Thursday, October 22, 2015

Rejection #1

So it was desk rejection from the Economics e-journal for the preprint. Probably more of those to be expected given I'm not officially an economist by degree ... but I am a member of the AEA -- doesn't that count? It probably would have gone to my head (in a bad way) had it made it through peer review without a hitch.

It's on the arXiv and also apparently at EconPapers for those that are interested (and/or want to spread it around ... ):

http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02435

http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:arx:papers:1510.02435


I am somewhat partial to Igor Carron's idea of a public peer review process ... as I mentioned in my first blog post:
Instead of trying (and probably failing) to publish [information transfer model of supply and demand] as a paper, I was inspired by Igor Carron to just think out loud with a blog. This blog will be focused on determining if the framework established here is good for anything or just an interesting toy model. Or if it is completely wrong!
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8 comments:

  1. Todd ZorickOctober 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM

    My first journal also rejected EEG/ITM- they basically said it was too abstract for them. Now we are trying again at a methods journal.

    I'm sure you will be able to get it published, you might have to pay for an open source journal, which can be good, just expensive.

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    1. Jason SmithOctober 23, 2015 at 6:53 PM

      Well poop.

      I hear Econ grad students have a hard time getting published, so I've set my expectations accordingly.

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    2. Todd ZorickOctober 23, 2015 at 9:06 PM

      It can always get published somewhere, just have to drift down in prestige factor. With the internet I think where you publish means a lot less than it used to.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 22, 2015 at 10:18 PM

    Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" got 14 rejections, as I recall. :)

    Courage, mon vieux!

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    1. Jason SmithOctober 23, 2015 at 6:51 PM

      Maybe I should write a book instead ...

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    2. Tom BrownOctober 23, 2015 at 10:14 PM

      Book: Sure... maybe you could do the talk show circuit. Colbert, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, ... do you have a magic act or something? That'd help. Know any Kardashians? Lawrence Lessig probably needs an economic advisor... hmm, ... by chance do you have a cat that can play Jenga?

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  3. Tom BrownOctober 23, 2015 at 3:45 PM

    Jason, what's a "desk rejection?" Does it come with any kind of an explanation? I assume it did not get sent around for peer review.

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    1. Jason SmithOctober 23, 2015 at 6:33 PM

      Desk rejection comes before peer review, so there is usually no explanation (and there wasn't).

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