Editorial REPE Vol. I 2020, Issue 3
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Editorial REPE Vol. I 2020, Issue 3 Wolfram Elsner 1 Accepted: 14 October 2020 / Published online: 8 May 2020 # The Author(s) 2020
Dear Reader, The present issue 3 of the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy (REPE) completes the first REPE year. We had two inaugural issues last May and September with invited papers, as you may know. The few “altmetrics” (about clicks, views, downloads, etc.) that are available so far have been encouraging. A good start indeed. We continue with this issue, and with the next one (1-2021), with two excellent special issues, born out of, but not at all limited to EAEPE research areas. The substantial intros will be left here to the guest-editor teams. It will be the long-run policy of the editorial team to have one or two special issues per three issues per year. And for the first couple of years, REPE will in fact only have three issues per year, which however will be increased to four, when the journal will be more established. Special issues have several pros, namely in the beginning of our new journal: Among them, first, they are generally more intensely recognized, read, and cited, as we know from the general metrics across a wide range of journals and publishers. Second, they mobilize the potential of entire scholarly fields and networks, and research areas, both within and beyond EAEPE. Third, they help bringing in mid-career scholars, and sometimes even young scholars, who would otherwise shy away from submitting their independent papers to a journal that still has no ranking nor officially documented impact factor. So, special issues will be a pillar and method of choice of our editorial policy. More special issues, all guest-edited, some of them launched even through members of the editorial team, are in our planning pipeline and will be invited further on. But as always, “the dose makes the poison” as early toxicologist Paracelsus said, and we may not overtax with SIs. The readers and potential contributors, mainly outside EAEPE, and outside Europe, may not get the impression that “REPE is a closed shop, you can get into it only through an SI, so don’t even try to submit your independent paper.” The contrary will be the case: Independent papers are strongly invited (subject to our Aims&Scope, as always). And the next-but-one issue, 2-2021, appearing in June 2021, will be our first “regular” issue compiled from independent submissions. As said, we do expect young scholars to be reluctant to submit in the near
* Wolfram Elsner welsner@uni–bremen.de
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University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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future. So established and senior scholars, among them first-class names, will provide a critical mass of independent papers in the first two, three years. Younger scholars are nevertheless always strongly invited to submit! Our policy with regular issues will be, however, to try to compile thematically somewhat coherent issues, which we hope will also have some advantage over an unsorted “hawker’s tray,” in t
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