如何在顶级英文刊物上发表论文

1.1 Ability

• Knowledge- know your topic. Be on top of the literature – theory, debates and research

• Skills–writing articles as a craft to be learnt (with help)

• Ability to write well (usually in English) and to conduct the necessary data collection, analysis and interpretation

• Try it clear, the more straightforward, do the writing.

Crafting a top Paper

• Have a good (intriguing) research question on a currently marketable or emergingtopic, Ideally from the literature or from a current policy issue

• For novelty, look to borrow from other disciplines

• Develop like a detective story

• Use-help work with supervisor or colleagues

• Remember that reviews (meta-analyses or systematic reviews) are often welcomed

• Be willing to start modestly; a top paper does not always have to be published in a top journal

1.2 Motivation

• Know why you want to write and publish a top paper (it is hard work)

• Demonstrate resilience – most papers get rejected

• Consider the incentives and rewards – link to career goals

• Have the motivation to learn

• Attend preregistrations by journal editors

• Explore journal policy

• Test your ideas at conferences and seminars,Seek out feedback

• Enjoy the challenge of writing papers

• 在保证得到反馈的情况下，尽可能多的做presentation, 写出文章框架后快速写完全文，然后详细修改两三遍，寻求proof reading

1.3 Opportunity

• JD-Rmodel.Think in terms of JD-R theory. What are your resources what are the challenging demands and what are the hindering demands?

• Make sure you have the time

• Make sure you have the necessary support; Use your supervisor as co-author and source of advice

• Seek out a team of like-minded colleagues; 4-co-authors may mean 4 articles.

1.4 Making your own luck

• 慎重选择导师。Choose your supervisor carefully- one who will help you learn the craft of writing articles and to get published；

• 利用学术会议寻求合作机会。Use conferences to establish links with established academics in your field as potential collaborators/joint authors in the future;

• Special issue. Chances of getting published are better in special issues – Keep an eye on announcements

• Hope for favorable reviewers

2.1期刊基本情况

AMJ每年收到约1500多篇投稿，30%的文章会直接被拒，主要原因是不符合期刊mission, 或者与管理无关的文章 (e.g., animal)。10%的文章编辑部会在送审前修改；外审第一轮审稿周期通常为57天，22%的文章会得到修改的机会，若接到修改通知则有64天左右时间进行修改。第一轮修改后61%的文章会进行二轮修改，如果得到二轮修改的机遇，被接收的概率相当高 (85% or 95%?)。

AMJ-by the numbers

• Submission:1522

• impact factor. 6.7 ( 5year 11.4)

• First review cycle 57 days

• Revision cycle 64 days

• Desk rejection: 30% don't fit mission, not management related

• Desk edit rate: 10%, length, framing, back to authors

• First revision rate 22%, get opportunity to revision

• Second revision 61%, CHANCE OF accept more than 85% ?95%

2.2 文章写作

Crafting a contribution:

• Fall in love with our work (and stay in love)

--It begins with a research question

--choose ones that are important

--Tackle major theory problems

--resolve problems that other researcher shave yet to resolve

--work for the good of science and scholarship

Recently from AMJ

• Address grand challenges, use a management perspective to shed light on the world’s problem

• Finding new ways of seeing, use theories, techniques, from other fields to solve management related issues.

Have a mindset of pride and perfection

• Work with utmost care

• Striving for perfection,

• Writing, copy editing, big mass

Key point

• Frame your HRM paper to fit AMJ’s mission

AMJ Journal mission statement

• Empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory.

• Authors should strive to produce original, insightful, interesting, important, and theoretically, bold research. Strive,not the requirement. Set as a goal, not requirement.

Brief comparison of AMJ & JAP:

• AMJ related to management, JAP study people at work.

• e.g., Turnover, as a management issues, for JAP, write that is relevant people in the work. Framing issue.

--Join a conversation in the journal

--Highlight to readers what your offer to that conversation

--Be bold, be important

--Avoid gap framing

• Craft your introduction to fit the mission of the journal

• Crafting a contribution: you must first understand your contribution

• How does your paper challenge, change or advance what we know?

• e.g., Shaw et al., (2005).

常见拒稿原因

The “word cloud” for AMJ rejections’

• Construct-definition-problems,construct-measure-mismatch novelty-scope

• Theoretical-contribution

World cloud revision:

• Theoretical improvement; theoretical contribution.

Advantages of starting with theory

• Some warning signs – starting with data(mining)

• Contorted theory

• Poorly defined constructs

• Construct – measurement mismatch

• Some advantages – starting with theory

• Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 from above

• Articulate key contribution (challenge,change, advance)

• Better discussion section

• If you are interested in theory:

--Read, read, and read the original theory

--understand the assumptions, the mechanisms,the boundaries

• Then, examine the empirical literature:

--Has it been tested well/thoroughly

--Where are consistent areas of (non)support

--What is poorly understood? What questions have puzzled researchers?

• If you are interested in a phenomenon:

--How would different theories help us to understand it?

--What constructs/mechanisms would be in play?

Design for impact: 

• Bold and appropriate designs
  

• e.g., Zhu,Tatachari, & Chattopadhay(2017, AMJ)

• Examined changes in organization identification among newcomers

• 1,346 newcomers

• 5, waves of data during the first year

• Reilly, Nyberg, Maltarich & Weller(2014, AMJ)

• Venkatesh, Shaw, Sykes, Macharia, & Wamba(2017, AMJ)

Other suggestions:

• Design such that all constructs and relationship described in the theory can best tested

• Choose important outcomes

• Include only relevant controls

• Account for what is known in the literature

• Or critical factor that relate to IV and DV

• Demonstrate construct validity for all new key measures!

FINAL POINT

• YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR ALL PREDICTIONS!

The discussion（It matters for AMJ!!!）

• Do not restate the finding at length (maybe 1 paragraph)

• Return to the theory

--What has been learned?

--Has a problem been solved?

如果想了解更多AMJ 文章写作的情况，建议阅读AMJ出的From editors: Publishing in AMJ详细讲述了，如何写引言、文献综述，方法，讨论等（强烈推荐）。

记得有位老师说过只要你有一篇JAP，一般国内211院校都可以给你副教授。这从侧面说明JAP, JPSP等期刊非常难发……JAP拒稿率 90%, JPSP 87%……这并不意味着，你投了立马被拒，有可能是改了1稿， 2稿，甚至是在conditional accept之后被拒。那么，这些顶刊有几位审稿人，审稿周期多长，desk rejection 多高。下面简单介绍一些常见期刊的相关情况。

本文内容仅供学习交流。

整理人：李培凯

鉴于David关于Seek out a team 启发，现寻求I/O领域及其它心理学领域靠谱的合作者，组建自己的文章写作小组。欢迎尊重deadline &commitment的小伙伴联系我们，（坚决拒绝拖延症和不守时间的……）

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1. 良好的英文写作能力，及写作经验；写过不少于3篇英文manuscript；

2. 良好的统计分析能力，擅长大数据或爬虫文本分析，元分析等；

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