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Have You Had a Paper Rejected Lately?
Thanks to Sala-i-Martin, here is evidence that you are in good company.
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B.E. Journals updates, awards, and call for papers
Date sent: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:31:30 -0800 (PST)
From: "Aaron S. Edlin" mm-9074-1965967@bepress.com
Subject: B.E. Journals updates, awards, and call for papers
Aren't you tired of the traditional publishing model? Submit to a
top journal, wait a year or more to hear back, only to be rejected
and have to begin again, and again...! Then, when you are finally
done with all the revisions and resubmissions wherever you end up,
you must wait another year to actually see the paper in print.
Join the revolution and submit to the B.E. Journals (see below for
title list and submission instructions, as well as a special
announcement for junior faculty members). Our peer-review process is
guaranteed to take less than 10 weeks. Our editors are at the top of
their fields. Moreover, you short circuit the sequential submission process
by submitting to four journals at once, as follows:
Frontiers: These journals publish only the absolute top papers,
suitable for publication in a top general interest journal.
Acceptance rate < 1%.
Advances: These journals publish articles suitable for a top field
journal. Acceptance rate 8%.
Contributions: These journals publish articles suitable for
publication in a very good field journal. Acceptance rate 13%.
Topics: These journals publish articles suitable for a good selective
journal. Acceptance rate 31%.
Once you are finally accepted, there is no production queue - we have
rolling publication, one article at a time, each article published when
ready. In addition, more than 25,000 economists are registered to
receive
email notification of newly published articles. All articles are indexed
in EconLit and the Journal of Economic Literature.
To submit your next paper to The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis
& Policy, visit http://www.bepress.com/cgi/submit.cgi?context=bejeap
To submit to The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, visit
http://www.bepress.com/cgi/submit.cgi?context=bejm
To submit to The Journals in Theoretical Economics, visit
http://www.bepress.com/cgi/submit.cgi?context=bejte
***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR JUNIOR FACULTY MEMBERS***
The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce The Kenneth
Arrow Prize in Economics for Junior Faculty. One paper published in
The B.E. Journals by a junior faculty member will be selected annually as
making an outstanding contribution to economics. The recipient of The
Arrow Prize will receive an honorarium, as well as recognition through
an announcement to the Berkeley Electronic Press network of 25,000
economists.
The prize is named in honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, who shared the
Nobel Prize in 1972 for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium
theory and welfare theory. Arrow's groundbreaking work on the
Impossibility Theorem (see Social Choice and Individual Values, 1951)
illustrates the important contributions young scholars can make to the
field. See http://www.bepress.com/press.html for additional details.
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A memorable communication...
With kind permission of Richard S. Steinberg, Professor of Economics,
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 425 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202-5143, U.S.A. http://www.iupui.edu/~econ/faculty_r.html#Steinberg
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:31:00 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard S. Steinberg"
To: JPE
Subject: Re: Referee Inquiry
I should be most happy to send you a referee report. There is no need to
send me a copy, as I am already intimately familiar with this fine paper.
I urge you to print it. Of course, as I am one of the authors of said
paper, you might wish to seek additional reports from other referees
before making your final decision. I can only hope they concur.
Thank you for thinking of me, and I shall be happy to referee for you
again, particularly on my own submissions.
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, JPE wrote:
Dear Professor Steinberg:
The Journal of Political Economy has received a paper entitled "Give It
Away or Make Them Pay? Price Discrimination and Rationing by Nonprofit
Organizations with Distributional Objectives" by Richard Steinberg, Burton
A. Weisbrod.
Would you be willing to provide a referee report on this paper within the
next six weeks? If so, I will have the manuscript sent to you. If not,
would you happen to have any suggestions for possible alternate referees?
Please let us know within two weeks (email is sufficient) whether you will
be able to referee the manuscript. I appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance,
Editor
Journal of Political Economy
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
MS# 02-0379
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Bruno Frey, Publishing as Prostitution? Choosing Between One's Own Ideas and Academic Failure, working paper (revised version of July 1, 2002)
With kind permission of Bruno Frey, Professor of Economics, Institute for Empirical Economic Research, Bluemlisalpstr. 10, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland. (homepage:http://www.bsfrey.ch)
In the author's words "Survival in academia depends on publications in refereed journals. Authors only get their papers accepted if they intellectually prostitute themselves by slavishly following the demands made by anonymous referees without property rights to the journals they advise. Intellectual prostitution is neither beneficial to suppliers nor consumers. But it is avoidable. The editor (with property rights to the journal) should make the basic decision of whether a paper is worth publishing or not. The referees only give suggestions on how to improve the paper. The author may disregard this advice. This reduces intellectual prostitution and produces more original publications."
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Azar, Ofer H. (2004), Rejections and the Importance of First Response Times
(previously titled "How Many Rejections Do Others Receive?"),
The International Journal of Social Economics, 31(3), 259-274.
Previous studies about the academic publishing process consider the publication delay
as starting from the submission to the publishing journal. This ignores the potential
delay caused by rejections received from previous journals. Knowing how many times
papers are submitted prior to publication is essential for evaluating the importance
of different publication delays and the refereeing process cost, and can improve our
decisions about if and how the review process should be altered, decisions that affect
the productivity of economists and other scholars. Using numerical analysis and evidence
on acceptance rates of various journals, I estimate that most manuscripts are submitted
between three and six times prior to publication. This implies that the first response
time (the time between submission and first editorial decision) is much more important
than other parts of the publication delay, suggesting important policy implications
for editors and referees. Here's the link to Ofer's
home page which has useful links to the sites of "economists who do research on various
aspects of academia".
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Ted Bergstrom's Site on Journal Pricing and Journal Refereeing
Includes links to his paper "Free Labor for Costly Journals?", data on economics journal pricing and papers in other disciplines as well as alternatives to overpriced journals.
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Tom Coupe's home page
Lots of good information on all aspects of the economics or economics including refereeing.
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Robert Sternberg on Civility in Reviewing
Commentary for APS Observer, January 2002
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Whose Line is it?: Plagiarism in the Economics Profession
Enders' and Hoover's article on plagiarism in the economics profession
was published in the June 2004 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature.
This is the extended version of the article; it reports on editors' attitudes toward,
and experience with, plagiarism. A companion study of experiences and perceptions
of rank-and-file economists is currently in progress. For the survey instrument click here.
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