With so many academic and science blogs around, one would tend to think that lots of people will be writing about their paper writing experiences (and, more importantly, about the experience of getting it published); however, there aren’t many blog posts I have read which discuss these issues.
Over at orgtheory, Teppo, Brayden and Fabio write, respectively, about finding a home for your not-so-successful papers, about a wiki where you can post your experiences about submitting papers (meant for sociology journals I understand), and, about journal response times and what it tells about your paper.
I love the wiki idea very much; pretty soon, like Amazon and Walmart product pages, I guess you can go to a journal page, read about the experience of the authors who published or did not publish there, and make up your mind about submitting your paper! If people start publishing their papers as well as the reviews that they received in such a wiki, it will be of great use. However, I do not know if the authors can actually publish the reviewers report (since the report, in principle belongs to the reviewer and there is no mechanism by which the author(s) can contact the reviewer and get his/her permission to publish it). This is where open review process would come handy, I suppose.
Tags: Peer review
