Hi Alex,
Congratulations and thanks for a very useful report on your
experience with BE. I have never read any articles in BE. I hadn't even
gone to their website before this. However, I'm a technological dinosaur
who still gets hard copies of journals. My RAs barely know what the
inside of
William Dickens:
Anyone have any idea why the norm in economics allows referees so much
time to do a report? Why its so different from other fields? Is this one
of those soft vs. hard field things? Its my impression that the
physical science journals all want fast turn around on their referee
In a message dated 10/13/02 10:43:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Its my impression that the physical science
journals all want fast turn around on their referee reports. Anybody
know what its like with Anthropology, Sociology, or Political Science? -
- Bill Dickens
I seem to recall that
Anyone have any idea why the norm in economics allows referees so much
time to do a report? Why its so different from other fields? Is this one
of those soft vs. hard field things? Its my impression that the
physical science journals all want fast turn around on their referee
reports.
Fabio Rojas wrote:
I'd say economics has a pretty decent turn around time.
The following are data from a recent paper by Glenn Ellison of MIT (JPE, October
2002). The data are average times (measured in months) between initial submission and
acceptance at various economics journals in the
- Original Message -
From: john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That the expense of cushy jobs for
okay scientists was more than offset by the gains from
getting only the best scientists to go to Bell Labs,
or MIT, or wherever.
Pardon my ignorance, but is MIT a private or public
In a message dated 10/13/02 11:00:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Should only corporate science be considered private
science?
~Alypius Skinner
For that matter, not all corporate science would be purely private either,
since some of it probably gets directly subsidized and some of it
