CFP -- Journal of Research Practice

A new on-line journal located at

http://jrp.icaap.org/

Editors:

DP Dash
Xavier Institute of Management
Bhubaneswar
INDIA

HR Ponce
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Facultad de Administracion y Economia
Santiago
CHILE

The Web site is designed and maintained by:

International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP)
Edmonton Learning Center
Athabasca University
Edmonton
Alberta T5J 3E4
CANADA


AIMS AND SCOPE

The Journal of Research Practice (JRP) seeks to develop our
understanding of research as a type of practice, so as to extend and
enhance that practice in the future. The Journal aims to highlight
the dynamics of research practice, as it unfolds in the life of a
researcher, in the growth and decline of a field, and in relation to
a changing social and institutional environment. The Journal welcomes
deliberation on the basic issues and challenges encountered by
researchers in any specific domain. The Journal aims to explore why
and how different activities, criteria, methods, and languages become
part of research practice in any domain. This is expected to trigger
inter-disciplinary dialogue, mutual learning, facilitate research
education, and promote innovations in different fields.

The Journal's scope is not defined in terms of academic disciplines.
It cuts across disciplines and fields by drawing out the living
dimensions of research unfolding through history, culture, research
communities, professions, and of course the lives of individual
researchers. The Journal seeks to study the evolving patterns of
thinking and practice that underlie open inquiry in any domain. The
scope also includes topics such as research training, research
design, research utilisation, research policy, and innovative forms
of research. The Journal targets all researchers, scholars,
research-inclined professionals, and research students, irrespective
of their disciplinary background. It seeks to attract reflective
articles on the dynamics and challenges of research practice in
context, as well as articles presenting experiences and learning from
research carried out in an innovative way.

In order to promote wider participation in these deliberations, JRP
will be published electronically in the open-access mode.

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts in English, clearly related to the Journal's editorial
focus, are sought in the following four categories: (i) Main Article
(about 6000 words), (ii) Research Design (about 3000 words), (iii)
Provocative Idea (about 1500 words), and (iv) Review of published
material (about 1500 words).

Main articles may relate to a general topic concerning research
practice (e.g., research contexts, research methods, etc.) or focus
on a specific research domain. If it is the latter, then special care
needs to be exercised to tailor the article to focus on the generic
challenges of doing research in that domain and the specific
innovations developed. The language of the articles should be
sensitive towards a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, and
multi-cultural readership. Each main article should make a
contribution to our understanding of research practice, so as to keep
open the possibility of extending and enhancing that practice in the
future.

The Research Design section will carry research proposals, making
explicit the context, available choices, and the actual research
design being proposed. Manuscripts under this category should focus
mainly on the methodological difficulties and justification of the
choices, so that the work may be of interest to researchers in widely
different research areas. It may also focus on the implications of
using specific theoretical frameworks to approach the problem of
research design. This section can also carry accounts of unfinished
research, or research that ran into unexpected hurdles and could not
progress. Among others, research students are also encouraged to
contribute to this section.

The Provocative Idea section is meant for faster communication among
researchers in different disciplines, who are looking for fresh
ideas, new perspectives, and bold conjectures relating to some of the
challenging puzzles of research in their specific domains.
Contributions in this section may also make innovative suggestions
concerning some generic aspect of research practice, cutting across
disciplines and domains, e.g., research training or research
utilisation.

The journal welcomes reviews of books, journal issues, Web sites,
films, and other forms of published material that address some aspect
of research practice. Reviewers should make an attempt to connect
with the journal's editorial focus.

All manuscripts submitted to the journal (except invited
contributions and reviews) will be subjected to a process of
double-blind review. Please consult the detailed Guidelines before
submitting your manuscript.

Editors, Journal of Research Practice