| a. Editor-in-Chief -Dr. Teresa Brannick, UCD |
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| b. Editor Prof Kathy Monks, DCU |
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| c. Editorial Board |
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Table 1:
Future Opportunities and Challenges for the IJM (Sub-Committee Discussions 2022-2024)
| Future Opportunities | Future Challenges |
|---|---|
| Open access, ranked journal. | Increasingly competitive ‘market’. Low number of quality submissions outside of special issues. |
| Editor experience and status. Associate editor role(s) for Technological Universities, with a rotating annual special issue. An annual practice issue, offering avenues for professional doctorate candidates/graduates to disseminate work. | Significant voluntary contributions by those in the roles of editorship/review. Growing demands on editors assessing large influx of papers and in identifying quality reviewers. Increasingly difficult task of being an editor/journal given rising integrity concerns with submissions from unknown authors from different countries. |
| Journal included in international index/ranking systems (e.g., Scopus). | Perceived local ethos (partly influenced by having ‘Irish’ in the title of the journal). |
| Benefits of technological advances, online content. | The risk of monitoring for and assessing AI-generated papers. Complex online submission systems. |
| Collaborate with other smaller academies in pursuit of a ‘academies’ journal. | Increasing systemic academic workload on academic staff, rendering the operationalisation of alternative options difficult/not feasible to materialise. |