The Academic's Guide to Publishing

Rob Kitchin is a Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He was a European Research Council Advanced Investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-2018) and a principal investigator on the Building City Dashboards project (2016-2020) and for the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017). He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 31 other academic books, and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.

• Publishing ResearchA Strategic Approach to PublicationWorking with OthersGeneral Writing AdviceMalpractices and Intellectual PropertyWriting for Journals and Edited BooksWriting ReportsPublishing on the InternetDissemination through Popular MediaTypes of Book and Selecting a PublisherWriting and Submitting a Book ProposalNegotiating a Book ContractWriting a BookEditing a Book or Special IssueSelf-publishing a BookProposing a New Journal or Book SeriesEditing a Journal or NewsletterThe Production ProcessAttending Conferences and Presenting Papers and PostersMaking and Keeping ContactsOrganizing EventsFinal Words

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