On Getting Published: Views from an AJAE Editor

B. Wade Brorsen

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How do I pick reviewers?

• Own knowledge

• References

• Electronic search

Selected papers vs. journal articles

Keys to Success in Publishing

• Choose unimportant problems

• Agree with current beliefs

• Advocate one hypothesis

• Write confusing prose

• Use complicated methods

• Avoid full disclosure of data and methods

Idealistic View-Contribution to Knowledge• Importance

• Originality

• Depth of Analysis

• Overall quality

• Appropriate for the journal

Editor’s Response

• Accepted

• Conditionally Accepted

• Revise and Resubmit

• Reject, but may reconsider

• Reject

Priorities

• Finish work in progress

• Submit papers when 95% correct

• Highest priority is positive reviews

• Do whatever reviewers ask unless clearly wrong

• Rejection is no big deal