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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From: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [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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