{"id":3177,"date":"2026-06-01T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:45:33","slug":"professors-xu-and-mclaughlin-appointed-as-editors-of-leading-interdisciplinary-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/2026\/06\/01\/professors-xu-and-mclaughlin-appointed-as-editors-of-leading-interdisciplinary-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors Xu and McLaughlin appointed as editors of leading interdisciplinary journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professors Ping Xu and Peter McLaughlin have been appointed to editorial roles with Policy &amp; Internet (P&amp;I), a leading interdisciplinary journal examining the societal implications of digital technologies and digital governance. Professor Xu serves as the journal\u2019s U.S. Regional Editor, and Professor McLaughlin serves an Academic Editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Policy &amp; Internet\u00a0<\/em>is one of the leading international journals at the intersection of public policy, governance, digital technologies, and society. Published by Wiley on behalf of the Policy Studies Organization, the journal is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, and other major international databases. Ranked as an SSCI Q1 journal with an impact factor of approximately 3.6 and a five-year impact factor of 4.7, <em>Policy &amp; Internet<\/em> has become a premier outlet for scholarship on AI governance, digital government, platform regulation, misinformation, privacy, and the societal implications of emerging technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These editorial appointments reflect the department\u2019s ongoing engagement in the scholarly infrastructure of the field and its contributions to shaping research in digital governance and public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out recent research published by <em>Policy &amp; Internet<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/19442866\">https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/19442866<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors Ping Xu and Peter McLaughlin have been appointed to editorial roles with Policy &amp; Internet (P&amp;I)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":3184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}