The Story of Academy-owned Journals: Irish Academy and Irish Journal of Management 1996-2025

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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.

a. Editor-in-Chief-Dr. Teresa Brannick, UCD	◾ guardian of values of journal ◾ maintains vision of empirical journal with Irish flavour ◾ set policy of the journal and makes recommendations to the council.
b. EditorProf Kathy Monks, DCU	◾ sources high quality articles for journals and liaises with editor-in-chief and publisher on each volume and issue. ◾ promotes the journals at main management conference. ◾ assists editor-in-chief with electronic promotion of journal. ◾ ensures on-time delivery of journal to publisher – flow of manuscripts to publisher and referees. ◾ 3-year appointment. ◾ manage the editorial board. ◾ report on journal operation to the council.
c. Editorial Board	◾ sources articles for the journal ◾ main source of reviewers for journal ◾ encourage lecturers to use journal ◾ attend 1 yearly annual board meeting called by editor ◾ advise on policy and scope of the journal ◾ publish some of their own work in the journal ◾ come up with topic areas for the journal