This edited book focuses on the certifiers of scientific knowledge, bringing together experts in a variety of areas in Applied Linguistics to address the complex topic of editing and reviewing in writing for scholarly publication.

Chapter 1. Preface (Ken Hyland).- Chapter 2. Different Faces of Gatekeeping and Gatekeepers (Pejman Habibie & Anna Kristina Hultgren).- Part I: Identities, Positions, Beliefs.- Chapter 3.  Gate-keeping and Gate-opening: A Narrative of Becoming (Pejman Habibie).- Chapter 4. To the Inner Circle and Back Again: An Autoethnographically-Oriented Narrative of An EAL’s Identity Trajectory and Professional Development from Novice Researcher to Research Auditor (Rosa M. Manchón).- Chapter 5. On Becoming a Bilingual Gatekeeper: The Journey of A Francophone Editor for An English-Language Journal (Guillaume Gentil).- Chapter 6. Opening the Gates for the Next Generation of Scholars (Peter De Costa).- Part II: Discourses, Norms, Values.- Chapter 7. Polycentric Peer Reviewing: Navigating Authority and Expertise (Maria Kuteeva).- Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of An Editor-In-Chief. A Field-Theoretic Autoethnography (Márton Demeter).- Chapter 9. Rhetorical Structure and Types of Comments in My Manuscript Reviews (Ling Shi).- Chapter 10. Certifying Knowledge under Neoliberalism: Global inequality and academic wellbeing (Anna Kristina Hultgren).- Part III : Roles, Relationships, Challenges.- Chapter 11. The Tug-of-War of Journal Editing: Trust and Risk in Focus (Carmen Sancho Guinda).- Chapter 12. On Mediating and Being Mediated: Experiences of Harmony and Contention (Sally Burgess).- Chapter 13. The Journal Editor as Academic Custodian (John Edwards).- Chapter 14. From Birth to Maturity: Reflections on Editors’ Experiences and Challenges in Founding, Managing and Promoting Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research (Karim Sadeghi & Farah Ghaderi).

This edited book focuses on the certifiers of scientific knowledge, bringing together experts in a variety of areas in Applied Linguistics to address the complex topic of editing and reviewing in writing for scholarly publication. Drawing on insider perspectives, the authors bring to the fore personal histories, narratives and first-hand accounts of editors and reviewers and help paint a richer and more nuanced picture of the discourses, practices, experiences, success stories, failures, and challenges that frame and shape trajectories of both Anglophone and English as an additional language (EAL) scholars in adjudicating and accrediting academic output. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, supervisors, writing mentors, early-career scholars and graduate students in a variety of fields. Pejman Habibie is an Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Western University, Canada. He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes and a founding co-editor of book series Routledge Studies in English for Research Publication Purposes.  Anna Kristina Hultgren is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at The Open University, UK. Her research focuses on the interconnectedness of language and ongoing societal, political and economic restructuring.

“Getting published in academic journals is a challenge for those new to the publication process as well as more established scholars. Both groups will find much of interest in this fascinating collection of reflective narratives and autoethnographic accounts by a wide range of journal editors and experienced reviewers who shed light on the often mysterious processes of peer review and editing while taking care to locate these within the pressures of neoliberal academia. This edited volume is an important addition to our growing understanding of the many facets of writing for research purposes.Sue Starfield, School of Education, UNSW Sydney. Australia “This volume sheds a new light on gatekeeping practices in academic settings by looking at the endeavour from the inside, and recalling the personal histories, narratives and autoethnographic accounts of a number of experienced Applied Linguistics researchers around the world – once newcomers but today safegatekeepers after an endurance journey. It is also a reflective exercise on the asymmetries that set up additional hurdles to non-Anglophone gatekeepers in an Anglophone-centred academia, and how these can be successfully cleared and turned into windows of opportunity for career development. The book is innovative in that it extends its scope well beyond the traditional focus of the do’s and don’ts of research writing and peer review practices. The editors have delved into the different dimensions of scholarly publication by exquisitely weaving the personal gatekeeping trajectories of contributing authors as journal editors, book series editors, journal article reviewers, book reviewers, book proposal reviewers, mediators, custodians, referees, mentors, or research auditors. The result is this inspiring compilation that brings together all the individual threads of the research writing experience under the emic perspective. This is not merely a book about gatekeeping and gatekeepers inacademia; it is a book about negotiating discourse, mediating literacies, navigating authority, building up expertise, legitimasing participation, valuing research, and certifying scientific knowledge. Quite simply, it is a thought-provoking book about the game of scholarly publication and the success and failure of its players. With an entertaining prose and a personal focus, each and every chapter will certainly appeal to experienced researchers, who will enjoy and identify themselves with many of the snapshots, anecdotes and stories recounted herein, as well as to early-career researchers, who will be pleased to see that riding the waves of scientific publication is a complex but rewarding adventure”.Ana Bocanegra-Valle, University of Cadiz, Spain

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2023 Shares first-hand histories and narratives of international Anglophone and multilingual editors and reviewers Focuses on an under-researched domain within the field of English for research publication purposes