Timeline for Why does Springer need 85,000 words in a monograph?
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| Jun 7 at 18:35 | comment | added | tommyB | it seems unlikely that a scientific organization would confuse correlation with causation like that, but I have no idea of the inner-workings of publishing houses. | |
| Jun 7 at 2:27 | history | edited | Allure | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2023 at 22:48 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | If you mean "experience working for other publishers" please say that. "experience with" is ambiguous as to the relationship that led to the experience. | |
| Mar 13, 2023 at 10:06 | comment | added | Allure | @Taladris I currently work in academic publishing, and I had an insider's view as to why there is a guideline for X number of words for journal articles. | |
| Mar 13, 2023 at 9:53 | comment | added | Taladris | Can you share more about "your experience with other publishers"? In which part of the process did you participate? | |
| Mar 12, 2023 at 21:07 | comment | added | Benedikt Bauer | Goodhart's Law comes to mind: "If a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law | |
| Mar 12, 2023 at 1:36 | comment | added | user354948 | That would make sense. It’s said that there’s a “sweet spot” (word count) for every genre. | |
| Mar 12, 2023 at 1:33 | vote | accept | user354948 | ||
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| Mar 12, 2023 at 1:29 | history | answered | Allure | CC BY-SA 4.0 |