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Compares U.S., Latin American, and Caribbean editors, examining their evaluations of world press problems to understand their underlying news values and perceptions of the role of the press in society. Finds that U.S. and Latin American editors see press freedom as an important world problem but differ on developmental journalism. (MM)

A survey of 23 scholarly journal editors in five countries concerning the qualities of acceptable and unacceptable articles is reported. Common problems, ways of improving manuscript quality, the role of the reviewer, and practical suggestions for aspiring authors are addressed. Emphasis is placed on getting published. (Author/MSE)

The author reflects on his tenure and his retirement as editor in chief of the journal. He talks about his interview with the journal's Board of Trustees when he first got the role, his participation at the Council of Science Editors and its brief course for new editors, and one of the most enjoyable privileges of his tenure.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to offer diverse viewpoints on the potential impact of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids on patients and hearing health care professionals. OTC hearing aids are discussed from the perspective of an editor of a hearing industry trade publication, an audiologist and business owner, a hearing aid user and consumer advocate, and a researcher and professor. Conclusions: Given the increasing attention surrounding OTCs, there is a need to understand diverse perspectives. The editor provides a historical context and overview of the Food and Drug Administration's OTC regulations and reflects on implications based on nearly 3 decades of experience reporting on the hearing industry. An audiologist provides her perspective on what she has observed among clinicians who appear to either resist or embrace the OTC hearing aid concept and offers recommendations for how to engage with OTCs for the benefit of patients. A hearing aid user and consumer advocate shares how OTCs might impact her own hearing care and comments on how audiologists can support consumers who choose OTCs. Lastly, a researcher offers her response to common concerns based in the literature and comments on the perceived value of OTC hearing aids. This article is concluded with a discussion on future areas of need and recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurse editor is a critical leadership role for the nursing profession that requires expertise in nursing and other skills. Nurse editors shoulder a great deal of responsibility and work, and they should be compensated adequately. Updated and expanded information about nurse editors' compensation is presented. Data were collected via an anonymous crosssectional Internet survey. The number of hours journal editors worked and their compensation varied widely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the results of a survey of readers regarding the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). Survey results are discussed for topics including the demographics of LITA members, the level of satisfaction that readers have with LITA and the journal, and readers' views on the direction that LITA should take in the future.

We examined publication trends in the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education (JTPE) in terms of total representation as well as trends by decade of the (a) sex and country of affiliation of editors, (b) sex and country of affiliation of editorial board members, (c) sex and country of affiliation of first authors, (d) types of manuscripts published, and (e) foci of those manuscripts. Overall results suggest that female scholars have achieved parity in terms in editorships and editorial memberships on the JTPE board. In terms of international representation, whereas the editorships remain predominately in the hands of those from the United States, there is an increasing international representation on the editorial board. The majority of submissions come from the United States, with just under one-sixth coming from other countries. In terms of the focus and type of manuscript published, results show a diverse range, thus reflecting a nonpartisan journal defined by problems and settings, rather than methodology or ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although there are numerous anecdotal reports, there are few systematic studies of advertisers' attempts to influence news reports. The two empirical studies that examined advertising pressures on editors and writers at farm, business, and consumer magazines found that the pressure is much greater than suggested by academic writers. Another study of television found organizational pressures to approve deceptive program-length advertisements, i.e., infomercials. This study extended the empirical research about advertising pressures to newspapers. A survey of editors at daily newspapers found that just under ninety percent reported that advertisers attempted to influence the content of stories appearing in their papers; ninety percent had economic pressure applied on them by advertisers because of their reporting; and thirty-seven percent had capitulated to advertiser pressure. Despite these pressures, eighty-five percent of the editors reported that their papers carry stories that advertisers "find critical or harmful." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs on industrial relations in the U.S. as of July 1952. Robert H. Ferguson has been appointed as the new editor of Industrial and Labor Relations Review. He will be replacing Milton R. Konvitz. The Commission on Labor-Management Organizations of The National Conference of Christians and Jews has developed and conducted several group relations educational programs in a number of industrial plants in the country. J. Douglas Brown has succeeded William M. Leiserson as president of the Industrial Relations Research Association for 1952.

The author discusses the series of essays written by several editors at U.S. publishing firms. He mentions the acquisitions of publishers by conglomerates, the role of editors in small and large publishers, and the decrease in the prestige of literary works, particularly fiction.

