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Adjunct Advice » Blog Archive » Three Tips to Please a Journal Editor — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:59:58 +0000

[...] Academic Productivity blog has a useful post on how to increase your chances of pleasing a journal [...]

By: linky.

linky. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:02:30 +0000

[...] Academic Productivity » Three tips to increase your chances of pleasing a journal editor [...]

By: Marco Bakera

Marco Bakera — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:40:00 +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.

By: Uncommon Priors » Time for another big roundup.

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

[...] post with tips on pleasing journal editors, plus some really bizarre silliness about e-mail subscriptions versus RSS [...]

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

By: Michael Widner

Michael Widner — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:36:18 +0000

I would suggest that perhaps one of the reasons very few people subscribe to your site via email is because that’s simply an outmoded way of getting updates, not any indication of how interested people are in the content or how regularly they read it.

While I would certainly love to hear the tips, I’m not going to subscribe via email just to get them. That’s why RSS was invented. My email filters are complex enough as it is. Plus, there’s no guarantee that sending something via email makes people more likely to read it. Surely you’ve heard of people declaring “email bankruptcy” because they don’t, can’t, or won’t read every email they get.

I like your site and appreciate the many tips you provide, but this decision seems like a mistake based on a misunderstanding of the purposes of the two technologies.

By: T

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:35:11 +0000

I suscribed (because I wonder what the tips are about). But this method kind of… sucks. RSS are great, what are you doing with email?