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Post by an improvement? on Jan 11, 2024 10:33:39 GMT -5
T&S has long had a reputation as an abysmally-run journal, as evidenced by the vast majority of past comments in this very thread. The journal clearly needed new leadership.
It seems to me (with no insider information) that some big egos got hurt in the process and now it's spilling into the public. I have no idea if the changes could have been accomplished in a more collegial, transparent way, but it's obvious that changes were long overdue.
On their own, the goals of the new editors seem pretty good to me:
1. Drastically shorter turnaround times for submitted papers. 2. Special issues highlighting unanswered questions and uninvestigated areas within sociological theory. 3. New publishing opportunities, such as short-form “theory briefs” which highlight new and experimental ideas. 4. A new platform for productively disagreeing “dialogues” between theorists about fundamental assumptions and perspectives. 5. A new platform for “forum articles,” where one author submits a longer contentious/creative/new idea, and other scholars are asked to respond.
Good luck to the new leadership!
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Post by vacuum on Jan 11, 2024 11:38:44 GMT -5
In a vacuum, I'd agree with "an improvement?" above. But the new editors' statement of goals makes it really clear that it's a political intervention to change the journal's substantive focus, not just to make it more competently run. I can't support us, collectively, letting Springer do that without, at a minimum, an open and transparent process. The statement of goals: link.springer.com/journal/11186/aims-and-scope
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Post by big egos on Jan 11, 2024 18:05:46 GMT -5
To be honest, my first reaction was similar to "an improvement?" However, after read the statement, it seems to me that it is more likely that is was the big egos of the new editors (and some of the new editorial board members) were hurt, and decided to mobilize a strange coup against a - again, I agree - badly run journal that meant something in the field.
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