Insights into Editors' Objectives and Challenges in Academic Publishing
Understanding the objectives of editors in academic publishing is crucial for researchers. Their goals include attracting more readers, increasing citations, maintaining high quality, managing limited resources, and protecting referees. The toughest challenges involve convincing editors and referees to care about research submissions.
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What are the Editors Objectives? What are the Editors Objectives? More readers More excited readers More journal citations Higher impact factor Avoiding grief Managing scarce (& fickle) resources Protecting referees Matching referees to papers Maintaining/enhancing quality 2
What is the What is the Hardest Published? Published? Hardest thing about getting Research thing about getting Research ??? 3
What is the What is the Hardest Published? Published? Hardest thing about getting Research thing about getting Research . convincing the Editor to care! 4
What is the What is the Second published? published? Second Hardest Hardest thing about getting thing about getting 5
What is the What is the Second published? published? Second Hardest Hardest thing about getting thing about getting . Getting the Referee(s) to care! 6
What are Editors/Referees Looking For? What are Editors/Referees Looking For? 7
What are Editors/Referees Looking For? What are Editors/Referees Looking For? . a lot! 8
Some Random Thoughts Some Random Thoughts (1) Hook the Reader => Title/Abstract/Intro (2) Interesting Read => NOT mystery novel or diary (3) Fresh/up-to-date with regional conversation (4) Single country studies/ NOT US (5) Contemporary research design (6) Economic significance (7) Plausible alternative explanations (8) channels/ mechanisms (9) Relevance vs. Rigor (10) Connectivity
