TY - GEN AU - Polese, Abel TI - The SCOPUS diaries and the (il)logics of academic survival: a short guide to design your own strategy and survive bibliometrics, conferences, and unreal expectations in academia SN - 9783838211992 U1 - 378.12 PY - 2018/// CY - Stuttgart PB - ibidem KW - college teachers vocational guidance N1 - Foreword: On what criteria build, and develop, an academic career and one's reputation, and how this book was conceived Writing, creating, procrastinating, submitting Publishing, negotiating, advertising, consolidating Growing: ascending, expanding, multiplying Shining: Stand out, getting visible, fame in academia Shining II: Getting even more famous "Niching," balancing, positioning Networking, talking, traveling, moving around Funding, spending, earning and other money issues N2 - Now that academics are required to be teachers, managers, media catalyzers, analysts, fundraisers, and social media animals: How do you strike a good balance between what is expected from you and what you want to do? What conferences to attend? How to find the money to go there? Is it worth it to act as a peer reviewer? What publishers are best to target? Is publishing a chapter in an edited book worth the work? This book is intended to help scholars to design and think strategically about their own career. Beginning with "How to get published in good journals," it explores a number of questions that most academics encounter at various stages of their careers ER -