I applaud your efforts to try to fund mainstream research. I have one reservation, namely that your requirement that the research be published in a particular list of journals is quite strong. Unless the person in question has a strong publication track record in these kinds of journals (something regular grant agencies also look for) it is very difficult to guarantee that the paper will in fact pass peer review in these journals.
Unless the person in question has a strong publication track record in these kinds of journals (something regular grant agencies also look for) it is very difficult to guarantee that the paper will in fact pass peer review in these journals.
The use of a high status name and academic affiliations sufficient to get accepted by a target journal is quite possibly the most valuable element of the service being purchased.
As well, when it will be published could be a big deal. A paper spending years in the review process is not all that unlikely- and so if the writer is only paid when it’s actually accepted for submission, that could mean the money spends a long time in limbo.
Well, she agreed to the deal and is as much an academic as either you or Ilya, so either the deal has details not mentioned which make it seem less harsh, or she believes it’s not so hard or slow as you do.
Dear Luke,
I applaud your efforts to try to fund mainstream research. I have one reservation, namely that your requirement that the research be published in a particular list of journals is quite strong. Unless the person in question has a strong publication track record in these kinds of journals (something regular grant agencies also look for) it is very difficult to guarantee that the paper will in fact pass peer review in these journals.
The use of a high status name and academic affiliations sufficient to get accepted by a target journal is quite possibly the most valuable element of the service being purchased.
As well, when it will be published could be a big deal. A paper spending years in the review process is not all that unlikely- and so if the writer is only paid when it’s actually accepted for submission, that could mean the money spends a long time in limbo.
Well, she agreed to the deal and is as much an academic as either you or Ilya, so either the deal has details not mentioned which make it seem less harsh, or she believes it’s not so hard or slow as you do.
Very likely.
I am amused by the possibility that accepting a grant to do decision theory work is itself a poor decision.
One imagines Briggs’s mental monologue: “maybe I should calculate the EV of this paper… Come on, Rachel, this is serious!”