Comments on: Three tips to increase your chances of pleasing a journal editor

By: Jonathan Millet

Jonathan Millet — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:01:22 +0000

“Baffles me too… how is subscribing via email showing more commitment?

Doing it for this one sensitive piece might make sense: it won’t be indexed by the search engines.

Great feed otherwise, hope you’ll reconsider”

Same here. still believe RSS is the best thing if you want to distribute your recent post or blog updates.

By: Lilly Bliske

Lilly Bliske — Wed, 04 May 2011 03:05:54 +0000

This is worth saving, Jose. The commenters above must be very acquainted with the substance of the post not to mention how pithy and useful this is for a broad range of writers.

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By: Marco Bakera

Marco Bakera — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:40:00 +0000

I already reviewed some journal articles and totally agree with you concerning the second point you mentioned. I like to feel the passion of the authors more than reading technical details about their implementation or proofs.

By: Jose Marichal

Jose Marichal — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:04:29 +0000

Thanks for the post. As someone who is sitting on more revise and resubmits than he should, it’s encouraging to know that at least one journal editor does not view this as the ultimate cardinal sin.

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Uncommon Priors » Time for another big roundup. — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:43:19 +0000

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By: Jose

Jose — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:02:21 +0000

I can see now that this was an error: RSS subscribers feel alienated. So I guess the only way out is to add the content to the post anyway. I hope the editors of the journals around the world don’t get lots of unwanted resubmissions. This is, after all, a small world.

I have edited the original post to reflect this.

By: james

james — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:51:24 +0000

Let’s just call a spade a spade, shall we? If the editor gave you the tips in what you felt were a confidential situation, then they are privileged information and they shouldn’t be distributed by web, email, RSS or carrier pigeon. End of story. But since you, I think rightly, felt that the AP.com audience would be interested, then just ask for his/her permission and post as normal.

I contribute to AP.com because, as you pointed out, there’s a committed and active community in academic productivity issues. But it’s worth remembering that how these members choose to interact with the community is up to them. Surely one of the meta-rules of productivity is that no one system will work for everyone? We should respect that and make the content as flexibly available as possible.

By: asdf

asdf — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:36:48 +0000

Baffles me too… how is subscribing via email showing more commitment?

Doing it for this one sensitive piece might make sense: it won’t be indexed by the search engines.

Great feed otherwise, hope you’ll reconsider