Maintaining a good journal must be difficult, The editors have to keep intact their audience. Efforts of all editors are much appreciated. However, the fact they are also humans cannot be ignored. They also have their specific preferences. I am struggling to publish my work in well-known journals but something strange one editor told me and that was "Your data has been collected in context of Pakistan, Pakistan has its dynamics, there are certain regulations which sets it apart from rest of the world; therefore you cannot generalize your results" My response was as per positivist viewpoint the reality is universal. She told me to submit to another journal. She helped me a lot, but I felt like there is an approach in the west that a study conducted on a small store of taxes is accepted as an update in existing theory, but findings from an Asian country are considered the Asia Pacific or supporting some-western author given theory
What do you think? Have you ever experienced this type of situation? Can Journal western editors be biased? Biased concerning accepting the research papers from underdeveloped or developed countries as a major theory particular in social sciences?
Note: Over here, my experience can be ignored because I am new in research, a beginner. I have to learn many things and the editors are helping me a lot. Also English is not my first language. but, I think, the idea must be accepted does not matter where it is coming from, if its following all methodologies and is based on positivism world view. Looking forward to hearing your experiences.
As a researcher from the Global South (Brazil), I faced some prejudice in editorial responses from important journals. However, most of reviews I get are concerned with theoretical or methodological questions of my work rather than anything else.
In my experience, the way one expresses his/her ideas can matter much more than what people realize. To simply generalize from one experience to general theories can be highly problematic. It is necessary first to justify the reasons that make Pakistani experiences so relevant for the theory used/developed; then one needs to acknowledge the theoretical problems of doing such an endeavor; last one presents the contribution of such experiences in the related field/theory.
Perhaps the sui generis of Pakistan practices/occurrences in your subject can be exactly what makes it a proper subject...
I hope I have helped you a bit! Cheers!
As a researcher from the Global South (Brazil), I faced some prejudice in editorial responses from important journals. However, most of reviews I get are concerned with theoretical or methodological questions of my work rather than anything else.
In my experience, the way one expresses his/her ideas can matter much more than what people realize. To simply generalize from one experience to general theories can be highly problematic. It is necessary first to justify the reasons that make Pakistani experiences so relevant for the theory used/developed; then one needs to acknowledge the theoretical problems of doing such an endeavor; last one presents the contribution of such experiences in the related field/theory.
Perhaps the sui generis of Pakistan practices/occurrences in your subject can be exactly what makes it a proper subject...
I hope I have helped you a bit! Cheers!
There is the human factor definitely. However as someone from a developing world, I have observed that most of our writings are substandard. I think the editors of journals in developed states need to maintain the standards. There is a trend in the developing countries that one must publish and they end up with a lot of substandard work in predatory journals. I think it is always worth the effort to publish in well edited journals.
Es importante tener en cuenta que cualquier evaluación, por rigurosa que sea, tiene un alto componente de subjetividad. Por otra parte, las revistas también tienen un perfil que debe tenerse en cuenta al momento de selección para enviar los productos que se quiere postular a publicación.
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