{"id":12542,"date":"2024-06-14T19:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T02:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2024-06-14T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T05:46:27","slug":"a-minor-up-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=12542","title":{"rendered":"A Minor Up-Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still await a first decision from <a href=\"?p=12383\">the journal to which on 24 February I submitted my paper on Sraffa<\/a>.  On 27 May, I queried the editor about when I might expect a decision.  My query was really to ensure that the paper weren't mislaid; I've more than one unfortunate experience of such a thing.  On 29 May, I received a reasonable and polite response that he hoped to have a report from the reviewer within a month.<\/p> <hr width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" style=\"width: 25% ; text-align: center ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\"\/> <p>The mission statement of <a href=\"?p=12333\">the journal from which I yanked that paper on 21 February<\/a> declares<\/p> <blockquote>Our goal is to provide a definitive answer within one month of submission.<\/blockquote> <p>I yanked the paper, submitted on 23 January, after it had idled for four weeks without being sent to the editor-in-chief.  <a href=\"?p=12493\">On 28 March they none-the-less reported it as placed in the hands of the editor-in-chief.<\/a><\/p> <p>When I'd yanked the paper, when I received this notice, and when I received an apology and plea for patience, I sent copies of my replies (declaring and re&iuml;terating that the paper were no longer on-offer to them) to that editor-in-chief.  None-the-less, on 07 June &mdash; more than four months after my submission &mdash; the editor sent a rejection on the grounds that the work were primarily exegetic.  I think that the behavior of the editor and of the administrative staff betrays a gross disorganization that makes a mockery of the suppos&egrave;d goal of reaching a decision within a month.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I still await a first decision from the journal to which on 24 February I submitted my paper on Sraffa. On 27 May, I queried the editor about when I might expect a decision. My query was really to ensure that the paper weren't mislaid; I've more than one unfortunate experience of such a thing. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,4],"tags":[445,446],"class_list":["post-12542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-public","tag-papers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12547,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions\/12547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}