Thank you for the question.
The first of the two journals I edit is called Arborescences. Its home base is the French Studies Department at the University of Toronto. In fact, I co-edit it with a professor at the university. It is a journal of French-language literary, linguistic and pedagogical studies that focuses specifically on French and francophone studies. Most of the articles in the journal are in French and each issue has a theme.
At this time, we have the capacity to publish only one issue a year. Editing, managing and operating a scientific journal requires volunteer work on the part of researchers. They are the people who receive the papers, evaluate the submissions, make recommendations, and handle the entire publication process. It is an extremely big job. As long as that research is not valued, fewer people are going to volunteer to do the work.
The second journal I co-edit is theCanadian Journal of Linguistics, a bilingual publication of the Canadian Linguistic Association. That journal focuses on the scientific study of languages. We publish four issues a year. There are four co-editors, two women and two men, and one assistant...