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

[Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>]

Exactly Mike, it's a communal effort of thoughtful, committed people. I
would not be in the area if we did not have the XMCA.

On 21 August 2011 17:45, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 and so good work goes unpublished and good thinker on XMCA get their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 they are out of date, and do not reflect current practice, so I will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@**
> > 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>
> > > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >    >     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
> > > > >    >
> > > > >    >     I am one of the editors, Arthur,...
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