Re: [xmca] FW: MCA on Thompson Reuters ISI list

[Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>]

I don't think we should personalise any feelings of inferiority.  Firstly,
CHAT practitioners have precious little space to publish in, (3 journals?)
and so good work goes unpublished and good thinker on XMCA get their
academic feelings hurt.  Secondly, we are globally in a "publish or perish"
Catch 22; jobs maybe, but certainly tenure and promotion depend upon this.
 And finally, genuinely new knowledge is extremely difficult to construct.
So, we write run of the mill papers in run of the mill journals and feel bad
about it, but have bread on the table.  Thank goodness we have XMCA where we
can occasionally construct new knowledge. It is a tremendous place to
be--take a bow, Mike.
Carol

On 21 August 2011 09:15, Jenna McWilliams <jennamcjenna@gmail.com> wrote:

> I feel a need to articulate how wonderful and exhilarating it is to have
> the
> opportunity to witness conversations like this, if only from the sidelines.
>
> sent via Droid
>
> On Aug 21, 2011 1:50 AM, "Andy Blunden" <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>
> David, your message sent me to check the "Instructions to Authors" and I
> see
> they are out of date, and do not reflect current practice, so I will raise
> this with the other editors and we can redraft the instructions according
> to
> our current practice. That said ... the opportunity to submit commentaries
> on articles previously published in MCA remains in place.
>
> Eugene's commentary was 4,800 words; my commentary was 3,300 words. We need
> to discuss, but I would have thought these are somewhat long for comments.
> We will discuss. Generally commentaries are not subject to the same
> criteria
> for publication. Both these were commentaries on edirorial practice, so
> they
> were a bit trickier. We will discuss. I have tended to presume that
> original
> manuscripts should be 6-8,000 words and all are subject to peer review and
> I
> don't see any change in that. Book reviews are treated quite differently,
> but we need to formalise this clearly.
>
> The practice of publishing editorials has not been changed, but after the
> editorial introducing ourselves, I don't see this as being a continuing
> practice, and certainly there has been no talk of invited editorials, but
> we
> can discuss it.
>
> Andy
>
> David Kellogg wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Andy:
> > >  I don't really want to start in again on my own rejections. As you
> say,
> > there are proba...
> >    <http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.**com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@**mira.net<
> http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@mira.net>
> > >>/*
> >
> >
> > >    wrote:
> > >    >
> > >    >
> > >    >     From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
> >    <http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.**com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@**mira.net<
> http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@mira.net>
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> > >    >     Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: MCA on Thompson Reuters ISI list
> > >    >     To: "eXtended Mind, ...
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> >
> > >    >     Date: Friday, August 19, 2011, 4:50 AM
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> > >    >     I am one of the editors, Arthur,...
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> >    Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ <
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