[Air-l] Trouble with journals

[James Whyte]

Keep in mind that this is pure speculation!
   
  What you suggest is a possibility. Consider this, articles would perculate up based on a combined rating. Less scholarly articles would move downward.
   
  In dealing with young scholars I have seen good ideas get totally rejected based on criteria other than the idea. Badly presented ideas can be generative for research. It could also provide learning opportunities that a rejection letter doesn't give.
   
  Disc-drive space is very cheap.
   
  Of course a system like this presents a level playing field and may challenge the meritocracy of tradition systems. i.e the old boy system may take offense.
   
  James
Christian Nelson <xianknelson at mac.com> wrote:
  Interesting idea, but where would editing fit into the process? Do 
raw manuscripts get rated, then edited, and then posted to the 
official journal?


On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:34 AM, James Whyte wrote:

> The issue of peer review could be eliminated by peer rating (all 
> readers)
>
> James
>
> John Postill wrote:
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:54:32 AM BST
> From: "John Postill"
> To: "Maximilian C. Forte" ,
>
> Subject: [Medianthro] Trouble with journals
>
> Max Forte wrote:
>
>> I am
>> also a very passionate proponent of open access publishing, and in 
>> that
> vein
> I am the
>> editor of a specialized, peer reviewed journal titled, KACIKE: The 
>> Journal
> of Caribbean
>> Amerindian History and Anthropology (at www.kacike.org), which has
> encountered absolutely
>> *none* of the problems that opponents of open access journals 
>> normally
> list.
>>
>
> I'm glad Max has brought up the subject of journals as I've been 
> discussing
> this issue with colleagues recently and it seems to me (and others) 
> that
> something's seriously wrong with how the system works. I've 
> experienced
> firsthand and heard stories of journal submissions where one is 
> kept waiting
> anything between 12 and 24 months before hearing any substantial 
> news, and
> that's after having chased this up with the journal a number of 
> times. At the
> same time, authors are not allowed to submit the same piece to another
> journal, so often at the end of a very long wait a rejection comes and
> they're
> back to square one having wasted precious months.
>
> It's clear that people are busy and that peer reviews take time, 
> but should
> we
> really have to wait 12-15 months, or even longer, for a response? 
> Perhaps
> journals should commit themselves to a reasonable waiting period 
> (say, max 4
> months) and publish figures of the time it takes them on average to 
> get back
> to prospective contributors? Or perhaps contributors themselves should
> publish
> or circulate these figures in the public domain?
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
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