TY - JOUR T1 - Issues About Marketing Journals’ Special Issues JO - Journal of Emerging Trends in Marketing and Management VL - I IS - 1 SP - 160 EP - 170 PY - 2022 DA - 2023/01/25 PB - The Bucharest University of Economic Studies Publishing House PP - Bucharest, Romania T2 - AU - Moussa, Salim SN - 2537-5865 DO - UR - http://www.etimm.ase.ro/RePEc/aes/jetimm/2022/ETIMM_V01_2022_45.pdf KW - Special issues KW - marketing journals KW - issues KW - publishing ethics AB - A special issue (SI) of an academic journal is a collection of articles on a specific research topic or theme, guest-edited by experts in the field. These SIs are becoming increasingly popular among marketing journals. Surprisingly, this group includes the discipline’s top-tier and top journals. But, what are the consequences of the profusion of SIs, particularly in marketing’s most prestigious/reputable journals? What are the disadvantages of SIs’ new incursion, and sometimes even dominance? In this paper, the author investigates the SIs published over the last five years (i.e., 2018-2022) in marketing’s top and top-tier journals. The aim of doing so is to draw attention to SI-related issues such as space allocation, intellect left to rot, command economy of ideas, over-fragmentation/specialization of marketing, and publication ethics. ER -