'tis the season to write papers...

[morsla]

It's Easter. I'm not at Conquest, and neither is aeliel. This feels weird - it's been an easter tradition for the last decade, and I haven't had the weekend to myself since highschool. Instead, I'm trying to work on my Research Methods assessment. It's proving trickier than I had hoped, mainly due to the ARC/ABDC journal ranking lists.

In the past, the subject just asked for a critical analysis of the research methods used in three related papers. This year, the articles need to be drawn from A and A*-rated journals only. These are the top journals in their field, with international significance, and all that sort of thing. They are also proving to be irrelevant to my project...

You see, people working in that hazy crossover field of business studies, sociology, law and IT tend to publish in interdisciplinary journals. An article on eCommerce would probably appear in something like the International Journal of e-Business Research, for example... but those journals aren't considered particularly important by the ABDC. Instead, I'm supposed to find some useful articles among journals like the Harvard Law Review or Sociology. After losing a day to the journal databases, I'm starting to realise that the articles I need won't be found in the journals I'm supposed to be looking in.

I think I'll have to send this one in with a note saying "I know I'm not following the rules, but here's why..."

Comments

[jod999.livejournal.com]

I think that this is the sort of assignment requirement that will only be around for this year, and maybe next year.

The journal rankings are pretty worthless for real world purposes.