Journal rankings may signal prestige, but they risk privileging conformity over intellectual plurality and misunderstand how meaningful scholarship actually develops and circulates.
The pressure to publish – and the exponential growth in submission and publication rates – is often attributed to the managerialism that has swept across academia globally. But what if the pressure to publish does not arise only from the evaluation system
Academic publishing has never been a still pond. It has always shifted with technology, institutional priorities, and the circulation of ideas. Yet the pace and direction of those shifts have changed dramatically in the past two decades.
