Achilleas Kostoulas

Applied Linguistics & Language Teacher Education

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  • The Lingua controversy

    The Lingua controversy

    You have probably read about the mass resignation of all the editorial board and the reviewers of Lingua, a prestigious journal published by Elsevier [in November 2015]. For those of you who may have missed it, here are some highlights. What happened? Last July, the editors of Lingua asked Elsevier to renegotiate the way the journal worked.…

  • Fake papers: what do they reveal about the academe?

    Fake papers: what do they reveal about the academe?

    I think it’s fair to say that 2013 was a year that put the peer-review process to the test: In addition to the much-discussed ‘sting’ operation that was published in Science, in the past year we read about several cases in which hoax papers managed to find a home in academic journals. Some papers were…