Here's the problem with having several distinct but related manuscripts on the go at once - when writing the discussion for one manuscript you keep thinking about how it relates to the cool findings of the second manuscript and suddenly your discussion takes a hard left and ends up in the second manuscript's jurisdiction.
Le sigh.
Oh well, cut, copy, paste into discussion of second manuscript. Continue train of thought. Realize several paragraphs later that you have now tied this discussion into the cool new findings of the first manuscript. Which would be fine if anyone else were aware of those cool new findings. But they're not. Because you haven't published the first manuscript yet. Why not? Because you're still writing it.
Damnit! These things need to be published back to back in the same freaking journal so I can cross reference them myself.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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I have a very similar problem w/ my dissertation and another manuscript that I haven't written yet. It's frustrating.
Good - let's be frustrated together!
Can you publish them in sections? I've seen papers done as Paper I, Paper II, and Paper III...but not really sure how that works.
Good luck with it!
If they're best displayed as a set of companion papers, contact the editor of your target journal and ask if they would consider a dual submission.
Thanks for the tips. I actually think we will submit them separately just because of the timing of when they will be finished...but we'll see.
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