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Publishing in Accounting Publishing in Accounting JournalsJournals
J. E. HuntonJ. E. Hunton
Bentley CollegeBentley College
q-Qualityq-Quality
MotivationMotivation ContributionContribution TheoryTheory
Ellison, G. 2002. Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing:A q-r Theory. Journal of Political Economy 10 (5): 994-1034.
r-Qualityr-Quality
Methodological rigorMethodological rigor Data collectionData collection Literature review Literature review Statistical analysesStatistical analyses Robustness of findingsRobustness of findings Generality of resultsGenerality of results Future extensionsFuture extensions
Ellison, G. 2002. Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing:A q-r Theory. Journal of Political Economy 10 (5): 994-1034.
q-r Theoryq-r Theory
QUALITY
1970’s Present Future
q
r
Assumes eventual equilibrium due to social norms and expectations.
Ellison, G. 2002. Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing:A q-r Theory. Journal of Political Economy 10 (5): 994-1034.
MotivationMotivation ContributionContribution TheoryTheory Methodological RigorMethodological Rigor Data CollectionData Collection Literature ReviewLiterature Review Statistical analysesStatistical analyses Robustness of findingsRobustness of findings Generality of resultsGenerality of results Future ExtensionsFuture Extensions
q-Quality
post hoc
Fatal Flaw
post hocMaybe fixableDepends…?
post hocProbablyFixable
r-Quality
Ellison, G. 2002. Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing:A q-r Theory. Journal of Political Economy 10 (5): 994-1034.
Ideal Effort ExpenditureIdeal Effort Expenditure
EFFORT
0%
100%
Creatingq-Quality
≈ 50%
Developingr-Quality
≈ 25%
Exposing &Revising
≈ 15%
Submitting &Publishing
≈ 10%
Observed Effort ExpenditureObserved Effort Expenditure
EFFORT
0%
100%
Creatingq-Quality
Developingr-Quality
Exposing &Revising
Submitting &Publishing
≈ 50% ≈ 5% ≈ 35%≈ 10%
Ideal versus Observed EffortIdeal versus Observed Effort
EFFORT
0%
100%
Creatingq-QualityGap
Developingr-QualityGap
Exposing &RevisingGap
Submitting &PublishingGap
- 40% + 25% - 10% + 25%
Researching, writing and Researching, writing and publishing takes a long, long time.publishing takes a long, long time.
Rough Estimates:Rough Estimates: Creating q-QualityCreating q-Quality 6 Months 6 Months Developing r-QualityDeveloping r-Quality 6 Months 6 Months Exposing and RevisingExposing and Revising 6 Months 6 Months Submitting and PublishingSubmitting and Publishing 24 Months24 Months
First round: First round: 2-6 months2-6 months Your response: Your response: 1-3 months1-3 months Second round: Second round: 2-4 months2-4 months Your response: Your response: 1-2 months1-2 months Last round: Last round: 1-2 months1-2 months Your response: Your response: 1-1 months1-1 months Publication: Publication: 1-6 months1-6 months TotalTotal 9-24 months9-24 months
How long does it take?How long does it take?
You need to have a portfolio of multiple You need to have a portfolio of multiple projects on-going at all times. At a projects on-going at all times. At a minimum:minimum:
Year One: Two projectsYear One: Two projects Year Two: Four ProjectsYear Two: Four Projects Year Three: Six ProjectsYear Three: Six Projects Thereafter: When one project in the Thereafter: When one project in the
portfolio of six drops off (hopefully via portfolio of six drops off (hopefully via publication acceptance), add another publication acceptance), add another and try to maintain at least six projects and try to maintain at least six projects in your portfolio at all times!in your portfolio at all times!
Lesson LearnedLesson Learned
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
Before Submitting to a Journal
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
CContributionontribution
Before Submitting to a Journal
What have you contributed to the extant
state of knowledge?
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
CContributionontribution
RRelevanceelevance
Before Submitting to a Journal
Does the study have theoretical and/or
practical importance?
