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

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Take a bow all those who contribute to the discussion and find ways to be
patient enough
to continue working to enrich it.

mike

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 and so good work goes unpublished and good thinker on XMCA get their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 they are out of date, and do not reflect current practice, so I will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@**
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> > 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>
> > > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > >    >     Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: MCA on Thompson Reuters ISI list
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> > >
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> > >
> > > >    >     Date: Friday, August 19, 2011, 4:50 AM
> > > >    >
> > > >    >     I am one of the editors, Arthur,...
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