How to Get Articles Published in
Journals with Impact Factor
and
Why Bother
Advantages of English-language
publication:
1) Salary and promotion
2) Fun – pleasure
3) The grand tour of delivering the
same paper at different overseas
locations.
Using your overseas dissertationwriting experience in a less
painful context
Trauma and stress of successful
overseas PhD student –
1) Stress of going overseas
2) Stress of finishing doctoral thesis
3) Culture shock of returning to the
Kingdom
4) Stress of knowing you are fixed in
one job for several years
5) Stress of work and preparing
lessons for the first time
6) Stress of returning home to live with
parents and siblings.
And these are the successful students!
1) Do not compartmentalize overseas
experience and shut it off as
something dead and finished.
2) Try to use it as much as possible in
your everyday life.
3) Keep up academic and friendly ties
you made during your years overseas.
4) Plan for further collaborations with
former fellow students, professors and
PhD adviser.
Why your PhD adviser loves you:
1) Unlike all other students, you never
bother them for reference letters to
get jobs; you have a job. All other
students repeatedly annoy professors
for letters for post doc fellowships,
temporary jobs, tenure track jobs, etc.
You do not. Annoy them for other
things.
2) Annoy them to help you get
published - can you collaborate on
research? Or set up an exchange
program with our department and your
PhD program. Can they give a guest
lecture at our department?
3) PhD adviser is a relationship for life you have added to their prestige by
adding to their list of PhD students.
Grab every chance to meet foreign
economists, at the department’s
regular lecture series and
elsewhere, and network
energetically.
Highest Impact and Least painful
way to publish:
Book Reviews
1) See Khun Poolsook for new books
2) Decide what to possibly read and
write about.
3) Query editors.
Choosing journals:
http://archive.sciencewatch.com/dr
/sci/08/feb17-08_2/
Rank 2006 Impact Factor
1 J. Economic Literature
(4.67)
2 Quart. J. Economics
(3.94)
3 J. Accounting & Econ.
(3.36)
Who are editors and what do they
want?
Elsevier:
http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/c
omm/ReedElsevier/643174e08d28219-2251-31480
More from Elsevier:
http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/com
m/ReedElsevier/6df160b9de-282202251-31265
and
http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/com
m/ReedElsevier/509ba7e7a9-282212251-31500
Viewpoint from Springer Verlag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=MsPcVjT7tKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=4JjfIb-IeSE
16 points - Contributors' guidelines:
1) An article is ideally news which the
author is excited to communicate to
readers, on a subject which has rarely
been dealt with, or otherwise notably
original.
2) Article titles should be catchy and
informative.
3) Article length should be 600010,000 words, including
everything, including abstract.
The shorter, the better.
4) No simultaneous submissions
are accepted.
5) They rightly stress many times the
importance of perfect English, and
even say that although British or
American English are both acceptable,
it is not acceptable to write in a
mixture of British and American
English (so choose one!) They propose
you pay them for editing services!
6) They offer ways to get closer to the
editorial staff:
a) Volunteer as a referee, evaluating
one article per year, or
b) Propose yourself as guest editor of a
special issue on a theme which you
consider to be essential but
understudied -- these are two ways to
get closer to editorial boards.
7) Separate files are required for all
figures, diagrams, etc. when you submit
the article
8) Sections and subsections should be
numbered as in 1.1 (then 1.1.1., 1.1.2)
although the abstract should not be
numbered -- also these numbers
should be referred to within the article
to direct the reader to a specific section
of your article if you refer to it again --
9) They recommend combining the
Results and Discussion sections,
and adding a short subsection to
this "Results and Discussion"
section in which conclusions are
given.
10) Avoid any abbreviations in the
article title.
11) They require Highlights, or from
three to five bullet points (maximum 85
characters long, including spaces)
naming the basic findings of the article
and presented on a separate file -12) Every reference cited in the text must
be mentioned in the reference list.
13) If you cite an article with three or
more authors, name the first author
only and then follow it with "et al."
"Kramer et al. (2010) showed"
14) There are rules on how to
abbreviate the names of journals, see
online at Index Medicus journal
abbreviations:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatal
og/journals
15) It can take 5 months or so for the
referees to decide if they want to
accept your article -- if they decide not
to even bother sending it to referees,
then you hear back from them sooner.
If you have been accepted, they send
you a pdf file, and no more changes
unless the editor approves them, and
you must reply within 48 hours or they
just print it anyway as is.
16) Originality is important in
terms of what is accepted –
articles should deal with debates
of international interest.
General thoughts:
Self-realization and
departmental cooperation
are not mutually exclusive.
Departmental solidarity - some
lecturers have lunch and coffee
together
But few if any use the common
room for lunch - a natural place to
meet and catch up.
Monday seminars - occasions for
exchange with colleagues:
a) Seeing the outside world
b) Hearing research newly
published or soon to be published
c)Testing your own ideas
d) Showing departmental solidarity
- an economist travels far to speak
to us, and of a department of
dozens of professors, only a
handful show up, which can seem
like a less than enthused welcome.
e) Very few women faculty members
attend these seminars and even fewer
speak up to ask questions.
This gives a false impression to visitors
that our department is sexist and has
almost no female professors and these
few are terrified into silence.
After 2015 there will be more
interaction based in Englishlanguage exchange yet nothing is
being done to prepare for this.
Recent Indonesian Ministry of
Trade delegation handout that
spelled Thammasat wrong will be
no longer acceptable.
What we can do:
Avoid the pitfalls of incorrect “Thai
English”
“Supply and demand,” (correct)
not
“demand and supply” (wrong)
When to use the article "the“ Read the rules, or play the
percentages
by acting against your instinct to
get it right --
Do not use Latin or Latin
abbreviations until
Your own English is perfect
No i.e., e.g., viz., etc!
because being wrong and
pretentious is worse than just being
wrong --
If years are cited in a sentence,
mention them at the beginning of
the sentence:
In 1925, John Maynard Keynes
married a ballerina...
General Advice:
1) Annoy your dissertation adviser
regularly
2) Take daily total immersion baths
in English. Remember the Pleasure
Principle:
3) To maintain and improve your level
of English, find ways to use English
every day which involve fun, and not
merely job responsibilities.
4) To write well, you must read well.
Take time daily to read in English in
a subject which you love, for fun.
5) Bother Aj. Benjamin for advice
about English. That is why he is
here.
6. As a wise emeritus professor of
the Economics department said:
Look outward, not just inward.