From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 16:21:15 -0700

Well, I meant HTR - Harvard Theological Review - a "flagman" of the
humanities.

A notorious journal in my eyes, where outcome is known in advance.

It has nothing to do with Harvard, of course:)

Ari Belenkiy


On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:58 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 18:59:42 -0600
>
> Not sure what you mean by "Harvard" journals, Ari. Harvard University
> Press doesn't publish journals at all.
>
> Sandy
>
>
> > From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:06:24 -0800
> >
> > Sandy, I can mention several "top" Harvard and Oxford journals. For
> > example, I got a panegyric from HTR's referee - they don't mind
> > sending the entire referee's report... with an advice to submit the
> > paper to "more specialized" journal.
> >
> > Fred, my impression was that editors "of old" put originality
> > (novelty) before everything else. They would laugh at rejection by a
> > referee because you are unfamiliar with "secondary" sources, let alone
> > because of the "wrong" style of references.
> >
> > I agree, the appropriateness of the paper for this particular journal
> > (a so-called "readership") might be a good reason to reject a paper
> > despite its virtues, but in a matter of days - not months!
> >
> > Ari Belenkiy