{"id":3727,"date":"2010-07-05T04:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T12:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2010-07-05T07:27:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:27:59","slug":"in-the-silence-you-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"in the silence you don't know<\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who've followed this 'blog for a while might be wondering what happened to the paper that I started submitting to journals in mid-June of last year<\/a>. Well, yeah; me too.<\/p>

As previously reported here, it<\/a> was rejected by three journals as unsuitable to a general audience of economists, after being rejected by one without any reason being given<\/a>. As it<\/a> was rejected for being too specialized by one journal, I would then submit it<\/a> to a more specialized journal. I submitted it to a fifth journal in early September.<\/a> That process had to be repeated as their representative wanted me to purge the acknowledgments before the paper were passed-on to an editor (I'm not sure why someone there didn't delete them from the LA<\/span>ΤΕ<\/span>Χ<\/span><\/a> file that they'd had me submit, nor why their submission template provides for acknowledgments, with no guidelines on when not<\/em> to include them), but the paper<\/a> was then officially recorded as submitted on 8 September. And I've been waiting since for a yea or for a nay.<\/p>

They have an on-line site at which I can check on the status of my paper<\/a>. After a while, the site reported that an editor had been assigned; then, in early January<\/em> that reviewers had been assigned. Anthony suggested that perhaps they had had trouble finding reviewers who would be sufficiently comfortable with the sort<\/em> of mathematics used. In late March<\/em> the status report was changed to say that reviewers were assigned at that<\/em> time, as if perhaps one or more of the original reviewers had left without returning an evaluation.<\/p>

This journal doesn't really provide any guideline about querying them concerning the status of a submission. A common guideline from economics journals (as some others) is to contact them if one hasn't received any word after six months. I couldn't really claim that I'd not got any<\/em> word for six months, but what I'd got surely didn't seem informative. Towards the end of June, after getting an opinion from Anthony, who said that I should feel free to query them, I did. The person whom I contacted said that, much as Anthony had suggested, there seemed to have been a problem finding reviewers, and that my query had been forwarded to the editor.<\/p>

I've received nothing further. So, I don't really know<\/em> the status of my paper<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those of you who've followed this 'blog for a while might be wondering what happened to the paper that I started submitting to journals in mid-June of last year. Well, yeah; me too. As previously reported here, it was rejected by three journals as unsuitable to a general audience of economists, after being rejected by […]","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":[117,5,4],"tags":[445,446],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-personal","category-public","tag-papers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","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=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}