Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Food Policy.
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Meanwhile in Australia, people of all ages, all genders, in any setting: "Cheers mate."
The call is for editors to make, while referee reports are there for editors to inform their decisions and for authors to improve their papers (regardless of the decision). It truly is as simple as that, and I don't understand why people (editors) complicate the process.
I see commentary about El Nino potentially causing food price inflation in Australia (also USA, sometimes also Europe), and I just don't think this to be the case. An odd food item, maybe, but generally no, not in high income countries. Feel free to check previous El Nino-s.
This El Nino can impact lives and livelihoods in many parts of the world in many different ways. But I am going to go out on a limb here and claim that Brits are going to be just fine.
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If your abstract goes: We study the effect of X, Y and Z on P, Q, R and S, using methods A, B, C and D, and thus make 5 important contributions to the literature... Then you need to re-write the abstract and, likely, also the paper.
Here is a clear and indisputable evidence of AInflation. Daron's citation count followed a linear trend... until it didn't.
You do realise that the culprit in this anecdote is the editor, right?
Disagree. An interesting thing happened recently.
My collaborators and I were locked in an unproductive and back-and-forth with a referee who kept repeating the same mistake even after we explained thoroughly and rejected our paper.
After we appealed, the editor ran the paper through chatgpt and shared its feedback with us, to give us a chance to improve it before resubmission. Unlike the referee, chatgpt uncovered actual errors in the paper. This was genuinely useful feedback which helped us improve the paper!
I would take a real-time chat with an llm over a months-long back-and-forth with a reviewer 2!
If she plays her cards right, one day, she may graduate from being Jeff Bezos ex-wife MacKenzie Scott and be just Mackenzie Scott. Speaking of Amazon, looks like Mackenzie Scott's ex-husband Jeff Bezos is doing just fine.
At @_Food_Policy , we have seen a stark increase in submissions. This year is trending about 60% above last year, which was well above the pre-AI era. The pressure on editors and reviewers is real, with no clear solution in sight (though, I am sure we will adapt in due course).
The top 3 ag econ journals, in my view, are Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, and the AJAE. Featured below are the editors of these journals. They also happen to have spent countless nights in the same room preparing for prelims nearly two decades ago. What a cohort!
Last week, I spoke with 7NEWS about El Niño and its economic impacts. Higher grocery bills are possible, but bushfires is the more tangible risk. Note, El Niño only shifts probabilities: there was no El Niño in 2019, and no Black Summer-like fires in 2023 (a strong El Niño year)
El Nino watch: July SST anomaly is above 1.5 degrees. We have never seen this much of an increase this early in the season before. We are already in a strong El Nino territory and, likely, we have not even seen the half of it.
In soccer, coaches should have an option to challenge (as they do in american football, for instance). A successful challenge is free. A failed challenge costs a substitution. The team must have a substitution left to be able to challenge. Simple.
