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[prof_smartypants]

I published two articles in student journals (which are technically, "peer-reviewed") while I was a grad student. It definitely helped me in the job market. However, such publications would not be looked at kindly if that's all that was in my tenure file... if I ever have one of those.

[lightmoon]

I would like to ask a question in line with this subject: Is it ethical not to send an article to an online journal when the editorial team of this journal has already given a revised and resubmit and is waiting for the article to be published? I am in a humanities field and online articles are not too impressive to many. In the process of revising I have realized that this article could have a very good chance to be published by a top tier journal.  I would appreciate any comments (I really hope I have not hijacked this thread). Thank you.

[helpful]

I would like to ask a question in line with this subject: Is it ethical not to send an article to an online journal when the editorial team of this journal has already given a revised and resubmit and is waiting for the article to be published? I am in a humanities field and online articles are not too impressive to many. In the process of revising I have realized that this article could have a very good chance to be published by a top tier journal.  I would appreciate any comments (I really hope I have not hijacked this thread). Thank you.

Why not publish two articles, each one with a different angle on the same subject? (I know of one promiment researcher who essentially published the same data in at least 14 different articles and book chapters. Each of the articles/chapters used a different lense to look at the same data).

[punchnpie]

racerboy, may I suggest you turn your corn shucking interests to the great state of Iowa, where we know how to shuck corn with grace and style. http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/8/12/7230/79925/travel/There%27s+Nothing+Corny+About+Iowa%27s+%27Shuckfest+2009%27
 

[racerboy]

The Journal of Northwestern Corn Farming History is the place for the essay on "Corn Shucking Parties and Regional Identity in Pocatello, Idaho from 1931-1936."  Does you article provide a nice little case history? 

Damn.  Ten years of work on this only to find that belowtheradar has beat me to publication.

Ah, but you are in luck!  I have many brilliant insights into this issue but I will not release it to the jackals peer reviewers of the JNCFH until it is perfect.  I have my standards and I will not be stampeded into premature publication by popular demand or the insane requirements of my Tenured Masters!

 I expect that my seminal contribution to "identity studies" via a micro-history of Idaho's small farmers will be ready in early 2012.  If you would like to try to place your undoubtedly inferior study (I can only conclude that given that you have devoted a mere decade to the subject),  I cannot in good conscience stop you. <she says with her wrist to her forehead>

Punhnpie is right.  Idaho's corn-shucking is merely a subculture, whereas Iowa's is clearly a hegemonic one.  It's all yours, belowtheradar.  I will plan to write a snarky review of your monograph sometime in 2013.

[the_honey_badger]

The Journal of Northwestern Corn Farming History is the place for the essay on "Corn Shucking Parties and Regional Identity in Pocatello, Idaho from 1931-1936."  Does you article provide a nice little case history? 

Damn.  Ten years of work on this only to find that belowtheradar has beat me to publication.

Ah, but you are in luck!  I have many brilliant insights into this issue but I will not release it to the jackals peer reviewers of the JNCFH until it is perfect.  I have my standards and I will not be stampeded into premature publication by popular demand or the insane requirements of my Tenured Masters!

 I expect that my seminal contribution to "identity studies" via a micro-history of Idaho's small farmers will be ready in early 2012.  If you would like to try to place your undoubtedly inferior study (I can only conclude that given that you have devoted a mere decade to the subject),  I cannot in good conscience stop you. <she says with her wrist to her forehead>

Punhnpie is right.  Idaho's corn-shucking is merely a subculture, whereas Iowa's is clearly a hegemonic one.  It's all yours, belowtheradar.  I will plan to write a snarky review of your monograph sometime in 2013.

You'll probably want to get in line now.

[inquirer]

  I appreciate all the comments.  I was not thinking of a lower-tier journal because I thought it would accept lower-quality work (though I guess my experience tells me that what I consider good-quality work and what reviewers at the top journals in my field consider good-quality work differ).   The reason I was thinking of lower-tier journals is that there would be, I assume, less competition. So in my field, everybody wants to be published in _New Testament Studies_, so the percentage of MSS rejected to the percentage accepted is a pretty drastic in difference.  I would assume, though I could be mistaken, that a much lesser-known journal, maybe one published by a seminary, would still be peer-reviewed (I wouldn't want to publish in anything else) but probably gets relatively fewer submissions, so the acceptance to rejection ratio is much better.  If this is a false belief, then I will by all means start at the top, though I'm still trying to figure out what magical thing one has to do to get published there.   When I get comments from two top-tier journals, and the comments conflict, it's difficult to know what to do.  I have been published in some pretty good journals but not the very top few in my field.