Geography society journals and power dynamics

GEOIDIOT and GEOSAGE discusses...
What do you think is the main role of society journals?
The ethical role is to fairly encourage and disseminate high-quality academic scholarship. But...
It could be that some journals use the outlet to reward conformance and membership. Such a reward system includes and excludes to create a power group. It's the typical old boys and girls club situation!
I just looked at the society journal The Canadian Geographer. There were 6 chief editor changes in the last 20 years... None of those 6 chief editors were from Eastern Canada universities. Editorial power concentrates in the English west.
Did this Canadian journal situation occur naturally you think?
Understanding the closure of The Operational Geographer publication in the 1990's is a place to start!
Notes:
In the last 20 years, The Canadian Geographer had chief editor changes in the following years: 2010, 2008, 2006, 2002, 1999, 1993.

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When titles are nearly identical

GEOSAGE completes a reading...
So, I was forced to read the first viewpoint 2012, 56(4) of The Canadian Geographer (CG) journal...
... and the title is eerily similar to material not cited.
The CG title is "All we really needed to know about tenure-track faculty positions we did not learn in graduate school". The 2011 ACS title is: "Nearly everything I needed to know to be a successful faculty member, I didn't learn in graduate school".
Such a coincidence can mean many things!
Someone dropped the ball, not the new year's ball.... Makes one wonder many other things!
And in the CG article one author referred to the other as a "partner in crime".
Freudian psychologists can have a field day with such a statement and situation!
Notes:
Crooks, V.A. and Castleden, H. (2012). The Canadian Geographer, Viewpoint, 56(4), p.393-397.
Dorhout, P. (2011). American Chemical Society, presentation, Fall 2011 National meeting and expo.

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The Canadian Geographer storybook

GEONOVICE meets GEOSAGE...
Did you read The Canadian Geographer journal recently?
No! ... I only have a fixed amount of time for entertainment!
Some of the paper titles and the contents read like a child's storybook
Well! It's ranked at the bottom at 54 out of 73 with a low impact factor of 0.56!
Who finances this journal?
I suspect it's Wiley-Blackwell and SSHRC!
Are these funders throwing resources down a rabbit hole?
Well, you decide!
Notes:
The Canadian Geographer - Journal of the CAG society.
SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Wiley-Blackwell - Academic publisher.

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The problem with email listserves of associations

GEOSAGE sits down to work... I will promote Geography using cartoons and comics.
Yay! I will start with issue 2012 vol1 no1
Comic strip emailed to CAGLIST...
Oh no! The CAGLIST rejected my post again. ... Because I am not a member!!
GEOSAGE thinks deeply... Are CAGLIST members being fed a controlled information diet?
Maybe I should change my focus from promotion to critique!
I guess that's how negative experiences change one's focus!
Notes:
CAG - Canadian Association of Geographers.
CAGLIST - Official email listserve of the CAG.

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