--- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Bob Brigante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "George DeForest" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > . > > > > > > markmeredith2002 wrote: > > > > I'm confused by this "special issue" > > > > Journal of Social Behavior thing-- it's > > > > published by MUM press, edited by > > > > MUM professors and contains > > > > only tmo studies. It's clearly not > > > > peer reviewed. Is it really approved somehow > > > > by the real Journal of ...? > > > > > > i agree something is "fishy" here. > > > i tried hard to locate a "Journal of > > > Social Behavior and Psychology" > > > searching regular google, scholar google > > > and the public library's database > > > of publications...couldnt find it anywhere. > > > > > > and, i went over to MUM bookstore > > > to have a look...guess what, it is not > > > a magazine sized "special issue" of > > > a journal, it is fully the size of a > > > 300 page book! And guess what this > > > "book" costs ... $50 !! > > > > > > i think these numbers speak for themselves > > > something rotten in denmark ... tsk, tsk > > > > ************************* > > > > You or anybody else can ask the Social Behavior and Personality folks > > if they are responsible for publication of a special issue: > > > > http://www.sbp-journal.com/feedback.php > > > > As I posted previously, it's not at all unusual for Journals to allow > > researchers and their institutions to republish articles printed in a > > Journal. >
> But the MUM studies were not already published in the Journal of > Social Behavior or anywhere else that's peer reviewed. > > Further research shows that there are a lot of these "special issues" > of this particular Journal out there. Curious. Guess it's okay to > for an institution to put these out, but it's not the same as being > published by the Journal. ****************** If Social Behavior and Personality authorized a special issue, which is done by journals now and then (and this does amount to the same thing as being published in regular issues of the journal, because the reputation of the journal is at stake just as with a regular issue), then the cited studies were peer reviewed, and if they weren't then the Journal can say so when you ask them: http://www.sbp-journal.com/feedback.php To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
