How to Get Articles Published  in Journals with Impact Factor

and Why Bother

Advantages of English-language publication:

1) Salary and promotion2) Fun – pleasure

3) The grand tour of delivering the same paper at different overseas

locations.

Using your overseas dissertation-writing experience in a less

painful context

Trauma and stress of successful overseas PhD student –

1) Stress of going overseas2) Stress of finishing doctoral thesis3) Culture shock of returning to the

Kingdom

4) Stress of knowing you are fixed in one job for several years

5) Stress of work and preparing lessons for the first time

6) Stress of returning home to live with parents and siblings.

And these are the successful students!

1) Do not compartmentalize overseas experience and shut it off as something dead

and finished.2) Try to use it as much as possible in your

everyday life.3) Keep up academic and friendly ties you

made during your years overseas.4) Plan for further collaborations with former fellow students, professors and PhD adviser.

Why your PhD adviser loves you:

1) Unlike all other students, you never bother them for reference letters to get jobs; you have a

job. All other students repeatedly annoy professors for letters for post doc fellowships,

temporary jobs, tenure track jobs, etc. You do not. Annoy them for other things.

2) Annoy them to help you get published - can you collaborate on research? Or set up an exchange

program with our department and your PhD program. Can they give a guest

lecture at our department?3) PhD adviser is a relationship for life -

you have added to their prestige by adding to their list of PhD students.

Grab every chance to meet foreign economists, at the department’s

regular lecture series and elsewhere, and network

energetically.

Highest Impact and Least painful way to publish:

Book Reviews 1) See Khun Poolsook for new books2) Decide what to possibly read and

write about.3) Query editors.

Choosing journals:

http://archive.sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/08/feb17-08_2/

Rank 2006 Impact Factor 1 J. Economic Literature

(4.67)2 Quart. J. Economics

(3.94) 3 J. Accounting & Econ.

(3.36)

Who are editors and what do they want?

Elsevier:http://

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More from Elsevier:http://

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and http://

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Viewpoint from Springer Verlag:http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPcVjT7tKo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JjfIb-IeSE

16 points - Contributors' guidelines:

1) An article is ideally news which the author is excited to communicate to readers, on a subject which has rarely been dealt with, or otherwise

notably original. 2) Article titles should be catchy and

informative.

3) Article length should be 6000-10,000 words, including

everything, including abstract. The shorter, the better.

4) No simultaneous submissions are accepted.

5) They rightly stress many times the importance of perfect English, and even

say that although British or American English are both acceptable, it is not acceptable to write in a mixture of

British and American English (so choose one!) They propose you pay them for

editing services!

6) They offer ways to get closer to the editorial staff:

a) Volunteer as a referee, evaluating one article per year, or

b) Propose yourself as guest editor of a special issue on a theme which you

consider to be essential but understudied -- these are two ways

to get closer to editorial boards.

7) Separate files are required for all figures, diagrams, etc. when you submit

the article 8) Sections and subsections should be numbered as in 1.1 (then 1.1.1., 1.1.2)

although the abstract should not be numbered -- also these numbers should be referred to within the article to direct the reader to a specific section of your article

if you refer to it again --

9) They recommend combining the Results and Discussion sections, and adding a short subsection to

this "Results and Discussion" section in which conclusions are

given. 10) Avoid any abbreviations in the

article title.

11) They require Highlights, or from three to five bullet points (maximum 85 characters long, including spaces)

naming the basic findings of the article and presented on a separate file -- 12) Every reference cited in the text must be mentioned in the reference

list.

13) If you cite an article with three or more authors, name the first author only and then follow it with "et al." "Kramer

et al. (2010) showed" 14) There are rules on how to abbreviate

the names of journals, see online at Index Medicus journal abbreviations:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals

15) It can take 5 months or so for the referees to decide if they want to accept your article -- if they decide not to even bother sending it to referees, then you

hear back from them sooner. If you have been accepted, they send you a pdf file, and no more changes unless the editor

approves them, and you must reply within 48 hours or they just print it anyway as is.

16) Originality is important in terms of what is accepted –

articles should deal with debates of international interest.

General thoughts:

Self-realization anddepartmental cooperationare not mutually exclusive.

Departmental solidarity - some lecturers have lunch and coffee

togetherBut few if any use the common

room for lunch - a natural place to meet and catch up.

Monday seminars - occasions for exchange with colleagues:

a) Seeing the outside worldb) Hearing research newly

published or soon to be publishedc)Testing your own ideas

d) Showing departmental solidarity - an economist travels far to speak

to us, and of a department of dozens of professors, only a

handful show up, which can seem like a less than enthused welcome.

e) Very few women faculty members attend these seminars and even fewer speak up to ask questions.This gives a false impression to

visitors that our department is sexist and has almost no female professors

and these few are terrified into silence.

After 2015 there will be more interaction based in English-

language exchange yet nothing is being done to prepare for this.Recent Indonesian Ministry of Trade delegation handout that

spelled Thammasat wrong will be no longer acceptable.

What we can do: Avoid the pitfalls of incorrect “Thai

English”

“Supply and demand,” (correct) not

“demand and supply” (wrong)

When to use the article "the“ -Read the rules, or play the

percentagesby acting against your instinct to

get it right --

Do not use Latin or Latin abbreviations until

Your own English is perfectNo i.e., e.g., viz., etc!

because being wrong and pretentious is worse than just being

wrong --

If years are cited in a sentence, mention them at the beginning of

the sentence:

In 1925, John Maynard Keynes married a ballerina...

General Advice:1) Annoy your dissertation adviser

regularly2) Take daily total immersion baths in English. Remember the Pleasure

Principle:

3) To maintain and improve your level of English, find ways to use English

every day which involve fun, and not merely job responsibilities.

4) To write well, you must read well. Take time daily to read in English in a

subject which you love, for fun.

5) Bother Aj. Benjamin for advice about English. That is why he is

here.

6. As a wise emeritus professor of the Economics department said: Look outward, not just inward.