Special Editorial Research Articles

‘Special issue-ization’ as a growth and revenue strategy: Reproduction by the “big five” and the risks for research integrity

ABSTRACT The exponential growth of MDPI and Frontiers over the last decade has been powered by their extensive use of special issues. The “special issue-ization” of journal publishing has been particularly associated with new publishers and seen as potentially “questionable.” Through an extended case-study analysis of three journals owned by one of the “big five” commercial publishers, this paper explores the risks that this growing use of special issues presents to research integrity. All three case-study journals show sudden and marked changes in their publication patterns. An analysis of special issue editorials and retraction notes was used to determine the specifics of special issues and reasons for retractions. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data. Findings suggest that these commercial publishers are also promoting special issues and that article retractions are often connected to guest editor manipulation. This underlies the threat that “special issue-ization” presents to research integrity. It highlights the risks posed by the guest editor model, and the importance of extending this analysis to long-existing commercial publishers. The paper emphasizes the need for an in-depth examination of the underlying structures and political economy of science, and a discussion of the rise of gaming and manipulation within higher education systems.

Special issue guest editorial: Perspectives on sustainable learning and organizing, part one

Special issue guest editorial: Perspectives on sustainable learning and organizing, part one

‘Resonating across Oceanic Currents’: Special edition editorial

Preoccupied with the historical contradictions of seawater as manifested in the early to mid-twentieth century popular music history surrounding Japan, the Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Resonating Across Oceanic Currents: Maritime Histories of Popular Music in and from Japan, 1920s-60s’ addresses a potentiality of the maritime frame as a method for moving away from historical periodization in popular music studies, and for reconsidering the approaches to ‘the global music history’. Above all, by contributing to the growing scholarship that engages with the oceanic frames as methods ripe for deconstructing music histories, it argues for the potencies of the maritime frame that, in many respects, brings to centre personal narratives, shifting geopolitical positionalities and subjectivities of musicians, listeners and creators in the study of popular music history.

A Special Editor’s Issue on Magnesium Matrix Composites

A Special Editor’s Issue on Magnesium Matrix Composites

The Future of Research on International Selling and Sales Management

As companies expand their international footprint, insight regarding how to effectively organize international selling and sales management (ISSM) efforts is becoming increasingly important. Unfortunately, most prior research on personal selling and sales management is grounded in a domestic market perspective, which limits the relevance of its findings to situations in which sales activities occur between stakeholders located in different national markets. This special issue responds to the need for dedicated research on ISSM through six articles that explore phenomena arising from the interaction between international salespeople and international customers and their domestic counterparts. Moreover, this editorial builds on these six articles to advance a research agenda rooted in an interaction-based conceptualization of the ISSM field that identifies areas of inquiry related to international salespeople, international customers, and international managers, and subsequently prioritizes these research opportunities using input provided by sales practitioners. This special issue and editorial thus identify critical, underexplored research topics in the ISSM domain that are accompanied by a series of illustrative examples of how best to contribute to this emerging but important literature stream.

Special guest editorial: inclusive pedagogies and services

Special guest editorial: inclusive pedagogies and services

Health Equity Journal: Special Issue Guest Editorial

<i>Health Equity</i> Journal: Special Issue Guest Editorial

Special Issue Guest Editorial: The Challenges of Experimental Designs in Entrepreneurship Education Research - An Interview With Thomas D. Cook

Research into entrepreneurship education is on the rise, yet the assessment of causality resulting from various teaching methods and their impacts on students and society at large remains limited. Consequently, incorporating experimental designs into entrepreneurship education research becomes imperative to move the field forward. Establishing cause-and-effect relationships, discerning which approaches yield desired outcomes (and which do not), contributes to a clearer understanding of the connections between educational activities and their results. This special issue underscores the importance of experiments as a methodological tool for showcasing causality. In this editorial, we expand on the reasons for the need for more experiments within the field. Additionally, we feature an interview with Dr. Thomas D. Cook, a pioneer in education research experiments, and offer an overview of the articles included in this special issue. We finish with a shortlist of tips for anyone interested in conducting experiments.

