{"id":1226,"date":"2008-02-16T20:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T00:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2008-02-16T20:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T00:27:27","slug":"publication-stats-for-epaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Publication stats for EPAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logistical chugging along tonight: I&#8217;m afraid I didn&#8217;t get to any serious manuscript thought in the last few hours, but I did figure out how to analyze about 10 months&#8217; worth of manuscripts, after excluding repeated submissions and other errors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>86 total manuscripts<\/li>\n<li>18 still in review (about 21% of this batch)<\/li>\n<li>55 declined (64% of all manuscripts, 81% of manuscripts with decisions)<\/li>\n<li>13 manuscripts either accepted or in revise-and-resubmit cycle (15% of all manuscripts, 19% of manuscripts with at least initial decisions)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In general, I only request revisions if I am confident that the manuscript is likely to be accepted at some point, after rewriting. (I do not request a revision if one of the problems is that the data collection is insufficient.) I am not pleased right now with the speed of reviewing, but that&#8217;s a combination of three bottlenecks, and since one of them is my own time crunch from last semester, it&#8217;s beginning to ease, and another bottleneck is getting some lubrication thanks to some tricks in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/pkp.sfu.ca\/ojs\/\">OJS<\/a> software (the submission package we use). This will never be perfect, in part because we are what John Willinsky calls a &#8220;zero-budget journal,&#8221; but it should get better&#8230; at least until a tree falls on me and interrupts the flow again.<\/p>\n<p>(The last is a reference to the editor of the weekly physics- and general science-politics e-mail newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobpark.org\/\">What&#8217;s New<\/a>, Bob Park, whose public-education work really was interrupted when <a href=\"http:\/\/bobpark.physics.umd.edu\/WN00\/wn091500.html\">a tree fell on him<\/a>. He&#8217;s doing much better, now, and the tree never got a shot as his sharp tongue, which remains.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logistical chugging along tonight: I&#8217;m afraid I didn&#8217;t get to any serious manuscript thought in the last few hours, but I did figure out how to analyze about 10 months&#8217; worth of manuscripts, after excluding repeated submissions and other errors: 86 total manuscripts 18 still in review (about 21% of this batch) 55 declined (64% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epaa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-jM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}