{"id":5389,"date":"2011-12-13T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2011-12-13T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:12:57","slug":"paper-up-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"Paper Up-Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=4946\">As previously noted<\/a>, I submitted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">my paper on indecision<\/a> to yet another journal on 28 July.  On 11 August, the reported status of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">the paper<\/a> was changed to <q>With Editor<\/q>.  Yester-day, 12 December, that was changed to <q>Under Review<\/q>, which indicates that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">the paper<\/a> has been sent onward to one or more reviewers.<\/p> <p>Editors generally have the authority to reject papers on their own authority.  If they think that a paper might be appropriate to the journal, then they send the paper on to one or two reviewers, with ostensible expertise in the specific area of the paper.  These reviewers judge the paper to be suitable as it stands, or suggest revisions that would make it suitable, or decide that it is unlikely to become suitable even after revision.  At some journals, editors have the authority to over-rule reviewers, but such is rarely done.<\/p> <p>Most submitted papers are rejected by editors before they reach reviewers.  Most papers that reach reviewers are rejected by those reviewers.  Most that are not rejected are required to be revised in some way, small or large.<\/p> <p>I don't know why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">the paper<\/a> was listed as <q>With Editor<\/q> for almost exactly four months.  The editor may have been too busy to evaluate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">the paper<\/a> at all, or may have spent a fair amount of time in his-or-her own evaluation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">it<\/a>, or may have had trouble finding a reviewer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">it<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As previously noted, I submitted my paper on indecision to yet another journal on 28 July. On 11 August, the reported status of the paper was changed to With Editor. Yester-day, 12 December, that was changed to Under Review, which indicates that the paper has been sent onward to one or more reviewers. Editors generally [&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":[117,36,5,4],"tags":[1034,987,445,446],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-economics","category-personal","category-public","tag-indecision","tag-indifference","tag-papers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}