Q&A: Experienced advice for “lost” graduate students in Economics
Ariel Rubinstein
Happy Hour, NYU, October 28th, 2011
http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/8QA.pdf
其中一些问题和回答有着特殊性,可能未必适合中国研究生。但其中有一段关于发表的论述值得思考:
Q6. My paper has just been rejected. What should I do?
I have a lot of experience with the mental state you must be in, so I have three pieces
of advice:
a) Don't read the referee reports. They are likely to depress you. Even if they are
potentially useful, you are not in a state of mind to enjoy them.
b) Find comfort with my motto: "A paper that has not been rejected should not be
published."
But beware of the faulty logic in assuming that "every paper that has been rejected
should be published."
c) If the report was really idiotic, do a service to the profession by following my
example and posting it on your website.
In 2000, I received a report from a very sharp editor of a "local Cambridge journal".
My paper criticized hyperbolic discounting, which was becoming increasingly popular at
the time. The editor wrote: "There are certainly many smart things in the piece but... this
seems like a critique of the current approach which is right in many ways, but critiques ...
of existing research are best fit to more specialized outlets". My posting of the letter was more significant than the paper itself...



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