chinny brah wrote:
I'm sorry that you're work isn't going well. Is it that you aren't finding significant results? --ie the journals won't publish them? Or that your results aren't sensible, even when you've done all the right things? If it's the latter, then you can write about that, right?
What about that paper that you had accepted last year? What's happening with that?
re: results... my boss and I cooked up a plan to analyze data in a fancy way. We had (have) reason to believe that this data has something in it and that with the fancy methods, we would tease out the stuff we're after. It turns out that the fancy method really bought us nothing that we couldnt have got from simpler methods. I have spent about a year working on this and currently have little or nothing to contribute to the existing body of knowledge... but I gotta wrap it up as the second chapter of my dissertation and publish it, cuz thats the we do it in this program. Plus I have to move on to the next thing in my dissertation plan, which will also be time consuming, and hopefully a lot more interesting... and publish that.
Thats the way that my boss and our department like to operate... if youre able to publish the main chapters of your dissertation, with the accompanying peer review, then the committee is unlikely to go against the peers... it takes the load off of them also, in making sure you've dotted all your i's and crossed all yer t's.
re: paper... i just recently got confirmation that they have accepted it for real now. I took a while to do a major revision, and a month or so ago theysaid they accepted it... YAY... thanks fer axin.
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I would've axed too, 'cept you never talk about that sheeyaat... Yer SMRT, all dissertationey and stuff.
Ogre,
That's really great about your paper. Congrats!
I think I understand a little about the publish or perish side of the profession. I endured it once--in English, where most of what was published was pretty lame. (Publication really depended on who you knew.)
In econ, there is pressure similar to what you're experiencing. I think that they want at least one of your projects from your diss to be a paper in a journal. Two would be better. But it sounds like you've got more pressure than I've got.
As it happens, my advisor and I are also working on a paper that uses a stat technique that no one has used yet for a certain question. (Parallel universe!) It's a little fancy, but not much. And, thankfully, using this technique has gotten us something fairly interesting--although I'm still doing robustness checks on it.
I hope that you can get something out of this research--I know it's stressful. But I'm confident you'll find a way to make it work.
Keep on keepin on,
ceb
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