Seriously, can someone with tenure tell SPSA to find a new editor? This is ridiculous, especially at a time when the APSR is also malfunctioning (albeit for different reasons).
JOP is broken
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The problem at my department is that the people making promotion recommendations are unaware that this is happening. Everyone on the personnel committee are old full professors and deadwood associates who stopped publishing in peer reviewed journals years ago, and none of them got into top journals even in the early 2000’s when it was 3x easier to get in.
These guys are scoring the pre-tenure people based on a very different game that they were in, not the current reality.
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JJ asked for another term in 2020 but they said no since it was post-Floyd and he was a white male.
oh you mean the guy that oversaw the journal's impact factor drop outside of the top 30 pol sci journals?
i mean maybe he was timely in how he went about things, but he's a guy who prioritizes the latest methodological fads over interesting and impactful questions, and the metrics bear that out.
idk if the new regime is any better in this regard. if not, then sure, bring jj back i guess.
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Jop and apsr seem broken. Do you guys know about AjPS? Is it also problematic/decaying in quality?
AJPS is the unambibuous #1 journal if you do AP ever since APSR became an REP subfield journal. But, like always, AJPS is a clubby journal where personal connections bias editorial decisions.
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why would you assume that every discipline doesn't have these same kinds of problems? editors are human everywhere. also why would the quality of one journal over time say anything about the discipline as a whole?
Everything about this thread, not just the jop issues. The OP, the types of articles that we publish, the values that our field has, the individual editors as human beings, EVERYTHING. The only thing we do decently well are the methods excluding the experiments fad.
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Jop and apsr seem broken. Do you guys know about AjPS? Is it also problematic/decaying in quality?
AJPS is the unambibuous #1 journal if you do AP ever since APSR became an REP subfield journal. But, like always, AJPS is a clubby journal where personal connections bias editorial decisions.
AJPS is so clubby and sexist against women