{"id":9550,"date":"2018-05-25T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:16:55","slug":"does-no-one-read-the-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9550","title":{"rendered":"Does No One Read the Description?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in my first month as managing editor of the (long-gone) Colorado Outdoor Journal <\/em>when an article came in about fishing in Utah. Hello? “Colorado” is in the title.<\/p>\n

When I was freelancing for commercial magazines, I was told always to read at least a couple of issues before submitting an article query, advice that I passed along to my students. The same would hold with academic journals \u2014 you would think \u2014 since they are often so narrowly defined.<\/p>\n

On May 16th, an article came in through The Pomegranate’s<\/em> online submission process (which requires filling in various fields in the Online Journal System) titled “The Holy Qur’an: The Origin of Human Discourse in Ethics.”<\/p>\n

Less than a week later, one of the co-authors, who appeared to be teaching in the Islamic Education Department at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences<\/a> in Iran, is writing to me wanting know my editorial decision on the piece.<\/p>\n

So (a) she\/they is unclear what “peer-reviewed journal” means and (b) she\/they missed all the language on the main page<\/a> about “Pagan,” “polytheist,” “reconstructionist,” etc.<\/p>\n

Maybe “Pomegranate” <\/em>just sounded Middle Eastern?<\/p>\n

I sent a PDF of the last issue with my response, just to make the point that their piece outside our remit. Very far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was in my first month as managing editor of the (long-gone) Colorado Outdoor Journal when an article came in about fishing in Utah. Hello? “Colorado” is in the title. When I was freelancing for commercial magazines, I was told always to read at least a couple of issues before submitting an article query, advice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,7,12],"class_list":["post-9550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-publishing","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2u2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11292,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11292","url_meta":{"origin":9550,"position":0},"title":"“The Witches of Manitou”\u2014More than an Urban Legend","author":"Chas S. 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