Mesa-redonda – Estratégias para estimular a publicação em revistas brasileiras Moderador: Ricardo Azevedo - USP; ABEC

Avaliação fast track de manuscrito Claude Pirmez - Fiocruz

Internacionalização do corpo editorial Jorge Carneiro - FGV

Gestão do processo editorial Gustavo Habermann - Unesp

I thank the following editors (in alphabetical order of first name) of Latin American scientific journals for sharing their insightful experiences:

•  Carlo Bellini – Brazilian Administration Review (BAR)

•  Eduardo Diniz – Revista de Administração de Empresas (RAE)

•  Fernando Serra – Revista Ibero-Americana de Estratégia

•  Gustavo Motta – Revista de Administração Contemporânea (RAC)

•  Herbert Kimura – Revista de Administração Contemporânea (RAC)

•  Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez – AD-minister (Colombia)

•  Maria José Tonelli – Revista de Administração de Empresas (RAE)

•  Salomão Farias – Brazilian Administration Review (BAR)

•  Tomas Guimarães – Brazilian Administration Review (BAR)

•  Quais critérios devem nortear a composição do corpo editorial •  Como atrair top scholars estrangeiros para compor o corpo editorial •  De que forma membros estrangeiros no corpo editorial podem

estimular a submissão de artigos por autores estrangeiros e a leitura de artigos da revista por pesquisadores estrangeiros

•  What criteria should determine the composition of the editorial board? •  How to attract foreign top scholars to be members of the editorial

board? •  How can foreign members of the editorial board stimulate non-

domestic authorship and readership?

InternacionalizaçãodocorpoeditorialJorgeCarneiro,FGV

The reality of Latin American journals

•  No competitive process to select members of the editorial board •  Personal relationships of the editor-in-chief A philosophical matter: •  What scope of “internationalization” makes sense for your journal? •  Does it vary across areas of knowledge? Impact: •  JCR Impact Factor - Web of Science (USA, Canada, Western Europe) •  SCImago / SJR - Scopus (USA, Canada, Western Europe) •  SciELO (Latin America, Portugal, Spain, South Africa) •  SPELL (Business/Management journals in Brazil)

A chicken-and-egg problem:

A means (internationalization of the editorial advisory board) to an

end (attract top-level authorship, expand readership, and increase citations)

The vicious circle: non-indexation in top rankings (e.g., WoS) è less attraction of top scholars è fewer top-level contributions è low international authorship/readership è low citation è non-indexation in top rankings…

The virtuous circle: attraction of top scholars è higher number of top-level contributions è rise in international authorship/readership è rise in citation è eventual indexation in top rankings è eventual increase in impact factor è attraction of top scholars…

1. What criteria should determine the composi4on of the editorial board?

• Howtopromoteabalancebetweenexperiencedscholars/editors(andtheir“tested”ideasandcapacitytoa@ractexternalinterest)withyoungerpromisingscholars(withtheir“new”ideasandwillingnesstoshowtheircontribuCon)•  Some“top-notches”+some“topworkers”• Diversityofvisions(e.g.,phenomenologicalandposiCvist)• GoodcommandofEnglish

Increasethebrandawarenessofthejournal•  Sponsoracoffeebreakattargetedconferencesanddelivermaterial

aboutthejournal•  Theeditor-in-chiefshouldpavehis/herwaytoparCcipatein“Meet

theEditors”sessionsorPDW(PaperDevelopmentWorkshops)attopconferences

•  Leveragetheeditor’sacademicnetworkReduceperceiveduncertaintyaboutthequalityofthejournalandtherigorofitseditorialboard

2. How to attract foreign top scholars to be members of the editorial board (or serve as associate editors)?

Howtoavoidmerely“nameborrowing”(evenifemblemaCcmembers)?

3. How can foreign members of the editorial board (and associate editors) stimulate non-domestic authorship and readership?

Theeditor-in-chiefneedstoproacCvelymoCvatetheengagementof(foreignanddomesCc)membersoftheeditorialboard

•  Veryseldomwilltheycontributespontaneously•  Askforashortac1onplan(oneortwoclearobjecCvestobeachievedduringtheirterm)

InvitetopscholarstoeditthemaCcspecialissues(inEnglish)•  MobilizaConofacCve(themaCc/geographic)communiCesthathaveinterestina

parCculartopic•  Leverageontheacademicnetworkofthespecialissueeditor•  Targetedissuestendtoa@ractreadershipandcita1ons,inaself-reinforcingmanner•  +TestthescholarbeforeinviCnghim/herfortheeditorialboard•  +Getthescholartoknowhowseriousandrigorousthejournalis(“datethescholar”)

InvitetopscholarstoleadinteracCvediscussions(e.g.,quesCons-and-answers)withthecommunityofresearchersofagivenarea/topicInvitetopscholarstopublisheditorialsorbookreviews

•  Leveragetheeditor’snetwork,e.g.,publishinvited(single-blindreview)arCclesbytopscholars(whoarefriends/colleaguesoftheeditor)

•  Engagein“fasttrack”iniCaCvesingoodconferences(nichevs.broad-scopeconferences)

•  WelcomesubmissionsinPortugueseorSpanishandsupportthetranslaConintoEnglish(andintoSpanish)fortheacceptedarCcles.•  Note:Increaseco-authorshipandcitaConbySpanishscholars+integraConwithEuropeanresearchers

•  QuesCon:wheretogetfundingforthisacCvity?•  Invitepromisingyoungscholarsfromcountries(e.g.,China,India,maybeIran)thatarepromoCngtheinternaConalinserConoftheirstudents

•  WebsiteinEnglish,besidestheoriginallanguageofthejournal

4.Whatelsecantheeditor-in-chiefdoinordertoincreasegraduallytop-levelauthorshipandreadership?

•  Isolatedefforts(e.g.a@ractforeigntopscholarstotheeditorialboard)willnotpromotesustainedresults.Itisimportanttoimplementasetofmutually-reinforcinginiCaCves

•  Doesmanagementofthesubmission/reviewprocessbyanexperiencedpublisher(e.g.,Elsevier,Emerald,Taylor&Francis,Wiley,…)help?

Furtherreading:•  AbelPacker(SciELOPresident)haspublishedextensivelyonhowtoprofessionalizethemanagementofscienCficjournalsandpromotetheirvisibility.

FinalreflecCons

Jorge Carneiro’s editorial experience Editor-in-chief - Brazilian Administration Review (2010-2015) Guest co-editor of special issues on Latin America

four issues published by the Journal of Business Research one issue published by the Multinational Business Review

Associate Editor / member of the editorial advisory board International Business Review Multinational Business Review Brazilian Administration Review (BAR) Revista de Administração de Empresas (RAE) Management Research Navus Revista de Gestão e Tecnologia

Member of the editorial review board Global Strategy Journal International Journal of Emerging Markets

Carneiro has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and has co-edited two books.

His research has been published in International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Management Decision, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Latin American Business Review, Brazilian Administration Review, Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, among other journals.

jorge.carneiro@fgv.br

THANK YOU!