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Post by anonyms on Jun 3, 2013 14:46:52 GMT -5
Anyone have experience with this journal, turnaround time, etc? I have a quant piece I'm sending there, my impression is that articles tend to have shorter lit reviews and longer methods/results in this journal compared to some other sociological journals, amirite?
My lit review is around 7 pages long right now which strikes me as somewhat skimpy in general, but ok for this journal, especially considering my piece is on a topic where not a lot of research has been done in the past.
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Post by huh?? on Jun 4, 2013 13:24:55 GMT -5
Seven pages for a literature review is too long- especially if it is a topic where there isn't a ton of pre-exisitng debates to wade through. AJS and other places that allow manuscripts to go over 10,000 words might be an exception. I would have to check, but I don't think any of the papers I have published have had more than 3 three strategic paragraphs that differentiate my work from what has come before.
I don't know anything about this particular journal however. I would suggest you find some articles it has published that are theoretically and methodologically similar to yours and see how long the author's literature review is.
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Post by anonyms on Jun 5, 2013 15:29:08 GMT -5
Really?? By "lit review" I am including both prior lit on the topic and the theoretical setup for the paper, the later of which takes up most of the pages (and that is double spaced) if you can do all that in 3 paragraphs you must work in a very different subfield than I do. I have published 5 peer reviewed articles at this point and the shortest lit review was probably around 10 pages.
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Post by JSR on Jun 5, 2013 22:02:54 GMT -5
JSR takes quant papers often, 7 pages of lit review is alright, just make sure that the paper is for a general social science audience-- not too sociological with lingo and jargons. I have also heard that that many of the reviewers are from a sex positivist or public health background-- way different ways to look at sex practices. The rejection rate seems pretty high too.
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Post by anonyms on Jul 23, 2013 16:50:33 GMT -5
Update on my experience- only 6 weeks from submission to an R and R with very detailed comments from 3 reviewers. The editor did not give me any guidance other than "revise and resubmit" according to the reviews, but the reviewers gave excellent suggestions. They want the revisions back within 60 days which seems a bit on the short end, but so far so good!
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