This presentation explores research directions surrounding academic publishing in EFL and Applied Linguistics. It puts forward the idea that research in our field requires a reexamination of perspectives of the journey into academic publication. Much research has focused primarily on how “off-networked” (Swales, 1996), multilingual scholars pursuing English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) struggle to negotiate the norms of publication in center journals (Flowerdew, 2007). Equally important to an understanding of this potential stigmatization is research how journal staff interact through peer review with both Anglophone and multilingual authors writing from non-center contexts (Adamson, 2012; Muller & Adamson, 2013). This recalibration of understanding ERPP also considers the wider trends of the de-centering of academic writing norms towards those accepted in semi-periphery and periphery academic contexts (Lillis, 2012; Bennett, 2014), the migration of scholars for study and work, the increase in the number and variety of journals at local and international levels, and the pressures to publish for career advancement for “contingent” and “non-contingent” faculty (Gaillet & Guglielmo, 2014). These emerging complexities in publication practice mean that discussion of ERPP must go beyond traditional issues of ethnicity and journal prestige.