Reposted by David Schindler
This is about publishing in economics journals but I found it fascinating and probably applicable in other fields/areas- about why/how two papers asking the same question with the same answer might have very different landing spots in terms of a journal
jasonmfletcher.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...
jasonmfletcher.substack.com
How to Write a Top 5 Paper: A Case Study
Two teams, nearly the same question, nearly the same data—and a revealing difference in what the papers ask the evidence to do