Sat, 6 Aug 1994 10:51:19 -0700 for Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 11:51:19 -0600 (MDT) From: rebel palm aitchison Subject: Re: tell me it's not true! To: Social Science Research Methods Instructors On Sat, 6 Aug 1994, Henry Flores wrote: > the other thing is why waste your time, a lot of people dont even > read the big name journals!? there are plenty of subdiscipline > specific journals where the competition is real and that are > considered important in their own right. > henry flores > department of political science > st. marys university > san antonio, tx > I know, I stopped reading the big name journals becausen the articles all seemed in the same self-congratulatory tone. Now I know why. I'll be keeping my eye out for the subdiscipline journals and the Journal of Discarded Hypotheses. How about a Journal of Politically Incorrect Hypotheses? It's just that it really bothered me because-- 1. in order to get on faculty, the "right" things have to be on your Vita. 2. one of the "right" things is to get published in the "right" journals. 3. the "right" journals will only accept confirmatory results. 4. you've spent 8 years working on a project that wasn't confirmed. 5. do you now 1) squirrel your results so you can get published in the "right" place? or 2) do you bite the bullet, write up your findings as they really were and publish them in a less "correct" journal? 6. what does this do to your integrity as 1) a researcher, and 2) a faculty member, and 3) a teacher (which all faculty members ultimately must be)? 7. what does this do to the integrity and credibility of your field which is represented to other fields by these major journals? 8. what do you teach your students who are the future sociologists, political scientists, educators, economists, etc. who will be doing research themselves?