Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Our first issue, JPHE, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019), was published five years ago.Already over a year ago we decided to mark the occasion with an anniversary issue.This has made me (Petra Angervall) think.When does a journal start to 'exist'?You could say that it is appropriate to celebrate five years of publication, but the question remains: what is the starting point of a journal?Is it when someone hatches the idea, the team is gathered for the first time, or the website is set up?As one of the original members, I could just as well say that we are celebrating six years of existence.Irrespective of what year we are celebrating, the team would like to take the opportunity to look back and see what we have accomplished.This last year has been fantastic in terms of workflow, numbers of published issues and how we have been able to contribute to the field of higher education research.We published two excellent Special issues and three broad and creative Open issues.We initiated 'New Conversations' on our website to open for a broad dialogue with the full research field.All of this makes me very proud and amazed about what we have and can accomplish.Still, I think we need to remember that when we published our first issue in 2019, we were an editorial team of five members: Melina Aarnikoivu, Kathleen Mahon, Marcus Agnafors, David Hoffman and myself.To get things going we had to share all the necessary work tasks: management, web-administration and layout, editing, copyediting, communication, production, and archiving.We had no funding, but a lot of fun.In retrospect, I should have expressed more gratitude to the group for their good spirits, commitment, and thoroughness in setting the scene for JPHE.Since then, the JPHE editorial team has developed and now consists of 18 members divided into three groups: Management and administration, Copyediting, and Senior Editors (SEs).Our work is still almost entirely free of funding, even though we recurrently apply for scholarships and national funding opportunities.A small part of the work I do, as for many of the SEs, is carved out of what is called institutional 'research time'.Even so, all of us constantly need to put in extra hours each week to keep the journal alive.Although this is stressful and sometimes frustrating, we enjoy our work and feel that our mission is important.If necessary, we get good support from our Editorial Board members.For this new issue, JPHE, Vol. 6 No. 5 (2024), we have selected seven papers that we think illustrate the core of the journal.We have also asked three of JPHE's
DOI: 10.47989/kpdc658
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407723045