Tag Archives: peer review

Published. Not perished.

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Revised on: 2015-11-23

Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my chapter in it. Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, edited by Stavros Ponis, aims to serve as a point-of-reference for scholars and researchers who are interested in studying Risk Management in a cross-disciplinary fashion, linking Virtual Enterprise Networks with Supply Chain Management and Risk Management. I am proud to be able to contribute of this attempt at cross-fertilization between three distinctively different, yet highly interconnected fields of research.

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One bad apple…

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Revised on: 2015-09-10

…spoils the barrel? Yesterday I sat down to prepare a review of this book, Managing Risks in Supply Chains: How to Build Reliable Collaboration in Logistics,  edited by Wolfgang Kersten and Thorsten Blecker. The book is a collection of articles by various researchers from mostly Germany and Austria, and while many of the articles/chapters maintain an excellent academic standard, one of the chapters does not at all hold up to any standard. In fact, it is so bad it makes me wonder how this could have slipped by editorial control?
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How to get a PhD without a dissertation

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Revised on: 2015-09-11

This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without having one, just because someone mistook one of the posts on this blog to be my PhD.  Yes, it’s true, a blog post turned into a PhD dissertation! So much for due diligence when using online sources for doing a literature review. This is the story of how I found out, what I did about it, and why this PhD is not likely to go away. For all of you landing on this page searching for how to get your own PhD without writing a dissertation, this is NOT a post about you can get a PhD. It is just a fun story. If you’re looking for a PhD without a dissertation try searching Google for “PhD by publication”. For those of you wanting to read the story about my non-existing (but still referenced) PhD, please read on.

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The Catch 22 of Academic Publishing

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Revised on: 2011-03-18

“Publish or perish“. You’ve heard the phrase, right? Well, apparently, getting published in the first place is not as easy as it seems, and the peer-review process may not as objective and unbiased as you may think. If you’re in (that is belonging to the right academic circles, and thus worthy of being published), you’re in, almost no matter what you write, but if you’re not in, finding someone willing to take you in is practically impossible, or is it?

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Research Blogging – for the investigative mind?

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Revised on: 2011-08-01

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you will notice that many posts reviewing  the literature now have a special icon. And that the journal reference in the post itself links back to the scientific journal website. That is because I have finally found the right outlet for disseminating my literature blogposts, or so I think, at least. As a blogger and emerging expert in my field, I often find exciting new peer-reviewed research I’d like to share, and researchblogging.org appears to be a good place to do just that.

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Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks

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Revised on: 2015-10-03

Done…I finally made it! Today I submitted my full chapter for the book on Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles. All I can do now is anxiously await the reviewers’ verdict. Followers of this blog will already have noticed some of my posts on Virtual Enterprise Networks, and wonder why I am suddenly deviating (albeit only slightly) from the main thrust of my blog, namely supply chain risk and transportation.

 

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The art of reviewing journal submissions

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Revised on: 2010-08-24

The other day I received an email from the editorial board of Transportation Science, asking me to review an article that had been submitted for publication. Transportation Science promotes itself as the foremost journal in the field of transportation analysis, and is published quarterly by INFORMS, so I felt quite honored. This is not the first time I’ve been asked to review a journal submission, but every time is still a new experience.

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