Open seminars by Martin Kreidl

Dates and places

A guide to the publication process
17 Februrary 2025 (Monday) 16:00-18:00
ELTE TáTK (1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Room 7.18-21. on the 7th floor)

A guide to the publication process
18 February 2025 (Tuesday) 10:00-13:15 (with a coffee break between 11:30 and 12:00)
ELTE TáTK (1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Room 7.18-21. on the 7th floor)

A guide to the publication process
19 February (Wednesday), 10:00-13:15 (with a coffee break between 11:30 and 12:00)
ELTE TáTK (1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Room 7.18-21. on the 7th floor)

About the Seminar

Target group: graduate students (MA and PhD level) in the social sciences
Instructor: Martin Kreidl (Masaryk University)

Good publications are the centerpiece of a successful academic career. This workshop will guide graduate students trough various stages of the publication process so that they can navigate it with greater confidence and efficiency. We will seek, among other things, answers to the following questions:

a. When should I start thinking about publishing my research?
b. What is a good journal/publisher?
c. How to choose the right journal for my research?
d. How does the review process work?
e. How to prepare the manuscript for submission?
f. How to communicate with editors?
g. How to respond to reviews and how to write a good cover letter?
h. How to promote my research before and after publication?

To provide context, we will also discuss the nature and recent developments in the broader academic landscape. This will include discussions of the growing publication strain and some of its consequences such as the rise of predatory journals and publishers. We will also discuss some of the more positive recent developments, including data-sharing and the amplification of the open-science movement.

About the instructor

Martin Kreidl is a social demographer investigating family formation/dissolution as well as intergenerational exchange from a social stratification perspective, typically using internationally comparable survey data such as the GGS or SHARE. However, he has also worked with comparative-historical and biographical methods.

He obtained his PhD (sociology) from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005. He is affiliated with the Masaryk University (CZ), where he also functions as the national coordinator of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). In the past, he has worked at several academic research institutes and research universities in several countries, including the United States, Germany, and Czechia.

His work has appeared in several journals in the fields of sociology (e.g. European Sociological Review, Research on Social Stratification and Mobility), population studies/demography (e.g. Demographic Research, Population Review), ageing studies/social gerontology (e.g. European Journal of Ageing). He has also published in several interdisciplinary outlets such as Social Justice Research, Advances in Life Course Research, or Journal of Sex Research. He has worked for a similarly diverse set of journals and funding bodies as a reviewer.