Publish or Perish? Thoughts about the Second Meeting of Early Career Researchers in Criminology
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Boletin-criminologico.2020.v27i.11276Keywords:
academic career;, peer-review;, academic publication;, Doctoral thesisAbstract
This special issue of the Criminological Bulletin contains nine of the best contributions presented during the 2nd Meeting of Spanish Early-Career Researchers in Criminology, which took place at the Law School of the University of Malaga (Spain) on the 13th and 14th of February 2020. This article presents firstly the nine contributions of the special issue. As well, it discusses the challenge of publishing while being an early-career researcher. In particular, we briefly review the literature on the “publish or perish” phenomenon to set out its assets, as well as its difficulties. Last, we outline several recommendations for publishing successfully while preserving the ethical and methodological principles of our discipline.
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