A Practical Guide for Successful Revisions (Pang & Thatcher 2023) | JAIS

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🎙️ Welcome to another episode of Revise and Resubmit! 🎙️
The podcast where academic sweat turns into scholarly sparkle ✨—and we take you behind the scenes of the peer review process that shapes the future of research.

📚 Today, we’re talking about something every scholar knows all too well...
Not the thrill of submission. Not the joy of acceptance.
But the murky middle—the revise and resubmit.

📝 The title of today’s must-read paper?
“A Practical Guide for Successful Revisions and Engagements with Reviewers”
Published in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, a prestigious and powerful journal that holds ABDC A* status—the highest of the high. 🏆📈

✍️ Authored by two academic heavyweights:

• Min-Seok Pang, a seasoned scholar with an eye for strategy, clarity, and structure.

• Jason B. Thatcher, a powerhouse in the information systems world who knows exactly how to navigate the maze of manuscripts and reviewer memos.

This editorial is like a flashlight in a dark tunnel for every researcher facing that dreaded review packet. It shows you how to:
✅ Decode reviewer feedback without losing your mind.
✅ Rewrite your paper with precision and purpose.
✅ Craft a response letter that doesn’t just reply—it persuades.

And perhaps most powerfully—it reminds us that being a great reviewer makes you a sharper author. That reading someone else’s paper with care helps you return to your own work with fresh eyes, clearer judgment, and a bit more courage. 💡🧠

This isn’t just a how-to. It’s a survival guide. A pep talk. A scholarly compass.

So here’s the question we’re leaving you with:
What if your next revise-and-resubmit wasn’t a roadblock… but a roadmap to becoming a better researcher?

🙏 A huge thank you to Min-Seok Pang and Jason B. Thatcher, and to the Association for Information Systems for publishing such a valuable guide for researchers everywhere.

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Because great research doesn’t stop at publication—it starts with the revision.
Let’s revise. Let’s resubmit. Let’s rethink everything.

Reference

Pang, Min-Seok and Thatcher, Jason B. (2023) "A Practical Guide for Successful Revisions and Engagements with Reviewers," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 24(2), 317-327. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00797

Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol24/iss2/11

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