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Comment on Adventures in Peer Review (yes, again) by Ed

Ed — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:52:38 +0000

Thanks for this – very interesting about JPS and JAG, and I had not really looked into them carefully. I’ve done two at World Development, and had good experiences there – but this is the wrong paper for WD.

I’ve heard that Dev and Change can run to quirky, and this one certainly feels that way. Hey, if you think your journal would be interested, feel free to drop me an email at ed@edwardrcarr.com!

Best,

Comment on Finally saying Famine by Government In The Lab | Government In The Lab

Government In The Lab | Government In The Lab — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:13:01 +0000

[...] for the population). For those who doubt this, look at the FEWS NET maps I put in previous posts (here and here). Famine stops at the Somali border. I assure you this is not a political [...]

Comment on Adventures in Peer Review (yes, again) by Anon

Anon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:16:51 +0000

Journal of Agrarian Change would love a good livelihoods paper, since the Scoones one in Journal of Peasant Studies has stolen their thunder. JAC was set up by a breakaway group from JPS.
Development and Change are legendary for quirky decisions. I am on the board of another dev studs journal and we are much better. Avoid World Development – too hard.
If you want the paper read, put it in an online journal. Cite yourself less, and don’t blog anymore about it.

Comment on Only the senior faculty can save us… by Simon Batterbury

Simon Batterbury — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:34:53 +0000

Happy to tell you costs. The Journal of Political Ecology charges $0 to authors, and costs $0 to access free online. I believe ACME the journal of critical geography works the same. The site is hosted for free by the University of Arizona. I spend about 5 hours on each article. The referees work for free, unfortunately. My salry cost is the only real expense. So that’s $185 per article. Call it $200 to be generous (a librarian posts up the articles). The journal is listed on Scopus, awaiting ISI, and is cited more than many others in its field. I reckon $3000 is daylight robbery, even if they have to pay for a server. Those sorts of charges are listed on the list of shonky journals and are to be avoided – see Beall’s list http://metadata.posterous.com/83235355

PS the major publishers are going to have to change. It is a no brainer.

Comment on Adventures in Peer Review (yes, again) by John Mahey

John Mahey — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:43:21 +0000

Long ago, Brian Kernighan and I wrote a paper for a computer conference, on a bit of a lark, espousing a view somewhat contrary to many of the others. Of the 4 referees’ reports:
2 thought it was great
1 thought there was nothing new
1 though it was fine,m but not for this conference

Hence, rejected. Conference attendees later told us that the exact topic was discussed quite a bit.

Later, an editor friend of Brian’s was looking for an article, so we sent him this, with a few tweaks, and he published it. A bit later, IEEE Computer (widely read) asked us if we could update it for them and we did, and the result “The UNIX Programming Environment,” was fairly popular.

So, one never knows.

Comment on How to deal with peer review by Adventures in Peer Review (yes, again) « Open The Echo Chamber

Adventures in Peer Review (yes, again) « Open The Echo Chamber — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:58:18 +0000

[...] my response to a revise and resubmit request from a pretty big development journal (see part 1, part 2 and part 3). Well, I now have a response to my resubmission . . [...]

Comment on About by Emanuel Souvairan

Emanuel Souvairan — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:23:15 +0000

Hi Edward, this is a great blog and we would love it if you could write an article that is education themed on our blog as a guest writer for the DevEd blog. Our website is http://www.deved.org/blog/category/blog
Thanks, Emanuel

Comment on Drought does not equal famine by The Realities Of Climate Change | Living History

The Realities Of Climate Change | Living History — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:50:23 +0000

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Comment on Qualitative research was (already) here . . . by Ed

Ed — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:03:16 +0000

Craig:

Thanks very much. I am fortunate to know a few economists who recognize that they need qualitative research to really get at their questions, and know that their standard methods don’t quite get there. And I have had an exchange with Esther Duflo, who in person is both very gracious and substantially more humble about what she does than much of the writing about her. That said, I really think she does not fully understand qualitative research (and the need for rigor and validity in qual research, which we CAN establish) . . . which makes her like most folks who do not operate in anthro, geog, and their affiliated disciplines. All there is to do, I think, is educate – reach out to the policy and general audiences and explain what we do, over and over again, until someone hears us. And remind them that we’ve known a lot of “revelatory” stuff in this behavior econ lit for a very long time . . .

Give my best to Peter Little – I took a seminar from him back at Kentucky . . .

Best,

Comment on Only the senior faculty can save us… by Ed Carr on Publishing, peer review, and how “only the senior faculty can save us” | Savage Minds

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:38:25 +0000

[...] of publishing and peer review, geographer Ed Carr over at Open the Echo Chamber makes the case that escape and salvation from may lie in the hands of senior faculty. Is he right? He might [...]