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Post by I did it on May 8, 2014 12:49:51 GMT -5
I pulled a paper after being jerked around for a year. After a couple months, (reasonably good)reviews were in, but it never moved to editorial decision--R and R? rejection?... I struggled with pulling the paper, as I already sunk so much time, and the reviews seemed good. Ultimately, I made the right decision. Who wants to mess with folks who don't have their s*** together? I used the reviews to strengthen the paper, and sent it elsewhere, where it received an R and R.
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Post by I did it on May 8, 2014 12:51:06 GMT -5
This was *not* at City and Community, these are my thoughts on the general question of pulling a paper.
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Post by guestie on May 8, 2014 13:11:21 GMT -5
Generally speaking, you can't know in advance whether the decision to pull is the right one. If it's been a long time, it could very well be that reviewers haven't been found or haven't bothered to read the manuscript yet. So if it's been, say, eight months, you shouldn't necessarily expect that reviewers have been carefully poring over your work for that length of time.
Specifically speaking, as someone who had a manuscript at City and Community, I would agree with some of the other comments made here: the current editor is looking for a particular sort of 'urban sociology'. This has probably led to a journal with better overall quality control (in its initial years C&C was more free-wheeling and could be a fun read, but there was a LOT of pretty weak stuff in it). However, it has also lead to a journal that - outside of its ASA affiliation - doesn't offer anything different from what journals like Urban Studies or the Journal of Urban Affairs have already been doing.
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Post by urban studies on Feb 13, 2015 11:33:39 GMT -5
Is urban studies the journal to aim for if you have an urban sociologicsl article (Or a non-economics urban article more generally)... It seems to me urban studies> j. Of urban affairs>c&c .... anyone else agree or disagree?
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Post by urban studies second on Feb 20, 2015 11:48:25 GMT -5
I have submitted papers to both City & Community and Urban Studies. Not surprisingly, I would share the same view with the post above and Urban Studies is way better than City and Community. For urban geographers and scholars from other disciplines, I guess that they will not even compare the two journals. I would agree with previous posts because the current editor at C&C is very specific about what papers should (not) be published at C&C and this position greatly affects their decisions. Even if all reviewers provided positive comments, the editor would reject a good paper due to its "topic". The reviewing process at Urban Studies would be more effective, fair and reasonable, although, in general, it is much more difficult to get a paper published at Urban Studies.
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Post by C&C on Mar 16, 2015 21:53:14 GMT -5
I had a good experience with C&C. Fast turnaround, helpful comments etc. I would caution against thinking too much about the rankings. Sociology has strong disciplinary boundaries and search committees likely don't know about interdisciplinary journals such as IJURR or Urban Studies, despite their higher impact. If you're doing urban work in sociology, I say CC is still the place to publish.
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Post by 'top' not so 'top' on Mar 17, 2015 11:33:55 GMT -5
It's a good journal and some great pieces have come out of it. However I think the disciplinary boundaries are weaker for some fields and it reflects the lower status of 'top' subdiscipline journals. For example, Economy and Society is the economic sociology journal but it is less well regarded than ASQ or other interdisciplinary journals...
Perhaps people *outside* of urban (but in sociology) will know city and community better than the Journal of Urban Affairs or something but I'm not sure people outside of urban would value CC much anyways. Unfortunately a regional journal like sociological spectrum would be a better bet - CC just doesn't have the same type of 'top specialty' value that other ASA section journals have...
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Post by Anony on Mar 25, 2015 5:44:30 GMT -5
It's a good journal and some great pieces have come out of it. However I think the disciplinary boundaries are weaker for some fields and it reflects the lower status of 'top' subdiscipline journals. For example, Economy and Society is the economic sociology journal but it is less well regarded than ASQ or other interdisciplinary journals... Perhaps people *outside* of urban (but in sociology) will know city and community better than the Journal of Urban Affairs or something but I'm not sure people outside of urban would value CC much anyways. Unfortunately a regional journal like sociological spectrum would be a better bet - CC just doesn't have the same type of 'top specialty' value that other ASA section journals have... Really? I agree that there's a lot of good work coming out of C&C and for regional journals, my understanding is that soc forum is by far the best one, by a lot. I would imagine C&C is at the same level as other ASA journals
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Post by Waiting for the Sun on Oct 30, 2017 17:13:45 GMT -5
I have been stuck on a 'pending decision' for several weeks now. I have heard of people on other boards with similar problems. Is there anyone here that has also encountered this and have any idea of why it is happening?
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