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  • 1.  Academic Rankings

    Posted 04-12-2009 16:16

    Hi Nancy Adler:

     

    Regarding your recent AMLE article, I think that it is clear the AOM lobbyists have captured our management journals and this accounts for the dysfunctions in our publishing systems.  This is the trend for any publishing system that allows poorly trained professionals to edit and review studies that they do not understand.  We need much better gatekeepers.

    At the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Illinois</st1:placename></st1:place>, Champaign-Urbana, we assumed three kinds of psychology departments: (a) They weighted publications, (b) They counted publications or (c) They read articles critically.  We need more threes.

    You are proposing a game-changing strategy to achieve your standards, e.g., "Has the scholar asked an important question and investigated it in such a way that it has potential to advance societal understanding and well being?  I've supported such efforts for the past 40+ years.

    Good fortune with it.

     

    Cheers,

    George Graen

    CSMS

    /jag


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  • 2.  Academic Rankings

    Posted 04-13-2009 01:43

    George,

    I guess the old addage that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance holds true in many areas.

    You mentioned below that "We need more threes" and I assume that you mean "more Cs", from a strictly critical mind perspective.

    cheers,

    -rr  
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "George Graen" <Lmxlotus@AOL.COM>
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:16:02 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
    Subject: Academic Rankings

    Hi Nancy Adler:

     

    Regarding your recent AMLE article, I think that it is clear the AOM lobbyists have captured our management journals and this accounts for the dysfunctions in our publishing systems.  This is the trend for any publishing system that allows poorly trained professionals to edit and review studies that they do not understand.  We need much better gatekeepers.

    At the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, we assumed three kinds of psychology departments: (a) They weighted publications, (b) They counted publications or (c) They read articles critically.  We need more threes.

    You are proposing a game-changing strategy to achieve your standards, e.g., "Has the scholar asked an important question and investigated it in such a way that it has potential to advance societal understanding and well being?  I've supported such efforts for the past 40+ years.

    Good fortune with it.

     

    Cheers,

    George Graen

    CSMS

    /jag


    A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!


  • 3.  Academic Rankings

    Posted 04-13-2009 03:50
    In a message dated 4/13/2009 12:44:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, rustyrae@comcast.net writes:

    George,

    I guess the old addage that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance holds true in many areas.

    You mentioned below that "We need more threes" and I assume that you mean "more Cs", from a strictly critical mind perspective.

    cheers,

    -rr

    Yes and thx.
     
    George

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