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
CContributionontribution
RRelevanceelevance
EExhaustivenessxhaustiveness
Before Submitting to a Journal
Do you know the literature, and have you suitably interpreted and
incorporated prior findings?
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
CContributionontribution
RRelevanceelevance
EExhaustivenessxhaustiveness
AAccuracyccuracy
Before Submitting to a Journal
Are you properly analyzing your data and drawing inferences?
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
CContributionontribution
RRelevanceelevance
EExhaustivenessxhaustiveness
AAccuracyccuracy
TTheoryheory
Before Submitting to a Journal
To what extent is the theoretical development
and/or application correct?
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
CContributionontribution RRelevanceelevance EExhaustivenessxhaustiveness AAccuracyccuracy TTheoryheory EExposurexposure
Before Submitting to a Journal
Have you received sufficient input from researchers on
and off your co-author team?
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
CContributionontribution RRelevanceelevance EExhaustivenessxhaustiveness AAccuracyccuracy TTheoryheory EExposurexposure
Before Submitting to a Journal
Createvalue!
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
After Submitting to a Journal
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
RResponsiveesponsive
After Submitting to a Journal
Reply in detail to each comment made by the editor
and reviewers.
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
RResponsiveesponsive
EExplanatoryxplanatory
After Submitting to a Journal
Thoroughly, yet politely, explain how and why
you responded to each comment; and, how and
why you performed questioned procedures, methods, analyses, etc.
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
RResponsiveesponsive
EExplanatoryxplanatory
PPersistentersistent
After Submitting to a Journal
Stand your ground when appropriate, have faith in your
study, and do not let the review process
defeat you!
If rejected, learn from the constructive
input you received and remember--
there is a home for all good work, so never give up!!
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
RResponsiveesponsive
EExplanatoryxplanatory
PPersistentersistent
LLaudatoryaudatory
After Submitting to a JournalMost editors and reviewers
expend a great deal of valuable time and energy on
their reviews, so take the occasion to compliment
them on their hard work and helpful input where appropriate—not
gratuitously, but earnestly.
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
RResponsiveesponsive
EExplanatoryxplanatory
PPersistentersistent
LLaudatoryaudatory
YYieldingielding
After Submitting to a JournalIt is acceptable to hold firm on a position when you believe you are right, but, many times you are so close to your work that it is difficult to see a legitimate alternate perspective.
Be flexible and adaptive to review comments—most of the time your paper is significantly enhanced through the review process!
Keys to Successful PublishingKeys to Successful Publishing
RResponsiveesponsive
EExplanatoryxplanatory
PPersistentersistent
LLaudatoryaudatory
YYieldingielding
After Submitting to a Journal
REPLYwith care!
I am not changing my I am not changing my paper!paper!
The stubborn syndrome
Pathological SyndromesPathological Syndromes
Pathological SyndromesPathological Syndromes
Wow, this is a brilliant idea, Wow, this is a brilliant idea, let’s conduct a study now let’s conduct a study now before someone else beats before someone else beats us to the punch!us to the punch!
The tortoise and hare syndrome
This first draft reads so well This first draft reads so well that we should send it into a that we should send it into a journal immediately!journal immediately!
The unread paper syndrome
Pathological SyndromesPathological Syndromes
In all humility, this study is In all humility, this study is clearly ‘Top Tier” material clearly ‘Top Tier” material and nothing less!and nothing less!
The perfect syndrome
Pathological SyndromesPathological Syndromes
The editor and reviewers The editor and reviewers obviously did not obviously did not understand my paper—understand my paper—those incompetent those incompetent nincompoops!nincompoops!
The idiot syndrome
Pathological SyndromesPathological Syndromes
I’ll persuade the editor and I’ll persuade the editor and reviewers that I am right reviewers that I am right and prove that they are and prove that they are wrong!wrong!
The determined syndrome
Pathological SyndromesPathological Syndromes
SStubborn syndrometubborn syndrome
TTortoise and hare syndromeortoise and hare syndrome
UUnread syndromenread syndrome
PPerfect syndromeerfect syndrome
IIdiot syndromediot syndrome
DDetermined syndromeetermined syndrome