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New Developments in the Journal Ecosystem and What it Means for Authors: AI, Bulking, Methods, and Rankings

  • Mon 2 Nov 26

    11:00 - 12:15

  • Colchester Campus

    EBS.2.1

  • Event speaker

    Professor Geoffrey Wood

  • Event type

    Lectures, talks and seminars

  • Event organiser

    Essex Business School

  • Contact details

    Jose Linares-Zegarra

The journal ecosystem is a fast changing one, with major developments that have implications for authors. The flood of AI generated content, and growing concerns around source material and data integrity has led to diverse responses by journals; the first component of the this talk outlines the latter.

This is followed by a look at bulking, a phenomena where established journals greatly increase the number of articles published per year; this may have consequences for crowding out other journals, but also for how such work in such journals is viewed. The second component of this talk involves a closer look at this development.

The third component of this talk looks at changes in expectations around methods; trends in finance and management are compared and contrasted. The final component of this talk looks at trends journal rankings and likely developments.

All colleagues and PhD students are very welcome to attend.

Speaker

Professor Geoffrey Wood is Professor and DanCap Endowed Chair in Private Equity, and Department Chair DAN Management at Western University in Canada. Previously, he served as Dean and Professor of International Business, at Essex Business School and before then as Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK. He has authored/co-authored/edited eighteen books, and over two hundred and sixty articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Geoff's research interests centre on the relationship between institutional setting, corporate governance, firm finance, and firm level work and employment relations.

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