{"id":2859,"date":"2018-10-31T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:39:09","slug":"debjani-bhattacharyya-ph-d-2014-writes-about-predatory-publishing-in-ahas-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/10\/31\/debjani-bhattacharyya-ph-d-2014-writes-about-predatory-publishing-in-ahas-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Debjani Bhattacharyya (Ph.D., 2014) Writes About Predatory Publishing in AHA&#8217;s &#8216;Perspectives&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drexel University Assistant Professor of History and 2014 Emory Ph.D. <a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/coas\/faculty-research\/faculty-directory\/DebjaniBhattacharyya\/\">Debjani Bhattacharyya<\/a> recently authored a piece for the American Historical Association&#8217;s newsmagazine,\u00a0<em>Perspectives.\u00a0<\/em>Bhattacharyya, a specialist on Modern South Asian History, discusses exploitative publishing practices and the culture of academic publishing broadly. Read the excerpt below along with the full piece, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/publications-and-directories\/perspectives-on-history\/october-2018\/when-a-journal-is-a-scam-how-some-publications-prey-on-scholarship-as-public-good\">When a Journal is a Scam: How Some Publications Prey on Scholarship as Public Good<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Apart from warning our students and colleagues about predatory journals, there is a larger question we as a profession need to answer. How do we create conditions where we can prioritize the twin imperatives behind publishing our work: to be heard and to listen? These things take time. It takes time to write out early ideas, have them read by a fresh pair of eyes, be exposed to new literature, rethink the argument, and then revise and rewrite. In an ideal world, each article would be an invitation to a dialogue about a question and ultimately an attempt to create a public good. And yet, all of this must happen within a very truncated time frame given the \u201cpublish or perish\u201d atmosphere. How do we as a profession acknowledge the realities of this mandate, while still guaranteeing the quality of peer-reviewed scholarship?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drexel University Assistant Professor of History and 2014 Emory Ph.D. Debjani Bhattacharyya recently authored a piece for the American Historical Association&#8217;s newsmagazine,\u00a0Perspectives.\u00a0Bhattacharyya, a specialist on Modern South Asian History, discusses exploitative publishing practices and the culture of academic publishing broadly. Read the excerpt below along with the full piece, &#8220;When a Journal is a Scam: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-public-scholarship","category-publications","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}