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Academic Publishing and Malpractice

Emergency Planning

Graff described malpractice among academic journal editors and called for a bill of rights to protect authors against such excesses. During that time I have encountered all sorts of behaviour, good and bad, by authors, reviewers and editors. Herein I am going to concentrate on malpractice by authors. Irrelevant submission.

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Covid-19 and the Disaster Research Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

So is the response by academic authors. In 2015 Gaillard and Gomez published an interesting paper on the "disaster research gold rush". They also wish to capture experience and preserve it as evidence on which to base future policies and plans. Authors can write in haste and repent at their leisure: editors can rue the day.

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Two years ago, the journal published its first issue to contain 100 papers. Academic publishing continues to mutate at a bewildering rate.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion). I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. We confront a new phenomenon: intra-disaster research publication.

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Mon apprentissage - Il mio tirocinio - My apprenticeship - Meine Lehre

Emergency Planning

Boynton Priestley'" The essay recounts his mixture of pride and youthful ostentation at seeing his first, very modest effort published with all its vain attempts to appear cultured, literary and authoritative. Consider this exchange between the authors of Lord of the Flies and For Whom the Bell Tolls. "He In language, it is power!

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

Plan B Consulting

The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. What does that mean to us business continuity people?

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

Plan B Consulting

The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. What does that mean to us business continuity people?