What is the impact of the recent Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) initiative and the Journal Editors Transparency Statement (JETS) on scholars working with qualitative data? Analysis finds DA-RT insufficiently sensitive to the needs of qualitative data and focuses on four inter-related reasons why DA-RT needs to be revised before being widely adopted by political science journals: (1) space constraints that hinder full journal presentation of the analysis of qualitative data; (2) ethical concerns about protecting human subjects, and the time needed to prepare such data before publicly sharing them; (3) costs of data collection and the right of first usage; and (4) a potentially chilling effect of DA-RT on certain types of research topics. Analysis of the author’s own journey from econometric and survey analysis to narrative interviews with people in vulnerable situations, facing moral dilemmas, illustrates why DA-RT needs additional safeguards for qualitative data and methods. Given the increasing importance of qualitative data, and its ability to lend insight into critical political topics, the author argues that implementing the current version of the DA-RT initiative could hinder political science’s ability to address important political questions. Thus DA-RT must be modified to address the special needs of qualitative data. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On July 1, 1999, I became the 24th editor of the 'Journal of Marketing' (JM). I follow a remarkable group of previous editors, a group that includes founders of the modern discipline of marketing and scholars who remain among the most frequently cited authors in marketing and business scholarship today. The first issue of JM under my editorship will be the January 2000 issue, though most of the articles in that issue have been accepted in collaboration with Robert Lusch, who has shepherded most of them through the review process. I thank Bob for his help in making the transition from editor to editor a pleasant and productive task. I also thank him for the opportunity to offer a statement of my editorial goals and philosophy in his last issue as editor rather than in the first issue I edit. Finally, I thank the editor selection committee, chaired by Bart Weitz, for its confidence in my ability; the wisdom of its choice will be determined in due course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article summarizes and reflects on the contributions of Janet Taylor Spence in the areas of editing, service to her institutions, and service to her profession. It is based on both the objective record and on the personal experience and observations of the author, a long-time colleague. It reviews the many editorial positions Janet Taylor Spence held, including being editor of the Annual Review of Psychology and Contemporary Psychology, and the award she received from the National Academy of Sciences. It also sketches many of the leadership positions she held, including being president of the American Psychological Association and the first elected president of the Association for Psychological Science. It emphasizes both her outstanding professional and personal qualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peer review is the gold standard for scientific communication, but its ability to guarantee the quality of published research remains difficult to verify. Recent modeling studies suggest that peer review is sensitive to reviewer misbehavior, and it has been claimed that referees who sabotage work they perceive as competition may severely undermine the quality of publications. Here we examine which aspects of suboptimal reviewing practices most strongly impact quality, and test different mitigating strategies that editors may employ to counter them. We find that the biggest hazard to the quality of published literature is not selfish rejection of high-quality manuscripts but indifferent acceptance of low-quality ones. Bypassing or blacklisting bad reviewers and consulting additional reviewers to settle disagreements can reduce but not eliminate the impact. The other editorial strategies we tested do not significantly improve quality, but pairing manuscripts to reviewers unlikely to selfishly reject them and allowing revision of rejected manuscripts minimize rejection of above-average manuscripts. In its current form, peer review offers few incentives for impartial reviewing efforts. Editors can help, but structural changes are more likely to have a stronger impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the text of a speech given by editor Victor Fischer delivered at the Mark Twain Circle Banquet. Topics of the speech included his initial involvement in the Mark Twain Papers and Project of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkely, growing concern over the preservation of U.S. history, and transition of the Mark Twain Papers into a scholarly editing shop.

The article discusses issues concerning the feminization of the medical writing profession in the U.S. Topics covered include the shift of women who leave the scientific workforce to medical writing, the impact of feminization on the de-skilling of the profession and in compensation and information on the gender and salary of members of the American Medical Writers Association.

The term 'pure sociology' reflects some of the most important disciplinary concerns that have helped shape the intellectual development of sociology in the United States, particularly in the effort to establish disciplinary boundaries and achieve academic legitimacy. To flesh out the thesis, the current paper recounts briefly the early discussions associated with pure sociology before examining the various usages in the U.S. since the establishment of the discipline. While selected classical theorists employed the concept in framing their discussions, pure sociology represents a distinctively American idiom. The etymological history coincides with the institutionalization of sociology in U.S. universities, while informing key debates about the nature of sociological analysis throughout the past 120 years. Drawing upon an electronic search of multiple databases, a content analysis highlights the prevalence of the different meanings that mainly U.S. social scientists have attached to the concept. The paper then traces the varying trajectories of the many different usages over time, concluding with a discussion of the ascendance of Donald Black's theoretical paradigm that has appropriated the term with considerable success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Submitting articles to journals has become a difficult and time-consuming process, as has reviewing and re-reviewing articles that too often get the dreaded R&R letter. The underlying problem here is as old as the discipline, particularly in American sociology. Very different criteria are used in producing scholarship and reviewing its merits for publication; and current ways of editing journals aggravate this fundamental problem. The Big Divide in sociology is between a discipline that seeks to be a science and one that does not; and there is no easy reconciliation among those on either side of this divide. In this paper, the effects of this divide on journal publishing are reviewed in terms of the consequences of the Big Divide for the discipline. A simple but radical proposal is offered at the end for how sociologists can be put out over their misery in having to deal with the consequences of this Big Divide in their departments, in professional meetings, and most importantly, in publishing their intellectual products in journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is an attempt to provide a framework for law student editors regarding the appropriate scope of their editing responsibilities. Topics discussed include nature of criticism, complaint, or even whine about student-run law reviews, the review system provides a broad and deep forum for legal scholarship; and criticism of student-run law reviews often focuses on lead article selection.

The expert speakers from the publishing, librarian, and vendor communities regrouped at the end of the Society for Scholarly Publishing–NASIG Joint Meeting to answer questions or elaborate on information they presented earlier during the meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]