Posts

• Controversies in Qualitative Research: Kirsten Bell on profit and pricing in academia. Qualitative Open Mic podcast, 19 July 2024.

• Critical Public Health and Open Access: A Primer, 2021 (I created this primer for members of the CPH editorial board and have posted it here in case others find it useful)

• My scholarly publishing history: the successes, the failures and the backstories, 22 August 2018

• Publishing and the rise of content, 29 March 2017

• Changing conceptions of 'the Reader' in trade publishing, 12 February 2017

• Reflections on Academia.edu, 17 October 2016

• A letter to Academia.edu, 9 December 2015

• Letter to Knowledge Translation Media, 30 April 2015

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​Published Articles

• 2026. Bait and switches in academic publishing. Journal of Critical Public Health, 3(2). 

• 2024. Open access and the subjunctive mood in scholarly publishing. In B. Kapferer and M. Gold (eds), Egalitarian Dynamics: Liminality, and Victor Turner's Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-Historical Process. Berghahn. (The book is available open access here)

• 2024. (with Patricia Kingori and David Mills) Scholarly publishing, boundary processes, and the problem of fake peer reviews. Science, Technology & Human Values, 49(1): 78-104.

• 2023. Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age. Allegra Lab, 30 November.

• 2021. (with Judith Green, Lindsay McLaren and Oliver Mweemba) 'Open' relationships: Reflections on the role of the journal in the contemporary scholarly publishing landscape. Critical Public Health, 31(4): 377-380. 

• 2021. (with David Mills) What we know about the academic journal landscape reflects global inequalities. LSE Impact Blog, 12 October.

• 2020. (with Judith Green) Premature evaluation? Some cautionary thoughts on global pandemics and scholarly publishing. Critical Public Health, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2020.1769406

• 2019. Communitas and the commons: the open access movement and the dynamics of restructuration in scholarly publishing. Anthropology Today, 35(5): 21-23.

• 2018. Is is still paranoia if they're really out to vet you? On Clarivate Analytics. Cost of Living Blog, 15 August.

• 2018. 'Misleading metrics' and the ecology of scholarly publishing. In Predatory Publishing. Post Office Press, Rope Press and punctum books.

• 2018. Whatever happened to the 'social' science in Social Science & Medicine? On golden anniversaries and gold standards. Social Science & Medicine. 214: 162-166.

• 2018. Does not compute: Why I'm proposing a moratorium on the term 'outputs'. LSE Impact Blog, 11 April.

• 2017. ‘Predatory’ open access journals as parody: Exposing the limitations of ‘legitimate’ academic publishing. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 15(2): 651-662.

• 2016. More journal standards and their stories: a meditation on a nursey rhyme. The Nightstand. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 3(2): 338-343.

• 2015. Journal standards and their stories, or, a trip down the rabbit hole. The Nightstand. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2(3): 185-192.

• 2015. (with Judith Green) Editorial. Keeping a critical edge: Reflections on 25 years as a scholarly journal. Critical Public Health, 25(1): 1-3.