Therefore, I can send my papers where I think they best fit and get a readership. Family and intimat

One of the best things about being in an interdisciplinary department is that you can publish where you want – there is not a group of top journals that you have to push your papers in. My colleagues in Sociology are trying to get papers in the American Sociological Review , American Journal of Sociology , and Social Forces . My colleagues in developmental psychology are going for Developmental Psychology and Child Development . In my interdisciplinary department, the only guideline we have used is that the journal have an impact factor terjemah over 1 if possible (though this is not a hard and fast rule).
Therefore, I can send my papers where I think they best fit and get a readership. Family and intimate relationship research is particularly interdisciplinary, and as such, I have a lot of options. terjemah I have submitted papers to Demography , American Sociological Review , Journal of Family Psychology , Developmental Psychology , Journal of Marriage and Family , Journal of Social and Personal Relationships , etcetera. Of course, I do not have papers published in all of these journals, but I have tried them all at one point or another! What is different for interdisciplinary researchers is that after a paper is rejected at one journal, such as Demography , you might want to resubmit it to another journal in a different field, such as the Journal of Family terjemah Psychology . That is the story of this paper.
My student and I had a paper on multipartner fertility, terjemah or when women have children with more than one man. Research had shown that when a child s mom had a child with a new man, that child s father s involvement decreased. But, we wondered if that child s father s involvement (after terjemah the couple separated) predicted whether that child s mother got pregnant with the new man. So, we basically were trying to test whether there was selection by father involvement into multipartner fertility.
We wrote the paper, found evidence for our hypothesis, and submitted it to Demography . The paper was titled terjemah The Role of Father Involvement, Supportive Coparenting, and New Partners in Future Fertility . Here is the first paragraph of the paper we submitted.
Nonmarital childbearing has reached historic levels; 41% of all births in 2009 were to unmarried parents, with the highest proportions to racial and ethnic minorities. Because non-marital relationships are often unstable (Bumpass & Lu, 2000), a growing number of mothers have children with more than one man, a phenomenon termed multipartnered fertility (Guzzo terjemah & Furstenberg, 2007). Mothers may incur costs from childbearing with multiple partners including decreased eligibility on the marriage market (Manning, Trella, Lyons, & Du Toit, 2010), increased stress and mental health problems, and lower parenting quality (McLanahan, terjemah 2009). Children in families with multipartnered terjemah fertility exhibit more behavior problems (Bronte-Tinkew, Horowitz, & Scott, 2009) and children born to unmarried mothers spend more of their lives in poverty terjemah and experience lower levels of social and financial support from their families (Furstenberg, 1995; Manning & Smock, 2002; Wu, 2008). Despite negative maternal and child outcomes associated with multipartnered fertility, family process-related factors that put women at risk for multipartnered fertility have not yet been identified. We posited that greater father involvement and supportive coparenting decreased the risk of multipartnered fertility among unmarried mothers.
The paper was rejected by Demography terjemah (I don t have the reviews because this was in 2011), but the feedback was constructive. We eventually submitted the paper to the Journal of Marriage and Family , where it was also rejected, terjemah and then we decided to submit it to the Journal of Family Psychology .
So, our task was to rewrite a paper written primarily for a family terjemah demography audience for an audience of psychologists. terjemah The first thing I told my student was to change the paper from talking about fertility, to talking about having babies. We changed the title to Another Baby? Father Involvement and Childbearing in Fragile Families . We rewrote the entire paper, removing jargon-heavy wording. For example, the word fertility appeared more than 60 times in the Demography version, and only once in the Journal of Family Psychology version. The words maximum likelihood discrete-time terjemah appeared 5 times in the Demography version and only once in the Journal of Family terjemah Psychology version . Thus, we tried to minimize the jargon of demographers and create a version of the paper that would appeal to a wider audience of family researchers. The new first paragraph is below.
Historic numbers of women in the US are having children outside of marriage; 41% of all births in 2010 were to unmarried parents, with the highest proportions to racial and ethnic minorities (Hamilton, Martin, & Ventura, 2011). More than half of these births were to cohabitin