QUERY How to promote good work

[<richard.dudley@attglobal.net]

Posted by <Richard.Dudley@attglobal.net>

Regarding Yahoo Groups lists. There is already a System Dynamics list on Yahoo with over 300 members, but it is almost exclusively in INDONESIAN. Only a few of these members are members of the System Dynamics Society.
Even though some of those members also subscribe to this list, it might be useful for selected announcements from the society to be posted there...
especially those related to special membership rates.

(Recent topics on the list have been about bird flu, poverty and reports from the Boston meeting)

The Indonesian list is at: sysdyn@yahoogroups.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sysdyn/

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Richard G. Dudley
Posted by <Richard.Dudley@attglobal.net> posting date Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:50:08 -0700 _______________________________________________

[oner@boun.edu.tr Quoting SDMA]

Posted by oner@boun.edu.tr

Quoting SDMAIL George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu>:
>> Our journal has an international editorial board that similarly works
>> hard to present to its readers the very best work in the field. And
>> it publishes applied work as well as academic work (as an academic
>> doing applied work I don't like that distinction, but others
>> apparently want to be able to make it). Accepting an article for
>> publication is a form of adulation that serves a very high purpose in
>> a field: it leads to the regular appearance of the best submitted
>> work, so it serves to show what really good work should look like.
>> Flagging high quality work is indeed constructive for a field.
>>
>> I have to hope that the filtering that goes on to select award
>> winners and journal publications searches for methodological
>> correctness rather than ""political"" correctness.

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My idea of ""peer review process"" is ""improvement"" of the submitted work, not its rejection and elimination. This brings in the concept of ""waiting time"" which may be longer for some submitted papers.

SDR editorial team members need to change their attitude and behavior (actions).
Paper with ""irrelevant"" political message, but with no real modeling qualities is easily accepted. Our paper is rejected, although it reports improvement on a model published in SDR.

Greetings,

M. Atilla Öner
Posted by oner@boun.edu.tr
posting date Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:40:32 +0300 _______________________________________________