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Post by trepidation on Feb 4, 2014 16:02:09 GMT -5
In a job in which we have few deadlines, how do I know when to submit an article to a journal?
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Post by Answer on Feb 4, 2014 16:44:57 GMT -5
I'd wait until March 23rd.
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Post by Jonny Foreigner on Feb 4, 2014 17:41:04 GMT -5
When it's good enough
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Post by submit on Feb 4, 2014 18:23:19 GMT -5
Just send it out. In my experience we sit on things too long. Either the idea and execution are good or they are not. Another round of editing or some feedback from a convenience sample wont help the quality of the work by much, if at all. Submit it and move on to something else. That said, March 23rd is a good day to submit papers. I've got three I'm sitting on until then.
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Post by Truer words on Feb 4, 2014 20:17:50 GMT -5
Just send it out. In my experience we sit on things too long. Either the idea and execution are good or they are not. Another round of editing or s ome feedback from a convenience sample wont help the quality of the work by much, if at all. Submit it and move on to something else. That said, March 23rd is a good day to submit papers. I've got three I'm sitting on until then. That's what some of us geezers have been trying to tell the publishers and editors for years--all you have is a convenience sample of reviewers, and the high variance in the field means the best you can do is see if they collectively spot some major flaw and SHOW its impact is such that it makes the work useless. Instead, we get ASA editors sending papers back 2, 3, 4 times. Ridiculous! |
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Post by orgsocer on Feb 4, 2014 22:05:49 GMT -5
Sorry, but what is so magical about 3/23?
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Post by ko on Feb 5, 2014 12:30:04 GMT -5
seriously -- what has march 23rd got to do with anything?
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Post by fyi on Feb 5, 2014 13:46:19 GMT -5
Although it is not recognized as an official holiday, March 23rd is celebrated in some cultures as "Sense of the Absurd Day." Similar to April Fools, it is one day when everybody has license to provide a literal (though, on closer inspection, somewhat ludicrous) answer to a question that was perhaps intended to be more rhetorical in nature. If you have ever run across a query and thought "how can I possibly answer that?", then you can use March 23rd as the day to provide a ridiculous answer.
In the past few years, many academics in the social sciences -- and it is spreading to other disciplines -- have chosen March 23rd as a day where you have freedom to send out articles even if they're not feeling so confident about them. "Is my question too obvious? Are my analyses too simplistic? Did I set out one puzzle but then provide an explanation for something else?" If any of these issues plague you, consider setting March 23rd as your own arbitrary "Sense of the Absurd" deadline and give yourself permission to just get these drafts submitted somewhere.
Good luck to all!
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