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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Jul 15

Big congratulations!

olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Mar 18

Want to talk about how you can target your research to JPART?

We are offering 1:1 meet the editors sessions at #ASPA2025 & #IRSPM2025 & #PMRC2025 & #EGPA2025

We start with ASPA in D.C. next week - book your time below:

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Appointments

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 17

I wouldn't survive long with those wires hanging loose close to a water boiler. Almost like a booby trap. You must have above-average attention skills

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Feb 15

🚨 Issue 1, Volume 35 (2025) ➡️ “A reputational perspective on structural reforms: how media reputations are related to the structural reform likelihood of public agencies” by Jan Boon, Jan Wynen, Koen Verhoest, Walter Daelemans, and Jens Lemmens.🧵

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚨 Next in Issue 1, Volume 35 (2025) is "Gendered Administrative Burden: Regulating Gendered Bodies, Labor, and Identity" by @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social (open access).🧵

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Feb 4

@pmra-1991.bsky.social
Roskilde University
Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen
Seulki Lee
@elizabethlinos.bsky.social
@michael-siciliano.bsky.social
@gabilotta.bsky.social
@nathanfavero.com
@anadimand.bsky.social
Melissa Falkær Olsen
@sassmikkelsen.bsky.social
@olehelby.bsky.social
Aaron Deslatte

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Feb 3

📢 Exciting News!

The latest issue of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is out now!

📷 Volume 35, Issue 1 – January 2025:

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Volume 35 Issue 1 | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Public Management Research Association. Publishes research with the aim to advance the organizational, administrative, and policy sciences as they apply to government and g...

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

Likewise happy to discuss it now and ongoing 😊

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

Exactly my point in another comment. We've heard that some editors rightly and admirably fought such procedures. I will too (but OUP has never ever approached us with anything like this)

olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

Yes, it's an absolutely terrible idea for the reason you mention and a handful of others I discuss in response to another comment here

olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

Overall, at first glance, it sounds great - saving author and reviewer time. But it could be very harmful to authors and our field.

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

7) (forgot numbering in previous post) It may change the incentives for making a shot at a top journal - a rejection will be harmful for the chances at other journals, potentially lowering the incentives for aiming high and rewarding playing safe - not good for scientific breakthroughs

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

The logistics is likely to work so that journals using a specific system can do this (e.g., ScholarOne). This is likely to reduce competition and monopolize the editorial systems our journals use

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

5) some publishers (we've heard that Wiley does this) try to keep papers within their portfolio. So we have profit motives for not getting the right match between papers and journals, potentially harmful to authors and the field

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

4) We see that reviewers rightly mention JPART's aims and scope when reviewing. A paper rejected at JPART should not be evaluated at the same criteria at PAR but on PAR's aims and scope. Transferring reviews will - at least to some extent - evaluate papers on wrong criteria

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

The standards - whatever they are - the highest ranked journals have will homogenize the field because authors try from the top and reviewers evaluate papers based on their standards. It's likely to reduce space for different traditions, methods, theories

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

2) it's a pretty important principle that papers get equal treatment. But which editor at journal no 3 or 5 on the list will give an R&R knowing the paper was rejected at no 1 or 2? APSR didn't like it but we at AJPS will take it - don't think that's likely

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

Here are some concerns - I have 5 or 6.
1) how a paper fares through the journal system is likely to become highly path dependent on the first reviewers it draw. Get a bad draw and that draw will follow the paper through the chain

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Feb 2

Oh there are so many issues in this - happy to diacuss each of them

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Dec 18

Excited to have you on board!

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Dec 16

Thank you, Martin, for your incredible service, and welcome to Elizabeth and Aaron as they join the team! 💫"

@pmra-1991.bsky.social
@olehelby.bsky.social
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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · Dec 11

Calling all field experimenters, including academics, policy types, and industry folks. I am happy to announce that our 2025 Advances with Field Experiments conference will be held Sept. 18th and 19th at the University of Chicago.

Details here: economics.uchicago.edu/advances-wit...

Advances with Field Experiments Conference | Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

economics.uchicago.edu

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Dec 12

To all leadership researchers out there: is there a new leadership-with-a-skull approach ? Top floor at KPMG office in Aarhus (assuming it's a boss office). After all I'm happy with university management #Pasky

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olehelby.bsky.social @olehelby.bsky.social · Dec 5

Goddammit 🙃

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Kim Sass Mikkelsen @sassmikkelsen.bsky.social · Dec 4

JPART is now on Bluesky! Follow @jpart1991.bsky.social for content from the journal.

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