Welcome to the New Issue (Vol: 29, No: 3, 2023) and Current News of the European Journal of Therapeutics

Welcome to the New Issue (Vol: 29, No: 3, 2023) and Current News of the European Journal of Therapeutics

Teacher Round Table

Study and Scrutiny has focused on the publication of critical and empirical studies surrounding the scholarship and critical merits of Young Adult Literature. Because other journals provide a space for pedagogical practices concerning YA, the editors have intentionally shied away from explaining to teachers how to teach a particular title in a particular way. Still, the intention of the journal has been, in part, to support the learning of secondary students as readers and the classroom practices of their teachers. Teacher Round Table hopes to serve as a space to open the conversation surrounding YA literature, its critical merits, and ways that the research might serve teachers as they make curriculum choices about both texts and strategies. The idea is to bring teachers, as intellectuals, into conversation surrounding the scholarship of a featured study. For this round table, five secondary teachers joined Shelly Unsicker-Durham via Zoom to focus on Ashely Dallacqua’s article “Reading When the World Is on Fire: Teaching with Comics and Other Multimodal Text Sets” from S &amp; S Issue: 6.1. Jason DeHart, special editor, invited three of his Tennessee colleagues and Shelly invited two of hers from Oklahoma, for a conversation that included graphic novels, classroom instruction, and censorship. Words and images provided by the teachers, along with the following conversation, have been edited for clarity, style, and organization.

Special Editorial: Australian Journal of General Practice responsive to the needs of our readers

Special Editorial: Australian Journal of General Practice responsive to the needs of our readers

Special Editorial: The Inclusive Academy

Special Editorial: The Inclusive Academy

Civic education and citizenship studies in culture, identity, and art

Over the past few years, culture has played an essential role in shaping civic culture in multicultural countries that adhere to the nation-state system, such as Indonesia. Culture makes an excellent contribution to support the nation's noble values, traditions, and norms that inspire forms of citizenship in civic culture. We need to think about civic education and the study of citizenship in the scope of culture, identity, and the arts. However, strangely, there has been no effort made by academic actors to study culture, identity, and art in certain areas in the aspect of forming civic culture. Culture, identity, and art are the primary sources of inspiration for a country that adheres to a multicultural system and a nation-state to create social norms for its citizens. The issue is expected to cover as many aspects of customary law, culture, art, and nature as possible and be reported as scientific findings. Authors and scholars from all relevant disciplines are invited to contribute, and we are interested in your research contribution to pertinent illustrations of the fields of civic education and civic studies. The editorial team reviews the specific and cultural roles, identities, and traditional arts as described in the forms of customary law and norms in multicultural societies, performing arts where local culture and identity play an essential role, literature, and folklore in society and history engraved on reliefs. Reliefs such as temples in Yogyakarta, books such as Sutasoma, and the like. We want researchers to write about how culture, identity, and art have played a role in the essential parts of citizenship from the past to the present. In essence, this Special Editorial accommodates writers and academics to conceptualize the role, philosophy, customary law, tradition, norms, and artistic aesthetics as forming civic culture in a country that adheres to the nation's system so that it becomes a new form of knowledge that can be taken for civic education and studies, citizenship itself

The Teaching and Learning of Definite Integrals: A Special Issue Guest Editorial

The Teaching and Learning of Definite Integrals: A Special Issue Guest Editorial

Особенности освещения истории Улуса Джучи в «Историях Казахской ССР» в 1940–1950-х годах

Research objectives: to study the description of the Ulus of Jochi in the academic publication “History of the Kazakh SSR” since 1943, analyze and compare changes in subsequent reprints of the book. Research materials: The research is based on archival materials from the central archives of Kazakhstan, including documents from the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the archive of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. Results and novelty of the research: This article focuses on the history of the study of the Golden Horde in Soviet Kazakhstan and the analysis of political considerations in historiography, particularly in the scientific publication “History of the Kazakh SSR” edited by M. Abdykalykov and A. Pankratova (1943). The main emphasis is on the discussions that took place at special editorial meetings organized by the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in the 1940s and 1950s. The propaganda activities of historians, writers, poets, and philologists who popula­rized the positive image of the Golden Horde and Edige in their works are also analyzed. Additionally, the research examines the August 9, 1944 Decree “On the state and measures to improve mass-political and ideological work in the Tatar party organization.” Archival documents, such as minutes of the meetings of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, transcripts of the meetings of the sector of the History of the USSR until the 19th century, and discussions in the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR on the chapters “History of the Kazakh SSR” are also considered.

