20 Journal invites, I don’t think, ever work in favor of graduate students. They can be neutral or negative. It’s never “I was going to publish your work in Macromolecules, but Peter Stang just emailed me asking for an article for a special issue dedicated to John Edward Hollister Montagu, the 11th Earl of Sandwich .” It happens more frequently that the exact opposite happens or, if you’re lucky, you work out some sort of lateral jump like Food Chemistry to … whatever is lateral to that… Highlights Magazine, I guess.
Not saying it’s me, but let’s say I know this guy… named… uhh… Khyle Al-Finchsimuhatid… he’s Muslim… and had a pretty sweet paper that everyone was like “oh, that’ll make a good JOC Note” and he was always like “yeah, it will make a pretty sweet JOC note” and then some editor at some journal wants to throw a journal party for some guy and poor Khyle’s boss gets a call and… well… whatever… it’s not going to be a pretty sweet JOC note. I’m not saying I’m pissed or anything. Because I’m not Khyle Al-Finchsimuhatid. But he’s not pissed either… you know. It’s the same paper, it will just get read by 2 or 3 people instead of, you know, however many people actually read JOC notes.
I’m just throwing it out there, if anyone cares. Stop the invitations to publish in your shitty journals. You’re killing us.
Seriously. Killing. Us.
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Just say no.
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+10.
Sucks to be you!
Karl, did you even read what he wrote? It sucks to be Khyle Al-Finchsimuhatid, not Kyle.
If it was only going to be a note, I don’t see the big deal.
Mitch
I think the big deal is: you aim for the best journal you can get into, because it’s in your best interest to. But no, instead of submitting to the best journal you can get into, you are forced, by “invitation,” to publish in the Journal of Last Resort. I don’t read the Journal of Last Resort, and when I have to, my stomach goes in a knot because of the low standards of the editorial board. That one published there reflects upon the quality of research one does. So yeah, it’s a big deal.
I had one of my articles appear in a *Special Issue/Dedication To Professor X* some time ago. Albeit that journal wasn’t one of last resort, ALL of the articles published in that special issue were well cited in the literature. Certainly more citations than a regular article in that journal.
Also, the editorial board most likely has nothing to do with the standards of a special issue. It is typically assembled by a colleague of Famous Professor X.
This may not be such a bad thing for Khyle.
So it is not going to JOC… big deal. Many times, special issues in non-acs journals can be a very good thing. Your work might be published along side the heavy hitters in the field. In which case you should be honored that your work is comparable to what they do.
I only say this because I happened to be in a thematic issue along with some very important people. I got some nice emails from people who would never have chatted with me otherwise.
Of course, if you are shooting for impact factor or bragging rights, just decline the invite.
Oh, like I say Khyle isn’t (that) upset about it, honestly. He was just very irritated by the mockery his peers were giving him when he had to sheepishly admit that it wasn’t, indeed, going into JOC.
The taunts of the children can be so merciless!
Who knows who’s publishing in this special issue – it could be a very good thing or it could be a shitty thing. The important thing is that people related to the work will certain read it, even if people outside of the field won’t. So, it’s a good thing and a bad thing, but on a weighted average, it’s not likely a good thing. I mean, after all, while Khyle has lofty ideals about the purity of science, he’s also an ambitious motherfucker.
(Can Khyle write “Special issue” on his CV or would that be too pretentious and snobby?)
I think he should write “Special Issue” in the publications part right after the title of the journal in italics. For example
Kristofferson, K.; Joplin, J., 2009, Dalton Transactions: Special issue dedicated to the 100th birthday of H.C. Brown, 118(5), 1118-1124.
Hmmm… that’s not a bad idea.
Can Khyle write “Special issue” on his CV or would that be too pretentious and snobby?
Nope, not snobby at all. Myloe did. Made for good interview conversation
The simple solution is for the Nanny State to back off (i.e., “fuck off”) and let us do good chemistry in our garages, kitchens, and bathrooms. Our highly remunerative day jobs can be hurting people with machine shops in their garages, kitchens, and bathrooms – they’re terrorists.
“Your?” Seriously? Twice?
Khyle Al-Finchsimuhatid ghostwrote this post, not Kyle. So leave him alone, English isn’t his first language.
Liar. I see no mistakes. Clearly you were mistaken.
Dear Dan,
Stop grammar goose-stepping and work up your reactions!
Love,
619
619 – That wasn’t me – I was working up my rxns biatch. plus I can’t spell
I had this happen as an undergrad. I was mostly done with a project that would have been potentially JACS-worthy (or JOC at worst). Instead it was truncated and hied off to Tetrahedron. Insert mega-frowny face.