Love the concept of giving orphaned papers a second life here. Academic gatekeeping means so much quality work gets buried, and Substack is perfect for bypassing that whole publish-or-perish treadmill. I had a paper on pragmatist ethics rejected twice because reviewers wanted more Rorty, less Dewey, and it just sat in a folder for years. The idea of bundeling these into a self-published book later is smart too.
Even more so today, when journals are way behind in what they claim (sometimes truly, sometimes not) is blind and peer review. Although some of my published papers have been fairly widely read and cited, I imagine posting work here in Substack actually gets more and more interested readers than jumping through all the hoops of academic publishing, to have one's paper come out maybe a year (if you're lucky) after first submitting it
Love the concept of giving orphaned papers a second life here. Academic gatekeeping means so much quality work gets buried, and Substack is perfect for bypassing that whole publish-or-perish treadmill. I had a paper on pragmatist ethics rejected twice because reviewers wanted more Rorty, less Dewey, and it just sat in a folder for years. The idea of bundeling these into a self-published book later is smart too.
Even more so today, when journals are way behind in what they claim (sometimes truly, sometimes not) is blind and peer review. Although some of my published papers have been fairly widely read and cited, I imagine posting work here in Substack actually gets more and more interested readers than jumping through all the hoops of academic publishing, to have one's paper come out maybe a year (if you're lucky) after first submitting it
Very nice!
Thanks!