Academic publishing and interdisciplinarity: Finnish experiences

• Authors: Sami Pihlström
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay discusses some current challenges in academic publishing and interdisciplinarity, including interdisciplinary publishing, by referring to some recent experiences in the Finnish academic community. In particular, the recent “Publication Forum” exercise, organized in Finland by the Finnish Federation of Learned Societies, is briefly analyzed. Journal rankings play important roles but may also be used in problematic ways. Interdisciplinary research programs and institutes also need to consider their own challenges in contemporary academia.

Keywords

EN

publishing; journal rankings; interdisciplinarity; academic culture; institutes for advanced study

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 40-47

Dates

published

2014-01-01

online

2013-12-27

Contributors

author

Sami Pihlström

• University of Helsinki

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0204-2