Professor Gui Liberali will be associate editor for Marketing Science, the premier outlet for research in quantitative marketing and related fields. Prof. Liberali’s tasks as an associate editor include to provide a clear road ahead for the authors, given the manuscript and reviewers’ reports. He will also frequently be involved in the choice of reviewers, and make sure the required rigour, quality and relevance standards are met when making his recommendations. The appointment is for three years, starting in January 2025.
A top team of editors
Prof. Liberali will be supporting Marketing Science’s editor-in-chief Professor Puneet Manchanda (University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business) and a team of senior editors from top business schools: Professor Tat Chan (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis), Professor Vrinda Kadiyali (Cornell SC Johnson College of Business), Professor Jiwoong Shin (Yale School of Management), Professor Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan School of Management), and Professor Hema Yoganarasimhan (Foster School of Business, University of Washington). There are 34 associate editors on the team, which Professor Gui Liberali will be part of.
“Given our research-oriented focus, both RSM’s and the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) value and encourage editorial leadership. It’s an honour to be part of the editorial team of a journal like Marketing Science. In a way, it’s an opportunity to make a positive impact to the field, and to participate in its development,” says Prof. Liberali.
International Journal of Research in Marketing
Dr Anne Kathrin Klesse will be an area editor for the International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM). She says IJRM is willing to take risks, publish potentially disruptive papers, and be open to papers even if they do not fit in specific templates. Dr Klesse recently published a paper in IJRM herself on human-GenAI collaborations. As area editor IJRM, she will focus on papers related to consumer behaviour for which she’ll work closely together with Professor Sharon Ng from Nanyang Business School in Singapore.
“Given my research interests on consumer-technology interactions, I expect to receive many papers in this area, such as work investigating consumer reactions to AI or other emerging technologies,” says Dr Klesse. “I’m committed to offering a coherent summary of the most relevant reviewer comments, point out the strengths and shortcomings of the manuscript in the current form, and then offer clear action points on what to prioritise in the revision to improve the manuscript and shape it in a way that aligns with IJRM’s standards and objectives for the work it wants to publish.”
Dr Klesse has been a reviewer for IJRM for several years and received the IJRM best reviewer award in 2023. “Becoming an area editor will allow me to be fundamental in shaping and further improving the excellent work that gets submitted to IJRM. I look forward to offering authors clear guidelines on how to shape their papers into publishable manuscripts at IJRM that will create interest from a diverse readership because they address timely, societally and practically relevant research questions.”
Psychological Science
Dr Gabriele Paolacci will be handling submissions dealing with judgment and decision-making for Psychological Science, which publishes papers across the entire spectrum in the psychological sciences. The journal leads by example in terms of methodological rigour – pushing for open science and adopting measures in the review process to make sure that findings are reproducible and replicable. It is also read by scientists outside of the psychology field because it publishes research that is broadly relevant.
“Psychological Science shapes behavioural science as we see it across journals in different fields, and as we see it applied by policy makers and practitioners more broadly. I look forward to contributing to improve our field,” says Dr Paolacci.
He adds: “Psychology is the foundation for a lot of work that is being conducted at RSM, for example in marketing and organisational behavior. Being represented in the editorial team of this flagship empirical journal in psychology is a sign that we at RSM conduct work which, while aiming at producing direct positive impact in the world, is also foundational and theoretically deep.”
Dr Dan Schley was recently appointed as associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Research. Dr Bram Van den Berg, also from RSM’s department of Marketing Management, is also an associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology (since 2020), and for the International Journal of Research in Marketing (since 2021).