Over the past few years, China’s One Belt-One Road (OBOR) investment and trade initiative has gained a lot of attention from students, particularly those visiting UCL from China. This seems to be the result of political announcements and media coverage: ‘everyone is talking about it’ is a frequent motivation. This, in itself, is not at […]
Pacific International Politics Conference
The third meeting of the Pacific International Politics Conference (PIPC) was held at Hong Kong University at the beginning of this month. I received the call for papers through the International Political Economy Society (IPES) email list earlier this year, and the combination of attractive location, substantive focus, and friendly (and established) organizers convinced me […]
Journal metrics
I keep a list journals that represent possible outlets for my various research projects. Each year, when Scimago updates their SJR rankings, I go through my list and update my metrics.(1) I like the SJR scores because they reflect the weighted importance of references, rather than a simple citation count. Rather than treating references to […]