backdrop, the term 'predatory'
publishing (Beall, 2010) has come to take on different meanings and is often
subject to varying interpretations, prompting a variety of measures and
responses from across scholarly communities; nonetheless, there is hitherto no
clear-cut, agreed-upon, and operational definition nor a litmus test to
accurately determine and deter ‘predatory’ practices and journals.

The overarching goal of this edited volume is to attempt to cast more light on
this complex phenomenon and its various issues and aspects, which will have
important implications for research, policy, and pedagogy of writing for
scholarly publication.

By bringing together different perspectives from authors and researchers in
Applied Linguistics and other related fields including bibliometrics and
library and information studies, this volume 
aims to provide a deeper and refined understanding of various issues and
aspects relevant to this phenomenon. The volume showcases both conceptual
papers and empirical studies from multiple and interdisciplinary perspectives,
with a range of methodologies and orientations, including but not limited to
the following foci:
critical analyses of indicators and criteria (including extant blacklists and
whitelists) developed to determine predatory journals

initiatives to render concrete the ways to accurately identify predatory
journals 

bibliometrics studies (including cross-contextual research) exploring
publication in potentially predatory open access journals 

exploring discourses often used by 'predatory' publishers, for example mass or
spam emails and invitations sent by them

individual first-hand experiences or interview-based studies or surveys
examining individual / group experiences in publishing in journals presumed to
be predatory
supporting and guiding novice ad peripheral/marginalized scholars in making
informed and sensible choices in scholarly publication 

institutional policies and circumstances that create the demand for
unscrupulous publishers

how open access can help to resolve/preclude the problems associated with its
exploitation by predatory open access journals

nuanced critical inquiries into the nature and practices of predatory
publishing with practical implications for practice and pedagogy.

The timeline is as follows:
Please submit an abstract of around 150 –200 words along with a 50-word bio by
the end of July 2020.

Pejman Habibie: phabibie at uwo.ca
Ismaeil Fazel: ismaeil_fazel at sfu.ca

Based on review of the received abstracts, authors will be invited to submit
fairly polished full-length chapters (6000 words inclusive of references) for
inclusion in the volume by the end of November 2021 at the latest.  
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics





 



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