Advantages of English-language publication:
1) Salary and promotion2) Fun – pleasure
3) The grand tour of delivering the same paper at different overseas
locations.
Trauma and stress of successful overseas PhD student –
1) Stress of going overseas2) Stress of finishing doctoral thesis3) Culture shock of returning to the
Kingdom
4) Stress of knowing you are fixed in one job for several years
5) Stress of work and preparing lessons for the first time
6) Stress of returning home to live with parents and siblings.
And these are the successful students!
1) Do not compartmentalize overseas experience and shut it off as something dead
and finished.2) Try to use it as much as possible in your
everyday life.3) Keep up academic and friendly ties you
made during your years overseas.4) Plan for further collaborations with former fellow students, professors and PhD adviser.
Why your PhD adviser loves you:
1) Unlike all other students, you never bother them for reference letters to get jobs; you have a
job. All other students repeatedly annoy professors for letters for post doc fellowships, temporary jobs, tenure track jobs, etc. You do
not. Annoy them for other things.
2) Annoy them to help you get published - can you collaborate on research? Or set up an exchange
program with our department and your PhD program. Can they give a guest
lecture at our department?3) PhD adviser is a relationship for life -
you have added to their prestige by adding to their list of PhD students.
Grab every chance to meet foreign economists, at the department’s
regular lecture series and elsewhere, and network
energetically.
Highest Impact and Least painful way to publish:
Book Reviews 1) See Khun Poolsook for new
books2) Decide what to possibly read
and write about.3) Query editors.
Rank 2006 Impact Factor 1 J. Economic Literature
(4.67)2 Quart. J. Economics
(3.94) 3 J. Accounting & Econ.
(3.36)
Who are editors and what do they want?
Elsevier:http://
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More from Elsevier:http://
mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/ReedElsevier/6df160b9de-28220-2251-31265
and http://
mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/ReedElsevier/509ba7e7a9-28221-2251-31500
Viewpoint from Springer Verlag:http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPcVjT7tKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JjfIb-IeSE
16 points - Contributors' guidelines:
1) An article is ideally news which the author is excited to communicate to readers, on a
subject which has rarely been dealt with, or otherwise notably original.
2) Article titles should be catchy and informative.
3) Article length should be 6000-10,000 words, including
everything, including abstract. The shorter, the better.
4) No simultaneous submissions are accepted.
5) They rightly stress many times the importance of perfect English, and even say that although British or
American English are both acceptable, it is not acceptable to write in a
mixture of British and American English (so choose one!) They propose you pay
them for editing services!
6) They offer ways to get closer to the editorial staff:
a) Volunteer as a referee, evaluating one article per year, or
b) Propose yourself as guest editor of a special issue on a theme which
you consider to be essential but understudied -- these are two ways
to get closer to editorial boards.
7) Separate files are required for all figures, diagrams, etc. when you submit
the article 8) Sections and subsections should be numbered as in 1.1 (then 1.1.1., 1.1.2)
although the abstract should not be numbered -- also these numbers should be referred to within the article to direct the reader to a specific section of your
article if you refer to it again --
9) They recommend combining the Results and Discussion sections, and adding a short subsection to
this "Results and Discussion" section in which conclusions are
given. 10) Avoid any abbreviations in the
article title.
11) They require Highlights, or from three to five bullet points (maximum 85 characters long, including spaces)
naming the basic findings of the article and presented on a separate file -- 12) Every reference cited in the text must be mentioned in the reference
list.
13) If you cite an article with three or more authors, name the first author only and then follow it with "et al." "Kramer
et al. (2010) showed" 14) There are rules on how to abbreviate
the names of journals, see online at Index Medicus journal abbreviations:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals
15) It can take 5 months or so for the referees to decide if they want to accept your article -- if they decide not to even bother sending it to referees, then you
hear back from them sooner. If you have been accepted, they send you a pdf file, and no more changes unless the editor
approves them, and you must reply within 48 hours or they just print it anyway as is.
16) Originality is important in terms of what is accepted –
articles should deal with debates of international interest.
Departmental solidarity - some lecturers have lunch and coffee
togetherBut few if any use the common
room for lunch - a natural place to meet and catch up.
Monday seminars - occasions for exchange with colleagues:
a) Seeing the outside worldb) Hearing research newly
published or soon to be publishedc)Testing your own ideas
d) Showing departmental solidarity - an economist travels far to speak
to us, and of a department of dozens of professors, only a
handful show up, which can seem like a less than enthused welcome.
e) Very few women faculty members attend these seminars and even fewer speak up to ask questions.This gives a false impression to
visitors that our department is sexist and has almost no female professors
and these few are terrified into silence.
After 2015 there will be more interaction based in English-
language exchange yet nothing is being done to prepare for this.Recent Indonesian Ministry of Trade delegation handout that
spelled Thammasat wrong will be no longer acceptable.
What we can do: Avoid the pitfalls of incorrect “Thai
English”
“Supply and demand,” (correct) not
“demand and supply” (wrong)
When to use the article "the“ -Read the rules, or play the
percentagesby acting against your instinct to
get it right --
Do not use Latin or Latin abbreviations until
Your own English is perfectNo i.e., e.g., viz., etc!
because being wrong and pretentious is worse than just being
wrong --
If years are cited in a sentence, mention them at the beginning of
the sentence:
In 1925, John Maynard Keynes married a ballerina...
General Advice:1) Annoy your dissertation adviser
regularly2) Take daily total immersion baths in English. Remember the Pleasure
Principle:
3) To maintain and improve your level of English, find ways to use English
every day which involve fun, and not merely job responsibilities.
4) To write well, you must read well. Take time daily to read in English in a
subject which you love, for fun.