Academic publishing opportunities
- AOM OB Division PDW sessions and interviews highlight public engagement strategies for scholars, including books and podcasts. - Elsevier and other lectures discuss journal selection, ethics, and visibility for social science publishing. - These events and advice point to practical avenues for researchers seeking broader impact and clearer publication strategies (x.com) (x.com).
Management scholars are getting a clearer playbook for publishing and public reach, with new Academy of Management sessions and publisher trainings spelling out where to submit and how to build an audience. (ob.aom.org) (aom.org) The Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division this week announced an off-cycle Professional Development Workshop, “Outside the Ivory Tower,” built around live Zoom interviews with Katy Milkman on May 11, 2026, Tiziana Casciaro on May 26, Jim Detert on July 9, and Andrew Brodsky on July 17. The organizers said recordings will be available after the sessions. (ob.aom.org) The workshop is aimed at scholars who want to turn journal findings into books, columns, newsletters, podcasts, and other public-facing formats. The Organizational Behavior Division said those channels have become easier to use, but remain “uncharted terrain” for many researchers. (ob.aom.org) The conference pipeline is moving on a parallel track. The Academy of Management said its 86th annual meeting will run in Philadelphia from July 31 to August 4, 2026, and its submission deadline for papers, symposia, posters, caucuses, and Professional Development Workshops was January 13, 2026. (aom.org 1) (aom.org 2) For researchers trying to place a paper, publisher-backed advice is focusing on journal fit, open-access options, and ethics before submission. A Hong Kong Polytechnic University library seminar with Elsevier and Cell Press on April 15, 2025 listed journal selection, peer review, open-access options, and artificial-intelligence ethics as the core topics. (lib.polyu.edu.hk) Elsevier’s author support pages now steer researchers to a Journal Finder tool to match abstracts to possible outlets. The company’s support center says the tool is meant to help authors identify suitable journals before they submit. (elsevier.support 1) (elsevier.support 2) The ethics side is getting equal billing. Elsevier’s research-publication toolkit for early-career researchers flags authorship disputes, competing interests, plagiarism, simultaneous submission, research fraud, and “salami slicing,” the practice of splitting one study into multiple thin papers. (assets.ctfassets.net) Visibility after publication is also part of the strategy. Elsevier says Scopus indexes content from more than 7,000 publishers, and its 2024 policy update removed the old two-year publication-history condition for new journals seeking Scopus review. (blog.scopus.com) Taken together, the current advice to social science researchers is practical and sequential: choose a journal that fits the paper, clear the ethics checks before submission, and build a public-facing track through books, podcasts, or other media once the work is out. (ob.aom.org) (elsevier.support) (assets.ctfassets.net)
