Mary Jane Curry is an Associate Professor in the Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, USA. Theresa Lillis is a Professor in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University, UK. They are the authors of A Scholar’s Guide to Getting Published in English: Critical Choices and Practical Strategies (Multilingual Matters, 2013) and Academic Writing in a Global Context: The Politics and Practices of Publishing in English (Routledge, 2010).

This timely collection sheds light on how publishing policies and practices are shaping global academic knowledge-making. Its impressive geolinguistic reach, with attention to a wide range of contexts and many contributions from beyond the Anglophone centre, brings a richness and nuance that make it a powerful inaugural text for the new Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation series.

• Mary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis: Problematising English as the Privileged Language of Global Academic PublishingSection 1: Evaluation Practices Shaping Academic PublishingLynn Nygaard and Rocco Bellanova: Lost in Quantification: Scholars and the Politics of BibliometricsRobin Nagano and Edit Spiczéné: Phd Publication Requirements and Practices: A Multidisciplinary Case Study from a Hungarian UniversityYongyan Li and Rui Yang: Chinese Business Schools Pursuing Growth through International Publication: Evidence from Institutional GenresSection 2: Scholars’ Practices and PerspectivesBirna Arnbjornsdottir and Hafdis Ingvarsdottir: Issues of Identity and Voice: Writing English for Research Purposes in the Semi PeripheryJohn Harbord: Language Policy and the Disengagement of the International Academic EliteLaurie Anderson: Publishing in Pursuit of an Academic Career: The Role of Embedded and Encultured Knowledge in National Job-market Entry Strategies of Elite Early Career European ScholarsSection 3: Academic Journal Policies and PracticesAliya Kuzhabekova: The Reaction of Scholarly Journals to Impact-Factor Publishing Requirements in KazakhstanCheryl Sheridan: Blind Peer Review at an English Language Teaching Journal in Taiwan: Glocalized Practices within Globalization of Higher EducationMelba Cardenas and Isobel Rainey: Publishing from the ELT Periphery: The Profile Journal Experience in ColombiaCheryl Ball, Andrew Morrison and Douglas Eyman: The Rise of Multimodality in Academic PublishingFrancoise Salager-Meyer: Open Access: The Next Model for Research Dissemination?Ismaeil Fazel and Joel Heng Hartse: Reconsidering “Predatory” Open Access Journals in an Age of Globalized English-Language Academic PublishingSection 4: Pedagogies for Global Academic PublishingJu Chuan Huang: Teaching Writing for Publication in English to Engineering Students: Implications from a Collaborative Course in TaiwanJames Corcoran: The Potential and Limitations of an English for Research Publication Purposes Course for Mexican ScholarsSoraya Abdulatief and Xolisa Guzula: Emerging Academics: Using Whatsapp to Share Novice and Expert Resources in a Postgraduate Writing GroupIndex