wow that is a seriously nostalgic website. i remember when CSS didn't exist.

hmm are you predicting my future? we haven't done the proceedings yet....

and yes, the two laggards are indeed harming my career prospects.

i suspect these numbers vary by field norms and ambition: with those values, all my papers would be published in PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Management Science, or Academy of Management Journal.

so even 5 max would assume that all my papers are published in top-tier journals. that's true, but only because the struggling papers haven't been published yet as they are still working through the system =P

sure yeah you can normalize, change the numbers, whatever but---i suspect we require a large number of reviews for each paper published, on average.

i'm going to go through all the top-tier journals before i give up and go to a 2nd tier journal.

I guess in this case, I honestly find it hard to tell the difference between cruelty, stupidity, and an extremely radical anti-globalist agenda.

If intention is at all relevant to cruelty it's kind of irrelevant whether it's a good strategy, vs whether the perpetrator thinks its a good strategy. Unless cruelty is in the eye of the beholder and not the perp, I suppose. In which case I suppose it's entirely up to you, and I have no opinion.

If it's an essential component of a calculated strategy to achieve a goal, is it still cruel? Or just selfish?