Authoring a PhD Thesis How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Dissertation by Patrick Dunleavy

you recorded inadequately source details at the outset. If you are using notes, significant ‘version control’ problems between t ...

227 Publishing Your Research What good is a good idea if no one ever hears it? AT & T advert^1 P ublishing your work is the ...

understand the journals market in your discipline and form a clear idea of what gets published in the discipline’s journals, and ...

PUBLISHING YOUR RESEARCH◆ 229 This is especially the case if the journal positively needs copy just to keep its pages filled, or ...

Citation scores. Every year the ISI ‘Web of Knowledge’ bibliometric system counts how much articles published in each of the jou ...

cover a whole discipline, especially those run by prestigious professional associations. By contrast, most recent start-up journ ...

cases the editors of highly prestigious journals can create a time lag from acceptance to publication which is up to 30 months o ...

Editorial boards (sometimes also called advisory boards) are a much more distant influence on what journals do than are the edit ...

misguided editors deliberately cultivate a ‘classical’ (that is, unreadable) format for their journals, under the illusion that ...

But this is still a developing area, and across most of the humanities and social sciences Web-only articles are not yet seen as ...

Poor Below Average, Good, above Excellent, average competent average outstanding Originality or novelty of approach: 1 2 3 4 5 S ...

professionally competent. There are some exceptions in parts of the humanities, a few solely theoretical areas that may place a ...

238 ◆AUTHORING A PHD readership in professionally related fields. Editors of this kind of journal will not want to run material ...

Of most papers they looked at the evaluation team concluded that: ‘their main purpose lies in providing redundancy and assurance ...

So far I have focused solely on main articles in journals, which are the primary means for advancing professional knowledge, and ...

journal editor you are targeting before you begin work. Give a brief outline of what you propose and the treatment you will use, ...

starting position. They conducted their analysis clearly and incisively to show hidden layers of causation or meaning or complex ...

stand up is bit by bit destroyed. Getting to anything but a com- monplace explanation turns out to be overwhelmingly more comple ...

at last writes back accepting it, and after a very long further wait it duly appears in print. In due course the article is refe ...

interpreted in a context where other scholars can grasp it as sig- nificant for some controversy or debate in their discipline. ...