The journal Big Data & Society (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/bds) is calling for expressions of interest in serving as an Assistant Editor (AE) for a term of 1 to 2 years. The goal of the journal's AEs program is providing opportunities for early stage scholars (most often Ph.D. students) to network and gain experience in the peer-review journal publishing process. Assistant editors will have opportunities to discuss research topics with journal editors and co-editors, will be invited to review for the journal, contribute to promoting the journal (via Twitter) and to other projects as they arise. Unfortunately the AE position does not come with any monetary stipend.
To express interest in becoming an Assistant Editor, please fill out the for available at https://forms.gle/CSR9d577UHpaL9N26 by September 30, 2022. If you have questions you can contact the Managing Editor of the journal, Dr. Matthew Zook (zook@uky.edu).You can also find more information about the editorial team and latest papers at the Journal's blog https://bigdatasoc.blogspot.
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Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing, and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies. The Journal's key purpose is to provide a space for connecting debates about the emerging field of Big Data practices and how they are reconfiguring academic, social, industry, business and governmental relations, expertise, methods, concepts and knowledge.
Big Data & Society has an Impact Factor of 8.731 according to the Journal Citation Reports by Web of Science Group, 2021. The 5-Year Impact Factor of the journal is 10.512. The journal is now ranked as the highest journal out of 110 in the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary domain of the multidisciplinary Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
