Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication

Pejman Habibie is an Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Western University, Canada. He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes and a founding co-editor of book series Routledge Studies in English for Research Publication Purposes.  Anna Kristina Hultgren is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at The Open University, UK. Her research focuses on the interconnectedness of language and ongoing societal, political and economic restructuring.

• Chapter 1. Preface (Ken Hyland).- Chapter 2. Different Faces of Gatekeeping and Gatekeepers (Pejman Habibie & Anna Kristina Hultgren).- Part I: Identities, Positions, Beliefs.- Chapter 3.  Gate-keeping and Gate-opening: A Narrative of Becoming (Pejman Habibie).- Chapter 4. To the Inner Circle and Back Again: An Autoethnographically-Oriented Narrative of An EAL’s Identity Trajectory and Professional Development from Novice Researcher to Research Auditor (Rosa M. Manchón).- Chapter 5. On Becoming a Bilingual Gatekeeper: The Journey of A Francophone Editor for An English-Language Journal (Guillaume Gentil).- Chapter 6. Opening the Gates for the Next Generation of Scholars (Peter De Costa).- Part II: Discourses, Norms, Values.- Chapter 7. Polycentric Peer Reviewing: Navigating Authority and Expertise (Maria Kuteeva).- Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of An Editor-In-Chief. A Field-Theoretic Autoethnography (Márton Demeter).- Chapter 9. Rhetorical Structure and Types of Comments in My Manuscript Reviews (Ling Shi).- Chapter 10. Certifying Knowledge under Neoliberalism: Global inequality and academic wellbeing (Anna Kristina Hultgren).- Part III : Roles, Relationships, Challenges.- Chapter 11. The Tug-of-War of Journal Editing: Trust and Risk in Focus (Carmen Sancho Guinda).- Chapter 12. On Mediating and Being Mediated: Experiences of Harmony and Contention (Sally Burgess).- Chapter 13. The Journal Editor as Academic Custodian (John Edwards).- Chapter 14. From Birth to Maturity: Reflections on Editors’ Experiences and Challenges in Founding, Managing and Promoting Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research (Karim Sadeghi & Farah Ghaderi).

“Pejman Habibie … and Anna Kristina Hultgren (The Open University, United Kingdom) offer their own chapters and bring together the work of twelve additional contributors, primarily in the field of applied linguistics … . Although the contributors’ disciplinary perspectives align, the cultural diversity across the fourteen chapters adds remarkable depth to the work. … Readers from all fields in the humanities or social sciences should see in either book new—and less fraught—ways of conceptualizing editors as gatekeepers.” (Steven E. Gump, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Vol. 55 (3), July, 2024)