So I'm reviewing a manuscript for an academic journal slightly outside my field but on a topic I'm more than familiar with. Otherwise I wouldn't be reviewing it, right?
As I read the literature review and theory section it comes to me. Hey, I published something on this only a couple of years ago, and in a pretty damn good journal, yet I don't seem to be cited. And get this, the author brags that this study the first to examine this subject. Which is fine -- if you happen to exclude my article.
Okay, how do I handle this? Vaguely suggest the author look further in the literature? Suggest specifically he or she read the journal in which I published? Or come right out and say, Yo Skippy, try this:
Hollander, Barry A. (2008). Tuning out or tuning elsewhere? Partisanship, polarization, and media migration from 1998 to 2006. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 85, 23-40.
2 comments:
As an author, I appreciate it when reviewers list specific citations that I missed. Vagueness can be really frustrating. And they don't know it's you.
As an editor, I vote for "Yo Skippy."
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