Special issues

Special issue information

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Global Marketing (JGM) encourages the publication of high-quality special issues addressing timely research areas that interest JGM readers. JGM is committed to publishing multiple special issues annually, with 5-6 papers for each issue.

The following policies and guidelines offer a detailed outline to help facilitate the process for scholars interested in proposing and guest editing special issues for JGM.

Potential guest editor(s) should prepare a concise (3-5 page) proposal for a special issue and submit it to one of the Associate Editors, Special Issues, depending on your geographic location (please see details below), with a copy to EIC Ajay Manrai, as an email attachment at [email protected]. The Associate Editors are here to assist you throughout the process. If there are several guest editors, one will act as the corresponding editor. Senior members of the Editorial Board will review the proposal. Based on these reviews, the EIC will provide the corresponding guest editor with feedback and a decision.

For Africa, Americas, and Oceania: Senior Associate Editor Tarek Mady at [email protected]

For Asia: Associate Editor Aditya Billore at [email protected]

For Europe: Associate Editor Mahabubur Rahman at [email protected]

At a minimum, the proposal should include the following:

Information on the proposed topic/theme, including:

• A tentative title for the proposed special issue.
• The overall theme and objectives of the special issue, as well as relevant topics and subtopics to be included.
• A brief discussion (300 words) about the relevance and importance of the proposed special issue considering the Aims and Scope of JGM.
  Information on the JGM’s Aims and Scope can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wglo20/current
• A list of potential scholars in the field (beyond guest editors’ school, university, and/or conference) who would be attracted to contribute to the proposed special issue.
  Please note that special issues are open to the public and cannot be restricted to the scholars of one college, school, university, conference, or country.

Information on guest editors, including:

• The names and affiliations of the guest editor(s).
• CVs of the guest editor(s).
• A short biographical note (200 words for each guest editor) highlighting past research contributions, publications, and previous editorial activities.
• At the minimum, one of the guest editors must have a strong reputation in the marketing field and at least 8-10k Google citations

Information on project completion, including:

• A brief timeline outlining the intended plan for developing and completing the special issue. This should include important dates such as when the Call for Papers would be sent out, the manuscript submission deadline, dates for final recommendations for acceptance/ rejection to the EIC, and the approximate date for issue publication.

Review and accepting papers:

• If a special issue is approved, guest editor(s) must keep close contact with the EIC during development.
• It is the guest editors' role to ensure that all manuscripts submitted conform to the editorial and publication policies of JGM and T&F.
  Each manuscript submitted must be original and must not have been published in its current form elsewhere.
• Guest editor(s) must select reviewers, solicit evaluations for the various submissions, and promptly keep authors informed of the status of manuscripts.
• Upon receiving referee reports, the guest editors will make an initial decision, and if necessary (i.e., revise and resubmit), the paper will be sent out for revision again. Guest editors will either “reject” a paper or offer an “accept” recommendation to EIC. The final decision to “accept” will rest with the EIC, who will inform the authors of the paper's final “accept” decision.