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What are journal editors looking for (lern)
1. What are journal editors
looking for?
Professor Chris Ashford, Editor, The Law Teacher: The International Journal of
Legal Education
Effective Dissemination of Research Findings
LERN
2. The Law Teacher: the International Journal of
Legal Education
• Legal Education (pedagogy)
focus
• Award winning peer-reviewed
journal
• ‘Paywall journal’
4. • Manuscript Rating Question(s): Scale Rating
• Significance of Subject[1-5]
• Adds to existing knowledge[1-5]
• Argument well developed[1-5]
• Evidence related and compelling[1-5]
• Suitability of methodology[1-5]
• Organisation/Structure[1-5]
• Clarity of expression[1-5]
• Currency of Material[1-5]
• Topicality[1-5]
5. Significance
• Literature
• How does this work relate to existing work?
• (adds to existing knowledge)
• What does it add?
• Why should readers care?
6. Rigour
• Argument well developed
• Evidence related and compelling
• Suitability of methodology
• What might this look like?
7. Presentation & Structure
• Organisation/structure
• Clarity of expression
• Currency of material/topicality
8. The Process/Peer Review
• Initial editor filter – is this relevant?
• Ordinarily, two reviewers – how are reviewers selected?
• Guided by reviewers
• Other reviewers may be invited
• Editor decision
• Author response to review
• Potential further review
• Potential further responses
• Publication