So now, SP and SF, which is better in terms of prestige?
Recent experiences with Social Forces?
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He also makes decisions on a number of papers before he sends them out. For those he wants to reject, he typically leans on UNC grad students to do the hatchet work. If he likes it, he'll send it with a note to one of his pals.
Pretty sure this is not true. Grad student editors seem to handle everything there.
May help explain why there is so much variation. Get a good grad student editor, your life is good. Get a bad one, you're in for a nightmare.
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There are a handful of grad student assistants (editors, whatever you want to call them) at a lot of different places. The communications you receive from the editor are all handled by these assistants. This is true at ASR, AJS, SF, and probably every other journal you send your stuff to.
What I heard is that at SF grad student assistants usually pick the reviewers, not the editor, unless there is a conflict of interest where the editor needs to step in. I don't think this is that unusual either but there might not be as much oversight as other places (AJS under Abbott had staff meetings to discuss things like that).
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RE: There are a handful of grad student assistants (editors, whatever you want to call them) at a lot of different places. The communications you receive from the editor are all handled by these assistants. This is true at ASR, AJS, SF, and probably every other journal you send your stuff to.
Just about every journal has grad students that assist. Generally, the first read is by a grad student. What happens from there varies. At some places, the grad student sends it to the editor with a recommendation. At others, the grad student decides whether to send out or desk reject (this probably explains why some journals don't desk reject as much as they should). For these journals, the grad student usually chooses the reviewers.
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Yup. 9 months to hear back initially - a major R&R with three fairly positive reviews. He sent it back to fully three new reviewers, plus one of the original reviewers (of the original ones, one review was too nice so he didn't want to send it back to them and another person was unavailable). Waited 6 more months to find out that it was rejected because the reviewers brought up new concerns. Don't waste your time there.