I am not an unaffiliated researcher (but I guess I might be after my
imminent retirement). But having been involved in editorial boards and
conference programme committees etc, I have never been aware of any
restriction on unaffiliated researchers publishing research. I would say
though that it is fairly unusual to receive papers from unaffiliated authors
and I think the couple of times I have encountered the situation the papers
were very poor quality. But they were reviewed in the normal way and
rejected on their merits. But had the papers been of better quality, then I
presume they would have been accepted. On what basis could a reviewer or
editor legitimately discriminate against unaffiliated authors?
Kerry
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[mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of emijrp
Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012 9:12 PM
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Unaffiliated researchers
Hi all;
I wonder if there are unaffiliated researchers in this mailing list. I know
that publishing without affiliation is a bit hard, so I would like to talk
with them and learn from their experience.
Regards,
emijrp
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