Getting Published: Some Insights and Advice for International Scholars

VMU Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute invites researchers to a workshop on best practices and tips for getting published in scientific journals.

• Duration of the workshop – 1,5 hours (2 academic hours).
• Date: April 29, 2025, 4 PM (Vilnius time).
• Language – English.
• Format – online workshop via MS Teams.
• Please register for the workshop here. Registered participants will receive the MS Teams link to the workshop via the email address they used to register.
• Trainers: Dr. Eran Vigoda-Gadot, the University of Haifa, Israel; Dr. Gregg G. Van Ryzin, School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark, the USA.

What to expect?

Getting your research published is becoming more challenging as a result of increased competition, more rigorous methods, and rapid technological changes. The goal of this webinar is to share with participants some insights and best practices regarding how to enhance their chances of publishing their work in peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences.

Topics include:

• targeting appropriate journals;
• framing your research for an international audience;
• writing effectively, handling methodological limitations;
• responding appropriately to reviewers and editors;
• and maximising the impact of published works.

The webinar aims to equip participants with skills and strategies that can help them succeed in publishing their research in peer-reviewed journals and make useful contributions to the literature in their disciplines.

The seminar is aimed primarily at doctoral students and early-career researchers but may be relevant to more senior scholars as well, especially those aiming to publish in international journals.

About trainers

Dr. Gregg G. Van Ryzin is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark (USA), where he is also director of the doctoral program. His research focuses on various behavioral aspects of public policy and administration, including subjective evaluations of government performance, trust of institutions, coproduction, and the symbolic effects of representative bureaucracy. He is currently an editor of the International Public Management Journal, and he was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration. Dr. Van Ryzin is an author (with Dahila Remler) of Research Methods in Practice (SAGE) and editor (with Oliver James and Sebastian Jilke) of Experiments in Public Management Research (Cambridge). He is a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA).

Dr. Eran Vigoda-Gadot is a professor of Public Administration and Management at the Division of Public Administration and Policy, School of Political Science, The University of Haifa, Israel. He is the former Dean of the Herta and Paul Amir Faculty of Social Sciences (2016-2020) and former Head of the School of Political Science (2008-2013). Founder of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP) and the founder of the Public Organizations and Public Policy Interdisciplinary behavioral Lab (POP-I Lab). His interest fields are Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management in Public Administration; Organizational Politics; Political Behavior and Citizens’ Role in Governance; Trust in Government; Public Administration and Government Performance in Times of Emergency and Crises; Public Sector Reforms and Performance; Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB); New Public Management (NPM); Democracy & Bureaucracy; Engagement and Emotions in Public Service; Collaboration and Innovation in Public Administration; Resilience and Wellbeing in times of Emergency. Prof. Vigoda-Gadot was recently included in a global study by Stanford University (Ioannidis, 2024*; also previously published in Plos Biology, 2019-23), at the top 2% of scientists worldwide, ranked 75 out of more than 16000 in political science and public administration.

The training will be moderated by dr. Gintarė Pocė, Head of project activities of the V. Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute.

For more information about the workshop, please send an email to vki[et]vdu.lt.

This workshop is one of the activities of the project “Strengthening of R&D activities of the Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Institute of Social and Humanities Sciences (SOCMTEP)”. The project is financed by the Lithuanian Science Council and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of the Republic of Lithuania, contract no. S-A-UEI-23-13 (12/27/2023). Funding program – “University Excellence Initiative” (No. V-940).