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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hey everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am also pleased with this – though always nervous about what is around the corner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The journal ranking system has been devastating to emerging researchers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Friends and colleagues have asked me ‘how to publish in an A* journal’ – and feel rejected if they fail. I have always responded that good quality research
should be published in the appropriate journal and the rankings are arbitrary – and will change. This was confirmed to me by a publisher I met while in Europe who was literally laughing at the rankings system. He said some of his weakest and moribund journals
had received A rating and had been revived from the decision – but could find no reason why this was the case. Meanwhile, excellent journals get a low ranking and people have chosen to ignore them.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We then compared an ‘A Journal’ that averages an average of 3.4 readers to a newspaper piece based on our research that has 10,000 reads: how should these compare?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">While I have been lucky to be surrounded by excellent mentors and have supported my decision to ignore rankings, I have seen senior management at certain universities
base their entire decision-making around the ranking system. Maybe if we are ever faced with such a system, we can agree to boycott it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks to those who put up a good fight on this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">James Arvanitakis, PhD<br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Senior Lecturer - School of Humanities and Languages<br>
Head of Program - Dean Scholars<br>
Research member - Centre for Cultural Research<br>
Member of the Ally Program for GLBIT students<br>
Fellow - Centre for Policy Development<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="https://email.uws.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=b8a0230cbcb44c06b284e6f5777c2892&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.jamesarvanitakis.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">www.jamesarvanitakis.net</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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Harper Lee: Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.<br>
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University of Western Sydney<br>
Rm UG05, Building U<br>
Kingswood Campus<br>
Ph: +61-47360391<br>
Mob: +61-438-454-127<br>
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