What is published in our journals cannot change unless we do
European Journal of Information Systems (2009) 18, 189–191. doi:10.1057/ejis.2009.21 What is published in our journals? Complaints I have just come back from a conference where there was a ‘Meet the Editors’ Panel’. At the end of the meeting there was a discussion session, which showed some widespread lack of understanding about the process of getting an author’s paper published. This is in spite of my article four years ago that went into the issue quite thoroughly (Paul, 2005). The reader is recommended to visit this article if it has not been read yet. I have also experienced some fairly robust comments from rejected authors, which give me the impression that talking about getting a paper published would be worthwhile. Hence this editorial. First though, an unhelpful view of publishing is to distinguish editors and their teams from authors. It is as if the former came down from Mars, and as alien life forms were making life difficult for the latter. In reality, we are all part of the same community, from which some of us have been selected, or volunteered, or through some other democratic selection process, have taken on these review roles. So, if we as a community do not like anything about what is published in our subject, then it is up to all of us to do something about it, not just editors. For example: Complaint: it takes too long to get a paper into print, sometimes three or more years. Responses:
Quality changes
European Journal of Information Systems (2011) 20, 625–628. doi:10.1057/ejis.2011.38; published online 27 September 2011 Farewell The Operational Research Society has a rule that no one can be an editor of one of its journals for more than 10 years. This is my 12th year as an editor, and I have been found out! So, this is my farewell editorial. It is tempting to thank all the people I have worked with on the journal, but the list would be excessively long and no one but those mentioned are likely to read it. And I could inadvertently forget someone y. But my co-editors, who have one way or the other covered for me over the last 12 years, are Bob O’Keefe, Richard Baskerville, Hans van der Heijden, and Frantz Rowe and these are all people I would be happy to live on a desert island with. Which I am sure is more than they would be willing to say about me! If you ever get a chance to work with any of them, take it. I have looked at the progress of the European Journal of Information Systems over the 21 years of its existence (20 volumes because volume 1 was spread over 2 years). Table 1 summarises the data.
Pig Vocalizations Under Selected Husbandry Practices
Acoustical characteristics of vocalizations of sows, piglets, and nursery pigs under selected husbandry practices were analyzed with a digital signal processing system. The duration (D) and major energy-resonance frequency (P) for each call were determined as follows: a) processing of piglets (D = 0.81 s and f* = 3 700 Hz); b) food anticipation of breeding-gest ation sows (2.50 s and 3 000 Hz); c) isolation of piglet (0.34 s and 500, 3 500 Hz); d) startling of nursery pigs (0.29 s and 900 Hz); e) sows in heat (3.07 s and 1 375 Hz); f) farrowing (0.10 s and 3 000 Hz); g) sow nursing (0.15 s and 1 000 Hz); and h) mate greeting of sow (0.13 s and 1 000 Hz). Calls a) to d) are responses to human generated stressors, and calls e) through h) responses to social and physiological states of the pigs. Thus, vocalizations can be segmented for different pig production situations.