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction Dr. Marty Cooper, Editor When I was asked to be the special editor for this issue of the journal, I thought I had an idea of what I was engaging in. It seemed to be a straightforward task where I would be reviewing journal articles and making decisions on what to include in the issue. What I found instead was a deep dive into interpersonal relationships and working within a larger group myself to bring this issue to fruition. Indeed, what I found was the magic that makes the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society (EGPS) and GROUP special—its people. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that I was asked to be a temporary editor for a special journal of a special organization. There is one person without whom this issue would not have been possible—Christine Schmidt. Through this process, I have found a friend, a colleague, and a collaborator in Christine. Many thanks to you, Christine, and to the executive committee and board of directors for their support of this issue. This issue reflects the multiplicity of group work across disciplines. We decided to open the journal with the EGPS one-year group training program graduation address by Robert Grossmark. Dr. Grossmark captures the essence of the training program as well as the importance of ushering in the next generation. Additionally, he provides a timely goodbye to the esteemed training program leadership and a warm welcome to those who will take the helm. Following Dr. Grossmark’s remarks, we turn our attention to a paper by Kathleen Isaac and Christine Schmidt, who share with us their work co-leading organizational group therapy in a nonprofit setting. Brenda Boatswain discusses secondary traumatic stress experienced by nurses and a brief therapy group designed to address this. Sean Grover provides us with insight into the work he has been doing providing on-site parenting support groups. Francine R. Mendelowitz discusses the use of applied theater to promote social-emotional health in adolescents. Melisa Stevanovic and colleagues discuss casting group counseling as peer support in a mental health rehabilitation committee. Hang Ruan and colleagues [End Page 9] present long-term weekly mindfulness groups at a large Veterans Affairs hospital. Finally, Andrew I. Smolar discusses how group identification has contributed to our national discord. Although it has been a pleasure to work on this issue, I was even more excited by the recent news that I was recently selected to coedit the journal with an esteemed colleague, Dr. Jessica Jean Baptiste. I look forward to working with Dr. Jean Baptiste, the editorial team of the journal, and the Executive Committee and Board of EGPS. [End Page 10] Copyright © 2023 Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society

Consumers' transport and mobility decisions

Journal of Consumer BehaviourVolume 22, Issue 2 p. 378-381 SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORIAL Consumers' transport and mobility decisions Lixian Qian, Lixian Qian orcid.org/0000-0001-8467-4384 International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorDidier Soopramanien, Didier Soopramanien International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorNina Michaelidou, Corresponding Author Nina Michaelidou [email protected] Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK Correspondence Nina Michaelidou, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Lixian Qian, Lixian Qian orcid.org/0000-0001-8467-4384 International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorDidier Soopramanien, Didier Soopramanien International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorNina Michaelidou, Corresponding Author Nina Michaelidou [email protected] Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK Correspondence Nina Michaelidou, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 20 February 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.2145Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume22, Issue2Special Issue: Consumers' Transport and Mobility DecisionsMarch/April 2023Pages 378-381 RelatedInformation

Networking, Decentralization, and Intelligent Control Are Always Cutting-Edge Topics in the IEEE SMC Society [Editorial

In this issue, I introduce the readers four articles. The other three articles for the special section “Next-Generation Networks for Industry 4.0” will be outlined in the special session editorial by guest editors Haisheng Yu, Jiehan Zhou, Zhixiong Chen, Yongzhi Wang, and Madhusanka Liyanage. They are highly appreciated for their effective work in collecting high-quality submissions.

Cultivating collective praxis for scholarly transformation and racial justice: The Critical Race Theory collective’s introduction to the special issue

This special issue launches from the challenges of white supremacy within Library and Information Studies (LIS) and the demonizing of Critical Race Theory (CRT) within American and British societies. To address these challenges through a commitment to practice as well as theory, a special editorial team for this publication was formed to tackle head on how racialised knowledge justice issues can also manifest in scholarly publishing spheres. This team is the Critical Race Theory collective (CRTc): an international community of scholars, practitioners and activists working at the intersections of race, libraries, archives, information and education. This extended introduction is split into two parts that describe respectively the process and the product of the special issue. Part One charts the national contexts of CRTc praxis in the US and the UK, and outlines the community-building, restorative and pedagogical principles and lessons that have (in)formed the CRTc editorial and developmental process. Part Two outlines the papers that constitute the product of the special issue: contributions from American and British authors from interdisciplinary backgrounds who apply CRT frameworks to LIS discourse and practice. Together, these two parts demonstrate the scholar-activist underpinnings of CRTc to address, challenge, resist, interrupt, and ideally reverse the pushback against all forms of culturally conscious justice, especially racial justice.

News and perspectives for Annals of Applied Biology in 2023: Looking forward to more and more submissions

News and perspectives for <scp><i>Annals of Applied Biology</i></scp> in 2023: Looking forward to more and more submissions