Wednesday, March 01, 2006

New blog on political science journals

It's called the political science journal monitor and is basically a forum for frustrated political scientists to bitch about the journals that rejected their submissions. Since all journals have to reject most submissions, there are lots of flames on the blog. It's kind of fun, but so far I haven't found much helpful information. Most (maybe all, but y'all know about the fallacy of induction) posts to the blog are anonymous -- many people, it seems, still want to submit to the journals they hate -- so it is hard to learn something about a journal's reputation among different types of political scientists. One of the more bizarre side-effects of the anonymity is the fact that the quanti-quali-activist debate is fought with a bitterness and contempt for the other side that is stunning. Road rage for nerds, I guess.

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