IS IT WORTH PUBLISHING A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE? THE FIRST 25 YEARS OF THE ANNALS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST. POLITICAL SCIENCE SERIES
Luciana Alexandra GHICA [a] [b] (ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7973-7296)
Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series]
Vol. XXV, Issue 1, Online first
https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-CJGC2799
[b] Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
The first issue of the new series of the political science collection of the Annals of the University of Bucharest (Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice) was published in 1999. For the last twenty five years the journal has been continuously published in print, while its online presence was established almost two decades ago. All its archive is online and it continues to be published both online and in print, in full open access format, without any fees for authors or readers. Currently, we are in the process of moving the entire online archive on the servers of the University of Bucharest Press, its publisher, strengthening thus its digital visibility beyond the current journal website (www.analefspub.eu). For this 25-year anniversary, as its second editor-in-chief, I reflect on the development of the journal and its future in an increasingly crowded market of academic publishing, under the various pressures, ranging from shifting institutional and professional standards to fraudulent practices and AI use. The analysis includes a bibliographical and biographical assessment of all published texts in all its volumes so far, as well as an evaluation of the editorial challenges we have encountered, in the larger context of global debates on the study of political science as a discipline.
Keywords: academic journal, bibliographic analysis, political science as a discipline, sociology of scientific disciplines, history of professional communities
Luciana Alexandra GHICA (ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7973-7296) is associate professor within the Department of Comparative Governance and European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, where she also acts as founding director of the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC). She studied political science and international relations at the University of Bucharest, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and University of Oxford (UK). She specializes in the analysis of international cooperation processes, including international cooperation for development, with a focus on the institutional and discursive impact of democratization and democratic values on foreign policy and international politics. She edited the first Romanian encyclopaedia of the European Union (three editions), co-edited the first Romanian handbook of security studies, and authored a monograph on the relations between Romania and the European Union, as well as several studies on foreign policy, international cooperation, and the dynamics of political science as a discipline. During the last decade she also served as elected member of the board for the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA) and the Research Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a Discipline) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). luciana.ghica@unibuc.ro
GHICA, Luciana Alexandra. 2023. Is It Worth Publishing a Scientific Journal of Political Science? The first 25 years of the 'Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science Series'. Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series] XXV (1): Online first. https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-CJGC2799
DECLARATION OF CONFLICTING INTERESTS
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
FUNDING
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article
© This is an open access journal that operates under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 License. All published items are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as the source is properly cited.