Citation
Baruch, Y. (2004), "Editorial", Career Development International, Vol. 9 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/cdi.2004.13709baa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Editorial
I was delighted to be invited to take on the Editorship of Career Development International.
CDI is committed to publishing articles that will have a high impact on the areas both of career and of development in organizations. The journal is open to innovative perspectives and writing, but is dedicated to the academic cause. Indeed CDI is shifting from a dual purpose (academic and practitioners journal) into becoming a rigorous academic journal.
This shift is manifested in a clear improvement of quality of submissions. It is also accompanied by external features, such as the new quarto housestyle and the new journal front cover. On the inside you will notice a refreshed Editorial Advisory Board. We have a number of distinguished scholars on our Board, many of them coming from top universities, and representing a number of countries and continents.
Since my appointment in September 2003, the statistics are very encouraging: the average turnover for manuscripts, from submission to final decision (i.e. accept with minor or major revision, or reject) is less than a month. That we are able to achieve this turnaround time is due both to dedicated reviewers and to moving to an e-mail-based submission and review process. The rejection rate for the journal is just over 60 percent, which reflects a highly selective process, backed up by a double-blind review process. CDI was rated “B” on the Vienna list, and my aim is to upgrade the Journal yet further.
Submissions indeed reflect the journal’s international authorship – 40 percent from the USA, and the rest divided about equally between Europe, the UK, Far East, Australia, and others. Many of the submissions come from members of the Academy of Management (in particular from the Careers Division).
We are looking for more submissions, but have no intention of compromising on quality. We shall also need more reviewers in the future, so do volunteer. At this stage we have two reviewers for each manuscript, and I hope to increase it to three.
I look forward to receiving your future submissions and ideas for CDI.
Yehuda Baruch