Can guest-edited special issues have their own section in an academic resume? Since 18 October 2026 they can, in Axe Builder. Axe Builder, our resume builder for researchers, turns an ORCID iD into an academic resume with citations, h-index, journal quartiles and Crossref data already in place, and it now carries a fifth publication type, the edited volume, printed under its own heading, Edited Volumes & Special Issues.
The change began with a candidate. On 16 October a professor of journalism with twenty-five years in the field pointed out that his nine guest-edited special journal issues were printing under “Other,” next to book reviews and working papers, and he was right to object. In the humanities and the social sciences, a guest editor sets the theme of an issue, takes the papers through peer review and answers for the scholarly quality of the whole, so an edited special issue stands on a par with an edited book. Two days after his note, the section shipped.
Where do guest-edited special issues go on a CV?
They go in their own section, after Books, with the journal as the venue and the volume and issue beside it, which is how a hiring panel in the humanities expects to read them and how Axe Builder now prints them. One omission is deliberate: the host journal’s quartile and impact factor stay with the articles published in it. A panel checks exactly this, and a resume that claimed a journal’s metrics for an issue the candidate edited would fail the check, so Axe Builder does not make the claim.
Do edited special issues count as publications?
They count as editorial output, which a panel reads differently from an authored article, and that difference is why they need a heading of their own instead of a line among “Other.” Imports recognise the type on their own: a record that arrives from Crossref as an edited book or a journal issue, or from ORCID as an edited book, lands in the new section automatically, and a type the author has set by hand is never overwritten.
How to list a guest editorship in Axe Builder
A researcher who imports an ORCID iD now finds the edited issues filed in the new section automatically. An issue that arrived before this change and still sits under “Other” moves when its type is changed to Edited volume in the sidebar, and the section then appears, numbered, in the right place for the field. The change takes a minute, Axe Builder is free to start, and the resume it produces is the one we put in front of university hiring panels every week.